Machines are designed to run constantly; people aren't. Our coping mechanisms are meditation apps, weekend breaks and annual holidays, but things soon revert. To prosper, we need a more sustainable approach -- an ability to pause.

Do Pause looks at the importance of this subtle yet powerful idea to communication, creativity, relationships -- as well as our wellbeing and sanity. With practical tools to help you create new habits or make more significant lifestyle choices, you'll discover ways to:

• Reset and regenerate
• Deepen your thinking and experiences
• Take back control of your time
• Reconnect with other people - and yourself

So much goes unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully-made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift, our soul is restored.

With examples including Pixar, Apple, and Blitz Motorcycles, we are encouraged to ask: Is it useful and considered? Is it a thing of beauty? Do Design will inspire you to:

• Improve your creative process
• Raise the quality and craft of your work
• Consider the experience as much as the product
• Adopt simplicity, utility and honesty as guiding principles

Do Walk has wildly impacted my life and inspired me to make some changes... I would've never thought I'd find gratitude in walking. - Alex Elle, New York Times bestselling author of How We Heal

One morning, Libby DeLana stepped outside her New England home for a walk. She did the same thing the next day, and the next. It became a daily habit that has culminated in her walking the equivalent of the earth's circumference. She walked through some major life milestones - and into her second act.

In Do Walk, Libby shares the transformative nature of this simple yet powerful practice. She reveals how a morning walk provides the time and space to reconnect with the world; process thoughts; improve our physical wellbeing; and unlock creativity. It is the ultimate navigational tool that helps us to see who we are - beyond titles and labels, and where we want to go.

With stunning photography, this inspiring and reflective guide is an invitation to step outside, and see where the path takes us.

One of the oldest yet simplest, tastiest and most nutritious breads you can make, sourdough needs only flour, water, salt - and a little time. But what if time is the one thing you don't have?

In Do Sourdough, Andrew Whitley - a baker of over 30 years who has changed the way we think about bread - reveals how the slow fermentation that's key to real sourdough can happen while we're asleep or at work. With his simple method, you can make this wonderful bread at home. Discover:

• The basic tools and ingredients you need to get started
• How to create and refresh your own sourdough starter
• Delicious recipes for basic loaves, sourdough pizza, ciabatta, crumpets, and more
• A 7-day plan for the bread you don't devour immediately

Les McKeown advises industry leaders on how to achieve scalable, sustainable growth. In Do Scale, he draws from his decades of experience to provide a clear understanding of what's involved, and the strategies needed to take your business (or not-for-profit) to the next level. You'll find out: What it means to scale and if now is the right time; Why founders need to get out of their own way; How to develop winning teams; Your secret weapon for decision making.

With practical advice and clear guidance, Do Scale is an essential manual for anyone looking to grow a successful and sustainable organisation and turn it into something truly remarkable.

• Notice more - practise paying attention and everything gets more interesting
• Collect more - gather together what you've noticed, new ideas pop out
• Share more - get good at sharing it all and more magic arrives.

Interesting isn't a personality, it's a decision. Don't hunt for diamonds. Get fascinated by pebbles.

This book is a game-changer. It shifted my perception of what is healthy. Here's a clue: it isn't about weight. It will change you, for the better. It did me. - Mark Shayler, author & sustainability consultant

From the popular Do Books collection, an empowering guide to building a personalised plan for resilience and better metabolic health.

So often we lack the vital nutrients to help sustain our modern lives. Sarah Bayliss is a nutrition expert specializing in metabolic health. In this book, she makes complex science beautifully simple and provides a wholefoods framework for nourishing meals that give our bodies what they need. Instead of complicated recipes, you'll make small adjustments to your diet: just one thing a week. Discover:

• A 6-week plan that adapts to you and your schedule
• The importance of waking up well
• How to build a balanced plate for every meal
• No more weighing or measuring food, just use your hands

Brands with purpose aren't accidental; they're meticulously crafted. - Sophie Bambuck, Chief Marketing Officer, The North Face

The most important brands in the world make us feel something.

They do that because they have something they want to change. And as customers, we want to be part of that change. These companies have a reason to exist over and above making a profit: they have a purpose.

Yes, we love the product they make. But the thing we love most about them is the change they are making.

Purpose is an incredibly powerful thing. It provides the strength to fight the impossible. It tells your story. It builds your teams, and it defines your culture.

In Do Purpose, David Hieatt shares insights on how to build one of these purpose-driven companies. You know, those rare brands we all fall in love with. The crazy ones that don't just make something, but change something as well.

Why do some conversations flow, while others are stilted and awkward? Can we make difficult conversations easier?

Conversation is about more than communication. It's how we connect with each other and make sense of the world - it's an essential part of being human. And something we're naturally very good at.

Robert Poynton explores and celebrates this everyday miracle hiding in plain sight. By drawing on many rich and diverse conversations, he offers simple ways to hone our natural skills to overcome anxiety, converse more skillfully and have more meaningful exchanges. In Do Conversation, you will:

• Discover it's not about being clever, witty, or winning arguments
• Learn to listen and hold space
• Create the conditions for more fruitful conversations
• Understand how a bit of simple structure can help

Combining their experience as cooks, caterers and foragers, three friends bring you the essential guide to preserving. With techniques and recipes handed down through the generations plus deliciously inventive recipes from their own kitchens, you'll soon learn:

• Basic principles and methods of preserving
• Equipment and ingredients
you need to get started
• Best preserving agents to use: sugar, vinegar, alcohol, oil, and salt
• Over 80 stunning recipes from Green Tomato Chutney to Strawberry Gin Fizz

And what if the answer is right in front of you?

'For me, the newsletter is the most important tool I have in building a global denim brand. Second only to the sewing machine.'

