Stop Screaming at the Microwave: How to Connect Your Disconnected Life (Paperback)

by Mary LoVerde (Author) "I got home from work and flopped into my easy chair, totally exhausted..." (more)
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While many self-help books focus on how to organize, prioritize, and manage your time in order to operate at top efficiency, Stop Screaming at the Microwave takes a refreshingly different tack--slow down, start connecting with people, and learn how to feel good. This short but friendly abridged audiobook provides simple ideas to put you more in touch with your spouse, family, colleagues, and yourself, based on the philosophy that the more connected you are to others, the better you'll feel. Although you may have heard some of these ideas before, author Mary LoVerde reads them with an infectious enthusiasm that makes Stop Screaming a welcome change of pace for harried working people. (Running time: 1.5 hours, one cassette) --Sharon Griggins --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Brian Tracy Author of Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed Your ability to focus on the things that really matter will contribute more to our happiness than any other thing you do. This is a wonderful book that gives you a series of practical, proven methods you can use to get more living out of life. -- Review

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Fireside (September 16, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684853973
• ISBN-13: 978-0684853970
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #861,473 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mary walks her talk., October 12, 1998

By	Doug W @[e-mail]) (Denver Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: STOP SCREAMING AT THE MICROWAVE!: How to Connect Your Disconnected Life (Audio Cassette)

Mary's book is on a subject that everyone is talking about ......being too busy, feeling disconnected, always on the run with too little time and a never ending to do list. Can we all relate or what? Probably one of the ideas I most liked about Stop Screaming at the Micro-Wave is Micro actions,......taking baby steps. Breaking a task or goal into little tiny micro actions to get the ball rolling,.....I find as I look at my goals and projects that I often get exhausted just thinking about all the steps that are necessary and get completely frozen in my tracks and never get started. I recently heard Mary speak at a local bookstore here in Denver explaining how she began writing this book. Mary said.."I would first pace around the computer, and than write one word..the...after doing that I thought well I wrote one word, I need to complete a sentence, well.....I wrote a sentence I guess I better write a paragraph, and before I knew it I wrote a page which turned into a paragraph and that is how I wrote my entire book.....one micro action at a time!!" Everything in this book I get a very strong sense that Mary walks her talk and has used these ideas not only on herself but her audience of thousands of people have given her postive feedback. If you are too busy use Mary's advice.....when you can't keep up! Connect! Mary's book is a great book this winter to snuggle up with on one of those winter nights you need to unplug the phone, turn off the television and shut the world off and read something that is going to make a difference in your life, make you laugh and see parts of yourself through out the book!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable set of tools for today's hectic lifestyle, October 28, 1998

By A Customer

This book takes over where time management techniques end. Mary LoVerde has come up with a remarkable set of tools to deal with the hectic lifestyles we find ourselves in. Buy two copies, one for yourself and one to give as a gift to someone you love - it's that good!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You gotta be kidding me..., February 22, 2002

By A Customer

I bought this book because I've got too much to do and too little time. The author's suggestion for how to prioritize, when faced with a choice of things I want to do, things I need to do, people I need to connect with? Choose "people" every time! Well, that is a lovely thought, but she doesn't give a whole lot of advice on how to keep the rest of your life from going to the dogs while you spend all your time playing touchy-feely with your loved ones. LoVerde's imaginative solution to her own time crunch was to stop cooking. Marvelous option if you can afford to eat out every day, and don't care much about nutrition. Not a workable option for most of us out here in the real world.