Library Collections
Self-Help During Tough Times
During difficult times, people often turn to using their free time for self-improvement. Baldwin has put together a list of resources, found all over the library, to help you take initiative and improve yourself during these difficult times.
Success • Communication • Anxiety • Other
Success
| Blue Collar and Proud of It: The All-in-One Resource for Finding Freedom, Financial Success and Security Outside the Cubicle (Joe Lamacchia) - TOUGH TIMES 650.1086 LAMACCHIA: Helps you to better understand and appreciate how to develop the skills for and how to find an engaging, stable blue collar job that you love. Check Availability | |
| Ignite the Genius Within (Christine Ranck and Christopher Lee Nutter) - On Order: Designed to help you develop creative insights into your own life, this book will help you go after what you really want in life. Check Availability | |
| Peaks and Valleys: Making Good and Bad Times Work for You-At Work and in Life (Spencer Johnson) - 650.1 JOHNSON: Offers principles and advice for achieving personal and professional fulfillment, explaining how to find the good hidden in bad times and how to appreciate and manage good times. Check Availability | |
| Basic Black: The Essential Guide For Getting Ahead At Work (And In Life) (Cathie Black) - 650.1 BLACK: No matter where you are in your career, Basic Black offers lessons that will help you land the job, promotion, or project you're vying for. Check Availability | |
| Who Moved My Cheese (Spencer Johnson) - 155.24 JOHNSON: A simple parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times. Check Availability |
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Communication
| How to Instantly Connect With Anyone (Leil Lowndes) - On Order: Gives 96 new, research based tips and techniques on becoming a master communicator. Check Availability | |
| We Need to Talk: Tough Conversations With Your Employees - TOUGH TIMES 658.3 WE: When it comes to talking to an employee about a difficult topic, managers often find themselves at a loss for the right words. This guide shows you what to say and how to say it. Check Availability | |
| The Art of Talking to Anyone (Rosalie Maggio) - 808.56 MAGGIO: Gives you all the tools you need to speak up with confidence, to charm and persuade, and to talk your way through any situation--successfully. Check Availability | |
| How To Talk To Anybody About Anything (Leil Lowndes) - 302.346 LOWNDES: In How to Talk to Anybody About Anything, Lowndes details the most appropriate, provocative, and specific questions to ask in order to communicate effectively. Check Availability |
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Fear and Anxiety
| Feel the Fear and Do It Anyways (Susan Jeffers) - 152.4 JEFFERS: With insight and humor, Dr. Jeffers shows you how to become powerful in the face of your fears-and enjoy the elation of living a creative, joyous, loving life. Check Availability | |
| How Not To Be Afraid Of Your Own Life (Susan Piver) - 294.3443 PIVER: With a contemporary approach to ancient practices, she teaches readers how to incorporate meditation and mindfulness into everyday life. Check Availability | |
| Fear and Other Univited Guests (Harriet Lerner) - 152.46 LERNER: Unhappiness is fueled by three key emotions: anxiety, fear, and shame. As we learn to respond to these three key emotions in new ways, we can live more fully in the present and move into the future with courage, clarity, humor, and hope. Check Availability | |
| Embracing Fear (Thom Rutledge) - 152.46 RUTLEDGE: This powerful life-transforming guide is for everyone who constantly worries about the what-ifs, but is ready and willing to triumph over fear's pervasive presence once and for all. Check Availability |
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Other
| Clutter Busting: Letting Go of What's Holding You Back (Brooks Palmer) - 648.5 PALMER: Hanging onto things is a way to avoid change, says Palmer, and he trains readers to clean out work and home spaces, as well as their heads. Check Availability | |
| Enough Already! Clearing Mental Clutter to Become the Best You (Peter Walsh) - 646.7 WALSH: Demonstrates how disorganization in any area of a life can compromise the functionality of all other areas, and outlines a step-by-step plan for addressing a wide range of topics. Check Availability | |
| It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been (BJ Gallagher) - On Order: A simple, straight-forward guide to getting what you want at any stage in your life. Check Availability | |
| The Pursuit of Perfect (Tal Ben-Shahar) - 155.232 BEN-SHAHAR: Using Positive Psychology, learn to no longer demand perfection, and rather search for and find your own happiness. Check Availability | |
| Second Acts That Change Lives (Mary Beth Sammons) - On Order: Offers a five-step process for going from life before the leap to the view from the other side. Sammons shares dozens of stories of people who re-invented themselves at mid-life-and made the world a better place in the process. Check Availability | |
| The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life (Ben Sherwood) - HEALTH 613.69 SHERWOOD: Draws on stories about survivors of accidents, crime, and serious illness to investigate why some people succumb to life-threatening hardships while others rally. Check Availability | |
| Time Management From the Inside-Out (Julie Morgenstern) - 650.11 MORGENSTERN: Even those struggling to keep their heads above water can take control of their time by following Morgenstern's quick-start program. Check Availability |
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