Be Your Best: The Family Manager's Guide to Personal Success [Paperback]

Kathy Peel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 4, 2000

"If you continue to say 'as soon as,'
you'll never do what you want to do."
--Kathy Peel

Do you have plans for your life--personal goals to fulfill--that keep getting pushed aside because you just don't have the time? In today's fast-paced world, it's too easy to dream of the person you're going to be, the things you're going to accomplish . . . someday. How about now, instead? In this practical, easy-to-read book, Family Manager® expert Kathy Peel helps you find the time, space, and energy to become your personal best. Inside she shows you how to:

- Find essential time for yourself while fulfilling your various other roles in life as wife, mother, friend, or professional
- Renew your energy and outlook on your life
- Discard old habits--create positive ones
- Bypass roadblocks and achieve your dreams
- Balance your busy schedule with existing commitments
- Organize time and resources for self-management
- Nurture and maintain your strengths
- Live the life you really want!

Turn your dreams into solid achievement. Be your very best self. Start today!

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

"If you continue to say 'as soon as,'
you'll never do what you want to do."
--Kathy Peel

Do you have plans for your life--personal goals to fulfill--that keep getting pushed aside because you just don't have the time? In today's fast-paced world, it's too easy to dream of the person you're going to be, the things you're going to accomplish . . . someday. How about now, instead? In this practical, easy-to-read book, Family Manager® expert Kathy Peel helps you find the time, space, and energy to become your personal best. Inside she shows you how to:

- Find essential time for yourself while fulfilling your various other roles in life as wife, mother, friend, or professional
- Renew your energy and outlook on your life
- Discard old habits--create positive ones
- Bypass roadblocks and achieve your dreams
- Balance your busy schedule with existing commitments
- Organize time and resources for self-management
- Nurture and maintain your strengths
- Live the life you really want!

Turn your dreams into solid achievement. Be your very best self. Start today!

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (April 4, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345419847
• ISBN-13: 978-0345419842
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,483,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kathy Peel is CEO of Family Manager Inc., a company that trains women in the art of family management. She has written 21 books, selling more than 2 million copies. Her latest works are The Busy Couple's Guide to Sharing the Work & the Joy, The Busy Mom's Guide to a Happy, Organized Home (winner of the 2009 Gold Mom's Choice Award) and Desperate Households. She is AOL's Kids & Family Coach, and she contributes to many publications, including FamilyFun, Parents, Woman's World, Family Circle, HomeLife, and ParentDish. A popular speaker and media personality with repeat appearances on programs such as Oprah, The Early Show, The Today Show, and HGTV.

Visit Kathy Peel's Web site: www.familymanager.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Free Up Time and Money, May 20, 2000

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Dina (Peoria) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Be Your Best: The Family Manager's Guide to Personal Success (Paperback)

I never seemed to have enough time or money. This book showed me how to prioritize and get more done in less time.

"SIMPLE MONEY SOLUTIONS," by Nancy Lloyd, also a Family Circle columnist, showed me how to stretch my money with original ways not just to pinch pennies, but to pinch dollars! It will work for you too.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peel Does It Again, April 6, 2000

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This review is from: Be Your Best: The Family Manager's Guide to Personal Success (Paperback)

Kathy Peel's previous books did a great deal to help me with thinking about myself as someone who's tasks in the home are valuable. Her new books helps me understand that I have to value myself first in order to function as a super family manager. She reminds us that she can't simply wave her wand over us to make us successful home managers, but that we can take steps in order to acheive this ourselves. For me the most helpful chapter is "Finding Time for You" -- I have spent the better part of year "working" on projects only to sit down this past weekend and realize that I haven't really done anything. She gives you bunches of tricks to make your life work better for you. Another great feature of this book is "The Bottom Line" -- for those of us who simply don't have enought time to read her thorough and detailed chapters, she summarizes her main points. The thing about this book is that it packages things that on some level we all know, and presents them so that we don't feel stupid when it seems new. Kathy Peel is an absolute inspiration -- and human to boot. I would rather emulate her than the know-it-all from the Northeast any day.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing New ... Quite Disappointing, April 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Be Your Best: The Family Manager's Guide to Personal Success (Paperback)

While I have enjoyed the Family Manager series, I was disappointed with this the latest title in the series. It's simply a re-hash of Peel's earlier works. In a way I feel ripped off by the publisher for simply repackaging what I already paid for in previous books