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Defeat Stress! Live Longer! Enjoy Life! Do It Now!
Beat Stress With Strength features a complete Personal Stress Test, 15 proven ways to reduce work-related stress, 10 smart tips for efficient time management, a practical model for dealing with change and transition, and a step-by-step outline to prepare your personal stress management plan. It works! If you have stress-related problems, buy this book. It could save your life. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business Life - Health/Stress    2. General    3. Problems, exercises, etc    4. Psychology    5. Self-Help    6. Stress (Psychology)    7. Stress Management   

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Insightful!
Stephan Schiffman is a storied veteran in the field of corporate sales training. His book offers many useful tools, including a test to determine if you're suffering from burnout, a myriad of tips on selling more effectively (Shiffman's foremost area of expertise) and an appendix with advice for telemarketing sales operations. Schiffman includes scores of anti-burnout measures, ranging from diet to managing expectations to transforming stress into creative energy. Most chapters are only two to three pages long, which makes this book read at a practical pace for busy professionals, including sales managers, an audience Schiffman specifically addresses. His advice on burnout is sound and well founded, if not nearly as brilliant as his advice on the selling process itself. We recommend this book, although its impact on you will depend on your stress level, experience, personality and job circumstances. The section on how managers can minimize burnout will help you even before your team members get their copies. Reading this book may not prevent burnout, but at least you'll know how to douse it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Burn out (Psychology)    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business Life - Health/Stress    5. Business/Economics    6. Job stress    7. Personal Growth - Success    8. Prevention    9. Sales    10. Sales & Selling - General    11. Selling    12. Vocational guidance   

Editorial Review

This odd little book contains exactly what it claims: things to do when you're taking a break at work. James Joseph asserts that when you break with a purpose in mind instead of stepping out for another caffeine jolt, taking frequent interludes will allow you to get more done. It eases the fatigue and boredom that can build up during the course of a day. The suggestions range from the remarkably simple--get a drink of water to stave off dehydration; gazeout the window to get some sun--to the remarkably deep, such as pondering your philosophy of life. Joseph also gives bite-size bits of meditation, right-brain thinking, and affirmations and visualization, and makes them sound so quick and easy that you may wonder why you weren't doing yogic breathing in your cubicle before. ... Read more

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Learn The Art of Taking a Break from this great book!
This book is dedicated by the author to the millions of people sitting at their desks in desparate need of a break.
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Find The Answers You Have Been Lookng For...Be Happy!:o)
The title of this book alone gave me a good feeling that it was going to be great...The authors really help you see what stress personality/personalities you may have...and the best part...they give excellent tips on how you can control stress before it controls you! Remember...a job is just a job....BE HAPPY! ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Have you ever agonized over how to handle a bully in theworkplace--with pie-in-the-face retribution or a saintly smile?"The 100 people you'll meet on these pages," Muriel Solomonteases in her introduction to this hard-hitting and entertainingguidebook, "should be founding members of E.O.O.--EqualOpportunity Offenders. They show no bias. They are as obnoxious totheir bosses as they are to their bookkeepers." But the teasingsegues into practical advice for those seeking to do their work in--ifnot kind circumstances--at least unthreatening ones. Read more

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Working with difficult people
Found the book difficult to follow and read.The book reads more like a dictionary.

Good Book for Dealing With People At Work
Solomon (not King Solomon, but does have some of his wisdom) has written a good book for dealing with workers of three different classes:bosses, colleagues, and subordinates. The book is also broken down into 10 major areas in dealing with all three types:
Learn the art of Communicating.
Well, Well, I find this book 'terrific' to say the least.Read more

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This Book is SO BAD it should be considered a COMIC.
Angel Thompson took a class with Lin Yun (of Yun Lin church fame) and decided she was an expert. That's why her book contradicts itself every third sentence. It's more full of holes than swiss cheese. It's so bad thatMs. Thompson had to call in an AUTHENTIC practitioner to analyze her homebecause her attempts at "Feng Shui" caused her nothing but grief. And this is the sort of book you would recommend to someone or buy foryourself?

