Always Change a Losing Game: Winning Strategies for Work, Home and Health

By David B. Posen

Book Overview

If what you're doing now is not producing the results you want -- you are playing a losing game. If you want things to get better you've got to change that losing game. This book will show you how.

Now updated for our times, Always Change a Losing Game has been published on four continents and continues to be popular and useful. Whether you're dealing with compulsive eating, addiction, struggling with kids, stuck in an unhappy relationship or a dead-end job, Dr. Posen provides practical guidelines that will help you change your losing habits and become more successful.

This is a book for people struggling to be successful and feeling a lack of control. The book gives hope and encouragement because it focuses on all the things we can control -- primarily the way we think, the way we behave and the lifestyle choices we make. It illustrates the author's belief that "we have more control than we think."

The book was purposely written in everyday language to make it both easy to read and reassuring. The connection to sports provides a fresh approach for many people who need to think about their health, relationships, problem solving, self-esteem and productivity in a new way. Always Change a Losing Game explains how to make changes in your life when work or relationships are not working out.

At times, changing a losing game requires vision and risk taking. But just continuing in a rut guarantees that things won't get better. If what you're doing and how you are living are not producing the results you want, you are playing a losing game and if you want things to get better you've got to change that losing game. This book is your key to success.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770851798
• ISBN13: 9781770851795
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Firefly Books, Limited
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Could Change You Into a Winner!

Dr. Posen's tape is one of my favorites. It needs to be listened to over and over. No panaceas, inner-childs, etc., just some home-spun wisdom from a physician turned stress and life management counselor. The key idea in this tape is the "losing game." A losing game is any game where the costs outweigh the benefits. He talks about the various losing games people play. For instance, in lifestyle losing games, he talks about why smoking, overeating, and caffeine consumption are losing games. He tells us to change a losing game we must make trade-offs. A trade-off, for example, is to give up late-night television for a rested body. He gives us simple advice on little things that we sought of all know but don't put into practice.

Excellent, clearly organized and practical "food for action"

This book offers a recipe for success and happiness that differs from the others because it recognizes the reality of the trade-offs we need to make in life and explores how to make the right personal decisions. All of this is offered in a clearly organized package, full of memorable anecdotes and phrases to help the reader retain the author's various points. Memorable, useful and helpful.