CatchFire : A 7 Step Program to Ignite Energy, Defuse Stress, and Power Boost Your Performance [Paperback]

Peter McLaughlin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2000

Thriving in today's high pressure work world. Having fun in the midst of chaos. Unleashing the energy, enthusiasm, and enterprise you need to maximize your performance at work. That's what CatchFire is all about. Forget struggling through your workday stressed out, tired, or scattered. To work at peak productivity today you need focus, flexibility, confidence, humor, and a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

Written by top business consultant, Peter McLaughlin, CatchFire presents a seven step program that will ignite your enthusiasm, boost your productivity, and energize your performance at work. Based on scientific research, hundreds of interviews with successful executives, and a Nationwide Professional Workforce Survey, this book offers proven strategies to revitalize your body and brain-and provides real life examples of how individuals and corporations stay healthy, focused, and fun in the face of tough deadlines, heavy workloads, and continual changes.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"CatchFire is just what people need- a well researched, straight forward plan to stay physically and mentally energized." -- Steve Gesing-Smith Barney Consulting Group

"With the warp speed and intense pressure of life on the job, business people have to adopt the habits..." -- William Slavin, Vice President, IBM Global Services

About the Author

A poll conducted by the Journal of Business Strategy named Peter McLaughlin as one of the top business speakers in the nation.

Peter is the author of CatchFire: A Seven Step Program to Ignite Energy, Defuse Stress, and Power Boost Your Career and the co-author of Mentally Tough: The Principles of Winning at Sports Applied to Winning in Business. For twelve years, he has studied the leading research on enhancing performance and has presented motivating programs that help business people maximize their energy, productivity, and fun. Recently, Peter joined forces with FitnessAge, a company that uses state of the art technology to empower people to make positive lifestyle changes.

Peter delivers eighty seminars a year to a Fortune 500 clientele that includes AT&T, Deloitte & Touche, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Marriott, Microsoft, Oracle, and Prudential. In addition, he has worked with the executive business programs of The University of Maryland and The University of Denver. His work has been featured in USA Today and on CNN, among numerous other newspapers and television programs.

Prior to his work in the peak performance field, Peter received a Master's Degree, taught at the high school and college levels, and coached five sports. As President of McLaughlin Company Realtors for ten years, Peter ran a thriving office and was a member of the Million Dollar Round table. His creative achievements in business led the Tarrytown Conference Center in New York to select him as "one of the top 100 most innovative executives in America."

Product Details

• Paperback: 238 pages
• Publisher: FitnessAge Media (March 15, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0970295006
• ISBN-13: 978-0970295002
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,107,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, an intelligent motivational book!, October 29, 2000

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This review is from: CatchFire : A 7 Step Program to Ignite Energy, Defuse Stress, and Power Boost Your Performance (Paperback)

Read this book. It's great! The author uses an intelligent, conversational style to tell you how to improve your performance, mood, energy, and lifestyle without sounding like all the predictable, tired motivational books out there. CatchFire offers fantastic advice - new information that one can easily apply to his or her real life, from simple ways to reduce stress to what to chose for a power-lunch on the run, as well as what to avoid...