So writes entrepreneur David Hieatt who has based his entire marketing strategy around a simple email newsletter. And it's worked. His company has grown into a creative global jeans business with a fiercely loyal community.

Now, David shares his insight, strategy and methodology so you can do the same. In Do Open you will discover:

Why giving is your secret to success
How to get people's attention when time is your biggest competitor
Why creating beats sharing
How a small team can win
Build community. Build your brand. Build long-term growth. Discover why the humble newsletter is pure and utter gold.

Do Smoke is for curious cooks of all levels.

It is an essential guide to this intriguing culinary skill that adds a new dimension to even the humblest dish. You'll start by smoking on the stovetop; before being introduced to the basic processes and inventive recipes.

As a young chef, Scott Davis first smoked under the arches of Marco Pierre White's Mirabelle restaurant in London. This ignited a lifelong passion; one he shares with friend and fellow cook, Jen Goss, who creates deliciously smoky recipes using local and homegrown produce. In Do Smoke, you'll learn:

• The difference between hot and cold smoking
• Why brining is so important
• Simple methods using wood dust, rice and tea leaves
• How to make a cold smoker out of a cardboard box

From classic smoked salmon to hot smoked ice cream, smoked food has come a long way. And now you can try it at home.

It's time to start smoking again.

Gail Muller, a chronic pain sufferer, was told to 'give up hope' of a recovery and accept that she would be in a wheelchair by 40. She refused. She eventually found a cure and went on to walk the legendary Appalachian Trail. But what is hope? And why do we need it now more than ever?

In this book, Gail shares her own story of survival and what she has learnt: that hope is not just a platitude, it's a powerful and energizing catalyst towards better days. A light in the dark. But sometimes hope can fade - and if that happens, how do we get it back? In Do Hope you will:

• Meet the Three Musketeers: resilience, perseverance and self-worth
• Develop tools to feel reinvigorated and realigned
• Discover what really makes you happy
• Appreciate how helping others can lift you too

In Do Start, Dan Kieran, self-confessed accidental entrepreneur, co-founder and former CEO of the award-winning publishing platform Unbound, shares personal experiences and learnings as he guides you through all aspects of starting a business. Along the way, he encourages you to keep your mental health and wellbeing in check - as most founders will testify: a business that you run has a habit of running you.

From the initial idea to getting started, building the brand and growing a positive working culture, through to fundraising, leadership, getting your head around financials, dealing with a board and investors, and finally, knowing when it's time to step down, Do Start is an essential read. It will be your trusted companion as you venture down the road less traveled towards the true prize waiting for you at the end: not the business you built or the money you made, but the person you become. Enjoy the ride.

Do Disrupt is an interactive workbook that will help you create or refine your business idea and take it from concept to market. It will encourage you to define your customer, identify the competition... and then outsmart them. You'll also find out why you need a chat with your Nan and a tape measure.

This updated and expanded edition features a new introduction, a brand new chapter on how to create positive change from within a larger organization, fresh insight on global trends driving disruption, how to generate ideas, boost creativity, and define your purpose.

If you're starting a new business or you're the rebel inside, it's not enough to shake things gently. It's about thinking big. Being innovative. Making a difference.

Do Inhabit will help you to create a space that invites connection and creativity. Written by the founders of Wild Habit, a lifestyle brand that takes inspiration from nature, you will discover:

• A few simple rules of interior design



• Room-by-room style guides


• How to integrate nature into your space


• The art of arranging objects and laying a table

Find your style and design a space that is meaningful to you. Less noise, more Earth. Less house, more home.

In Do Lead, Les McKeown draws on his decades as CEO and senior advisor to demolish the myths around modern-day leadership - and provide new tools for the job. You'll discover that effective leadership is goal- not people-orientated. It's about the person with the right skills stepping forward. Find out:

• Your natural leadership style
• The essential toolkit and mindset
• How to improve group dynamics and foster inclusivity
• Strategies for dealing with setbacks and failures

Sometimes life can feel like a lot. Even on a good day you will experience some stress and fatigue. The nature of modern living guarantees it. The crucial question is not how to manage or avoid it, but how quickly can you reset and recover?

The answer lies within.

Meditation is the most powerful tool to reset your system; to get past the noise, arrive at a state of inner mental quiet and tap into a virtually unlimited reservoir of energy and creative potential.

Jillian Lavender is one of the world's most experienced teachers of Vedic Meditation. In Do Reset, you will discover how this ancient practice can help you maintain your sense of self, provide clarity and move forward.

Meditation is not about detaching from life. It's about becoming more dynamic and engaged in the world around you. Because how we respond to life's challenges is becoming the defining skill of our age.

Helping people be their best has always been the thing that motivates me. In my experience, meditation is the tool that has the power to transform. I love seeing that process play out with others.

Can a book inspire action? Can it make us get up and move? Start something? Live differently?

With wisdom and advice from leading experts - including bestselling authors Libby DeLana, Robert Poynton, and Bobette Buster - this beautifully-produced hardcover shows you how to live a more creative and sustainable life, work smarter, or even change direction.

Within its pages you'll find over 50 photographs, 30 illustrations, 10 themed sections, 8 lists, 6 recipes, 4 diary entries and hundreds of ideas around business, creativity, resilience, and wellbeing that might just change your life.

In the words of Dick Dastardly, Don't just stand there, do something!

In Do Deal, music lawyers Richard Hoare and Andrew Gummer share their refreshing approach to negotiation. Not only has it led to major record deals and enduring creative partnerships, but also a reputation for getting the deal done without leaving both parties bruised and battered. Now, they will help you to:

• Identify your natural negotiating style
• Develop strategies to deal with difficult situations (and people)
• Build trust and negotiate more collaboratively
• Think creatively to enrich deal terms