Coming Up for Air: How to Build a Balanced Life in a Workaholic World

by Beth Sawi

Leave work at five and don't feel guilty! Beth Sawi, tells you how to make more time for your personal life while still enhancing the quality of your work life.The balance issue can affect anyone. Despite the hard work and dedication her job demands, Sawi has found ways to get out of the home/office time bind and be an active parent to her two children and shares them in this book.

253 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 2000

Reviews

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some very practical, if somewhat dated (not surprisingly, I guess, a book published in 2000 can't anticipate the revolution in communication that came with ubiquitous email, smartphones, etc. and its impact on our lives at work and at home), advice on how to set personal priorities and actually stick to them. Helped me realize that I've been sacrificing a lot of things I value most in order to do things I don't care much about. Time for a new order of operations!

[MikeFromQueens · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this book because it was selected by our Women's Network book club. Let me tell you about the BCCLS Library system and how you are guilty until proven innocent: Only two libraries in all of BCCLS had this book, published in year 2000. So I inter-library borrowed the book from the Hasbrock Heights library. They gave me two weeks. I returned the book to my local library on a Sunday night in the night drop. I discovered on-line three weeks later that the book was not checked in and I was ringing up charges. I visited the library who put a hold on the charges and said they would begin an investigation. Coincidentally, I bought a used copy from Amazon.com for $4.00, so the Book Club still went off without a hitch. Then I visited the library again to find that my account was now charged $30.00 to replace the book. The librarian (I kid you not) said I should call the Hasbrock Heights library to see if they have the book. I did. I also went there myself to look on their shelves, as well as my local library shelves - no book. Try to find this book on the BBCLS web site and they don't have it. Oh - you think they removed it from circulation? No, my librarian says, the Hasbrock Heights library needs you to pay the $30.00 so they can replace the book. Oh, so I happen to have a copy that I bought - will they take that? After they got the approval from the Hasbrock Heights library, I donated my book. What happens if the original turns up - I ask. No - there is not refund of $30.00 to your account. Oh - so I pay the fine because the library has no record that I dropped the book in the night depository (I have two witnesses, by the way). AND - if you try to search the BCCLS web site card catalog for this book, it's not found. Where's the book I donated? Where's the trust of someone who borrowed and returned hundreds of books over the years? GUILTY because they have no proof that you are innocent, irregardless of the fact that the book was removed from the system during the process. Does it sound like I am not happy? WHy do we pay taxes? It's not for the service....