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Whether you're a mechanic, manager, lawyer or a full time internet marketer like myself.GOD BLESS "THE POWER OF FULL ENGAGEMENT."The book will help you in some kind of way by just putting into action some of the free recommendations for achieving peak performance and being at your best for sustainable periods of time daily and for many, many years. At the time of selection for read I had two other classics (at least at my disposal); "How to Be Like Mike" and "Finding Your Zone" by Michael Lardon. Just when I thought I knew a lot(more like, enough). With "How to Be Like Mike" you might end up saying; "How to Be Like *Your Name*" some day perhaps and for Mr Lardon's book I still have it on schedule.
I don't do Amazon reviews often as many do so. But The Power of Full Engagement. Exciting.Where do I begin.From the know-how for dealing with fatigue, high ends of stress, lack of passion (do to certain economic slow times for most of us in 2009) and the "what to do" with 'YOU' every single day according to specific personal purposes to keep improving more and more every single day - to enough examples and reasons why to do remind yourself of the many suggestions/pointers found in the book.If your intentions are to become more productive, be more alert and have a more consistent (or a new re-model state of work) this books makes you understand why doing certain steps through the day should help you operate with greater excellency during in a day-to-day basis CONSISTENTLY. What a book. Jim and Tony, it's very likely you'll end up reading this Amazon testimonial. The book is entertaining (in its given ways by the authors), very informative in both the "know-how" and the "what-to-do" empirical fundamentals and makes you understand what are the possibilities for achieving peak performance consistently with a set of behavior and new ritual changes.
about personal development the book surprised with jam-packed evidence and worldwide studies. It's likely that you may also find the book fascinating if you are literally obsessed with improving both your happiness and your bottom-line.If this will be your first "personal development/self-help" types of books with substantial know-how and what-to-do details for becoming a better you, then get this book.
Thank you so much for this book, I know it will help me even more on my own business endeavors and even personally.If you are reading this and you were a very close friend of mine, I would say in a very in-a-nutshell way: BUY THIS BOOK. The Power of Full Engagement is just the best one.
But, and a very big "BUT." This book deserves incredible amounts of recognition and I find that testimonials like this one help serve the purpose of getting people who are prepared to become the very best they can become both personally, spiritually and business wise. It's among my top 5 favorite books for personal development and business success (have around 12 fully read and remembered personal development books, so I am a fan of personal development).
Furthermore, I find myself enjoying every single page. What a 2009 read.Well-documented studies, excellent research and impactful content delivery with enough substance to make my days way better.
You won't regret the investment.
Above all it tells you where the problems are, so that time and energy are not wasted where they are not needed.These guys have got it right. Then move to the book.
He and Tony Schwartz run the Human Performance Institute. Jim Loehr is a genuine and committed psychologist and renowned sports psychologist.
One can start with the free questionnaire on the website. This work distils their years of experience and I think they have clearly hit the nail on the head.Empowerment and positive psychology is an elusive goal, and there are many ra-ra pretenders in the field.
This however is mature, thoughtful, committed, professional and skilful. It all has the genuine feel and gives practical direction as to how to progress.
This book is useful, productive and full of sensible advice.
Let us say a person wants to start exercising, that is a new habit for him. Many people make new year's resolutions every year, the most common are to quit smoking, lose weight and to start exercise. The way to develop good habits is through positive rituals, not by fighting old behavior. In fact the author of the present book quotes them several times.
The authors give a lot of interesting vignettes for this but I think the method to apply stress and recovery emotionally and spiritually should have been explained more clearly. This is quite difficult and risks misunderstanding by the readers because a step by step action plan is not given.The advice to eat well, sleep well, exercise, make a mission statement, find a purpose in life etc. Because trying to change behavior through concious self control and will power requires energy that is quickly depleted. The reason according to the authors is that will power and self control are inefficient ways to eliminate unwanted negative behavior and to develop new positive habits. There are lots of good ideas in many self help books but we usually are dissapointed after a few attempts to apply them and give up concluding that the advice in the self help books don't work.
