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Complete Idiot's Guide to Reinventing Yourself

Complete Idiot's Guide to Reinventing Yourself


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The hardest part of changing your life is figuring out how to get started. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reinventing Yourself helps you figure out where you are and how to get what you want. It will show you how to assess your work, home, and family life, and then how to set goals and make them happen.

Table of Contents:
I. GETTING STARTED ON THE NEW YOU. 1. What Is Reinvention? Movement That Matters. The Opportunity to Change. It's My Choice. How Do People Begin Their Reinvention? What Reinvention Is Not. Who Needs Quiet Desperation? From Keeper of Our Borders to Keeper of Our Children to Statesman: General Colin Powell. Medals of Honor. 2. Leveraging Your Circumstances. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall. Following the Lifecycle. Before and After a Job Change. Before and After a Mate Change. Letting the Seasons Tell You. Letting Your Age Tell You. 3. Assessing Where You Are. Who Am I Kidding? The Truth About Where You Are. "How Did I Arrive at This Point?" Where You Can Be. Assess and Win. Where You Want to Be. Measuring the Gap. 4. Feed Your Head. Look Past the Facade. Cranial Readjustments. Fight for Objectivity. Model Yourself. Read and Succeed. Visualize and Realize. If Not You, Who? Chuck Colson: From Watergate to the Gates of Heaven. 5. Overcoming the Impetus of Staying Put. If Not Now, When? What's Holding You Back? Procrastination Is Your Enemy. Off-Your-Duff Strategies. Recruit and Win. How to Avoid Slipping Back. Maintaining Momentum. II. GETTING YOUR MIND IN GEAR. 6. Resting Your Mind and Your Body. Aromatherapy: Smelling Good and Feeling Good. Take a Whirl in a Whirlpool Bath. Footbaths for Foot Soldiers. Bathe Your Cares Away. Easy Listening. Get Relaxed with Relaxation Tapes. 2, 4, 6, 8, Let's All Meditate. A Little a Day. 7. Advanced Measures for Your Mind. From External Back to Internal Focus. A Hop, a Skip, and a Jump. Lamaze for the Nonpregnant. Indulging at the Spa. Float Me. Dream a Little Dream with Me. 8. Exercising Your Mind. Thought Usually Precedes Action. Starting a Good Routine. Journal Writing. Writing Your Memoir. Building Educational Muscles. Finding Your Learning Niche. 9. For Advanced Intellects. All in the Family. Letting Religion Be Your Guide. Talking It Out. Learning a Foreign Language. III. REINVENTING YOUR BODY. 10. Above All, Get Balanced. Keeping Your Life in Balance. First Things Come First. Balance at a Desk Job. Staying in Balance on the Road. Avoiding Overwork. 11. Working Out Versus Spreading Out. Bloating Isn't Pretty. A Weighty Topic. Starting with a Doctor Visit. In Just Minutes Per Day. The Deal on Meals. 12. You Are What You Eat (Sort Of). So, What Does That Make You? Becoming Something Better. Re-Examining Your Nutritional Intake. Go Organic. Not Eating? Get Help and Check Credentials. From Junk Bonds to Education: He'll Always Be Rich! 13. Physical Feats of Wonder. Get Moving.In the Comfort of Your Own Home.Health Clubs: To Join or Not To Join? Changing Your Lifestyle. 14. Redesigning Your Outer Shell. Getting It Fixed. Now I See. Manipulation Could Be the Cure. Your Responsibility. IV. REINVENTING YOUR CAREER. 15. All the Right Moves. This Job, This Company, at This Time? Thinking Like an Entrepreneur. Moving Up in a New Job. Making the Most of Wherever You Are. Moving On. Staying Aware of Your Current Position. Co-Workers Plus. Strategic Networking. 16. Advancing Your Career in the Electronic Age. A Brave New Techno-World. Upping Your Techno-Skills. Course Offerings. Distance Learning. Ensuring Your Continual Skills Development. 17. Written Tools to Transform Your Career and Your Life. Landing a Publisher. Publishing Pays Off. Your Own Organization's Newsletter and 'Zines. Professional Magazines. Strategies for Breaking In. Choosing a Topic. Never Start from Scratch! Making Your Articles Work for You. 18. The Makings of a Leader. Ethics and Leadership. Reading People. Heeding People. Increasing Your Perceptual Skills. Leadership Qualities. The Epitome of Entrepreneurial Leadership. Leadership and the MBA. The Leader in You. 19. Speakers Are Leaders. Watching Your Language. Public Speaking for the Career Achiever. Using the Web. Becoming Memorable. She's No "Bimbo": Donna Rice Hughes. 20. Taking a Sabbatical. Why a Sabbatical? Getting Specific. Letting the Sabbatical Begin! Alternate Forms of Sabbatical. What to Do, Where to Go. Sabbatical Experiences. Returning from a Sabbatical. V. REINVENTING YOUR RELATIONSHIPS. 21. Improving Your Relationship with Your Significant Other. Communication Breakdown. Changing the Dynamic. Creating the Climate. Tools at Your Disposal. Keeping Your Relationship Vital. All Motivation Is from Within. Just the Two of Us. 22. In-Laws and Outlaws. Is That All There Is? Let's Get Grounded. I've Got to Be Me. Nearby Is No Easier. The Family That Plays Together, Stays Together. Letting Your Kids See You at Work. 23. You Gotta Have Friends. Where Have All Our Friendships Gone? Reinventing Your Friendships. Avoid Exploiting Your Friends. Spicing Up Friendships. Empty Nesters Need Friends. Resurrecting a Friendship. When Reinventing Means Ending. A Friend Indeed. VI. REINVENTING OTHER ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE. 24. Reinventing Your Relationship with Money. Earning as You Learn. Your Money Autobiography. Understanding Your Money Values. How to Set Money Goals (or Goals for Anything Else!). A Financial Check-Up from the Neck Up. Working to Become Debt Free. Managing the Financial Risks in Your Life. Healthcare Power of Attorney. Living Will. Making Sure You Have Proper Insurance. Letting Your Dream Be Your Guide. 25. Discovering or Rediscovering Hobbies. Kids at Heart. Let Me Count the Ways. Straight from His Holiness. What Are My Hobby Options? Hobbies and Renewal. 26. Reinventing Yourself Through Civic Participation. Fulfillment Is a Do-It-Yourself Proposition. Volunteering. Let Me Count the Opportunities. Being a Mentor. Local, Regional, and National Activism. International Volunteering. Donating Money and Material Goods. Socially Responsible Investing. 27. The Person You've Always Wanted to Be. Another Kind of Intelligence. Mission: Possible: Focusing on Goals Can Keep You Chipper. ...Grant Me the Serenity. Every Day Is Precious No Matter How Long You Have. Honoring Others While They're Still Around. Appendixes. Appendix A. Glossary. Appendix B. Bibliography. Index.

About the Author :
Jeff Davidson, MBA, CMC, is author of 28 books, including The Complete Idiot's GuideA (R) to Managing Your Time, The Complete Idiot's GuideA (R) to Managing Stress, and The Complete Idiot's GuideA (R) to Reaching Your Goals. A popular conference and convention speaker, he is founder of the Breathing Space Institute, a firm that helps organizations whose people are suffering from time-pressure, stress, and information overload. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780028640051
  • Publisher: Pearson Professional Education
  • Publisher Imprint: Alpha Books
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 231 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0028640055
  • Publisher Date: 16 Mar 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Weight: 584 gr


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