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Summary: Nothing new
Review: This is one of those books that are way longer than they should be. Even worst, it doesn't provide anything new if you are a regular reader of self-help books.According to the book, you should manage energy, not time. Rather vague suggestion. Do you even know what it is talking about? Let me explain. There are four types of energy: 1) physical 2) emotional 3) mental 4) spiritual. Physical energy refers to action. Emotional energy refers to positive thinking. Mental energy refers to focus. Spiritual energy refers to a buring desire. Ah. For those who are Napoleon Hill fans, you would know what I'm talking about. Action, positive attitude, focus, and a buring desire are ingredients for success according to Hill's famous book, "Think and Grow Rich". This book is "Think and Grow Rich" in sheep's clothing. Since Loehr is into fitness, he believes our brain needs exercise just like our biceps. This exercise would be stress. Stress would be good for our brains just like weight training is good for our muscles. And like our muscles, the brain needs periods of rest to re-energize. I have just summarize the first 100 pages. The next 100 pages, part II, describes a three-step approach for change: 1) Purpose - what do you want to do 2) Truth - what are you doing wrong 3) Action - change it. Following these steps will develop a ritual - something you don't have to waste energy thinking about doing since it's automatic. Essentially, he is teaching us to make a habit of doing things. I think I just summarize the whole book in one sentence. You should be warned that there are some data mining in this book. I was only able to catch it because I'm an avid tennis fan. Loehr explains the importance of being positive and uses Jimmy Conners as an example. For exuding positive energy on the tennis court, Conners was able to play his best tennis even at a later age as opposed to John McEnroe who is always negative on the court. Loehr then uses Conners' run to the semis at the US Open as an example, but fails to mention that the next year, McEnroe was just as impressive by reaching the semis at Wimbledon! I don't think his use of Conners as an example is convincing at all. What this really shows is that just as there is no substitute for hard work and a good positive attitude, there is also no substitute for raw talent. McEnroe has much more talent than Conners and because of that, was able to be so good at the game DESPITE his negative energy on the court.
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Summary: How to make the most of yourself
Review: Full Engagement provides viable information in the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual realms. Our energy level is a key factor in achieving performance, and this book does a great job of integrating the various elements of performamce. To optimize the valuable information in this book, I recommend you read Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self by Rosalene Glickman Ph.D. In the Optimal Thinking corporate world and self help community, we no longer strive for management (based on mediocre thinking) or high performance (based on extraordinary thinking.) We focus on optimization and do our best. Dr. Steven Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, recommends Optimal Thinking. He believes: "Optimal Thinking beautifully convinces and illustrates why 'the enemy of the best is the good.' Insightfully, it blends and synthesizes idealistic and realistic thinking, left- and right-brain cognition, analysis and creative intuition, acceptance and optimism. A superb treatment of the idea of Personal Best." Read each of these books and pass them along.
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Summary: Engaging.
Review: The book, The Power of Full Engagement, had me fully engaged. Without a doubt, next to the book, The Little Guide To Happiness, it is one of the best book on personal renewal going. Hands down.
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Summary: Lifestyle change is the key to Success!!
Review: The key to sustained success and high performance is lifestyle change and that is what this book teaches you. I would also highly recommend that you combine this book with another excellent new book that just came out titled "The Power of Positive Habits" which shows you how to become more successful through the acquistion of positive habits.
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Summary: Missing Ingredients to Over the Top Performance Found
Review: Sometimes the simple is overlooked. This book pulls some of the basic concepts about managing energy and achieving amazing results together in a creative and systematic way. There are so many elements of this book that are refreshing and exciting.
This book provides information which is both cutting edge and practical. This book offers a solid, systematic and yet holistic approach to obtaining peak performance in a way that is easy to follow but potent. As a professional coach, this is certainly on my must read list for my clients. This is the book for you if you are looking for and are ready to embrace tools to assist you in capturing that extra edge between ordinary and extraordinary! I think all success minded professionals should read and implement the system of this book.
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Summary: The hardest things in life are often the easiest to fix.
Review: How many times have you lost sleep stressing over something beyond your control? How many times has someone looked at you and told you you looked like you needed a vacation? I was fortunate enough to see this book and its author on Oprah a week ago and immediately purchased the book. I recently started a dedicated fitness and nutrition program (in the past 6 months) and this book was a perfect compliment to it. The key message here is that you cannot "perform" successfully in any aspect of your life if you do not direct positive energy towards it, and you WILL burn out if you don't make time to walk away and relax. On the same hand, if you direct your energy towards negative things (worrying, office gossip, paranoia) those things will "grow" and continue to envelop you and distract you from those things that are positive and desired. I'm recommending that we implement key principles from this book into my company's management development initiatives (go to the author's website linked here on Amazon for more details) as I think it's a good supplement to our time management training and helps direct managers and employees towards a balance in their work, their personal lives and the goals and objectives they want to achieve successfully in both areas.
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Summary: Excellent book for mind-body connection
Review: As a CEO and former jock, I really enjoyed the integrated approach in this best-selling book. The authors have made convincing arguments, so I want to recommend this book. I also recommend that you read it in conjunction with Optimal Thinking -- How to be your best self. Optimal Thinking is the mental foundation of peak performance, and stops you from settling for second best.
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Summary: Wow, Great Book!
Review: A new approach to improving effectiveness at work and at home. As a hard working single mother and Executive, I needed to manage time better, or so I thought. This book helps to define the difference between time and energy. Following the advice in this book has made me less tired and more producitve. Less time wasted, more work done. Get this book. I also recommend "The Child Whisperer" - not about the same topic, but if you have kids or work with them, the techniques in "The Child Whisperer" will help you to be more effective and efficient in those relationships. Buy both books for a balanced approach.
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Summary: Authors seem to think they know more than they do.
Review: I found this book a waste of money. It's full of half truths asserted as fact. For example, the authors quote the old study that found that it matters what time of day you eat most of your food - morning or night. They don't quote the followup studies that find that after a few weeks the human body adapts and the differences no longer hold. Also I didn't like the emphasis on the "corporate" athlete. If all you want to do is adapt to a fast paced, stressful life, this book might help. But if you want to create a life more on your own terms, this isn't your best guide.
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Summary: What I've been looking for
Review: This book is easy to understand. The prose keeps me interested, while the ideas deal with the questions I face everyday. Specifically, a new paradigm through which to view my strivings and a constructive method to focus my energy.
It's easy to see why it belongs on Business Week's best seller list.
If either a satisfied reader base is important to you, or you're looking for decades of experience training hardcases packaged comprehensively in a book, or you're tired of ineffective routines read this book!
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