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Burn Brightly Without Burning Out: Balancing the Work You Need With the Life You Lead
Examines twenty commonly conflicting priorities in everyday life, sharing examples and exercises on how to balance the demands of work and family, suggesting practical application tips, and urging readers to restore balance to their lives.
96 pages, Hardcover
First published January 5, 2003
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March 23, 2018
Bit of a disappointing read, but not so much because the book is bad in itself, but rather because I didn't feel like it delivers what it suggests.
With its title and its description on amazon ("Are you burning brightly-or burning out-in your spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional life? Do you find yourself being torn between work and family? [...]") I was expecting a book that covers stress and occupational burnout, but if I had to describe its content in a nutshell, it would be along the lines of "how to live a good life" and Christian values in general.
Some of the suggestions, while good in general, seem like very bad advice to give to someone who's burnt out; not giving up, being a doer rather than a dreamer, constantly reading and improving yourself, not procrastinating, working hard and disciplining yourself, going for effective rather than pleasing solutions... It's as if the author's solution to burning out was "Be good and work hard."
The book is organized in a series of elements one should balance in life (e.g. "Making money vs making a difference"), but many of them aren't about balance so much as "bad thing vs good thing", many of which read more like common sense than psychology (Image vs integrity, Procrastination vs decisiveness, Burnout vs enthusiasm, Stress vs serenity...)
Overall the book was somewhat inspirational and fairly decent, but I just didn't get any valuable info about dealing with burnout and balancing one's life.
An okay book marketed wrong.
With its title and its description on amazon ("Are you burning brightly-or burning out-in your spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional life? Do you find yourself being torn between work and family? [...]") I was expecting a book that covers stress and occupational burnout, but if I had to describe its content in a nutshell, it would be along the lines of "how to live a good life" and Christian values in general.
Some of the suggestions, while good in general, seem like very bad advice to give to someone who's burnt out; not giving up, being a doer rather than a dreamer, constantly reading and improving yourself, not procrastinating, working hard and disciplining yourself, going for effective rather than pleasing solutions... It's as if the author's solution to burning out was "Be good and work hard."
The book is organized in a series of elements one should balance in life (e.g. "Making money vs making a difference"), but many of them aren't about balance so much as "bad thing vs good thing", many of which read more like common sense than psychology (Image vs integrity, Procrastination vs decisiveness, Burnout vs enthusiasm, Stress vs serenity...)
Overall the book was somewhat inspirational and fairly decent, but I just didn't get any valuable info about dealing with burnout and balancing one's life.
An okay book marketed wrong.
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