Downshifting - How to Work Less and Enjoy Life - Drake.J. Lindau

Find out how to find the right balance between private life and work

Downshifting is a book by John D. Drake that offers a series of tips for finding the right work-life balance. Drake is one of the most renowned human resources experts in the United States, with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and in Economics and Psychology. In this book, he explains how to reorganize your current job, how to work differently, and how to convince your superiors to accept your proposed change. John Drake guides us through a process that begins with analyzing the fears that can hold us back and leads us to overcome the obstacles that stand between us and downshifting. He teaches us how to leverage our experience to work less and enjoy life, how to refuse certain tasks, and how to build a "career portfolio." Downshifting is a book that helps us understand how to work less and enjoy life, how to achieve a more balanced, happier, and richer life. It offers a series of actions and strategies that will allow us to dedicate our newfound time to the things that truly matter. Downshifting is a 184-page black-and-white paperback published by Anteprima Edizioni in May 2010. The format is 14 x 21 cm and the ISBN is 978-88-88857-33-6. Downshifting offers a practical and concrete solution to the problem of how to work less and enjoy life. It helps us find the right balance between private life and work, achieve a happier and richer life, and find the time to dedicate to the things that truly matter.