Work Yourself Happy (Paperback)

~ Terri Levine (Author) "What does Work Yourself Happy mean?..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review

"Terri has created a career coaching book that has it all. It's practical, participatory, and fun..." -- Sally Sussman - Consultant

"This book truly helps you look at your career and your life in a new way. I highly recommend it" -- David Ronson - Human Resources Manager

Product Description

Work Yourself Happy is a step by step guide to creating joy in your life and work. It offers the reader insights, experiences, fears and successes as a road map to moving towards what people want and need to be happy in their working lives. For some it may mean finding a new career. For others, simply changing parts of their current job. Some readers may want to stop work altogether and start their own business. Whatever the readers' situation, Work Yourself Happy will help them uncover their deepest desires, help them tap into the courage they'll need to face their fears and provide them with ideas and techniques they can use to begin creating a life they'll love.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 106 pages
• Publisher: Bovan Publishing Group (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965053431
• ISBN-13: 978-0965053433
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,585,196 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS ARE NOT A SIMPLE 1-2-3 LESSON!, February 22, 2002

By	Sandra D. Peters "Seagull Books" (Prince Edward Island, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable, life-affirming assistance, March 10, 2001

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

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.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Create a Vision With "Soul", November 17, 2000

By	Carol Orlando-Hayes (South Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

"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!