Sink, Float, or Swim

by Jogi Rippel, Jogi Rippel

In the business world there are sinkers, floaters, and swimmers. Sinkers are overwhelmed, overworked, overtired, and nearing a crisis or burnout. They keep trying to work harder (rather than smarter) and they are unaware of the physical and mental signs that they are one breath away from going under. Floaters are too often comfortably numb as they fail to realize that they have untapped potential, but they lack the energy and strategies to make it happen. They are just trying to stay afloat, to make it through today's meetings, this week's deadlines, or this quarter's goals.

But there is hope and there is a better way. There is a way to become a someone who is full of energy and resilience, someone who had wiped away their brain fog and their fatigue and developed the strategies and habits to energize themselves, their teams, their organizations, and their brands. You can become a high performer, at work and away from work, full of passion and self-esteem by investing in yourself and following our simple strategies.

Sink, Float, or Swim teaches you how to become a swimmer. It is full of simple and proven strategies that have worked for many top leaders and which will work for you. The unique total integration of Mindset, Nutrition, Movement, and Recovery strategies create powerful, yet very doable, habits that will pay huge dividends to your energy, resilience, and brain performance. Before you know it, you will become a better leader, you will be more productive, you will feel better, and you will improve your value to your team, your organization, and to your brand.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Nonfiction

335 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2009

Reviews

[Yuen Tan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thanks Haw for the recommendation! Excellent book to help busy executive to achieve more inside and outside work place ... need to put it into practice though.

[Kate James · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book after hearing my mom talk about it. Sink, Float, Or swim has a concept but I felt the language was dense and reader un-friendly. I was kind of annoyed at the self-promotion but this book does ask important questions about being a leader. Being a leader is a skill just like any other and it can be a bit harder to teach through a book. I think the idea of approaching a situation with the mindset "How will I swim through this" is helpful for a lot of people! Naturally, I tend to just 'float' in problems to avoid getting stressed out but, after reading this book I was reminded that floating isn't the solution in many cases. I think Sink, Float, or Swim is a great book for some people and a terrible advice book for others.

[Anca · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book takes a holistic approach in addressing how to make long-long term performance sustainable. Beyond the flagrant self-promotion, it makes good points around day to day work habits which now seem somewhat unreasonable- expecting excellent performance yet disregarding drinking, eating or preparing in between and for meetings.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Without having read any other reviews of this book, I’m going to assume that there are some good summaries out there that you can read instead of the book. I say this because I think awareness of the importance of self-care is far more advanced than when the book was written in 2009, and therefore the concepts presented are now, not novel.

[Jackie Trimble · Rating 1 out of 5]

ick! The director of our department bought this for the department. I have a rule: any book I start, I must finish - no matter how much I hate it.

This was hard.

I mean, who ends chapters with bullet lists - BUT DOESN'T USE BULLETS!!?

Just - no.

[K. Isaure · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Take care of your body mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually through exercise, healthy relationships and boundaries and time spent doing the things that make you happy as well as prosperous in your own little way.”

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of advice and reflective questions.

[James Summerlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, loved reading this and absorbing all the tips and ideas. Perfect for those who want to focus and make the most of their day.

[Sabrine Cutting · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great concepts...just too dense and hard to digest.

[Jessica Scodellaro · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like the message. Could’ve been an email.

[Ben · Rating 3 out of 5]

The ideas in the book are certainly great. It was fairly redundant, however, and didn't flow that well. Again, stellar ideas, I got a lot out of it, I just wish it were a bit better written.

[Micki · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sound advice, but it was like a 300 pg ad for Tignum. Would have liked more concrete applications.

[Scott Ballard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not really different than any other "how to be successful" book.

[Endre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good idea, badly written and self-promoting book

[Haw Kuang Oh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good reading at the beginning of the year about Mindset, Nutrition, Movement and Recovery...it's not only about High Performance, but more importantly about "sustainable" high performance.