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At Your Best
You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace.
- Slammed is normal
- Distractions are everywhere
- Life gets reduced to going through the motions
Tired of living that way? At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow.
Influential podcast host and thought leader, Carey Nieuwhof, understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than 1,000 productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you.
At Your Best will help you:
- Replace chronic exhaustion with deep productivity
- Break the pattern of overpromising and never accomplishing enough
- Clarify what matters most by restructuring your day
- Master the art of saying no without losing friends or influence
- Discover why vacations and sabbaticals don’t really solve your problems
- Develop a personalized plan to recapture each day so you can break free from the trap of endless to-dos
Start thriving at work and at home as you discover how to be at your best.
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To be successful, you need to grow personally and professionally, but you don’t know what to do or where to start to develop yourself. Maybe you also don’t have access to the resources or mentors you feel you need to succeed. All of this leaves you feeling confused, frustrated, stuck, overwhelmed, and sometimes, inadequate. You might even feel forced to play small, but you don’t have to limit your ambition to achieve your goals.
Learner’s Library is a return-free online library helping business and creative professionals leverage nonfiction books to access the guidance they need to succeed. Every week, we give away books for free. Scroll through our library of book recommendations below to see our upcoming, current, and past books. Then, click a cover for more information on the book and a link to join a waitlist for future giveaways.
New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller shares the plan that led him to turn his life around.
There are four characters in every story: The victim, the villain, the hero, and the guide. These four characters live inside us. If we play the victim, we’re doomed to fail. If we play the villain, we will not create genuine bonds. But if we play the hero or guide, our lives will flourish. The hard part is being self-aware enough to know which character we are playing.
In this book, Donald will use his own experiences to help you recognize if the character you are currently surfacing is helping you experience a life of meaning. He breaks down the transformational, yet practical, plan that took him from slowly giving up to rapidly gaining a new perspective of his own life’s beauty and meaning, igniting his motivation, passion, and productivity, so you can do the same.
The lessons in this book will teach you how to:
- Help you discover when you are playing the victim and villain.
- Create a simple life plan that will bring clarity and meaning to your goals ahead.
- Take control of your life by choosing to be the hero in your story.
- Cultivate a sense of creativity about what your life can be.
- Move beyond just being productive to experiencing a deep sense of meaning.
Donald Miller will help you identify the many chances you have of being the hero in your life, and the times when you are falling into the trap of becoming the victim. He will guide you in developing a unique plan that will speak to the challenges you currently face so you, too, can find the fulfillment you have been searching for in your life and work.
Tony Robbins turns to the topic that vexes us all: How to secure financial freedom for ourselves and for our families. “If there were a Pulitzer Prize for investment books, this one would win, hands down” (Forbes).
Tony Robbins is one of the most revered writers and thinkers of our time. People from all over the world—from the disadvantaged to the well-heeled, from twenty-somethings to retirees—credit him for giving them the inspiration and the tools for transforming their lives. From diet and fitness, to business and leadership, to relationships and self-respect, Tony Robbins’s books have changed people in profound and lasting ways. Now, for the first time, he has assembled an invaluable “distillation of just about every good personal finance idea of the last forty years” (The New York Times).
Based on extensive research and interviews with some of the most legendary investors at work today (John Bogle, Warren Buffett, Paul Tudor Jones, Ray Dalio, Carl Icahn, and many others), Tony Robbins has created a 7-step blueprint for securing financial freedom. With advice about taking control of your financial decisions, setting up a savings and investing plan, destroying myths about what it takes to save and invest, and setting up a “lifetime income plan,” the book brims with advice and practices for making the financial game not only winnable—but providing financial freedom for the rest of your life. “Put MONEY on your shortlist of new books to read…It’s that good” (Marketwatch.com).
Your organization – business, church, or nonprofit – will experience unprecedented growth when you close the gap between these two game-changing questions: What are we known for? What do we want to be known for?
