If Your Life Were a Business, Would You Invest In It?: The 13-Step Program for Managing Your Life Like the Best CEO's Manage Their Companies

By John Eckblad and David Kiel

Book Overview

How to run your life like a successful business and find true fulfillment? Combining the features of self-help, personal finance, and business strategy, this book shows readers how to identify what... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071410392
• ISBN13: 9780071410397
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Useful guide to making your life happier and more productive

Heard the CD version of IF YOUR LIFE WERE A BUSINESS, WOULD WOULD YOU INVEST IN IT? by John Eckblad and David Kiel. This is a useful guide to making your life happier and more productive . . . the authors contend that this can be done by following 13 Life Business principles that have worked in many successful businesses. I liked the many exercises that were included, all of which could be helpful to anybody wanting to determine the patterns in his or her life . . . and then using this information to plan for the future. One particularly helpful suggestion was to keep in mind that "management is doing things right, while strategy is doing the right thing" . . . so the key is to do the right thing as you ask contemplate this question: What new commitments will bring more joy into your life? The information in IF YOUR LIFE might sound basic, but it is something that needs to be thought about--over and over.

Direction, At Lst

This is a practical guide to getting ahold of one's life. It has a lot of exercises, some easy and some moderately difficult, but all interesting and useful. It allowed me to see the patterns in my use of time, money and energy, and then to realistically and creatively plan for my future. At a time when I was moving from one city to another, closing one career and considering another, seeing my kids depart home and returning to a less-constrained life, the exercises and spirit of the book gave me knowledge and control. I wish I had seen it sooner.

Invest in this book

Eckblad and Kiel are right on target. They provide excellent advice in a concise, easy to follow form. It's never too late (or too early) to make the ultimate investment - in yourself. Their program is so sensible that you will wonder why you didn't embark on it ages ago.

Great concept

I was revising my life plans and goals when I stumbled across an article on this book. Many of the concepts are similar to those I tried to communicate in my books (Conscious spending for Couples and The Ms. Spent Money Guide), but applied to ones whole life... it's a nice structure for something that I have always done and always preached that others do - align what you do with what you truly value. Even if you don't buy the book, please buy the concept! It's great.