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Ian Sanders, author of Juggle! answers a few FAQs

Rachel Shand — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:45:00 +0100

I've had a few questions recently about my latest book ‘Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim Your Life’ so have put together some FAQs:

1. What’s the book about? ‘Juggle!’ is about carving out work lives that reflect our multi-dimensional talents, of going beyond a single job title where the Work You becomes the Real You.

2. So it’s not about juggling balls or circus skills? Nope.

3. Does it feature anyone I might have heard of? It features contributions and anecdotes from a range of jugglers including @

garyvee, @mikesouthon, @roxannedarling, Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts and Hollywood talent manager Melanie Greene.

4. How’s the book going to change my life? Good question. If you’re stuck in a rut in your career, this book will give you the courage and inspiration to re-craft your working life based on what you love and what you are passionate about. It’s not always about making choices about whether you quit your job to run an eBay business; you can juggle both at the same time. Juggling can make you happier and more fulfilled as well as more of an asset in the job market if you have more than one skill to offer.

5. What practical advice is in the book? There’s a whole section on tactics to improve your juggling from time management to staying fresh and stimulated.

6. Can I see a free preview? Sure, there’s

a free sampler here

7. Is it a conventional ‘business book’? Not at all, it’s written in a really accessible way, no jargon, in short punchy chapters that you can deep in and out of. It’s an easy, but stimulating read!

8. So you say it’s great, but can I read some impartial reviews? Sure, there’s a review from @macala here and one from blogger Jon Knight here

9. Got anything I can listen to? Sure, there’s a podcast interview with @800ceoread here and a radio interview here.

10. Got anything I can watch? Yep, there’s video interviews with Gary Vaynerchuk, Kevin Roberts and Mike Southon here

11. Where can I buy it? All good bookstores (and crap ones too) and here on Amazon.com and here on Amazon.co.uk

12. So have you written anything else? Yes, my first book was ‘Leap! Ditch Your Job, Start Your Own Business & Set Yourself Free’

To buy the book click here

To go to the Ian Sanders website click here

To see the original press release of the book click here

For more information about the book,or to request a review copy or author interview please contact:

Emma Knott eknott@wiley.com

The Painspotters Guide to Broken Britain: 50 People to Love, Hate, Blame, Rate*

Rachel Shand — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:21:05 +0100

The Painspotters Guide to Broken Britain:
50 People to Love, Hate, Blame, Rate*

by Andrew Holmes & Dan Wilson

To be Published by Capstone – September 2009

Fed up with the doom and gloom of the credit crunch? Tired of hearing about the rise of the recession?

We could all do with a bit of a laugh at the end of an extraordinary year which has seen public confidence crumble in the financial system, politicians and policy-makers, the housing market, and even in our own jobs.

The Painspotters Guide to Broken Britain: 50 People to Love, Hate, Blame, Rate provides just that – an amusing insight into the worldwide recession and the characters it has thrown up. Find out who’s to blame, who’s affected, and who’s getting off scot-free! There’ll be some you’ll recognise instantly such as The Enthusiastic (Desperate) Estate Agent, The Overpriced-Property Developer and The (I don’t want to admit it to anyone) Value Shopper. But watch out for the more tricky characters like The Savvy Squatter and The Cohabiting Divorcee who may not always have your best interests at heart.

With 50 hilarious caricatures and scathing descriptions of recognisable faces, you’ll soon learn how to spot these criminal characters, find out what they’re up to now, and devise your revenge strategy.
It’s time to stop worrying about the fate of our economy and just let the bad times roll…

ISBN: 9781906465711; Paperback Original; £7.99/€9.60

About the authors:
Andrew Holmes is someone who is deeply affected by everyone around him – mainly negatively you understand. This is a man who deliberately fills up his glass so that it is always half-empty, as it gives him something to complain about. When he is not scowling at people in the street, he is actually an experienced management consultant working in the areas of operational strategy, information systems (IS), programme management, risk management and finance transformation. He has held senior positions in Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and is now the managing partner of Paricint LLP, a boutique management consultancy firm. Andrew is an active author having written 15 books (eight of which have been for Capstone) covering a broad range of topics, from commoditization through to lifelong learning and consultancy.

For a review copy please contact:
Alicia Barker

abarker@wiley.com
Twitter: @aliciastanton

To buy a coy of the book click here

CBT expert, Avy Joseph advises us on how to cope with depression

Rachel Shand — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:34:59 +0100

Depression

‘People are not disturbed by events but by the view they hold about them.’ Epictitus

This principle is at the heart of nearly all emotional and behavioural change. It can be challenging particularly if at the moment you are feeling depressed.

