Work and Life Balance - February 2008

Mobile Magazine Guide to BlackBerry by Bill Foust  (004.165 BLACKB) (2005)

Discover how you can capitalize on the BlackBerry’s many uses beyond e-mail. Handle all your business tasks and projects using this portable lightweight device—make phone calls, create task lists, manage your calendar and address book, write memos, and surf the web, whether you’re outside the country or just away from your desk. Get keyboard shortcut tips and tricks, plus advice on more advanced uses like downloading programs to customize your BlackBerry.

How to do Everything with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 by Bill Mann (005.57)

Manage and organize your Outlook e-mail communications and daily calendar with help from this easy-to-use guide. Learn the essentials of instant messaging, faxing, and sending and receiving e-mail. Use newsgroups, take notes, collect contacts, schedule appointments, manage files, and much more.

Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them by Bryan E Robinson (155.232 ROB)

Robinson defines workaholism as "an obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifests itself through self-imposed demands, an inability to regulate work habits, and an overindulgence in work to the exclusion of most other life activities." The many revealing case studies, self-analysis tools, and the author's personal story of his struggle with workaholism make for a thorough, solid package. Robinson's work nicely updates Wayne Edward Oates's out-of-print Confessions of a Workaholic.

Workaholics Anonymous Book of Recovery by Workaholics Anonymous World Service (155.232 WOR)

This book is a compendium of information on recovery from workaholism. The book includes stories from recovery members, all of the approved program literature, a step study guide (with questions and stories through each of the Twelve Steps), information on meetings, and helpful literature to support members in their recovery journey.

How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job: Selections from How to Win Friends and Influence People, and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
by Dale Carnegie (158.1 CAR)

Even if you love your work, you probably have days when almost nothing goes right. Bestselling author Dale Carnegie shows you how to make every day more exciting and rewarding -- how you can get more done, and have more fun doing it.

Married to the Job: Why We Live to Work and What We Can Do About It
by Ilene J Philipson (158.7 PHI)

Through her work observing Americans' work habits, psychotherapist Ilene Philipson found that people increasingly look to their jobs for self-worth and a sense that they're connected to something larger than themselves. Work is "colonizing our emotional lives," she writes, shares stories of people who seek to fill the self-worth void by working until midnight and having a social world that revolves around their colleagues.

The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook
by Martha Davis (613.79 DAV)

This has become the most indispensable resource for effective and up-to-date techniques for relaxing the body, calming the mind, and refreshing the spirit. Therapists recommend the book to their clients; readers pass it on to their friends. Nearly a million copies have helped millions of people take the edge off their stressful lives and find the peace they need to foster happiness and success.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen (650.1 ALL) 

This offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. And, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines.

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss (650.1 FER)

What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:  “I race motorcycles in Europe,” “I ski in the Andes,” or “I scuba dive in Panama.” He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.

The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You Do Best by Richard Koch (650.1 KOC)

80 percent of changes in the world result from the most powerful 20 percent of actions and ideas. By building a team that supports your efforts and excels in areas where you lack experience or knowledge, you'll be able to focus your time and energy on your strengths. Productivity and profits will soar because you'll be doing what you do best and enjoy the most. By using the 80/20 strategies outlined in the book, you can take control of your career and financial future.

Cut to the Chase -- and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time by Stuart Levine (650.1 LEV)

Levine distills the expertise of hundreds of CEOs, managers, and professionals into 100 concise, invaluable lessons about how to get to the point, stay on track, and be more successful in everything one does.

Time Management From the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule by Julie Morgenstern (650.1 MOR)

Declaring that time management is a learnable skill, the bestselling author of "Organizing from the Inside Out" returns to provide readers with a foolproof plan for taking control of their schedules and lives.

Never Check E-mail in the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work by Julie Morgenstern (650.1 MOR)

Morgenstern shows you how small changes in your thinking and behavior will help you achieve the seemingly impossible — boost your value, increase your job security, and afford you the time to still have a life.

Work + Life: Finding the Fit That's Right for You by Cali Williams (650.1 YOS) (2004)

Work is no longer necessarily a nine-to-five proposition: "Those external, company-mandated boundaries between your life and work disappeared; yet nothing replaced them," Yost writes. In this volume, the author argues that, in order to maintain a life outside work, one must think creatively and establish personal boundaries.

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