I have already made such a positive rituals plan since the beginning of 2009 and so far by mid February it seems to work fine.The other important point of increasing one's endurance and energy by stressing ourselves beyond our comfort zone ( without forcing too much ) and then allowing rest for recovery is a concept developed originally in sports. The authors in fact say they have applied this with success on many famous sports people and believe that the same principle applies to emotions and the mind. By contrast the method of introducing gradual and incremental positive rituals makes possible the development of good habits or to quit bad habits that we tried but gave up on in the past. Habits on the other hand, whether good or bad require no thinking, they are automatic and therefore require no concious effort nor energy. If he / she makes an excessively ambitious program it is very unlikely that he will be able to apply it.
A positive ritual has four characteristics : 1 ) it is done at a specific time and place ( eg : on Wednesdays at 19 :00 in a gym 2 ) it is connected to the person's deep values about life 3 ) it is introduced gradually and increased incrementally.4 ) performance against plans must be checked regularly. The most important messages in this book / audio CD are those about using positive rituals to break bad habits and develop positive ones and about increasing our energy and physical / emotional endurance by using a stress - recovery method.In contrast to many self help books that tell us what to do and not to do to organize our lives better and succeed, this book titled the Power of Full Engagement introduces among others the concept of changing behavior for good through the power of positive rituals. One major reason why many people are depleted by daily chores is that they do not recharge their batteries by allowing rest ( recovery ) during their hectic days and nights. Like an athlete who strengthens his / her muscles by stressing them first and then lets them rest for 48 hours during when the muscles recover and get stronger we can do the same thing mentally and spiritually.
An action plan would have been helpful, it is lacking. Instead the reader is supposed to derive what to do from the many vignettes. Those are also excellent books that must be read, they explain those concepts much better than this book.The authors say they increased the performance of many famous tennis players through the stress - recovery principle.
Most people try hard in vain during the first few days of the new year, fail to change their behaviors and give up until the next new year's eve when they make new year's resolutions again which will most probably have the same fate. As a tennis player myself I wonder what is there for these consultants to do with professional tennis players. Alternatively he can make a ritual to start lightly and increase it incrementally.
If the person tries to give up smoking, start a diet, start exrecise, contact old friends, and many other goals at the same time he is likely to be overwhelmed and crash, the fate of most new year resolutionists. are not new and are based to a large extent on the books " Man's Search for a meaning " by Victor Frankl and " The 7 habits of highly effective people " by Stephen Covey. Explaining the stress - recovery method takes just a few minutes so what is there to work on for many weeks.
It is like working out. Energy gives you real liberty. If you stress the muscle too much, it will get injured. We can systematically increase our capability and productivity by increasing our energy.
It is doing our recovery periods that we actually grow. This book shows you how.A great myth of our society is that humans are supposed to function as machines--working constantly, simultaneously, and consistently. In reality, humans work by having energy expenditure periods and energy recovery periods. Time is potential freedom. Three cycles of short sprints will give you 4.5 hours of 100% results compared to 4 hours with the 8 hours at 50%. If you stress the muscle too little, it won't ever grow.
You have to find the right amount. Happiness is always a stretch outside your comfort zone.
Life is a marathon, and interval training (full sprints and full rest) is the best way to run it. The true currency of our life is not the hours, but what we put in those hours.
Most people work for 8 hours at 50% capability. You have to stress the muscle sufficiently to make it grow.
Then, you have to allow time for it to actually recover. It is better to work in 90 minute cycles of 100% productivity with 30 minute rest periods in between.
This has been required reading form my clients since its release in 2003. The 4:8 Principle: The Secret to a Joy-Filled LifeThe Power of Full Engagement definitely makes the The 1% Club's Top Ten List. You will find case studies that are easy to relate to and simple, straightforward action steps to address the real energy crisis. Ambition without peak energy is useless. This book by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz uses an athletic metaphor to illustrate how easy it is to mismanage our energy reserves, but also, how this can be corrected. This book is loaded with great content and has excellent chapter summaries and a complete recap at the end of the book. Here is one key point that you should study further: "Most of us are under trained physically and spiritually (not enough stress) and over trained mentally and emotionally (not enough recovery)." Grab the highlighter.
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