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Morale is down--spirits are low--the workload is mounting. Today's hard-working employees need a break! And nothing feels better than Care Packages for the Workplace from internationally known, lift-your-spirits author Barbara Glanz. This timely gift-book format provides the hard at work with dozens of simple ``brighten-your-day'' ideas such as: beautifying the work space in order to do what Tom Peters recommends--``Fight Bland Dullness!''; putting a personal signature on all work; sharing a joke-a-day, one month at a time; holding grapevine meetings where rumors are openly discussed; partaking in good news hours where positive news is shared; creating special awards for a job well done; scheduling lunches with management.
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Regenerate with Humor; Read WorkLaughs.......2007-01-17
This delightful small book skillfully shows you how not to stress out at work. Another way to get a perspective of your job situation is to learn to laugh at things that stress you out. WorkLaughs:Quips, Quotes, and Anecdotes about Making a Buck can provide you with the laughs to do just that-- from job interviews to meetings to dealing with the boss, WorkLaughs will show you that all aspects of the job can be a laughing matter. (WorkLaughs is also available on Amazon).
Very Pleased Customer from Chicago.......2006-02-26
I am so please to be able to say that product was shipped early and great condition!!!!!!!!!
Great IDEAS.......2003-09-14
This book provided a great deal of information and ideas to draw from. I enjoyed that I could read it quickly. I was able to apply some of the ideas or variations of them at work !
Changing the way you look at work.......2001-12-29
Barbara Glantz has written a life altering book--at least a life at the workplace altering book. It is easy to read and filled with hundreds of big and little things that can change the way you spend 40 hours a week. Very positive, super ideas.
There are better books on the topic..........2001-01-07
This book is just okay. There are a lot of examples of how to improve morale at work, but the writing isn't that great, and the book isn't very well organized. There are much better books on the topic...try Managing to Have Fun by Matt Weinstein or 1001 Ways to Energize Employees by Bob Nelson.
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Life's Little Relaxation Book
Steven Michael Selzer
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This elegantly designed, small-format paperback is filled with 300 easy and effective ways to take the edge off everyday living--take a walk with someone whose company you enjoy, read a good mystery by the fireplace, stargaze on a clear evening, rent a convertible. Illustrations.
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A clever & useful book!.......1998-02-25
I keep Life's Little Relaxation book on the desk beside my appointment book... It's a great reminder to schedule time to relax. I select a few new ideas from the book every week... and they work!
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The Little Book of Calm
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Feeling Stressed? Need some help to regain balance in your life? The Little Book of Calm is full of advice to follow and thoughts to inspire. Open it at any page and you will find a path to inner peace.
Paul Wilson is known the world over as the 'guru of calm'. His first book, The Calm Technique, is considered one of the most influential in the genre. His second, Instant Calm, was a giant bestseller, translated into twenty languages. The most well-known is the Little Book of Calm, with sales over 3,000,000, it has spent more than two years at the top of the bestseller lists.
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Add a drop of lavender to milk. Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. .......2007-05-11
I am buying this book for my friend as an inside joke, because we both love the show "Black Books". However, it looks like it has some pretty good insights. It's certainly positive!
Comes with Manny's recommendation.......2005-08-11
Find a copy of the English series Black Books (it played latenight CBC), if the book doesn't make you calm, at least it can make you laugh.
A warm companion.......2003-04-02
Have you ever read The Little Book of Calm? If not, you missed a great opportunity of relaxation and wisdom in a little tiny pocket book. It is full of advice to follow and thoughts to inspire. Open it at any page and you will find a path to inner peace. One of my favourite is: Pretend it's Saturday!
By Thei Zervaki...
oh what cows do when they have discharge problems ?.......1999-10-14
Splendid suggestions ( i like especially the suggestion ofletting phone ringing two times before answering). My suggestion:toget a good laugh ,read this book. For advice,learn thinking by yourself.
a constant and well-worn companion.......1998-07-23
This little book was sent to me from a friend in New Zealand, prior to finals. I now carry it everywhere I go, it fits so nicely in my backpack--or my back pocket. Very simple but profound suggestions for reducing stress. Makes me happy! Excellent gift to yourself or one you love.
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"If we take control of the things we do control, we'll have much more energy and resilience to deal with the other stressors in our lives."
- David Posen, MD
Intense stress is an integral part of modern life. In controlled doses, stress helps individuals to think faster and perform better, but left unchecked and unbalanced, it leads to fatigue, helplessness and a variety of unfortunate health complications.
The Little Book of Stress Relief is a practical book that changes the fundamental thinking and habitual lifestyle choices contributing to heightened stress levels. There are helpful tips for making informed choices, adjusting how we think and taking the necessary steps to regain control.
Organized in 52 short chapters -- one for each week of the year -- the book isolates specific causes of stress and provides detailed yet useful advice and tips for overcoming them. Easy-to-follow activities and exercises lead to the right amount of sleep, deal with procrastination and perfect the art of setting priorities.
