Do Less, Achieve More

by Chu, Chin-Ning

• ISBN13: 9780060988753
• ISBN10: 0060988754
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

For anyone tired of chasing everelusive desires, of doing more only to find that more needs doing, and of making more money only to need more money, bestselling author ChinNing Chu shows you that life was meant to be easy, if you know the secrets.From the bestselling author of The Working Woman's Art of War, comes an important and timely book about the side of success that most don't know about 注e power of selective yielding, of surrendering to a successful destiny, and of getting what you want by not wanting it too much.Using Carl Jung's famous parable of the rainmaker as a framework, ChinNing Chu explains universal truths about the nature of effort, success, willpower, detachment, "creating luck," and more. Illustrating the four "secrets of the rainmaker" with rich anecdotes from history, personal experience, and popular culture, ChingNing explains how to create success by attaining inner harmony, how to partner effort with ease, how to make peace with time, and how to stop reacting and start restfully controlling the events of your life.

Author Biography

Chin-Ning Chu is the chairperson of the Strategic Learning Institute and the president of Asian Marketing Consultants, Inc.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
The Rainmaker	xi
FIRST SECRET FINE-TUNE YOUR ACTIONS
Do Less, Achieve More	3	(14)
Make Peace with Time	17	(26)
Trade What You Have for What You Want	43	(16)
Adopt Directed Dreaming	59	(16)
SECOND SECRET PUT YOUR MIND AT EASE
Find Wisdom in Irritation	75	(14)
Surrender Reveals Your Destiny	89	(42)
Live to Thrive, Not Just Survive	131	(18)
Grant Yourself Grace	149	(16)
Transform the Four Toxic Motivators	165	(10)
THIRD SECRET DISCOVER THE DIVINE POWER
Stop Reacting, Start Restfully Controlling	175	(6)
Stay in the Present	181	(14)
Epilogue--Let Go	195	(6)
About Chin-Ning	201	(4)
Contacting Chin-Ning	205