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|  | | Emotions! Making Sense of Your Feelings
Emotions contribute significantly to your intelligence and your ability to navigate through your life. Understanding your emotions is essential!
Imagine having a tool that can improve your motivation, self-awareness, social relationships, decision-making skills, self-control, and your ability to achieve goals. Your emotions can do all of that for you! Emotions can tell you something about yourself, your relationships with others, and the world in which you live that you may not have accurately perceived in another way. | |  | | The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from Your Need to Rescue Other
Many men and women repeatedly enter into romantic relationships with damaged and vulnerable partners, hoping that love will transform their partner's behavior or lives. The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself From Your Need to Rescue Others (New Harbinger, June 2009) is written for the general public and takes a detailed look at the chronic rescuer.
In legends and folklore, the white knight rescues the damsel in distress, falls in love, and saves the day. Real-life white knights are men and women who enter into romantic relationships with damaged and vulnerable partners, hoping that love will transform their partner's behavior or lives; a relationship pattern that seldom leads to a storybook ending.br />
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Though most white knights feel that they are selfless and sacrificing, often they are really seeking unconditional love and admiration from others because they see themselves as flawed, weak, or unlovable. Problems arise when | |  | | Understanding Myself: A Kid's Guide to Intense Emotions and Strong Feelings
Intense emotions and strong feelings are part of every preteen's life. Why does something so common feel so overwhelming?
font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000" face="Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">font>font>span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: chalkboard;">i>font style="font-size: 13px;">Understanding Myself /font>/i>/span>/font>/font>/b>/font>font style="font-size: 13px;" color="#000000" face="Metro">span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: chalkboard;">font style="font-size: 13px;">font face="Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">font>is full of current psychological /font>research on emotions as well as real-life quotes, useful quizzes, fun fact | |  | | What Motivates Getting Things Done: Procrastination, Emotions, and Success
Overall, What Motivates Getting Things Done illustrates how emo- tions play a signi cant role in our style of doing, along with our way of being, in the world. Readers will acquire a better understanding of the innate biological system that motivates them and how they can make the most of it in all areas of their lives.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: Arial;"> A marvel of evolution is that humans are not solely motivated by their desire to experience positive emotions. They are also motivated, and even driven to achieve, by their attempts to avoid or seek relief from negative ones. span style="font-style: oblique;">What Motivates Getting Things Done: Procrastination, Emotions, and Success /span>explains how anxiety is like a highly motivating friend, why you span style="font-style: oblique;">should /span>fear failure, and the underpinnings of shame, distress, and fe |
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