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What Happy Working Mothers Know: How New Findings in Positive Psychology Can Lead to a Healthy and Happy Work/Life Balance |  | Authors: Cathy L. Greenberg Ph.D, Barrett S. Avigdor J. D.
Publisher: Wiley
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 29193
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1
ISBN: 0470488190
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.6463
EAN: 9780470488195
ASIN: 0470488190
Publication Date: September 8, 2009
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Product Description
A fact-based and proven approach to help working mothers rediscover happiness as they balance their duties at home and work
Science and sociology have made great strides in understanding what makes us happy and how we achieve it. For working mothers who face endless demands on their time and attention, What Happy Working Mothers Know provides scientifically proven and practical ways to find the right balance and replace stress with happiness. Written by a behavioral scientist and global leadership guru, and an international lawyer and career coach, this mom-friendly guide offers practical tactics that truly work.
The demands of juggling work and home lead many women to try to do everything and be everything to everyone. In the effort to be Superwoman, many women lose sight of what makes them happy and they fail to realize how important their happiness is to being a good worker and a good mother. The key to being your best at everything you do is to take care of your happiness the way you take care of your health, through conscious choices every day. You’ll learn to overcome obstacles, apply lessons learned at work to your motherhood skills, and learn lessons from your children that you can apply at work. - Includes interactive activities that illustrate important lessons in the book
- Shows you how to use positive psychology to shift from a scarcity mentality to an abundance mentality for workplace success
- Helps you tap into your own sense of joy every day for your own happiness and the happiness of those around you
- Science-based and packed with real case studies of real working moms
- Written by authors with impeccable qualifications and real-world experience
Many moms raise great kids and achieve the professional success they desire and deserve, but if they aren’t happy, what’s the point? This book doesn’t show you how to have it all, but how to have all the things that really matter.
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 I think I've read this before... October 25, 2009
a reader (St Paul, MN USA)
...yep, sure enough, it's "What Happy Women Know" with a few different examples. Buy that in paperback and save $8. And that one is probably a knock-off of "What Happy People Know". Which is aped from Norman Vincent Peale's "Power of Positive Thinking".
Hey Cathy, can you try for some originality next time?
 WHAT HAPPY WORKING MOTHERS KNOW October 19, 2009
Julie C. Gatrell
I lost interest around half way through the book. I did finish it and there were some additional points that were good in the rest of the book, but it didn't hold my full attention through out the etire book.
 The Busy Person's Reality Guide to Happiness October 15, 2009
David Oskandy
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A quick, enjoyable read full of revealing personal insights from top opinion makers, such as Dee Dee Meyers, to regular folks, every manager of people needs to read this book. Don't let the title fool you: the book could easily be called The Busy Person's Reality Guide to Happiness. Everyone can benefit from the authors' masterful integration of science and practice into a realistic and user-friendly approach that you can easily grasp and put to work immediately in the work and family settings. In addition to their own research and other new findings, the authors simply and clearly explain some established concepts that are often misportrayed or garbled in less expert hands. Let's hope for more soon from the Greenberg/Avigdor team!
What Happy Working Mothers Know, is a Must Read for All Moms October 2, 2009
Chloe Marks (Vanderbilt University, Tenn. USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
As both a Mother and working professional, I have found 'What Happy Working Mothers Know' to be the very best, refreshing, sensible and useful book for all mothers. And lets face it, all of us work if we are mothers. Even if we don't have professional careers, being a good mother is practically a full time job in itself. For those of us who do try to balance one or more professions, a business of our own, a classroom, or anything other than home and motherhood, you will be very happy, very quickly that you bought and read, 'What Happy Working Mothers Know'.
This book can provide new ways of looking at things that will literally "open your eyes" to overcoming so much of the daily stresses, griefs and gripes that we as working mothers are forced to carry...often on our own. From how to balance your life to emotional healing, making better parenting judgements, and even how to be happier and more productive in your professional life,this book covers it all for you, along with the facts to back up the authors' statements and guidance.
As a working professional mother myself I would recommend three books, all easy to read and great to refer back to, as being the best $40. a working mother can spend on Amazon.
1. 'What Happy Working Mothers Know' 2. 'Wisdom & Wisecracks for Aspiring Business Owners' (lots of female,parenting, and business related female quotes and good sound moral advice) 3. 'Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide' (A must read for all women aspiring to be better at anything, and a great read for the men who believe in them).
How to Not Shortchange Your Career, Your Kids or Yourself September 27, 2009
Mark Goulston
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am honored to have been one of the contributors to this wonderful book that will help any working mother achieve balance, serve others and not short change their career, their kids, their marriage or themselves.
One of the common complaints I have heard from working moms is that they are having more difficulty locating and coming from the warmth inside them that is part of what they as women bring to the world. It eats away at many of them to feel so overwhelmed and so irritable because they feel so out of control with all the endless responsibilities that won't go away.
"What Happy Working Mothers Know" IS the cure for this dilemma that affects so many working mothers. What separates this from so many other books on this topic is the scientific research that all the conclusions and recommendations that the authors offer.
I know that many working mothers will say, "The last thing I need is another responsibility" and reading this book will just become that. Be assured that the real world, in your life benefits this book offers occur so quickly, your efforts will be quickly repaid.
Buy and read this book, you owe it to yourself.
Mark Goulston
- blogger Huffington Post
- Tribune syndicated career advice columnist
- author Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
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