Endorsements for Todd Duncans Life on the Wire
Powerful life experiences often give you life-changing wisdom. Todd has had both! Open these pages and discover practical yet potent advice for pursuing your dreams and living your life well!
Glenna Salsbury
CSP, CPAE, speaker Hall of
Fame, author of The Art of the
Fresh Start and Professional Speaker
Ive always believed that when youre at work, you should work hard, and when youre at home, you should play hard. Thats easy to say, but for a lot of people its hard to do. In Life on the Wire, Todd Duncan clears up the myth about the balanced life and shows you how to rejoice in the purposeful and plannedimbalanced life.
Dave Ramsey
Best-selling author and host of the Dave Ramsey Show
There are a whole lot of people driving themselves crazy trying to live a balanced life. You and I know it doesnt work! Todd Duncans new book shows us what does work! How to transform natural imbalance into harmony! A must read!
Bob Beaudine
best-selling author, The Power of WHO
This book quickly shows you how to get more done, of greater importance, and less time, and dramatically increase the quality of your entire life.
Brian Tracy
Best-selling author and professional speaker
Todd has really touched on an important perspective regarding Life Balance. I love his concept of purposeful imbalance! Timely and relevant... reading this book will give you a nice bit of personal peace.
Terri Sjodin
principle and founder, Sjodin Communications
Anyone suffering from frustration or a feeling of hopelessness as a result of buying the all-too-common lie that they will get to it tomorrow when things slow down has to read Life On The Wire. Our lifes story will not be defined by one single decision, but instead, by the little daily decisions that, when combined, will create our legacy. Read it today.
Daniel Harkavy
CEO and Executive Coach, Building Champions, Inc. and author of Becoming a Coaching Leader
A simple truth is that when you have faith in your future, you can have power in your present. Life on the Wire will show you how to manage the tension in every facet of your life so you can live and work more effectively and enjoy both more abundantly.
Mac Anderson
founder of Simple Truths and Successories and author of The Nature of Success
2009 by Todd Duncan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Duncan, Todd, 1957
Life on the wire : avoid burnout and succeed in work and life / by Todd Duncan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-7852-1898-2
1. Quality of work life. 2. Job satisfaction. 3. Burn out (Psychology) Prevention. I. Title.
HD6955.D856 2009
650.1dc22 2009033800
10 11 12 13 14 WC 5 4 3 2 1
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FOR MY WIFE, SHERYL
THE HUMOR, COURAGE, LOVE, GENEROSITY, AND FA ITH YOU DEMONST RAT ED AS YOU WAL KED THE WIRE ARE AN INSPIRAT ION TO ANYONE WHO WA NTS TO FA CE THE BATTL E AND FINISH LIFE STRONG. YOU WERE AN AMAZING WIFE AND A PHENOMENAL MOM, AND YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!
THANK YOU FOR MAKING A DIFF ERENCE. I LOVE YOU, FOREVER!
SHERYL B . DUNCAN
FEBRUARY 5 , 1958 SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
WWW.SHERYLDUNCANFOREVER.COM
CONTENTS
I n Life on the Wire, my friend Todd Duncan turns the world of balance upside down and inside out. The result is a totally refreshing, truly invigorating, and thoroughly convincing new formula for work-life success.
Truth be told, we are all on the wire. Havent you felt the pressure of performing without a net? Hasnt life dealt you tough choices? Have there been days you thought you might not even make it? If you are like me, then youve missed deadlines on important projects, tried in vain to deflect stress, experienced the agony of leaving home for work, and even the fear of leaving work for home!
Perhaps you have had to decide between a bosss request to attend a strategic planning session and your sons first baseball game or your daughters first piano recital. Maybe the challenge at hand is making ends meet in todays difficult financial times. Or perhaps your spouse told you he or she didnt love you anymore, and you felt the whole wire oscillate.
We have all experienced the consternation that seems to inhabit quests for success. In these pages, however, my charge for you is simple: travel with Todd from cover to cover. You wont be sorry you took the trip. This book will help you achieve a more balanced life and place you firmly on the road to achieving much more than mere success. With the assistance of these well-thought-out points, well-told stories, and the application of timeless principles, your life will become one of significance!
At this point in your life (and why did you pick up this book?), you probably already know that neither conquest, power, nor the acquisition of material things will produce lasting joy or fulfillment. In fact, when we finally complete the achievements we thought would create significance and happiness in our lives, we often realize that those achievements produced the opposite effect of what was intended! For many, success hasnt produced contentment; it has simply forced us farther out on the wire, demanding that we achieve even more.
I believe that the quality of our answers can only be determined by the quality of our questions. In this, the search you are about to begin to create the life of your dreams, allow me to pose a few: How would you live if this were your last month on earth? Would you consider the things you have accomplished thus far significant? Where would you spend the majority of your time? With whom? What would your legacy be? I am not suggesting that success is not important. It is. But for one to create a life of fulfillment and significance, success cannot be the only target for which we aim. In these pages, Todd will propose a new and radical style of workan extreme makeover for your life on and off the job. Hell also demonstrate, through a series of