Life Balance : How to Convert Professional Success into Personal Happiness

By Alan Weiss

Book Overview

A popular aphorism suggests that in the end, no one ever regretted not spending more time in the office. Yet during our lives and careers we often seem to confuse our priorities, shifting our focus so that we end up with clients whom we know extremely well and families who are de facto strangers. In this book, widely renowned consultant Alan Weiss--cited as "a worldwide expert in executive education" in Success Magazine --tells how to blend life, work, and relationships in a way that will help anyone to work smarter and live better. Weiss draws on scores of interviews and vignettes with highly successful consultants to offer nontheoretical, pragmatic advice on living a balanced life, including how to: Work smart and not hard Have time to fulfill your passions Build on success, not on correcting weakness Give yourself short- and long-term personal rewards Take risks and reinvent yourself (again and again) Play to win-- but ignore the score and reward the effort Influence others while surrendering the need to control Visualize the future

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787955094
• ISBN13: 9780787955090
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Pfeiffer
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Alan Weiss tell it like it is

Alan Weiss tells it like it is. If you want to learn from one of the best...read EVERYTHING Alan Weiss writes! Alan's insights and experience are second to none. I personally own just about every book Alan Weiss has written. He is not only a consultant's consultant, but he is also a gifted writer as well. Alan Weiss's advice, insights and knowledge will take years off your learning curve. This book is a must for your library. Lenny Laskowski, Author of National Best Selling Book: "10 Days to More Confident Public Speaking" President of LJL Seminars(tm)

At last, a book about enjoying success

Despite all of Alan Weiss's books, consulting, workshops, newsletters and the rest of his success, or perhaps because of it, a couple or bitter reviewers seem to follow his listings to plant a single star where everyone else plants five. But that my be the price of success when bitter people are upset at their own failings. This is a wonderful book which deals with escaping from tasks and deliverables. There are several sections on how to create more discretionary time. Weiss includes formulas for stress relief and establishing personal rewards. And he talks about personal mastery. The book is dvided into work, rest, and relationship sections. It is based on his popular newsletter, Balancing Act, and his workshops on life balance. (And I noted that it's published by a major publishing house, so the criticism of the size of the font is hardly relevant to the author or the quality of the material.)Buy this book if you want to give yourself permission to succeed and enjoy life.