In Know What You’re FOR, entrepreneur and thought leader Jeff Henderson makes it clear that if we want to change the world with our products or our mission, then we must shift the focus of our messaging and marketing. Rather than self-promoting, we must transform our organizations to be people-centric. This sounds like a no-brainer, but looking closer shows just how little this is true and how impactful the change would be if it were. Whether you’re a business leader, a change advocate, or a movement maker, Know What You’re FOR will help you – and your organization – thrive.
It’s what happens when you create an organization focused on who it is FOR. This is the future. Thriving organizations will be more concerned with becoming raving fans of their customers than they are trying to convince customers to become raving fans of the organization. This isn’t theory. Jeff Henderson has experienced it.
Working with companies like Chick-fil-A and the Atlanta Braves, then serving as a pastor for 15 years at one of the country’s largest and most influential churches, North Point, Jeff knows what success looks like for healthy organizations and healthy lives. With fascinating stories from a host of entrepreneurs and Jeff’s remarkable career, Know What You’re FOR equips you with a simple strategy and the tools for extraordinary growth. You’ll discover how to:
- Work FOR your current and future customers with a new, effective method
- Be FOR your team and help your people reach full potential
- Create a ripple impact by being FOR your community
- Live and work your best by caring FOR yourself
In a hypercritical, cynical world, one that is often known for what it’s against, let’s be a group of people known for who and what we’re FOR. It’s a powerful strategy for business. But more importantly, it is a revolutionary way to live.
You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace.
- Slammed is normal
- Distractions are everywhere
- Life gets reduced to going through the motions
Tired of living that way? At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow.
Influential podcast host and thought leader, Carey Nieuwhof, understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than 1,000 productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you.
At Your Best will help you:
- Replace chronic exhaustion with deep productivity
- Break the pattern of overpromising and never accomplishing enough
- Clarify what matters most by restructuring your day
- Master the art of saying no without losing friends or influence
- Discover why vacations and sabbaticals don’t really solve your problems
- Develop a personalized plan to recapture each day so you can break free from the trap of endless to-dos
Start thriving at work and at home as you discover how to be at your best.
About Learner’s Library
The Guidance You Need to Succeed
Ambitious professionals, like you, feel pressure to grow because you have high expectations and big goals. You are bravely doing something you’ve never done before or wisely seeking improvement in an area where you’re struggling. However, you may not be sure where to start. You wish you had something (or someone) to not just tell you what to do next, but teach you the principles you need to make great decisions for yourself in the future. Learner’s Library helps you leverage the power of nonfiction books and other content to access the often unspoken guidance you need to succeed.
About The Curator
Kevin B. Jennings
Learner’s Library is curated by Kevin B. Jennings. Like you, Kevin knows what it’s like to have more ambition than access. Growing up in a single-parent home, Kevin longed for mentorship and financial support to achieve his dreams. Eighteen years ago, he started leveraging the power of books and other content to develop himself. Kevin’s growth created opportunities, like working with high-profile creatives and leaders, earning a six-figure income, and launching businesses while leading a family and becoming a better person. With Learner’s Library, Kevin wants to help you achieve your definition of success at work and in life.
Learn More About Kevin“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
— Charlie “Tremendous” Jones
Why Books?
Books help you connect with great minds, develop new skills, grow your ideas, and grow yourself, which can ultimately help you grow your income and impact. Nonfiction books are great sources for potential solutions to your current problems. For Kevin and many other book lovers, authors act as mentors. When we lack direct access to people to guide us, we can consult a book and gain the perspective of a more experienced and informed person who is willing to share.
Growth Spreads
When you engage with what you read and apply what you learn, books improve every area of your life. As you read about leading effective meetings at work, you’ll facilitate better conversations with friends. As you read about managing your time at work, you’ll improve time management in your personal life. As you read about actively listening to prospective customers for sales or negotiations, you’ll listen more effectively to your spouse. Everything will get better as you become better.
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