The Little Book of Stress Relief explains how small changes to relieve stress have a positive effect on quality of life.
Of particular importance in high-pressure environments is advice for isolating other people's stress.
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Simple and easy to read. Loved it........2007-01-06
What a great little book. You can digest it in daily chunks and really chew on and apply each principle. I liked it so much I recommended it on my blog: [...]
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Some good points, but mostly annoying.......2006-12-18
I found the book annoying. Why? Because St. James recommends too many times that if you can't "delegate" to someone else Christmas chores associated with upholding certain Christmas traditions, just don't do them.
Lots of contradictions in this book, too. In the chapter "Remember What You Once Loved About the Holidays," she recalls "The fresh scent of pine when we first brought the Christmas tree into the house." Later on she devotes an entire chapter to "Twelve Reasons to Skip the Tree."
And then there is the irony of paying money for a book that tells you to cut way back on your Christmas spending. There are a few good tips among the 100 ways St. James offers to "Simplify your Christmas," but they aren't worth the price of this book.
The bottom line is that, for adults, "keeping Christmas" involves a certain amount of money, effort and knowledge about Christmas history and traditions. St. James seems to want to skip it all.
Some good tips for simplifying - but too simplistic.......2006-11-13
My problem with this book is it's too formulaic. Rather than providing great questions for examining our own desires and priorities for the winter holidays (which you'll find in "Unplugging the Christmas Machine"), the author gives instructions for simplifying holidays along specific parameters. I understand why that approach offends some other reviewers: One person's hassles - Christmas cards, stockings, cooking a big feast, visiting relatives - are another person's joys. What I like to remember about "simplicity" is that the goal isn't to eliminate anything that complicates our lives but to winnow out the complications that don't bring us joy or meaning (or are simply necessary, like mammograms, or fixing the roof). Children, pets, family, friends... can all complicate our lives while bringing us great pleasure! Holiday rituals, too. Elaine St. James' premise is valid and some of her suggestions for simplifying are good, but her approach is too ... simplistic.
Some good ideas.......2005-12-20
I rather liked this book. There is not truly 100 ways to "simplify" your Christmas, but almost everyone can find at least four or six to simplify theirs, depending on what they find over indulgent or too time consuming. Quite a few suggestions are common sense when you read them, but due to holiday over stress and over planning you tend to forget about them and a quick review is very helpful. My personal favorites are "rise above the guilt" and "halt the runaway train" which are chapters on emotions at Christmas and over zealous gifting.
I think the beauty of this book is almost everyone will find a few ideas to employ to destress their holidays. And that's what most of us need, not 100, but just a few solid ones that will work. You'll find them in this book, and be all the more merry for it.
easier holiday.......2004-12-24
I enjoyed the book, it was very helpful to me. I have read 2 other of the authors books, and I agree with the other reviews that some of the book was recycled. But a lot of it was researched about how the holiday began, and alternatives to some of the traditions we have and why we have them. I agree that sending Christmas cards is bad for the eviroment and we could save a lot of trees, and money in stamps. Also why are we not using recycled wrapping paper, and why are we bothering to wrap gifts at all? Why not use news paper for kids if you have to wrap gifts? she has an entire section on Christmas for kids. I think this is a good book, and worth reading if you want to simplify your holiday. I love the portion on non traditonal Christmas and celebrating as other cultures do. Less focus on gifts and more focus on what we truly care about.
To the reviewer who thinks Christmas is a Christian holiday.......2004-07-12
For the reviewer who thinks Christmas is a Christian holiday--think again. Everything about the season of christmas is Pagan. The tree, caroling, wreaths, gift giving. Only Christians have mistakenly associated it with Christ's birth which was not in December but actually somewhere between April and June. And another Pagan holiday that Christians have "stolen" is easter or as we Pagans call it, Ostara, named after the Goddess Ostara, the Goddess of renewal and rebirth. All the bunnies, chicks, and soft spring colors--yep, you guessed it--all Pagan. Oh, and that fish Christians put on the backs of their cars, also Pagan. And when you say "Amen" after prayers, you are sending that prayer up to a Pagan God.
I have no objection to anyone's choice of religion, or the way they practice it; but you should do a little research next time into what is and is not Christianity. And please remember that the King James Version of the Bible is just that...King James I of England's version. He had it re-written from the Latin texts and had several parts changed and even excluded to suit himself. Pick up a Catholic Bible sometime if you don't believe me. You will find there are several more books than what is in a KJV. Also, from the original Hebrew scrolls to Latin to English, there has been a wealth of meaning lost in the translations. Especially since some words cannot be accurately translated in the first place.
