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How Full Is Your Bucket? Our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. The results of our encounters are rarely neutral, they are almost always positive or negative. It is the accumulation of these interactions that profoundly affects our lives.
How Full Is Your Bucket? is powerful, inspirational and easy to read. Grounded in decades of research and co-authored by Donald Clifton, a pioneer in the practice of positive psychology, this book uses the simple metaphor of a bucket and a dipper to illustrate the effects meaningful "bucket filling" can have on our life. The authors share with their readers discoveries based on research conducted on relationships in the work place, the military and among married couples. Along with scientific research, the authors tell engaging stories and leave the reader with five strategies for beginning to make positive change:
- Strategy One: Prevent Bucket Dipping
- Strategy Two: Shine a Light on What is Right
- Strategy Three: Make Best Friends
- Strategy Four: Give Unexpectedly
- Strategy Five: Reverse the Golden Rule
This book seems to have a heart of its own offering the perfect combination of narrative, explanation and action plans. The back of the book holds a pocket containing a wallet-size interview guide along with a few tools to get you started on filling the buckets of those around you. Additionally, visit http://www.bucketbook.com for more information, tools and tests.
How did you feel after your last interaction with another person?
Did that person -- your spouse, best friend, coworker, or even a stranger -- "fill your bucket" by making you feel more positive? Or did that person "dip from your bucket," leaving you more negative than before?
The #1 New York Times and #1 BusinessWeek bestseller, How Full Is Your Bucket? reveals how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health, and longevity.
Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and grounded in 50 years of research, this book will show you how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work and your life -- while reducing the negative.
Filled with discoveries, powerful strategies, and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sure to inspire lasting changes and has all the makings of a timeless classic.
Tom Rath is coauthor of the #1 New York Times and #1 BusinessWeek bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? a book that draws on decades of research to explore the differences between leading an enthusiastic life and a miserable one. His book is receiving acclaim worldwide, and it appears regularly on the major bestseller lists.
At Gallup, Tom is the Global Practice Leader for the organization's hottest innovation, the Clifton StrengthsFinder, which has helped more than 1 million people around the world discover their top five strengths.
Tom earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Donald O.Clifton, Ph.D. (1924-2003), was cited as the "Father of Strengths-Based Psychology" in an American Psychological Association Presidential Commendation in 2002. He was a chairman of Gallup, Inc., and he invented the Clifton StrengthsFinder, an assessment that has helped more than 1 million people around the world discover their talents. He coauthored several books, including the bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths.
ISBN: 1595620036
Format: Hardcover, 128pp
Pub. Date: August 10, 2004
Publisher: Gallup Press
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Nationally-recognized author, speaker and corporate trainer, Jeni Herberger leverages 18 years experience within the design industry providing others with practical strategies on doing business better and living life fuller.
"I want to take the opportunity to share with you just a few of the books I believe hold philosophies and practices that enhance our lives. Besides that, you just can't beat a good book!"
Jeni is a featured speaker at the 2007 How Design Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, June 10 – 13 and the In-HOWse Designer Conference in Austin, Texas, September 9 – 11.