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Work Yourself Happy

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The author points out some common sense points in re-evaluating one's priorities, setting goals and reaching for your full potential. However, the book is extremely short (just over 100 pages) and gave me the impression I was taking a crash course in common sense fundamentals. The book covered such topics as career changes, getting what you want from the job, promotions and pay raises. It all sounds good in print but in the real world of business it is not all that easy. Success does not come in a quick, 1-2-3 lesson. It takes far more than determination and visualization to become tomorrow's success story. That is a good place to start but it is only the beginning.

As one who has taught and counselled in business management for almost thirty years, there is a lot more to "Working Yourself Happy" that appears in this book! Many individuals have goals and dreams, but to make thema a reality, it also takes commitment, hard work, integrity, qualified skills, training, experience, and sometimes "just being in the right place at the right time." While the book makes for light, informative reading, it is not one I would highly recommend. The book lacks detail and anything you can really "sink your teeth into"; it is far too brief to be of any significant value in the business world.

Terri Levine's Work Yourself Happy is a clearly presented, "user friendly", step-by-step "how to" guide for creating joy and satisfaction in one's life and work. Readers will receive invaluable, life-affirming assistance in considering career changes, getting promotions and pay increases, restructuring their job, improving skills on the job, doing their job with less effort and more success, how to leave the office behind at day's end, aspiring to become an entrepreneur, and more. Work Yourself Happy is enthusiastically recommended, occasionally inspiring reading for anyone seeking to improve themselves and their personal satisfactions in the workplace.

"Work Yourself Happy" is more than a title of Terri Levine's new book. It is a way of life that incorporates your own consciously chosen values with your priorities to create the magic in your career. Terri shares the five secrets to working yourself happy, taking a hard look at yourself as you get ready to create a vision "with soul". By embracing change, welcoming it, you will enjoy the journey to your dream. Reflective exercises, powerful strategies, and real life examples engage you to consider your own career choices. Terri writes, "Stating our needs, values, interests & beliefs and fully realizing them and acknowledging them will allow us to create the vision for where we want to go. It is up to us where we go. We are no longer just pulled along. Got a goal? Great. Now expand it, push it, grow it huge! Visualize it and articulate it to others and develop a framework to get results". This step-by-step guide is a tool to help you create joy in your life and work!

Thank you for such a practical, helpful guide to choosing and landing the job of my dreams! Your 'Work Yourself Happy' program systematically takes people through, step by step, the questions and preparation they need to create the career they want. If someone is looking to get their career on track they would be crazy or foolish (or both) not to read and use your guidebook. I look forward to suggesting it to clients I work with. Well done!

Terri Levine's Work Yourself Happy has helped me re-locate the joy in my career as a teacher.Thank you for this marvelous book.
Madeline Frank, Ph.D. author of The Secret of Teaching Science & Math Through Music and Musical Notes On Math, teaching children to enjoy fractions and decimals through the rhythm of music.

I really got value from this book. I did the exercises and am finding more passion in my work and getting clearer on my priorities. While the information is easy to understand, putting it to work is what makes this book fantastic - the author shows you how to do it.

Terri Levine writes in such a way that a person could learn to coach themself. Great book with an interesting message.