Chris Baréz-Brown Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Dieses Buch macht wach. Es versammelt 54 Ideen, Anleitungen und Experimente zum Mitmachen für den kleinen Ausbruch aus dem Alltag. Auf spielerische Weise verhilft es so zu mehr Achtsamkeit und Lebensfreude und schenkt neue Perspektiven. Immer mehr Tage ziehen in absurder Geschäftigkeit vorüber. Die Zeit vergeht einem schneller und schneller, während die Gedanken die To-do-Liste rauf- und runterspringen. Verbundenheit, ein Gefühl von Bewusstsein für die eigene Umgebung – Fehlanzeige. Das Leben läuft auf Autopilot … Jeder kennt diesen Zustand. Chris Baréz-Brown zeigt, wie man ihm entkommt: mit unorthodoxen Mitteln – »Verlauf dich«, »Kletter auf einen Baum«, »Leb von 5 Euro am Tag« – und der Konzentration auf Kreativität und die eigenen Sinne. Wake up! wird so zum charmanten Abenteuerbuch in Sachen Achtsamkeit.

Meer dan 80 procent van onze wakkere tijd besteden we op de automatische piloot. We kennen allemaal het gevoel van lange ritten waarbij we ons eindbestemming bereiken met weinig herinnering aan de reis. Dit gebeurt niet alleen als we rijden, maar elke dag op het werk, met onze dierbaren of gewoon in ons leven. Wake Up! is een serie experimenten die je helpt om uit deze val te breken. Van het beklimmen van een boom tot het schrijven van een brief, hier zijn een jaar vol evenwichtige, speelse ervaringen die je verbeelding prikkelen en je zintuigen stimuleren. Door vaker de automatische piloot te ontvluchten, voel je je meer afgestemd, kom je in contact met wie je echt bent en maak je elke dag waardevol.

Life and work are intrinsically linked. They are not separate; they are one. If we want to live an extraordinary life, we have to make our work equally extraordinary. When your work resonates with purpose, you jump out of bed every morning, excited by the possibilities the day holds for you. Everything else in your life seems to have a glow about it, and you exude much more personal shine. My aim in writing this book is to help you feel like that every day. To help you make your work work for you. To feel truly free. Reading Free! will remind you that you are fantastic and have the ability to do amazing things; show you that work is your slave, not the other way round; help you make work your ticket to an extraordinary future; and put you in the driving seat and show you a route to freedom.

We all have good days and bad days at work. Some days you feel bullet-proof. People listen to you, your meetings run like clockwork, and you keep having new ideas. Other days are like wading through quicksand. You can't get anything done, and when the printer jams (again) you want to quit. Wouldn't it be great if every day went your way? If you jumped out of bed every morning ready for anything? You can stand out, break the rules and make things happen. You can be a bit more 'Elvis'. You can love every minute. The only limit is you: your energy, your belief, your perspective.

This is a painstaking survey of every Scottish battle from Mons Graupius AD 84 to Culloden 1746. Scotland has been formed by war to a greater extent than almost any other nation—war against the Romans, the Vikings, one another and, throughout the medieval and early modern eras, with England. Many of Scotland's battlefields have already been covered by modern developments, many more are at risk, often because their existence, let alone significance, is known to so few. If battles are "no more than the punctuation marks of history" it is not enough to know where these punctuation marks occurred, it is important to understand why.