Time Shifting
Author: Stephan Rechtschaffen
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ISBN: 0385478496
Publisher: Doubleday (01 April, 1996)
Sales Rank: 243,614
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
A great gift to humankind.
In this book Dr. Rechtschaffen exposes the beauty, texture and sensation of time in an amazing way that changes your very relationship with the time that you have now and have had in the past.
In the foreward to the book Thomas Moore writes "As a writer I have had one ambition: to be able to make my living by writing so that I can get up
in the morning and have before me a stretch of time that will very from morning to evening and from day to day. I don't want to be free to do things,
as much as I want the variety of lifes possabilities to wrap time around me in the many different colorings and tonalities that are possible."
The book shows you how have this reality shine through your own life and affairs.
- you need a copy of this book
Rating: 5 out of 5
A must read!
This book is a great reminder of the spice and foundation one's life really depends on--that is, time. It is the non-renewable resource. I believe anyone who feels that life's circumstances has a greater hold on them, then they do on it, should read this book.I work in the crisis field, and one's job IS to give your time to others in crisis--and you can often find yourself far removed from yourself, in the name of helping, with little personal resources left. This book has helped me remember some important personal standards that I need to adhere too, plus great ideas on how to get my life back.
Thanks,
Joe
Rating: 2 out of 5
Good Ideas (from other sources) rehashed to a prescription
The basic message you find in Time Shifting and in similar books goes as follows: "Manage your life before someone else does!" Especially in a period where companies start firing thousands of people, ask yourself the question if you are living your life the way you want it. Working harder is no option: especially in the US, people have already been increasing their workload in the 1990's. Nobody seems to have time for the promised "leisure economy". Personally, I adhere to these messaged to some extent, but much depends on how they are formulated.Somewhere in the book one can read that Rechtschaffen is a doctor. Generally, when one is ill it makes sense to see a doctor who prescribes what the patient needs. I don't know about you, but I don't need a prescription on how you have to organize.
Rechtschaffen just rehashes the ideas that many others have written about, including Steven Covey, Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman, Harville Hendrixs, Servan-Schreiber, Juliet Schor, ... and that training programs as EST have been training on for over 30 years. That would be defendable if his book would include the best of all these sources. Unfortunately, instead of explaining connecting principles to the reader, he gives you a weak decoction of these other books.
A book on this subject which has been a national bestseller is "Your Money or Your life", written in 1992 by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.
Patrick E.C. Merlevede, MSc -- co-author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"
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