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Have you been going to the gym for months now, but don’t look any different? Do you feel like, for the time invested, you should be bigger or more muscular than you currently are? If you’ve ever felt like you’re missing a piece of the puzzle, know this: Building muscle isn’t as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe. You already know what to do. You just lack the confidence to do it.

What’s your max squat? How much ya bench? What’s your best deadlift? Can you press your body weight? Today, pushing quantifiable expressions of strength, like your maxes, is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. However, though strength may be specific, real strength is much more than a powerlifting total - it’s about resilience, capability, and adaptability. It’s survival of the fittest after all, not the strongest.

“Eat less, move more” is incomplete. You can lose weight eating more. How? Through a process known as diet-induced thermogenesis. Diet-induced thermogenesis, the calories burned digesting and absorbing the food you eat, has a greater impact on “calories-out” than exercise. But when you restrict your caloric intake, you restrict diet-induced thermogenesis. Thus, the principle of weight loss is not consuming a very small number of calories - especially when “calories-in” increases “calories-out”.

To write a successful book, you need to find and work with an editor who shares your passion for your work and your message and who will help you make your book sing. And sing a smash hit. A blockbuster of a message, clearly and carefully constructed so readers love you and your work and leave you five-star Amazon reviews only because they don’t have more stars to give.

Dan Foxx has spent more than 50,000 hours face-to-face with over 4,500 top execs from America’s finest companies, from high-flying high techs to promising start-ups. With pressure from boards of directors and investors to deliver dollars and high-ticket IPOs and with expectations from direct reports to make the savvy decisions, these CEOs bare all behind closed doors when their leadership chops are on the line.

A lot of people think that they don’t have enough – whether it is enough wealth, enough cash, or enough possessions – but they are wrong. Often times, the problem is that you have too much. But you don’t realize it. You don’t realize it because you are crowded by all your thoughts, your possessions, and by what society and commercialism want you to think.

Are you frustrated with how messy your home is? Are you embarrassed to have to switch to cleaning mode every time you have guests coming over? But even after all the cleaning you do you still can't keep your home organized and tidy? Truth is, you have too much stuff. Cleaning and tidying would be a lot easier if you got rid of some material possessions. However, many of you fear that you may need your possessions at one point or another, and hence why your lives are so full of clutter. Your primary objective should be to get rid of physical clutter.

The oddly shaped and versatile kettlebell has only recently gained attention in popular fitness. These objects serve as tremendous ballistic training tools that can quickly result in increases across all fitness domains. This how-to audiobook takes you step-by-step from the history of kettlebells, to basic biomechanics, and through an extensive repertoire of kettlebell movements. Each movement is carefully explained. At the end of each major movement chapter, an "action plan" is outlined that will give you workout ideas so you can start right away.

Do you constantly find Netflix and Hulu keeping you attached to your couch? Are you struggling to make the short hours of the day work for you? Do you frequently ponder why you never get things done on time? Are you one that gets into avoidable predicaments often because procrastination seems to always have control over your wheel of life? It is time to challenge everything you believe your life is at this very moment. There is always room for improvement to make the best better.

You do not need a background in finance or accounting to understand this book. You will find that it’s an easy listen that goes straight to the point. It reveals strategies and tools you need to make BIG changes in your life so you can pay off your college loans, car debt, and credit card balances.

Procrastination Habit: How to Overcome Bad Habits and Stop Procrastinating is the ultimate manual that will teach you how to finally free yourself from procrastination. This audiobook looks at the act of procrastinating as a habit, and will teach you the ins and outs of overcoming procrastination. Procrastination Habit: How to Overcome Bad Habits and Stop Procrastinating will give you the foundation and the realization that will allow you to get rid of procrastination completely.

If you have always wanted to slap on slabs of muscle and build your dream physique without going to the gym for machine work, then keep reading...Bodyweight exercises are simple, efficient, and effective. They require minimal equipment, work many muscles at once, and the exercises feel natural - unlike the machines found in gyms. It’s easy to pick up, easy to adhere to, and will challenge you continuously through new movement progressions. Consistency is the key to getting and keeping a strong, muscular body - and it is easy to be consistent with calisthenics.

All too often we are presented stories about extremely wealthy people who are held up as role models for a successful life. The truth is that wealth rarely guarantees happiness. This book looks to successful small and medium-sized companies contributing to communities, and the far-sighted corporate executives we never hear about who, while successful, are also happy. These are the true-life examples of corporate social responsibility that this book relies on to make its point. Peter Milewski tells you why and how you, personally, can feel good and do well by doing good too.

Discover what minimalist living is about in Minimalism, and start changing your life where it matters most: Your mindset. Then, change your home to one that is uncluttered using my PURGE ideology which you will discover in Declutter. Everything you need for a minimal living is right here, but discover the strategies that will help you stick to your minimalist journey in the audiobook Stop Procrastinating.

Mindfulness has a well-documented ability to improve mental health through the treatment of anxiety, stress, drug addiction, and more. Surprisingly, practicing mindfulness is so easy that you can do it at any point during your day, whether at home, at the office, or even in the car. Studies have shown that those who practice mindfulness on a regular basis have brains that are healthier and more efficient than those who do not.

In this world, where our culture suggests more is better, do you long for simpler times where you could work less and have more time for yourself? Minimalist Home: Declutter Your Home and Simplify Your Life with Minimalist Living unveils how you can accomplish that dream with practical minimalism. One of the biggest time sinks in our daily lives is tending to our physical possessions - such as our home and the clutter that resides in it. Our environment has a profound effect on our productivity and who we are as people.

No matter your goal, you cannot achieve anything if you are lazy and lack self discipline. Look at anyone who is extremely successful and you will notice that all of them are highly productive individuals. As such, the first two audiobooks in this bundle tackle laziness and procrastination and put a stop to it for good. Motivation, interest in said activity, and willpower are considered alongside what is arguably the most important trait for success - having productive habits.

Whether you are an experienced practitioner of minimal living or a complete beginner, have you ever considered extending your philosophy of minimalism beyond yourself and into your family? Is minimalism even possible when living with others? How about with children? Everything needed to help spread your minimalistic lifestyle is right here. But achieving a minimalist lifestyle as a family is not enough. You must know how to sustain it.

Health, wealth, and relationships are probably the most important aspects of life. Without any one of the three, you will end up living a less fulfilling life. As such, this book includes three manuscripts to optimize these aspects of life through minimalism: Minimalist Home: Declutter Your Home and Simplify Your Life with Minimalist Living; Minimalist Budget: Spend Less and Live More with a Minimalist Lifestyle; and Minimalism for Families: Live a Minimalist Life in a Minimalist Home with the Ones You Love.

Mental Toughness: Achieve Goals and Conquer Life with an Elite Mindset is a handy guidebook that was specifically designed to help you master mental toughness. From teaching you about the concept of mental toughness, where it originated from, and how it can benefit your life, to helping you with building your mental strength and overcoming any challenges you may face, this audiobook has it all! Mental toughness is the one skill that you need to transform yourself from a liability to an asset.