From Making a Living to Having a Life : A Book for the Working Challenged

by Dunn, Gloria

• ISBN13: 9780966086751
• ISBN10: 0966086759
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Wiser Ways to Work
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Summary

Would you like to spend your days at work excited, fulfilled, and happy? Do you want to learn how to balance your work and personal life? If you have been downsized, quit, or are disappointed with your current job, this book is for you. It will help you get a life and a paycheck. The rewards are yours Book jacket.

Author Biography

Gloria Dunn is an organizational behavior specialist, speaker, workshop leader, consultant, author and president of Wiser Ways to Work

Table of Contents

Preface: The Day I Ran Away From Home	xiii
Work Is More Than A Paycheck	1	(10)
The Myth of Security	6	(2)
The Revolution for Meaning	8	(3)
How Core Beliefs Keep Us Stuck in the Wrong Job	11	(26)
What Are Some of Your Core Beliefs?	20	(1)
What You Can Do to Change Your Core Beliefs	21	(14)
Step One --- Observe	22	(4)
Step Two --- Evaluate	26	(5)
Step Three --- Change Your Mind-Set	31	(4)
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters	35	(2)
Stress and the Workplace --- Managing Fallout from Frazzled Lives	37	(38)
The Impact	41	(3)
The Heart	41	(2)
The Brain	43	(1)
Anxiety Producers You Can Work On	44	(16)
What Does the Future Hold?	60	(2)
How to Manage Stress	62	(10)
What You Can Do to Reduce Stress on a Personal Level	72	(3)
Finding Time to Find Wise Work	75	(20)
The Right Place at the Right Time	77	(2)
Do You Have to Give Up Your Job to Find Wise Work?	79	(2)
How Much Time Do You Have?	81	(1)
How to Get Time for Yourself	82	(3)
How to Use Free Time	85	(7)
How to Make It All Happen --- Use the PEP Method	92	(3)
When Quitting is the Best Option	95	(26)
Good Reasons to Stay Put	96	(1)
Should You Stay?	97	(4)
How Bad Is It?--- Some Preliminary Questions	99	(2)
Is Quitting the Right Answer?	101	(1)
Reasons to Quit that Make Sense	102	(12)
Should You Actually Leave?	114	(1)
Take Action	115	(1)
Characteristics to Cultivate so You Can Leave	116	(5)
What To Do Before You Lose Or Leave Your Job	121	(34)
Moving Onward and Upward at the Same Company	123	(6)
Acquire the Habit of Lifelong Learning	129	(1)
Prepare Mentally for an Upcoming Transition	130	(3)
Become Actively Involved in the Job Search Process	133	(9)
Networking	142	(1)
How to Stay Visible and Build a Good Image	143	(3)
Activate the Search	146	(2)
Pick up Free Information from the Internet	148	(2)
Continue Being an Effective Employee	150	(5)
What To Do After You've Lost Your Job	155	(24)
Downsizing Can Be a Gift	159	(1)
The Real Payoff	160	(1)
Where to Use Your Talents	161	(1)
What to Do as You Prepare for Your Next Move	161	(12)
Guard Against Fall-Out Behaviors	173	(6)
Managing Change	179	(20)
Stage One: Your Building Gets Dynamited	180	(7)
Stage Two: Standing in the Rubble	187	(3)
Stage Three: You Find a New Building to Work In	190	(4)
Final Thoughts	194	(5)
Purpose --- The Heart of Wise Work	199	(20)
What Is Purpose and Why Is It a Good Thing?	203	(1)
The Purpose Statement	204	(3)
Let Intuition Be Your Guide	207	(3)
To Find More Clues, Search Your Own Past	210	(2)
To Make Your Higher Purpose a Reality, Visualize It	212	(2)
Form a Purpose Group	214	(2)
Final Thoughts	216	(3)
Balance --- Working and Having a Life	219	(16)
Work Has Its Own Special Niche	220	(3)
Wise Work Is Different	223	(2)
It's As Personal As Fingerprints	225	(2)
Do What Works for You	227	(4)
Work as a Facilitator for Life Balance	231	(4)
Appendix: The Wisdom of Life's Lessons	235	(5)
In One of the Author's Poetic Moments	240	(1)
Bibliography	241	(2)
About the Author	243	(1)
Index	244