Discover New Amazing Books to Achieve Your Full Potential
A new year comes with new intentions, and many of us want to start 2025 with changing our bad habits for the better – whether in our personal or professional lives, or both. And the first few months of the year are packed with awareness days such as ‘Brew Monday‘ (to counter ‘Blue Monday’, recognised on the same day), International Emotional Health Week in February, International Day of Happiness in March, and Stress Awareness Month in April – all emphasising the importance of self care, wellbeing and helping people reach their true potential. With this in mind, we have worked with publishing house Wiley to reveiw some amazing titles which we hope, along with the authors, you will love just as much as we do!
Busy Idiots: Learn the Brain Science and Productivity Hacks to Get Ahead without the Stress
By Brad Marshall, Joff Outlaw
Busy Idiots explores why it is that in a world of constant connectedness, we somehow feel lonelier, more burned out and more disengaged than ever before? Discussing how and why we find ourselves constantly busy, authors Brad Marshall and Joff Outlaw reveal how to break the cycle and get what matters done.
Containing hacks and strategies to help readers manage their time, as well as insights from psychology and neuroscience, this new book explains how to break free from unhealthy habits and focus on what counts.
The Personal Branding Playbook: Turn Your Personality Into Your Competitive Advantage
By Amelia Sordell
Everyone has a personal brand. Simply put, your personal brand is your reputation. But what your personal brand looks like is up to you.
In the new book, The Personal Branding Playbook, readers will learn how to take control of their narrative, tell their story and use it to deliver the career and life they deserve.
Drawing from her own life experience of building a business from 0 to $4 million on the back of her personal brand, author Amelia Sordell explains how readers can leverage their skills, knowledge, and experience to turn their personality into the ultimate competitive advantage.
Audacious Optimism: The Mindful Choice to Live Boldly and Create Endless Possibilities
By Shanna Adamic
In 2017, Shanna Adamic was diagnosed with a golf ball-sized brain tumour compressing her brain stem. Confronted with hearing loss and partial facial paralysis, she tapped into her (professional) cheerleader optimism to defy the grim prognosis. Today she is an executive leader at Oracle and an executive director of a foundation that removes barriers to life-changing and sometimes life-saving healthcare for children all around the world.
Aimed at all individuals going through hardships of any kind who want to reinvigorate their drive and emerge into the light stronger, happier, and more successful than ever, in Audacious Optimism, Adamic teaches readers, to embrace the unknown, ignite their willpower, and envision beyond the impossible.
Busy Is a Four-Letter Word: A Guide to Achieving More by Doing Less
By Kishshana Palmer
Busy Is A Four-Letter Word rethinks the essential relationship between living well and leading well to help readers reshape their work ethic and create new patterns and routines that allow them to thrive and achieve the most – while doing the least.
In order to end the self-gratifying martyrdom of “busy” culture and uncomplicate the link between personal and professional prosperity, author Kishshana Palmer highlights topics such as real self-care, rest, wellness, and saying “no”. Her 5-Step Re Think Method urges readers to stop adding to their to-do list with tasks that leave them overwhelmed and overworked. Instead she encourages taking bite-sized actions that will change the way readers think and behave, so enabling them to lead more fulfilling lives and achieve greater success.
Minds Over Meetings: A Personal Perspective on Wellness in the Workplace
By Kody Green
In Minds Over Meetings, author Kody Green utilises a combination of lived experience as a diagnosed person with schizophrenia, success in finding and maintaining a job as a person with severe mental illness, and the latest workplace research findings to provide readers with practical strategies for fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment.
Sharing his personal journey of finding resilience, Green offers coping mechanisms and self-care strategies for managing stress, anxiety, and other mental health challenges within the workplace.
Recognizing the importance of accessing appropriate resources, he guides readers on how to work with their management team and human resource teams effectively, exploring topics such as understanding the link between employee well-being and retention, overcoming barriers that prevent individuals from communicating their needs to their employer by removing fear of misunderstanding or stigmatization of the issues they face, and building support teams with friends and colleagues to establish a steady foundation in work and life.
Minds Over Meetings provides essential guidance not only for individuals living with mental illness, but also human resource teams, employers, and all individuals looking to be able to better manage their mental health in the everyday workplace.
Flex: Smart Strategies to Build A Successful Career Around Your Life
By Elizabeth Willetts
Flex is a guide for anyone wanting to build a successful career – on their terms. Written by Elizabeth Willetts, founder of Investing in Women, an organisation that helps businesses reach candidates looking for flexible and part-time work, this new book contains expert advice to empower readers to navigate the complexities of the modern workplace and advance their career, even when life throws curveballs.
Whether readers are looking to pivot to a new field, climb the corporate ladder, or integrate more flexibility into their current role, Willetts’ advice is designed to help them maintain momentum and advance their career in a way that works for them. Containing case studies of women who’ve successfully navigated the modern workplace this guide highlights the non-linear nature of career progression and demonstrates how to assess and use personal skills effectively, overcome common obstacles, and make bold moves with confidence.
