Reboot Your Life: Energize Your Career and Life by Taking a Break [Paperback]

Catherine Allen (Author), Nancy Bearg (Author), Rita Foley (Author), Jaye Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2, 2011

More Americans are choosing to take time off from work to relax or re-examine their priorities, so they can return to work energized. Some companies offer formal sabbatical programs, but how can the average person take time off to evaluate their direction, explore their passions, and make time for the things that are really important?

Whether you're disillusioned with your career, yearning to follow a dream, or taking time out after a layoff, now is the time to step back and reboot. This book will show you how you can give yourself the best gift ever--the gift of time. People who take sabbaticals report feeling happier, and they return to their jobs refreshed, reinvigorated, and ready to tackle new challenges. Reboot Your Life draws upon the experiences of the four authors and their interview subjects: 200 people who have taken sabbaticals and 150 organizations offering sabbatical programs. The book includes real-life stories and exercises to help the reader figure out how to plan for and take a sabbatical, or how to use unexpected time off.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

The Sabbatical Sisters are four successful executives from diverse fields. After meeting, they discovered that they were all sabbatical veterans, and dubbed themselves the Sabbatical Sisters. They wanted to share the concept of "rebooting your life" with others, so they wrote a book. They hold retreats to help people plan and create support systems for taking a sabbatical.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Beaufort Books (April 2, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825305640
• ISBN-13: 978-0825305641
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #437,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Give a Reboot a Chance April 9, 2011

By Rebecca L. Nebesar

Format:Paperback

"My good friend and I read most of it. We met for a "walk and talk" to discuss our reactions and had a very lively conversation. There is much good wisdom to be gleaned from the book - and inspiration too. Soul searching, planning, communication and having the guts to make a change are key if you want to achieve your dreams.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Well organized book April 3, 2011

By Peter G. Buckley

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I found this to offer a very complete coverage of the topic. There's a chapter reviewing the types of sabbaticals, an extensive one on planning and helpful checklist at the end. It blends advice with many examples of real-life situations.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring and Informative April 6, 2011

By shelleyberc

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This is a superb book to help you find the precious time, space, and help to 'reboot your life'. As the director of the Creativity Workshop, I come across so many people who yearn to weave the personal and the professional into a more energizing balance. Now that I have read this book, I am recommending it to all of them because it can really help people make the leap into more satisfying lives. One of the best things about the ideas and advice in Reboot Your Life is that they strike a really difficult balance between the pragmatic and inspirational--and they do it with such apparent ease. The other strength is that the authors know where of they speak--they have all done, in a variety of ways, the things they suggest their readers do. In addition to these merits, Reboot Your Life is a very entertaining and empowering read. You will feel as if the authors are speaking directly to you, second guessing fears and questions. This book has a quality that is most precious to me--a self help tome that doesn't sound like a how-to/cheerleading generic. It sounds like the voices of real people who have been through the nitty-gritty process of taking a sabbatical from their jobs in order to question and discover their needs, gifts, and aspirations. Reboot Your Life makes the magic question 'what if' into the realistic one of "why not?"
Shelley Berc, Director of the Creativity Workshop, New York