Ann McGee-Cooper - You Dont Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!: A Program to Bring Joy, Energy, and Balance to Your Life

Offers a whole range of techniques to help maintain and maximize ones energy, productivity, and overall zest for life each day of the year.

BOOKLIST

McGee-Cooper studied thousands of peak performers in business. They all had some secret of outrageous fun that nobody else would know about.

Boston Sunday Herald

An entertaining, informative guide to avoiding burnout and maintaining a high energy level on the job. Loaded with humorous illustrations, pointed quotes, and quizzes.

The Rotarian

A tip-filled energy-recovery guidebook designed to help busy readers maximize and draw upon energy they may not realize they possess.

Dallas Times Herald

After studying 3,500 corporate executives and employees, Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper concluded that a lack of abundant energyrather than a lack of time, skills, or desireis what often limits a persons productivity, innovative thinking and overall enjoyment of life.

Spirit! Magazine

Introduction:
Learning Energy Engineering the Hard Way

PART ONE
Tired of Being Tired?

PART TWO
Reclaiming KidSpirit

PART THREE
Putting Both Sides of Your Brain to Work

PART FOUR
Energy Traps and Solutions

PART FIVE
Energy Engineering Strategies

DEDICATION

We dedicate this book to two masters of Energy Engineering. The first is Georgia Ulrich, who at age eighty-four enjoys a full-time career as a business partner with us, reads six to eight books per week both for fun and for our research, manages a household for three, enjoys daily exercise, and claims to have more fun than most people with a variety of hobbies and friends of all ages. To celebrate her eightieth birthday she went up in a hot-air balloon. She exemplifies through her actions the rich rewards of living life fully. When asked her secrets for staying so fully invested in living, Georgia shared these tips:

hang on to your humor,

dont ask for permission, just do it! and

make everything fun.

The second great inspiring Energy Engineering role model is Bob Gary, executive vice president, TU Electric, Generation. For the past six years we have watched him turn problems into opportunities as he has coached us and several hundred others in applying the secrets of brain integration to our daily lives. We would gather and synthesize the research and he would show us how powerful it can be by putting it to work in real situations. Bob has literally saved lives with his intuitive genius and, with his whole-brained team, has turned impossible situations into innovative business wins. On weekends you can usually find him having a grand time on his farm with his wife Joyce and his grandchildren. A master of play and mischief, Bob personifies the genius of abundant energy, innovation, and servant leadership.

A fter writing Time Management for Unmanageable People, Duane Trammell and I realized that finding enough time in the day just wasnt enough. Another major challenge was finding enough energy to keep workingand relaxing and playingat 3:00 P.M ., 6:00 P.M ., 9:00 P.M ., and so on. We found, for instance, that we could teach our clients how to budget time for a big project at 2:00 P.M . But if they didnt have a good reserve of energy stored up, the project either dragged on forever or was done in a mediocre fashion.

Our clients complained of needing more energy for these activities:

putting in a truly productive and creative eight to ten hours on the job day after day;

doing more than flopping on the couch and watching mindless TV sitcoms at night;

developing new interests and activities in their spare time;

taking up a physical activity or sport; and

spending quality time with family and friends on the weekend.

Without abundant energy, these things rarely seem to get accomplished. Or we do them half-heartedly, merely going through the motions, so that the satisfaction we could derive from them is greatly diminished.