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The Backpack: How to Understand and Manage Yourself While Loving Others Along the Way
A guide for being fully equipped to succeed on the journey of life
The How to Understand and Manage Yourself While Loving Others Along the Way tells the story of Jon, Sofia, and Buddy whose pathways merge on a life-changing flight. Written by a senior consultant with the Flippen Group (a world-wide leader in self-awareness training), the book brings together an angry passenger, a wise flight attendant, and a down-home cowboy. Their chance meeting leads to the ride of their lives as they fully grasp the importance and meaning of their backpacks.
As this engaging story reveals, self-awareness is like a backpack! If we are to be prepared to succeed on the journey of life, we need to know and accept which backpack is ours, decide what we need to put in it or take out of it, and be fully aware of how our backpacks are affecting all of the other passengers around us. The question Are we whacking the other passengers with our backpack as we travel through life. . . or are we helping them?
Offers life lessons on self-awareness written in the form of a funny and engaging story Shows how we can lighten, fill and understand our “backpack” in order to lead a more successful life Written by a senior consultant with the Flippen Group The Backpack offers a story that explores the concepts of self-awareness and other-awareness, including the importance of appreciating your personality, living by your core values, mentally preparing for your day, being aware of your impact on others and packing your backpack wisely.
The How to Understand and Manage Yourself While Loving Others Along the Way tells the story of Jon, Sofia, and Buddy whose pathways merge on a life-changing flight. Written by a senior consultant with the Flippen Group (a world-wide leader in self-awareness training), the book brings together an angry passenger, a wise flight attendant, and a down-home cowboy. Their chance meeting leads to the ride of their lives as they fully grasp the importance and meaning of their backpacks.
As this engaging story reveals, self-awareness is like a backpack! If we are to be prepared to succeed on the journey of life, we need to know and accept which backpack is ours, decide what we need to put in it or take out of it, and be fully aware of how our backpacks are affecting all of the other passengers around us. The question Are we whacking the other passengers with our backpack as we travel through life. . . or are we helping them?
Offers life lessons on self-awareness written in the form of a funny and engaging story Shows how we can lighten, fill and understand our “backpack” in order to lead a more successful life Written by a senior consultant with the Flippen Group The Backpack offers a story that explores the concepts of self-awareness and other-awareness, including the importance of appreciating your personality, living by your core values, mentally preparing for your day, being aware of your impact on others and packing your backpack wisely.
- GenresSelf Help
172 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 29, 2019
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July 7, 2019
And why shouldn’t a down home learned-it-the-hard way cowboy be the guy who delivers the latest know-how about emotional and relational intelligence? What a creative way to make such good learning accessible and easily digestible! I found the characters charming, down to earth and down right funny. Highly recommend it for any human being wanting to work on getting the life they really want, and perhaps especially for folks in the leadership business or helping professions.
March 2, 2020
I love the way Tim wrote this book. Simple conversation in each dialogues with very deep meaning. You should read this if you're looking a not-really-self-help book with a combination of daily activity stories in our real life event.
February 24, 2020
I love the author’s way of relating a back pack to us as individuals and what we carry. The book is relatable and insightful as well as inspiring.
September 29, 2021
An easy to read book, written in story form, that teaches the reader to be more self aware; to be aware that our actions affect others.. a good reminder for all of us!
November 17, 2023
kadang perlu banget buku self-help yang ngediktein langsung intinya apa + ngasih contoh di real life kayak gimana. lebih relatable jadinya.
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