Reboot Your Life
Energize Your Career and Life by Taking a Break
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Give yourself the gift of time—and learn how to utilize it.
More and more Americans are choosing to take time off from work to relax or re-examine their priorities, so they can ultimately return to work energized. Some companies offer formal sabbatical programs, but how can the average person take enough time off to evaluate their direction, explore their passions, and make time for the things that are really important?
Whether you're burned out in your career, yearning to follow a dream, or even taking time after a layoff, don't forget to step back and reboot. Give yourself the best gift of all—time. People who take sabbaticals report feeling happier, returning to their jobs refreshed, reinvigorated, and physically and emotionally ready to tackle new challenges.
Reboot Your Life draws upon the experiences of the four authors and their interview subjects: 200 people who have taken sabbaticals, and 150 organizations offering sabbatical programs. The book includes real-life stories and exercises to help the reader figure out how to plan for and take a sabbatical, or how to use unexpected time off.
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These four executives, who dub themselves "the Sabbatical Sisters" and hold retreats to help people plan for "Reboot Breaks," offer a book that covers many varieties of taking time off: within jobs or between them, career enhancing, course correcting, family related, for emotional healing, volunteering, and pre-retirement. The authors lead readers through the four phases of a reboot: creating space, reconnecting, exploration, and reentry. The business case for sabbaticals is emphasized; workers are more productive after a break. How to fund a break if one's employer doesn't offer a formal sabbatical program is covered, as is how to have the best break possible and deal with the feelings of loved ones. The concept of a sabbatical is timely, both in light of the economic downturn and America's chronically stressed workforce (the Center for American Progress recently reported that Americans work longer hours, and have less support, than workers in any other developed nation). Ironically, the authors' collective voice comes across as bland, even timid. The book leans heavily on cheery case studies from the 200 break-takers interviewed and less on practical advice, a problem that could have been easily solved by beefing up the checklists and freeing them from the Appendix.
