How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life - Hardcover

Tom Rath; Donald O. Clifton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595620036 ISBN 13: 9781595620033

Publisher: Gallup Press, 2004

Synopsis

Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket  How Full Is Your Bucket? shows how even the smallest interactions we have with others every day profoundly affect our relationships, productivity, health and longevity. Coauthor Donald O. Clifton studied the effects of positive and negative emotions for half a century, and he and his colleagues interviewed millions of people around the world. Their discoveries contributed to the emergence of an entirely new field: Positive Psychology. These same discoveries are at the heart of How Full Is Your Bucket?
Written in an engaging, conversational style, their book includes colorful stories and five strategies for increasing positive emotions, and it features an online test that measures readers’ Positive Impact.

 

About this title

About the Author

Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. (1924-2003) was past chairman of Gallup and coauthor of the national bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths and other books. He was named the Father of Strengths-Based Psychology by the American Psychological Association.

From the Back Cover

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?
"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."

From the Inside Flap

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?

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gallup Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1595620036
• ISBN 13: 9781595620033
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160