Coming Up For Air: How To Build A Balanced Life In A Workaholic World In A Workaholic World: Amazon.ca: Beth Sawi: Books

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Leave work at five and don't feel guilty! Beth Sawi, tells you how to make more time for your personal life while still enhancing the quality of your work life.The balance issue can affect anyone. Despite the hard work and dedication her job demands, Sawi has found ways to get out of the home/office time bind and be an active parent to her two children and shares them in this book.

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Discusses how to create more time for your home life while enhancing the quality of the work you do for your job. DLC: Work and family.

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Why do we have to struggle to have balance in our lives? Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enormously practical and helpful, April 17 2002

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Carol E. Head (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coming Up For Air: How To Build A Balanced Life (In A Workaholic World In A Workaholic World (Hardcover)

This book succinctly and gracefully guides the reader toward real-world solutions to very difficult real world problems. It's unusual to find a book which is both a pleasure to read and is very grounded in practical solutions for finding a way to increased contentment.

I think the book succeeds so well because it focuses on core challenges in attaining happiness and balance (i.e. given that one can't do everything, what are your real priorities?) and that it provides guidance for attaining realistic, small-step changes that can have an enormous impact on quality of life.

It's wonderful to find such graceful writing, not from a professional "self help book writer", but from a woman who has walked the walk...a person who has succeeded in corporate America while raising children and pursuing other interests. There's nothing theoretical here...it's all grounded in the reality of what's possible in our frenzied lives.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Coming Up for Air, April 16 2002

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Patricia H. Mintz (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coming Up For Air: How To Build A Balanced Life (In A Workaholic World In A Workaholic World (Hardcover)

Beth Sawi's book was an exceptionally useful tool as my husband and I evaluated our all-too-busy lives as we were flying back from a vacation. The book helped us set priorities, and talk together about what each of us needs to create a more balanced life. The book is readable and the case studies were particularly helpful. My highest praises for this book!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enormously practical and helpful, April 16 2002

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Carol E. Head (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coming Up For Air: How To Build A Balanced Life (In A Workaholic World In A Workaholic World (Hardcover)

This wonderful book succinctly and gracefully guides the reader toward real-world solutions to very difficult real world problems. It's unusual to find a book which is both a pleasure to read and is very grounded in practical solutions for finding a way to increased contentment.

I think the book succeeds so well because it focuses on core challenges in attaining happiness and balance (i.e. given that one can't do everything, what are your real priorities?) and that it provides guidance for attaining realistic, small-step changes that can have an enormous impact on quality of life.

It's wonderful to find such graceful writing, not from a professional "self help book writer", but from a woman who has walked the walk...a person who has succeeded in corporate America while raising children and pursuing other interests. There's nothing theoretical here...it's all grounded in the reality of what's possible in our frenzied lives.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing. Platitudes.
In her first chapter, which is really an introduction, Sawi explains that her "book is divided into four parts, each designed to show you how to change your work patterns and find... Read more

Published on Dec 16 2001 by Roger E. Herman

5.0 out of 5 stars A voice of sanity
I originally picked up this book because I was looking for some books to recommend at the end of an article I was writing about balancing multiple part-time jobs. Read more

Published on Oct 26 2000 by Janet