There's Power in Setting Boundaries

In Set Boundaries, Find Peace, therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab details how you can transform your relationships by learning to set healthy boundaries, which are standards for how you’d like to be treated. Tawwab explains where your boundaries come from and offers strategies for identifying and communicating your boundaries in a variety of situations.

In our guide, we’ll first focus on defining what healthy boundaries look like. Then, we’ll offer a step-by-step process you can follow to identify, communicate, and reinforce your boundaries. We’ll focus on a few types of relationships in which many people struggle to set boundaries. Finally, we’ll discuss the ways others may violate your boundaries, offering suggestions for how you can respond when violations occur. We’ll also compare Tawwab’s work to other psychological approaches to relationships, as well as offer more tools you can use to set healthy boundaries.

Are you tired of feeling like parenting is a power struggle? Raising Good Humans by Hunter Clarke-Fields is a guide for parents and caregivers seeking to collaborate with their children rather than feeling constantly at odds with them. Grounded in mindfulness principles, Clarke-Fields’s structured approach to navigating the complexities of modern parenting involves being patient, parenting intentionally, and fostering relationships built on mutual respect and understanding rather than power dynamics.

Clarke-Fields, a mindfulness mentor, encourages parents to incorporate mindfulness into their daily routines, balancing parenting with self-care and transitioning from reactive methods to more conscious approaches. In this guide, we’ll explore her relationship-centered approach, emphasizing mindfulness to manage emotions—both yours and your child's. We’ll provide strategies to strengthen your relationship with your child, include insights into the psychology behind mindfulness, and explore other parenting perspectives.

The word “productivity” typically doesn’t bring to mind self-care behaviors such as sleeping in and enjoying a leisurely meal with friends. But in Working Hard, Hardly Working, entrepreneur and influencer Grace Beverley insists that self-care and productivity aren’t opposites—they actually require each other. She argues that you can improve your life and avoid burnout by recognizing that productive work leaves you with more time for self-care, and self-care boosts your productivity by energizing you.

In this guide, we’ll explore Beverley’s advice for improving your self-care and productivity. You’ll learn how to use your work time wisely, make work tasks more enjoyable, and pursue self-care that leaves you feeling replenished. We’ll also supplement Beverley’s insights by offering tips from other self-care and productivity experts and providing historical context, such as the origins of our culture of overwork.

In 1-2-3 Magic, clinical psychologist Thomas W. Phelan introduces a simple countdown approach to discipline that lets you spend less time managing your child’s behavior and more time enjoying your relationship. The book distills discipline into two tasks: stopping unwanted behavior and initiating productive behavior. Phelan explains that when you’re able to spend less time on discipline, you’ll have more time to focus on your more enjoyable parental duty: cultivating a warm and loving relationship with your child.

Phelan’s approach will resonate with parents looking for a discipline model that builds children’s self-efficacy, self-esteem, and independence. His tools help you redirect behavior, skip lectures, reduce conflicts, and establish positive routines. We’ll supplement Phelan’s advice with additional tips for parents on how to change their own behaviors, insights into how some of Phelan’s recommendations can apply to adults, and historical background on child discipline.

What is the key to success? It's hard to tell when so much success advice is contradictory: Should you be kind, or is being nice for losers? Should you spend every waking hour at work, or focus on work-life balance? In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, peak performance expert Eric Barker examines the research on every option—and shares what he believes are the secrets to success.

In this guide, you'll learn why context is king—in other words, why the rules for success depend on who you are—and examine interpersonal relationships, reviewing the importance of kindness, networks, and your attitude towards success. We'll also present Barker's views on persistence and hard work, namely why you need to stick to some things and quit others, and how you can achieve the ideal balance of work and play. Along the way, we'll examine how Barker’s ideas compare with those of other thought leaders and introduce even more ways to implement his suggestions.

Do you feel overwhelmed by assignments, meetings, and obligations? Are you constantly interrupted by email, social media, and the urge to follow every headline? Does it feel like there’s never enough time in the day, and none for what you really want to do?

In Make Time, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky argue that we live in an information landscape designed to steal our time and attention. In order to escape from all of our modern distractions, you must be proactive to take back your time. The authors offer tips, tricks, and hacks to reclaim control of your day-to-day life and make time for the things that matter most.

This guide provides an overview of the lifestyle adjustments Knapp and Zeratsky recommend while examining their benefits and practicality. We also explore research on the effects of the modern world on the mind and body and how other experts on motivation and time management suggest you refocus your energy and your life.

In Who Will Cry When You Die?, self-help guru Robin Sharma wants to know if you’ll feel happy with the life you’ve led when you’re on your deathbed. Sharma thinks that most people lead lives they’ll regret because they focus on the wrong things—success, money, fame—and none of the right things—family, community, love. If you think you might have end-of-life regrets, Sharma provides a collection of pithy life lessons and advice to help you seize control of your life and turn it into one you’ll look back on fondly.

We’ve grouped those lessons into eight broader tactics that will help you cope with adversity, build self-discipline, spread kindness, and more. You’ll come away with actionables you can implement daily to make your life better and background on the philosophies, ideologies, and science on which Sharma draws.

In today’s hustle culture, many people think the only way to live a productive and rewarding life is to work as hard as possible. This idea is so ingrained in our culture that many work to the point of near-constant exhaustion, sacrificing their mental and physical health. But according to business strategist Greg McKeown, there’s an easier way to get the most out of your time and effort. In Effortless, he expands on this one simple truth: Achieving your goals doesn’t have to be so hard. By simply taking the easiest path, we can be healthier, happier, and more productive.

In our guide, we’ll lay out McKeown’s argument that the easiest path to success is the most viable, and we’ll provide actionable advice on how to implement this idea into your daily life. We’ll also further explore McKeown’s main points by comparing and contrasting them to other ideas in books on productivity and happiness.