Wake-up Calls: You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! [Paperback]

Eric Allenbaugh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1994

A witty and inspirational reminder to become alert and take advantage of those disturbing moments--failures, missed chances, personal problems--that interrupt normal lives and turn them into opportunities to promote change and growth. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. Tour.

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A celebration of our own potential for limitless growth. It will help many to awaken. -- Dr. Wayne Dyer

A refreshing, gentle invitation to become far more than you ever imagined. It makes it safe and easy to grow. -- Ann McGee Cooper, Ed.D., author of You Dont Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted

At some time in our life, each of us experiences a wake-up call a divorce, a firing, a new baby, a near-death experience, a promotion, or a bankruptcy. Wake-up calls come in many forms, but they all momentarily force us to interrupt our normal thought and behavioral patterns.

This inspirational book helps turn lifes teachable moments into positive learnings. It shows how breakthrough moments offer choices and opportunities to discover new levels of awareness and growth, and offers practical strategies for linking head and heart to move beyond the stuck state to personal and professional fulfillment.

This unique book in itself becomes a wake-up call as you explore fresh insights for work or home, for you or a friend who has just had a wake-up call.

A beautiful book! Wake-Up Calls is full of practical ways to enhance your personal growth. -- Ken Keyes, Jr., author of Handbook to Higher Consciousness --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Inside Flap

Are you fully awake? Do you sometimes hit your snooze alarm when you get one of lifes wake-up calls?

Sleepwalking through your relationships, career, or life can be costly and disruptive. We all get wake-up calls that range from a mild Aha! moment to a cosmic two-by-four. We can either pay attention and choose to grow from these experiences or recycle history by repeating old patterns that havent worked.

The insightful, yet gentle messages in this self-discovery book can assist you in experiencing greater joy and fulfillment by

Waking up becoming more conscious in your personal, family, and work relationships
Choosing to grow by stretching beyond your comfort zone
Learning straight-talk skills to be a more effective communicator and listener
Using pause power to tap into your internal resources and make better life choices
Learning how to work more effectively with relationship differences
Taking charge of your behavior and shaping your life results staying awake

This compelling and refreshing book will energize you on your continuing journey to positive self-discovery.

It will take you on a journey of increased inner awareness and outer effectiveness. You may never be the same again.
Brian Tracy

A must for todays leadership reading. Its principles have revolutionized the leadership team at my hospital.
Jim Boyle, president and CEO, Shawnee Mission Medical Center --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Fireside (September 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671887076
• ISBN-13: 978-0671887070
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,200,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wake-Up Calls: You Don't have to sleepwalk through your, February 4, 2000

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Gina Hinds - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wake-up Calls: You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! (Paperback)

This is a great book to really get your mind thinking about life. You have many choices presented daily and this book helps you think about your options and do you want to try something new or keep going in the same direction and repeating the same things you have previously done in your life.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gliding through life was never made more difficult., September 7, 1998

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This review is from: Wake-up Calls: You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! (Paperback)

I first read this book back in 1994. It helped provide the impetus I needed to be able to make some major life changes. Since then, I have used it from time to time as a reference when I felt I started gliding through life again. I found it to be very easy to read and receive the information. He gives clear examples to back up his suggestions so you'll get his point. He explains the dynamics of several different communication styles without sounding like a textbook. He helps you to see that in every interaction or avoidance of interaction you impact not only yourself but others. You are taught, as you teach others, is a main point of his book. He teaches you how to be a positive force in other's lives by communicating in better way and becoming aware of "your stuff". I would highly recommend his book to anyone looking to work on their "stuff" and are willing to be open to being taught as they teach. He has been an excellent teacher for me and I hope that I can return the favor as he taught me to. Thanks again, Dr. Allenbaugh!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Beginner's Guide to Getting Unstuck!, November 22, 2002

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Peter Messerschmidt "denmarkguy" (Port Townsend, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wake-up Calls: You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! (Paperback)

This book was recommended to me in 1995, by a friend who knew that I was struggling with a difficult marriage and a business that was going nowhere. "Read this!" he said, "it will change your life." So, having little to lose, I bought the book and read it.

"Wake-up Calls" perhaps didn't change my LIFE, but it certainly gave me some things to think about.

The fundamental idea in this book is that many of us fall into a pattern of "sleepwalking" through our lives, but life also presents us with a large number of so-called "wake-up calls." These can range from major-- divorce, bankruptcy, getting fired-- to relatively minor-- a promotion, an invitation to an important social event. Each wake-up call generally results in us facing a "choice point," and from each choice point, we have the chance to learn and grow.

The book is fairly simple and very easy to read, and guides the reader through a step-by-step process of first teaching us to recognize where we may have choice points; then goes on to teach us how to overcome old habits, change direction-- and go on to "stay awake" instead of sleepwalking through life.

Almost every chapter is laid out with bullet-point lists, simple exercises to use with your OWN situation; as well as a closing list of "Awareness Checks"-- a list of questions to make readers think about how to apply the current chapter to their own life. The writing is "light" and Allenbaugh uses personal anecdotes to help readers relate "ideas" to "reality."

Overall Rating: Highly Recommended (9 bookmarks out of a possible 10) BUT this book is probably best suited to those who are just BEGINNING a journey of self-discovery. It provides some straightforward principles for "getting on with life." Although I have certainly referred back to "Wake-up Calls" from time to time, it is a somewhat basic motivational book, and probably too simplistic for someone who has already spent some time with other self-exploration.