There are many different types of depression. Some forms are biological like clinical depression. Here the depression may not be a reaction to something that has happened but more of a chemical imbalance. This is best treated with medication and then with therapy. Other types of depression include ‘reactive depression’. This type of depression is usually triggered when loss or failure is experienced and you end up feeling stuck in it.

The emotion of depression is commonly felt with other emotions like anxiety, anger, guilt but whereas anxiety is an emotion about something that might happen, depression is an emotion to something that has happened. So you may feel depressed about failing at something, losing something or someone. You may even feel depressed about the fact that you have been in state of stress or anxiety and now think this is how it will always be for me i.e. you believe that you have lost your old self or failed at solving your anxiety issues.

When you feel depressed, you feel like the sun has gone out of your life and more significantly that that it won’t come back again. It’s a state when you think that the future is all dark and bleak and you lose all sense of hope. You will also experience a number variety of physical symptoms. For example, you may feel very tired and lethargic and your appetite may be affected. You may just want to curl up and sleep the depression away.

Sadness is the healthy version of depression. Sadness is also triggered when loss or failure happens but it is an emotional state that you naturally heal from. When you feel sad, you feel like at the moment the sun has gone out your life but more significantly you retain your sense of hope for the future, unlike when you feel depressed. So what causes the feelings of depression and sadness? The quote above gives the answer. It is our view point, attitude or more simply the way that we think about what has happened that causes our feelings. Your beliefs about your loss or failure can cause depression or sadness. This is good to know because we can change our beliefs or thinking. It means that change is possible in the here and now. It shows that we can free ourselves from negative and unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviour. It shows that we are not slaves what happens to us even if the things that happened were very bad.

All of us have two types of thinking patterns or beliefs, beliefs that are healthy (rational) and beliefs that are unhealthy (irrational). Healthy beliefs lead to emotional well-being and enable you to achieve your goals and to move on and heal yourself when something bad happens. Beliefs that are unhealthy lead you to feel stuck and disturbed and cause you to do things that sabotage your healing.

Healthy beliefs are flexible and are based on the things that you want, the things that you like, the things that you desire and prefer but they are realistic and consistent with reality. This means they are accepting that sometimes you may not get what you want. Reality shows us that. An example of a healthy belief about loss may be ‘I would have liked not to have lost my relationship but I accept that I did. This does not mean I am an unworthy or a Failure. I’m worthy but fallible. My worth does not depend on my loss’. Essentially, you do not put a condition on yourself despite your loss or despite your failures. This type of belief would cause sadness about the loss but not depression.

Unhealthy beliefs are the opposite of the healthy ones. They are inflexible, non accepting, rigid, absolutists or dogmatic. They are based on MUSTS, HAVE TO, GOT TO, NEED TO, ABSOLUTELY SHOULD. They are unrealistic and unhelpful to you because do not allow you to accept the loss or the failure. An example of an unhealthy belief about loss may be ‘I absolutely should not have lost my relationship. The fact that I did proves I’m a failure and worthless’. This type of belief would cause depression when loss or failure occurs.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a form of therapy that examines how our thinking, attitudes, beliefs, opinions and behaviour are formed, how they affect our success, our lives and feelings, and how changing them impacts positively on our future happiness.

Avy Joseph is the author of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

To enquire about a review copy or for more information please contact

Alicia Barker

To Buy the book click here

978-1-84112-800-9 Pbk Original £9.99/€12.00

CBT expert, Avy Joseph advises us on how to deal with relationship problems.

Rachel Shand — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:25:15 +0100

Relationship Problems

It is common for most of us at one point or another to have experienced difficulties or challenges in our personal relationships whether it is with your spouse, or partner. However when such problems become entrenched or habitual then people begin to feel stuck and experience anxiety, irrationality, anger, and hurt, depression and unhealthy jealousy.

Some of the more common problems experienced in relationships could be:

-Feeling anxious about a partner leaving for another, ending the relationship or thinking about infidelity or in an infidelity already.

-You may also experience anxiety about communicating your feelings in the right way and worry that you must always say things in the right way or with the right tone.

-There could be anxiety about a partner’s anger, anxiety about confrontation or irrational jealousy, where you track your partners every move, check text messages which may result in confrontation leading to aggressive behaviour, anger and hostility.

-It is also common to experience hurt where you think that your partner’s insensitive behaviour towards you implies lack of care and love.

-You also may experience feelings of guilt about past behaviours or wrong doings.

-You may also know that your partner’s behaviour towards you may be inappropriate. That you are being put down in public, in front of your friends but you do not know how to resolve it because you have low self-esteem about yourself.

These are some of the common problems we deal with in cognitive behavioural therapy. At the heart of CBT is that our thoughts and beliefs cause our emotional states and cause our behaviours.

