Most of us have no idea why we fail to reach our goals. Now eminent social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson shows us how we can finally win by revealing how goals really work -- and by showing us how to avoid what typically goes wrong.
Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson offers insights -- many surprising -- that listeners can use immediately, including how to:
Set a goal so that you will persist even in the face of adversity
Build willpower, which can be strengthened like a muscle
Avoid the kind of positive thinking that makes people fail
Political Language - Words that Succeed and Policies that Fail
Political Language: Words That Succeed and Policies That Fail examines the role of everyday language, governmental rhetoric, and professional language in creating dubious beliefs about the causes, nature, consequences, and remedies for poverty and related social problems.The book analyzes the nature and dynamics of complex cognitive structures engendered in public officials, professionals, administrators, and the general public through recurring categorizations, metaphors, metonyms, and syntactic structures.
Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Audiobook, mp3, pdf)
No wonder it's so hard to lose weight -- our bodies are designed to keep weight on at all costs; it's a matter of survival. It's embedded in our DNA. Our diet has changed dramatically over the past ten thousand years, but our genetic blueprint has not -- our bodies are not designed to process the types of food we are fed today. It's like putting diesel fuel into a regular car -- it just won't work. And making matters worse is the fact that diets don't work either: less than 6 percent of weight-loss attempts succeed.
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