Product Description

A short and punchy guide to managing and increasing your energy levels from Executive Coach, Bill Ford. This book is for busy people: would you like to have more energy? Would you like to wake up in the morning looking forward to what the day may bring, and to end the day with energy in reserve? Would you like to feel calmer, more in control and to enjoy life more? It's easier than you think. This is how: DO LESS OF WHAT DRAINS YOUR ENERGY AND MORE OF WHAT BOOSTS YOUR ENERGY. We all complain about fatigue and the daily grind but THE BUSY PERSON'S GUIDE TO MORE ENERGY offers a practical solution to satisfaction and happiness. This is not a book about diet, nutrients, exercise, chakras, power naps or feng shui. It is about head stuff: paying attention to different things, noticing how you respond to the little things and doing something about them because they matter, often more than they appear to. The essence of this book is about bite-sized, straightforward, achievable steps that make a huge difference. Having more energy has enormous benefits and in THE BUSY PERSON'S GUIDE TO MORE ENERGY, Bill Ford, and 'Executive Coach', teaches how you can boost, harness and exploit positive energy and how to offload all your negative energy. This is a wonderfully useful and accessible book designed to rid you of stress and despondency enabling you to shift your life up a gear to total fulfilment and, from there, to prosperity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103260 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
Tired of always being exhausted? This book shows how busy people can have more energy by doing less of what drains our energy, and more of what boosts it. Without diets, nutrients or exercise, Bill Ford offers practical ways for us to clear our heads and release more positive energy into our lives.

About the Author
BILL FORD is an executive coaching director and writes for, amongst others, THE TIMES where he leads the 'Dear Coach' column. He lives in Kew.

Customer Reviews

High energy habits
Bill Ford's book " High Energy Habits" won me over despite my general scepticism about so-called self-help books. He writes in a non-jargonistic accessible way and never resorts to waffle or anything remotely "wacky". Instead, he draws on his valuable experiences of work and home life and with the benefit of his training as an executive coach offers sensible practical and pragmatic advice on ways in which one's energy levels can be increased. I have found his action lists and his concept that a new habit takes 21 days to establish particularly helpful. I also liked his insight that matters put off for another day because one feels too busy are in fact a drain on energy and that doing them would actually release new energy. Having put this into practice I can see the force of this.
All in all a valuable and sensible book.

High Energy - definitely
All I can say is that I buy this book for my clients after seeing such wonderful benefits personally. The only caution I give is that ... You have to take action reading will not give you the energy. Whilst Bill's easy to read style and a dip in and out structure allow even the most busy person to find inspiration and help - You have to something with the results. And the payback is enormous. A recommended buy.

High marks for high energy
Bill Ford is an executive coach, but if you are expecting lots of jargon or management speak you will be disappointed.

The exercises to rate your own energy levels provided useful feedback into personal behaviour and came up with powerful lessons which were surprisingly easy to adopt. The idea of daily action lists was highly motivating and the thought of saying 'no' to people, including members of the family did just what it claimed, increased energy.

I was particularly impressed by how the blend of case studies, personal examples and action points was skilfully interwoven. There was plenty of insight, too, into dealing with those of us who are equally deft at avoiding taking the action necessary to achieve our goals.

My only caveat would be that if it is this easy how can it possibly work? It does though.