If your thoughts and beliefs about yourself or your partner are unhealthy then your feelings and behaviours within the relationship will also be unhealthy. Essentially the message is that we are responsible for our own thoughts, feelings, our behaviours and the types of relationships that we tolerate. When you don’t take this responsibility then it is likely that it will be projected on to your partner and you will believe that your partner is the cause of your feelings and for the way that you act. Common beliefs like ‘he made me feel this way,’ or ‘she makes me feel small,’ ‘he makes me shout,’ are rife, but this is not true. It is you that makes you feel how you do and makes you do, what you do.

So some basic techniques from CBT which you may find helpful as a starting point:

1) Accept that you are responsible for your own emotions and actions.

2) Communicate without pointing a finger, use expressions like, ‘I feel angry about...’ and not ‘You made me angry about...’

3) Accept yourself as a valuable but imperfect human being, judge your behaviour rather than your worth, for example, accept that you are a fallible human being but you can learn from mistakes and change for the better.

4) Be assertive and not aggressive. Communicate your thoughts and feelings appropriately and not defensively. Being assertive means that you have the courage of your own convictions but that you are also prepared to compromise if you see another person’s point of view.

5) Do think of the bigger picture and to remember to focus on your partners good qualities and demonstrate that.

Avy Joseph is the author of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

To enquire about a review copy or for more information please contact

Alicia Barker

To Buy the book click here

978-1-84112-800-9 Pbk Original £9.99/€12.00

CBT expert, Avy Joseph advises us on how to be protected against the emotional upheaval of the recession

Rachel Shand — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:46:56 +0100

Emotional Recession

“People are not disturbed by events but by the view they hold about them”

This principle is at the heart of nearly all emotional and behavioural change and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. It can be challenging when you first allow yourself to be open to the fact that we are responsible for our own emotions. Many people believe that what is about to happen or what has happened ‘make you feel how you feel and do what you do’.

In this current climate of economic downturn, you may have found out that you are going to be made redundant or that you may be facing the prospect of redundancy. Understandably you may be feeling very anxious about future consequences like finding another job or paying your bills. You may be feeling depressed about the loss of your job or you may be feeling very angry that this has happened to you and not to others. It is also likely that you be feeling embarrassed or ashamed about telling family or friends that you have lost your job. A whole mix of emotions, reactions and physical symptoms can be experienced by many people when something like this is about to happen or indeed has already happened.

But have you ever wondered why some people react to bad or unfortunate events in a different way to you? How some people are able to feel the upset, dust themselves off and move on more easily than others? How some people cope better and more healthily than others despite experiencing similar misfortunes? Have you ever wondered why you get stuck in the misery of anxiety and depression and other similarly painful negative emotions?

The answer really lies in the quote at the top. It is our beliefs, attitudes and thinking that cause our emotions rather than the bad thing that has happened or may happen. Generally, speaking people have two different types of belief system – healthy and unhealthy. We all have both types whether we like it or not. So you may have lots of healthy beliefs about so many different areas of your life like friendships, family, work, relationships and unhealthy ones about redundancy, examination, speaking in public whilst other people may have unhealthy about friendships, family, work , relationships and have healthy beliefs about redundancy, examination, public speaking. Beliefs are like the pair of glasses we have on our face in different situations. In some situations you wear a pair that helps you see things more clearly and yet in other situations an old pair that needs a change a prescription.

In Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, we say that unhealthy beliefs are at the heart of our emotional problem, behavioural and thinking problems. They simply do not help us with achievements and cause us to sabotage what we want because they cause us to avoid, become irrationally angry, depressed and block us from finding solutions. The reason they cause this is because they are not rational. For example, you may belief that ‘I absolutely should not have been made redundant. The fact that I have been means it’s the end of the world, unbearable and proves I’m useless’.

This type of belief is common with people suffering depression following a redundancy. It would cause a person to feel like they are worthless and unable to cope with what has happened. In this state it become very difficult to think of possible options or solutions and even more difficult to motivate oneself to look for other jobs. All a person would want to do is to curl up and hide from life. But think about what someone would be able to think and would be able to do if they had a different belief such as ‘I really would have loved not to have been redundant but sadly I accept that I have been. The fact that I am redundant is very bad but it is not the end of the world, it is very difficult but I am still alive and it never means I am useless because my worth does not depend on whether I am employed or not. I am worthy but fallible regardless’. This type of belief would cause you to feel sad but not depressed but it would also keep you focused on solutions and options. The period of sadness would come much to an end much faster in comparison to the period of depression. It would feel like the sun may have gone out but you that it would come back again.

Avy Joseph is the author of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

To enquire about a review copy or for more information please contact

Alicia Barker

To Buy the book click here

978-1-84112-800-9 Pbk Original £9.99/€12.00