What's the Rush?: Step Out of the Race, Free Your Mind, Change Your Life - Softcover

Ballard, Jim

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9780767903103: What's the Rush?: Step Out of the Race, Free Your Mind, Change Your Life

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ISBN 10: 0767903102 ISBN 13: 9780767903103

Publisher: Broadway Books, 1999

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Through spiritual meditations and encouraging mantras, an acclaimed business consultant helps readers recondition themselves to enjoy life, transcend what is commonly known as the rat race, set realistic goals, and use reframing techniques to understand reality. $40,000 ad/promo.

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Step Out of the Race, Free Your Mind, Change Your Life
Hello. I'm Jim Ballard. Thanks for your interest in my book WHAT'S THE RUSH?...Step Out of the Race...Free Your Mind...Change Your Life. According to what readers are saying, the major benefit of the book is that the reader acquires a new perspective on change, the speed of life, and daily work routines which restores balance and allows the person to proceed through the daily round of duties and activities with a renewed sense of calmness and perspective.

WHAT'S THE RUSH? uses running as a metaphor for all the rushing about everyone is doing in response to the speedup of change. Its 30 'Recipes for the Sole'(mind-changing strategies for inducing the sensation of 'being run' rather than doing the running) were developed over decades of my own running. Each of them can be used either in exercising (such as walking, running or treadmilling) or indeed anywhere and in any routine activity. For example, imagine 'breathing yourself forward' through a harrying set of tasks, or letting an invisible towrope pull you through a difficult meeting, or using the 'just-to-there' strategy (agreeing with yourself to run only to a land mark up ahead, and then quit--then, as you approach the mark, pick out another and doing the same thing) to work your way through a difficult long-term project.

You can use another of my favorite Recipes as you're reading this. It's ca lled Remembering Now. You know how it is when, after a certain experience is over, you're able in hindsight to see what it meant? Go now to a future yourself and look back on this moment as if it's a memory. Imagine saying to yourself, "How could I have known that that event would lead to that other thing, or reading, or conversation that followed, and that I would find myself here as a result?"

Remembering Now is one of the strategies listed in WHAT'S THE RUSH? under Noetic Principle No. 3, Playing With Time. These mental activities allow you to work on your sense of time (that resource which so many find to be scarce)so that, whatever you are doing--even if it's for a moment--your experience is that your have all the time in the world to do it.

It's my sincere hope that WHAT'S THE RUSH? will reach many people who are harried and driven in this world of change, so they can use its ideas to do what the subtitle says: Step Out of the Race...Free Your Mind...Change Your Life.

About the Author:

James Ballard is a management consultant and motivational speaker for Blanchard Training and Development, which will help launch his Dreamrunner Seminars nationwide in the spring of 1999. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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