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52 Weeks of Newlywed Devotionals for Navigating a God-Centered Marriage Marriage is a journey of both hills and valleys, and newlyweds are just beginning this great adventure. By following God's way and making him the center of their marriage from the start, couples can avoid rockier paths and create stronger foundations. In this spiritual and practical devotional, marriage coaches Chris and Jamie Bailey speak to the particular challenges that every newlywed couple faces and provide both inspiration and guidance. Newlywed Couple's Devotional features: • 52 Weekly Devotionals that explore common issues and themes every couple experiences, such as intimacy, love, commitment, household duties, finances, and more • Everyday Scripture and Reflective Bible Studies that provide practical solutions to bringing marriages closer to God • Action-Oriented Discussion Prompts that hold couples accountable for maintaining their God-anchored vows • Weekly Prayers that are specific and relevant to the topics discussed Whether couples are just getting back from their honeymoons or renewing their vows, this timeless devotional offers essential navigation tools for finding God's purpose in marriage.

This engaging exploration delves into the universal quest for enhanced productivity in work and life. Chris Bailey, driven by a passion for productivity since his teenage years, opted to forgo lucrative job offers to dedicate a year to experimenting with various productivity techniques. After earning his business degree, he documented his self-experiments on a blog, while also interviewing leading experts like Charles Duhigg and David Allen. His experiments included weeks of minimal sleep, cutting out caffeine and sugar, isolating himself for ten days, limiting smartphone use, gaining muscle, extending his workweek to 90 hours, and waking up at 5:30 AM for three months. Throughout this journey, he meticulously tracked how these changes affected his work quality and quantity. The insights gleaned from this year-long project include counterintuitive strategies such as working more deliberately by slowing down, eliminating unimportant tasks, applying the rule of three, embracing imperfection, scheduling less time for significant tasks, using the 20-second rule to minimize distractions, and understanding productive procrastination. This eye-opening read is packed with over 25 actionable best practices to help you achieve more.

How to Calm Your Mind is a practical guide on how to lead a less anxious life and become more productive in the process, from Chris Bailey, the bestselling author of Hyperfocus.

A practical guide to managing your attention – the most powerful resource you have to become more creative, get stuff done, and live a more meaningful life 'The best productivity plans call for strategy, not just hacks or tactics—and Hyperfocus gives you strategy in spades. When you read this book, get ready to do your most important work!' Chris GuillebeauIn Hyperfocus, you will learn: - How working fewer hours can increase our productivity - How drinking caffeine strategically instead of habitually gives us more energy - How we get more done by making our work harder, not easier - How we do our best creative work when we're the most tiredOur attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today and we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little. In Hyperfocus, the bestselling author of The Productivity Project provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. Chris Bailey reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes – hyperfocus, our deep concentration mode, and scatterfocus, our creative, reflective mode – and how the surest path to being our most creative and efficient selves at work is to combine them both.

The journey to finding calm in a stressful world is explored through Chris Bailey's insights on productivity and mental well-being. After experiencing burnout, he emphasizes the importance of balancing productivity with moments of rest to foster sustainability. The book delves into how digital and analog environments impact anxiety, the role of dopamine in overstimulation, and the benefits of a "stimulation fast." Ultimately, cultivating calm enhances focus, engagement, and satisfaction, making it a crucial skill for leading a fulfilling life.

Focusing on the experiences of primary school children in a year-long after-school club, the book explores their engagement with virtual world play, particularly through Minecraft. Utilizing a unique methodological approach called 'rhizomic ethnography,' it combines text and visuals to illustrate how the children's digital community was influenced by both the game and their broader social contexts. The author highlights the emergent nature of play and provides insights valuable for researchers interested in children's play, visual methods, and multimodal research outputs.

Illustrated history of the railways of Bulgaria, fully updated to reflect changes since the first edition. As well as main line railways, the book features preservation, locos in long term storage, selected industrial railways, and the Sofia Trams and Metro.

Zachowaj spokojny umysł i zwiększ swoją efektywność w pracy i nauce! Ten poradnik udostępnia zestaw przystępnych, naukowo opracowanych strategii, które pokazują, że droga do bardziej spokojnego życia, jak również większej produktywności, biegnie bezpośrednio przez wyciszenie.Jego autor wyjaśnia, w jaki sposób cyfrowy świat nas drenuje, i podpowiada, co możemy zrobić, by zniwelować ukryte źródła stresu, które obciążają nas na co dzień. ChrisBailey nauczył się świadomie wybierać świat analogowy, stosować „posty stymulacyjne”, wykorzystywać naukę o „delektowaniu się”, by stać się bardziej skupionym i obecnym oraz relaksować się bez poczucia winy. Pokazuje, w jaki sposób my też możemy odzyskać spokój. W niespokojnym świecie inwestowanie w wyciszenie może być najlepszą strategią produktywności. Gdy poznasz proste sposoby na pokonanie lęku, nie tylko poczujesz się bardziej komfortowo we własnym umyśle, ale również zbudujesz głębszy, bardziej ekspansywny magazyn energii, z którego będziesz czerpać przez cały dzień. Dążenie do spokoju ostatecznie prowadzi do tego, że stajemy się bardziej zaangażowani, skupieni i rozważni – co czyni nas bardziej zadowolonymi z naszego życia. A ponieważ spokój oszczędza czas, czyniąc nas bardziej wydajnymi, nie musimy nawet czuć się winni z powodu czasu, który poświęcamy na inwestowanie w spokój.