Tiny pep talks Bite-size encouragement for life's annoying, stressful, and flat-out lousy moments

Paula Skaggs

Book - 2024

"A collection of humorous pep talks to encourage readers to face everyday challenges, in forms ranging from words of advice and fill-in-the-blank letters to songs and crosswords"--

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Subjects
Genres
Self-help publications
Published
Philadelphia : Quirk Books [2024]
Language
English
Main Author
Paula Skaggs (author)
Other Authors
Josh Linden (author)
Physical Description
175 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm
ISBN
9781683694441
  • An introduction to Tiny Pep Talks: Frequently Asked Questions
  • You at Home
  • For When It's Time to Get Off the Couch and Goto Bed
  • For When You Just Remembered Something Really Embarrassing You Said Years Ago
  • For When You Should Probably Do Some Kind of Exercise
  • For When You Can't Stop Checking WebMD: A Haiku
  • For When It's Time to Do Your Taxes (Tiny Coddled Baby Edition)
  • For When It's Time to Do Your Taxes (Tough Love Edition)
  • For When Your Favorite TV Show Has Just Been Canceled: An Obituary
  • For When You Want to Order Delivery but Should Cook
  • For When Your Home Is (Really, Really) Messy and People Are Coming Over: A Pop Quiz
  • For When You've Had Way Too Much Coffee
  • For When Your Clothes Don't Fit
  • For When Your Houseplants Are Dying of Thirst
  • For When You Want to Leave the Dirty Dishes for Tomorrow: A Permission Slip
  • For When It's Terrible Outside but Your Dog Needs to Pee
  • For When You Woke Up at 2 AM and Can't Fall Back to Sleep: A Lullaby
  • You in the World
  • For When You're About to Sing Karaoke
  • For When You Have to Make That Appointment You've Been Putting Off for Months
  • For When You Have to Parallel Park
  • For When You Left Late and Now There's Traffic
  • For When You Agreed to Something Months Ago and Now It's Time to Actually Do It
  • For When You're Overdressed
  • For When You're Underdressed
  • For When You're on Hour Six of an Eight-Hour Drive
  • For When You're About to Leave fora Big Trip: An In-Flight Announcement
  • For When You're Awkwardly Early
  • For When Your Phone Battery Is at 5 Percent
  • For When You're Really Bad at Something That You've Never Tried Before: A Very Sarcastic Pep Talk
  • You & Other People: Strangers & Acquaintances
  • For When You're Going to a Party and You Only Know One Person
  • For When It's Time to Split the Bill: A Mathematical Equation
  • For When You've Had Spinach in Your Teeth All Day and Nobody Told You
  • For When Somebody Spoils Your Favorite Show
  • For When You Just Spoiled That Show for Someone
  • For When You Have to Tell the Server That's Not What You Ordered
  • For When You 1,000 Percent Forgot That Guy's Name: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
  • For When You Have a Big Juicy Secret That You Absolutely Cannot Share Under Any Circumstances: A Loophole
  • For When You're Thinking of Telling Everyone About a Weird Dream You Had Once: A Crossword Puzzle
  • For When You Need to Ask the Neighbors to Please, Please, Please Keep It Down
  • You & Other People Friends & Family
  • For When Your Friend Keeps Suggesting a Podcast That You Have No Interest in Listening To
  • For When You're Gonna Have to See That One Cousin
  • For When You Think You Might Hate Your Friend's Partner
  • For When You're Worried Your Friends Are All Secretly Mad at You
  • For When You Forgot Their Birthday
  • For When Your Friend is Going Through It and You Don't Know What to Say
  • For When You Leave Your Kid with a Babysitter for the First Time
  • For When Your Parents Leave You with a Babysitter for the First Time
  • For When You're Babysitting for a Family Who's Leaving Their Kid for the First Time
  • For When Your Friends Start Having Kids
  • For When You Have to Apologize
  • For When You Can See Your Parents Gearing Up to Have a Big Conversation Before the End of the Visit
  • For When You Forgot to Reply to That Text; A Template
  • For When You're Throwing a Party and No One's Here Yet
  • You & Work
  • For When You Need to Get That Boring Work Thing Done
  • For When It's Time for Your Annual Performance Review: A Fill-in-the-Blank
  • For When You Have to Send a Scary Email: A Foolproof Checklist
  • For When You Sent the Wrong Name in an Email: A Foolproof Checklist
  • For When You're Asking for a Raise
  • For When the Customer's Wrong
  • For When You Know That One Coworker Wants to Chit-Chat: The Board Game
  • For When Everyone at Work Apparently Took Stupid Pills Today
  • For When You Want to Rage Quit: An Interactive Saga
  • For When You Feel Like You're About to Get Fired
  • For When You Actually Are Fired
  • For When You've Already Asked What Everyone at Lunch Did Last Weekend and Now You're Out of Things to Talk About
  • For When You're Out of Vacation Days
  • You & Romance
  • For When You Have a Little Crush; A News Alert
  • For When You're Getting Back on the Dating Apps (Again)
  • For When You're About to See Your Ex
  • For When You Just Got Ghosted: A Spooky Tale
  • For When You Want to Ask Someone Out on a Date: A Top-Secret Mission
  • For When Your Crush Starts Dating Someone Else
  • For When Everyone Seems to Be in a Relationship but You
  • For When Everyone Seems to Be Single but You
  • For When You Want to Say "1 Love You" for the First Time
  • For When You're Introducing a New Partner to Your Friends
  • For When Your Partner's Just Kind of Being Annoying
  • For When You Get Dumped
  • You & The Big Stuff
  • For When It's Monday: An Op-Ed
  • For When You Freak Yourself Out Thinking About How Big the Universe Is
  • For When You're Living Smack-Dab in Anxiety City: A Real Estate Listing
  • For When the News Is Too Much
  • For When You're Grieving: Frequently True Clichés
  • For When You Really Beefed It, Big Time
  • For When You're Celebrating a Win (of Any Size)
  • For When Something Is Ending: A Yearbook Sign-Off
  • DIY Tiny Pep Talks
  • About the Authors
Review by Library Journal Review