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The Little Book of Trauma Healing: When Violence Strikes and Community Is Threatened (Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding)
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Following the staggering events of September 11, 2001, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University was asked to help, by officials overseeing clean-up and recovery efforts in New York. The staff and faculty proposed Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) programs in response. In the years since then, those ideas have been put into practice, re-tooled, and used successfully again and again. Now, STAR director, Carolyn Yoder, has shaped the strategies and learnings from those experiences into a book for all who have known terrorism and threatened security. This Little Book addresses communities and societies caught in cycles of victimhood and/or violence. . . in other words, those of us who have been traumatized by terrorists or tsunamis, by unsafe and ongoing occupation or oppression. This Little Book looks at: - Breaking free to safety; - Taking risks successfully; - Recognizing our interdependence. Says Yoder, "The primary premise and challenge of this Little Book is that traumatic events and times have the potential to awaken the human spirit and, indeed, the global family. But this requires acknowledging our own history and that of the enemy, honestly searching for root causes, and shifting our emphasis from national security to human security." A startlingly helpful approach.
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The Little Book of Stress by Rohan CandappaIs stress really all that bad? Without it, could we get everything done, or would we just be sickeningly happy-go-lucky day in and day out? In The Little Book of Stress Rohan Candappa shows ways to actually increase the level of stress within you and those around you. Because without stress, life is boring. Increase your own stress levels and create stress in others with simple measures such as:
o If you are stressed, make sure you communicate this to those around you. Soon they'll be stressed too.
o Switch the decaffeinated and caffeinated coffees around whenever you can.
o Always join in other people's arguments. Try to get others to join in too.
o When you're the first car in line at a traffic light, get out and read a map. Try to miss the green light at least twice.
o A double espresso just before bed is always a winner.
o Replace your bulbs with overhead, neon-strip lights. If you can get ones that flicker, all the better.
o If someone is telling you a joke and you know the punch line, wait until they've nearly finished, then tell them you've heard it before.
o Ask single women if they've got a boyfriend yet. Repeat on Valentine's Day.
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A Former Copywriter Speaks Up For Self-Destructive Behaviors That Increase Stress.......2007-08-23
The author of this book worked as an advertising copywriter before becoming starting to write screenplays. He authors helpful slogans on how arguing, borrowing, worry, hopelessness, pessimism, narcissism, paranoia, rudeness, smoking, junk foods, cynicism, multiple divorces, poor driving, lack of relaxation, materialism, overwork, unrealistically high standards and expectations of others and other self-destructive behaviors can help generate more stress.
In essence, the message of this book is as positive as it is attention getting: people by their actions increase the stress they are subject to and people by their actions can reduce the stress they are subject to.
The sarcastic format--assuming that it is people's desire to maximize the amount of stress they feel--succeeds in being attention getting and thought-provoking. For people who like to feel they have a strong measure of control over their life circumstances, this is an excellent book which they will read with relish. For people who feel hopeless and overwhelmed by events they believe victimize them without any fault of their own, this book can serve as a wake-up call to re-evaluate their own actions and take responsibility for their own lives.
THE BEST Comic Relief.......2004-08-22
I laughed that kind of deep belly laughing, almost crying, throughout reading this book. It is absolutely fantastic humor -- so needed. If laughter is the best medicine, this little book should be a blanket prescription. It twists the negative ways we talk to ourselves and the things we do that make ourselves more stressed or depressed, and makes them funny.
Personally, NO.......2004-07-15
I do this enough on my own, and this just reminds me of that
Excellent.......2003-06-20
This book was given to me by a friend during a difficult time and I have found it not only funny, but that it hits the mark, every time I pick it up. Stressed or not, this is a funny book and great to have around.
hehehe.......2001-11-07
My friend gave this to me on my birthday. I am a very stressed person, and this was just the little breather i needed (before the start of another stressful day). Everyone should own this just for laughs.
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- Great Book - So don't worry just buy it.
- Brilliant and entertaining book by gifted authors
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The Little Book of Stress (Mini Squares)
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Great Book - So don't worry just buy it........2002-05-30
This is a very amusing book giving great advice on how to become really stressed. Every page is another laugh! It certainly hits the point that we all do stressful things that we do not really need to. Best little book I have ever read.
Brilliant and entertaining book by gifted authors.......1999-01-14
When I read this book my stress level went higher than ever. My blood pressure almost took off! The lift was really worthwhile. I have now taken to nail-biting and stomping with a view to head banging! What a hit! The Little Book of Stress is such a hoot that owls will need to take up laughing. Who needs relaxation classes when your nerves can be twanged to the tune of the William Tell Overture. In short "Don't Panic" just read this book and tear your hair out. You owe it to yourself
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The Backyard Do-It-Yourselfer's Little Book of Wisdom has the answers. Not only solutions to fix-it-up problems, but plenty of tips and ideas on ways to get more for the time you spend as the "do-it-yourself" handyman in your home.
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Don't Stress!: How to Keep Life's Problems Little
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Just about life.......2003-11-02
this is a really good book and its tells you how to avoid all of lifes problems without any [crud]in between. it truly is great because an body can read it as a reading age from 6 years to adult. recomended
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