CatchFire : A 7 Step Program to Ignite Energy, Defuse Stress, and Power Boost Your Performance

Peter McLaughlin was named one of the top business speakers by the Journal of Business Strategy. He is also a talented writer. This book focuses on the correlation between positive healthful habits and increased productivity, lowered stress and higher energy. The premise is that this correlation is a cause and effect relationship. Mclaughlin's 7 focus areas to achieve this high level condition are: 1) Mastering your mind - being aware of your current state and visualization 2) Eating for performance - good advice but says that "foods are essentially drugs" (?) 3) Exercise 4) Frequent Breaks 5) Attitude of Loving Problems - the limiting power of anger 6) Humor - make work fun - attitude of play 7) Power of context - change your environment to one you enjoy! Not much new hear but a fresh look and great reminders. Five Stars

Read this book. It's great! The author uses an intelligent, conversational style to tell you how to improve your performance, mood, energy, and lifestyle without sounding like all the predictable, tired motivational books out there. CatchFire offers fantastic advice - new information that one can easily apply to his or her real life, from simple ways to reduce stress to what to chose for a power-lunch on the run, as well as what to avoid...

I loved this book. It really helped me get my priorities straight and made me realize how simple it is to take care of myself. This author makes it so fun to learn how to balance my life with my life. I bought this book as a gift for a friend who struggles with motivation and I have noticed a great difference. I definitely recommend CatchFire to everyone.

The humor and fresh perspective of this book kept my interest throughout the reading. I have already implemented 3 of the ideas and - THEY WORK! Well written, and well worth reading.

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