Comedians and card game creators Skaggs and Linden (cohosts of the podcast Being Earnest) use their comedic talents to provide short "pep talks" to assist readers in tackling life's everyday challenges and predicaments. The authors offer more than 80 pep talks for a variety of situations that might arise at home, in social settings, in the workplace, or on the dating scene. No topic is too big or too small, including asking for forgiveness, cutting back on coffee, using dating apps, getting dumped, experiencing insomnia, trying to parallel park, running late, singing karaoke in public, and contemplating rage quitting. Most of the pep talks are in essay format, but there are also haikus, crossword puzzles, and customizable "DIY" talks that resemble a game of Mad Libs. The authors employ a humorous tone with most of the topics, but they also provide valuable advice, especially when addressing grieving. Skaggs and Linden acknowledge that they're not trained psychologists but two people who use humor to face life's challenges, whether mundane or more emotional, with a positive outlook. VERDICT This book's vivid and welcoming layout contributes to the motivational vibe found in its pages. Recommended for readers needing inspiration for confronting common but still daunting situations.--Erica Swenson Danowitz

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For When It's Time to Get Off the Couch and Go to Bed Okay, buster--the jig is up. It's past your bedtime, yet here you are: on the couch, barely awake, with no intention of getting up and going to bed. This is a classic case of Newton's first law of motion: objects at rest stay on the couch. We have a suspicion that you're scrolling on your phone while somehow also mindlessly watching a show you've already lost interest in, simply because the gravitational pull of the couch is too strong. So you need to make getting up and into bed as easy as possible. Here's what you're going to do (and what we're confident you can do): get up and go to bed. And here's what you're not going to do (and what we're confident you wouldn't have done anyway): anything else beyond that. Too tired to wash your face? We'll worry about it tomorrow! Don't want to brush your teeth? Molars aren't that useful anyway! Too sleepy to put on PJs? Your jeans are plenty comfy! The one and only goal right now is to get into your bed. We know you can get there. Because the alternative is waking up in the middle of the night, confused, with a crick in your neck and a sinking feeling that you should have just gotten up and gone to bed in the first place. Then Newton wins, and nobody wants that. Excerpted from Tiny Pep Talks: Bite-Size Encouragement for Life's Annoying, Stressful, and Flat-Out Lousy Moments by Paula Skaggs, Josh Linden All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.