A Feng Shui Favorite
Here is a feng shui treasure. Angel Thompson presents an incredible amount of information - it is like a textbook. If you want to learn about the five elements to include color, shapes, uses, meaning, planet etc. etc. wellhere's your book. I found her explanation of yin/yang to be clear, consiseand thought provoking. I finally understand this often misunderstoodEastern concept. Besides giving useful tips for the home, there is also awealth of info for your career and/or business. The highlight of this bookgoes beyond the facts presented - Ms. Thompson touches upon the philosophythat is the foundation of feng shui. What a beautiful life impactingmessage.

Feng Shui, translated into New Age babble
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Excellent suggestions for reviewing all aspects of your life
Very good reference book. Pulls in information from many different disciplines on ways to overcome stress ... Read more

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Comment on "Calm At Work"
Do you think you have so many things to do but do not have enough time? Do you feel stressful in meeting lots of deadlines? Do the changes make you feel anxious? If yes, you must read this book ��Calm at Work�� since these are parts of stress, and this book can help you to deal with these stress. This book offers some simple and straightforward techniques for overcoming stress on the job and keeping people relax and calm at work. Comment
??Calm at Work?? is a book which suggests many useful ways for keeping calm and reducing stress. It mentioned seven main causes of stress in workplace, including time, control, self, social, change, physical and lifestyle habits, and the author advised a series of solutions for each cause of stress. In order to help the readers to find the solutions in a more efficient way, author used a special method. At the end of each section, an ??index card?? would be inserted, which contains information that guides the readers to find out the solutions. As some of the solutions are useful for different causes of stress, this book organized in such a way is concise and precise. Get Calm Today ~c:)
I just wanted to write a quick review to let readers know that I recommend this book highly!At the end of 1999, I was working in a very stressful environment.Five people were working in a very small space manning anonline retail store during holiday season!Yikes!Read more

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Thought-provoking book shows the importance of life and work balance
This book is an engaging read and shows real world examples of why achieving satisfaction in your non-work life actually helps you enjoy work more and become a better employee.In addition to building the case for why it's important to achieve balance, it gives some practical tips on how to ease in small changes so that over time you reach the work/life balance that's right for you.If you follow the advice in this book, not only will you be happier, you'll exhibit energy and enthusiasm for everything that you do!

It's the JOB...or is it?
As a fellow coach, father and businessman, I too, sometimes feel the anxiety of life's challenges.Your book came in an opportune time in my life, and it has prompted me to reassess my goals and focus on what I really love. I Love your book. If people actually knew the value and content of what is in your book, they would go to the end of the earth to get it. ... Read more

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An excellent self management bk that stands the test of time
Although this 1991 book is relatively old, I find the content of it practical and logical. Outstanding from many books in the market of empty slogans, hallow jargons and weak propositions, the author discussed in simple but intelligent words, (and always in Q&A, key point formats that help readers to grasp and remember), how to perform outstandingly in the workplace by adopting an integrated approach through personal improvement in time, stress, health and relationship management. Well backed by his M.D. expertise, he explained well in our daily language the important connection between our physical and mental conditions, and had smoothly put forward means of positively influencing our mental conditions through physiological activities, like actively controlling what you eat and how you sit and sleep.Read more

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Stress Free and Living it up!
The first time I picked up this book, it made me feel very exhilarated!I began reading the book with the intent to read just a few pages here and there, but soon found myself more than half way through in one sitting! Now, I pick the book up and read a little from it whenever I feel the goalsin my life aren't being reached at the pace I want them to be reached.Thebook seems to give me a lift and puts me back on track. As a personalfriend of Jeff, the author, I see the words in the book being lived out byhim on a daily basis.He truly lives by what he writes and has become amore successful and stress-free person because of it. ... Read more

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Excellent for people serious about stress management
I had the good fortune to study under Dr. Matheny for my Masters Degree. He is very engaging in the book as well as in person and is an authority on the physical and psychological effects of stress on the individual and how to develop better coping mechanisms for warding off stress illnesses. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is serious about understanding the impact that stress has on the body and about learning how to better handle stress. While this book is used in graduate-level courses, I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone I know who has a problem with stress (which these days, is just about EVERYONE I know). It is a very down-to-earth, practical approach to understanding stress and dealing with it. ... Read more

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