One Who Is Not Busy, The: Connecting with Work in a Deeply Satisfying Way [Hardcover]

Darlene Cohen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 2004

Do you:
*Ever feel like you consistently take on more that you have time to do?
*Ever wish you could not only get things done, but also enjoy doing them?
*Feel like you're barely making it through one ragged week to the next?
*Live only for weekends and a chance to put your feet up and close your eyes?
"Busyness" is the problem. Knowing how to manage it is the solution.

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In a culture that de-emphasizes process and rewards only the final product, many professionals find themselves always looking to the next project, the next reward, the next vacation. By never focusing on the present, they miss what is right in front of them. With proven meditation techniques, Darlene Cohen walks the weary business person from this exhausted frustration to enlightenment: a fresh approach to time management. In these pages she will teach you to: *Narrow or widen you focus at will. *Develop the mental flexibility to shift your focus at will from one thing to another. Following six professionals through this process, Cohen affirms that it is learning to be simultaneously "busy" and "not busy" that will allow us to experience work and the rest of our lives in a deeply meaningful way.

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Do you:
*Ever feel like you consistently take on more that you have time to do?
*Ever wish you could not only get things done, but also enjoy doing them?
*Feel like you're barely making it through one ragged week to the next?
*Live only for weekends and a chance to put your feet up and close your eyes?
"Busyness" is the problem. Knowing how to manage it is the solution.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith (March 12, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156731760X
• ISBN-13: 978-1567317602
• ASIN: 1586852515
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #789,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Buddhist approach to task management, March 30, 2007

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Edward Mills "Author of the www.EvolvingTimes... (Sonoma County CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Who Is Not Busy, The: Connecting with Work in a Deeply Satisfying Way (Hardcover)

Darlene Cohen's The One Who Is Not Busy, provides a fresh take on the concept of multitasking. She points out, accurately, that the reason we get overwhelmed is because we are focusing on too many things at one time. Darlene encourages us to use the Buddhist practice of one-pointed-attention to focus on what we are doing in each moment.

She provides a number of exercises to help you increase your ability to stay focused. One of the most helpful concepts for me was the idea of narrowing and expanding your focus at will. By bringing consciousness to your focus you can choose when to focus on a single tree and when to take in the entire forest.

Admittedly, some of the exercises seem like they would be better suited to a workshop setting than a book. And her writing style is a tad serious for my taste. But overall this book has been very helpful for me.

4.0 out of 5 stars Zen balance in the lives of Multitaskers, September 13, 2009

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Lori Gertz "Lori Gertz, Author" (San Diego,Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Who Is Not Busy, The: Connecting with Work in a Deeply Satisfying Way (Hardcover)

The kicker on this book title says it all.

Connecting with work in a deeply satisfying way...

We don't need to view our work and leisure worlds (if they exist) as fundamentally different. When we give anything we approach with our full attention we are continually connected to our own feelings, thoughts and sensations...One needs to ask without these elements of life, where is the joy? This book gives a multitude of tools to encourage this connection through very simple meditative approaches to everything from sitting at a desk to breathing during a conference call. As a lifelong multitasker, my curiousity was piqued by it's premise. I enjoyed reading it and have begun incorporating many of the tools into my daily practice of work and life.