10% Better: Easy ways to beat stress, think smarter, get healthy and achieve any goal

by Rob Yeung

Overview

What''s the secret to appreciably raising your performance in life? It''s easy to feel the pressure to do better means you have to accelerate to keep in touch with your ambitions, but what if the secret to success was not hurtling forward with ever increasing urgency, but learning how to tweak your approach to get better results.

10% Better, by bestselling psychologist Dr Rob Yeung, will show you how to slow down, think twice, and change your habits for the better. With proven methods for improving your decision making, your creativity, your mood and your motivation, Rob will show you that simple every day changes can make all the difference. If you could learn to do life differently and see a 10% improvement in all that you do, why wouldn''t you?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473634244
Publisher:	John Murray Press
Publication date:	03/05/2020
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	NOOK Book
File size:	584 KB

About the Author

Dr Rob Yeung is a chartered psychologist and author of over a dozen books including the bestseller Confidence (for Pearson''s Prentice Hall imprint) and two books for Capstone; How To Win and How To Stand Out.

Since gaining his PhD in 1996, Rob has been working as an organisational psychologist and a director at Talentspace leadership consulting, helping individuals and organisations to improve their effectiveness. His clients include organisations ranging from HSBC, KPMG and British Airways to SMEs. Much of his coaching and training work centres around the beliefs that people have about themselves. Rob has a huge database of fascinating research which he has curated, and hence backs up everything he recommends with examples based on studies conducted by the top scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists and economists in the world.

Table of Contents

About the author viii

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 Getting smart about stress and everyday pressures 1

Chapter 2 Boosting your motivation and achieving your goals 31

Chapter 3 Being smart about health and weight loss 55

Chapter 4 Making better decisions 81

Chapter 5 Boosting your creativity and inventiveness 101

Chapter 6 Being clever about learning, memory, and performance 127

Chapter 7 Dealing with pressure and performing in public 151

Chapter 8 Finding small ways to feel happier 173

Conclusions: Onwards, upwards, and over to you 195

Notes 211

Index 223