Curiosity: The Secret Ingredient for Success in Personal and Professional Growth
By Stefaan van Hooydonk
In his new book, Curiosity, author Stefaan van Hooydonk – founder of the Global Curiosity Institute – explains how readers can embrace their inner curiosity to experience a new world of opportunity.
He discusses exactly what curiosity is, how it works, what it does, and—most importantly—how to keep it at a high level. Readers will learn to take intentional action to maintain their curiosity and consistently achieve at a level they didn’t think possible. The book also looks at the science of curiosity with the latest research and data, as readers learn to improve their performance and accelerate their achievements within every aspect of their work and personal lives.
By Amberly Lago
Due to be published, February 2025 by Wiley
In Joy Through the Journey, resilience and transformation expert Amberly Lago delivers an exploration of finding light in life’s darkest moments. Discussing how to take your joy back when life gets hard, she provides readers with the tools for navigating life’s toughest challenges.
The book weaves together personal stories, practical wisdom, and insight into creating more joy for yourself—regardless of what you’re going through. Containing techniques for coping with the lack of fulfillment and enjoyment that so many experience in their day-to-day lives, as well as practical exercises and mindset-shifting strategies, readers will also find actionable solutions rooted in mindfulness, resilience, and gratitude, all backed by relatable and powerful stories to help them create a renewed sense of purpose and wellbeing.
I Hate Myself: Overcome Self-Hatred and Realize Why You’re Wrong About You
By Blaise Aguirre MD
Due to be published, February 2025 by Wiley
In I Hate Myself, Harvard academic and psychiatrist Dr. Blaise Aguirre explores one of the most important—and least discussed—experiences in the field of mental health: self-hatred.
Self-hatred is a key source of suffering. Yet, it is rarely discussed in therapy, and even more rarely studied by researchers. Dr. Aguirre explains how to identify, understand, and then overcome this deeply disturbing and potentially life-threatening experience. He also highlights why self-hatred is such an intractable problem and why simply applying the seemingly commonsense practices of “self-care” or “self-love” may not go far enough in addressing the issue.
I Hate Myself contains honest, firsthand accounts of many patients who have conquered self-hatred and related constructs. It outlines the real impact of self-hatred on affected people and makes clear why they erroneously come to believe that they are irredeemably flawed – and then come to see why they are worthy of compassion and love.
Exploring the origins and the signs of self-hatred, this new book reviews its manifestation in commonly co-occurring disorders—including borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, and depression—and identifies specific strategies that those who experience self-hatred can apply to reduce their suffering.
The Art of Self-Leadership: Discover the Power Within You and Learn to Lead Yourself
By Heather Younger
Due to be published, February 2025 by Wiley
Aimed at all professionals who want to lead themselves in a way that inspires others and brings them joy in their work every day, The Art of Self-Leadership takes readers on a journey to develop a whole new mindset around personal advocacy and self-leadership.
The book is filled with interview excerpts from author Heather Younger’s podcast, Leadership with Heart, data from polls, relevant studies, and stories from her own life and the lives of others, and each chapter finishes with exercises to help readers dive deeper into what lessons they can learn, and what actions they can take to implement the learnings.
See Your Elephant: Discover What’s Holding You Back from Your True Potential
By Jo Brown
Due to be published, February 2025 by Wiley
See Your Elephant is a guide to uncovering and shattering personal barriers so you can perform at your very best.
In it, author, performance coach and physiotherapist, Dr Jo Brown – who has worked with high-performance athletes at an elite level – shares invaluable insights that reveal how self-awareness and unbounded personal growth can help redefine what’s possible by developing a growth mindset.
Whether readers are aiming for personal, career, or even Olympic success, See Your Elephant shares the strategies required to help individuals break through their limits as they identify the limiting beliefs and habits holding them back, apply proven techniques to overcome challenges, build self-awareness and find a way forward, and address the elephant in their room.
How To Talk To Absolutely Anyone, 3rd Edition
By Mark Rhodes
Due to be published February 2025 by Capstone, A Wiley Brand
The third edition of How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone, delivers an easy-to-follow and practical guide to becoming a better communicator.
Whether readers fear judgement and rejection or just struggle to know what to say, author Mark Rhodes – a success trainer who coaches people and businesses around the world how to have more confidence and direction – provides readers with the tools needed to navigate social situations and explains how, by first changing your outlook, you can develop the ability to navigate even tricky situations with confidence and ease.
Hurdle-isms: Wit and Wisdom from a Lifetime in Baseball
By Clint Hurdle
Due to be published February 2025 by Wiley
In Hurdle-isms, former Major League Baseball player, coach, and manager Clint Hurdle delivers a collection of his most inspirational stories, anecdotes, and quotes from his years spent on the fields, and in the dugouts and locker rooms of the big leagues.
In each chapter, the author describes the experience, hope, and strength he’s gained from his years as a player, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball. Readers will learn about the lessons he took from his successes and failures both on and off the field. Filled with quick wit and pithy humour, the author also discusses many of the hot topics currently dominating the world of professional baseball.
From his take on patience and focus—“Multi-tasking makes me multi-mediocre” —to timeless interpretations of humility, maintaining high standards, and celebrating others, this book provides readers with an inspiring, motivating and entertaining approach to sports and life.