In Our Best Interest: A Self-Improvement Guide for People Who Work
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This book is about changing your life by changing the way you approach one of the largest parts of your life; the time you spend at work. Most of us spend more of our waking hours at work than any other place in our lives and, as a result, the time we spend at work shapes our lives – for better or worse. There are three main, prevailing beliefs regarding work: 1) I have to work, 2) It's stupid, and 3) I can't change it. These beliefs render us victims, not only at work, but in our "real" lives, as well. See, the longer you play a victim, the better victim you become. People who spend more of our waking hours at work than any other place in our lives and, as a result, the time we spend at work shapes our lives – for better or worse.People who practice these beliefs play the victim 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years, or more, and, as a result, become very good victims. And the worst part is that these beliefs (1) I have to work, 2) It's stupid, and 3) I can't change it) are not true.
In this book, I refute each of these self-defeating beliefs and show how we can use the time we spend at work for self-improvement instead of self-victimization. Work is not a perfect place but it is a perfect opportunity to improve your life. Try it. It takes less than an hour to read and costs less than 4 bucks. Following are the chapter titles:
Introduction
Most of Our Hours for Most of Our Days
Work Affects Us and Reflects Us
Work Is a Choice – Misery Is Optional
The Opportunity of a Lifetime
Ask Not What Your Company Can Do for You, Ask What you Can Do for Your Company
Attack Processes, Not People
Bring the System to Light or Toil in Darkness
In the End
Larry Rosenblatt
Larry was born and raised in Baltimore, but got to Austin, Texas as fast as he could. After failing out of the University of Maryland (and having a great time doing it :-), Larry joined the Air Force, then used the G.I. Bill to earn a degree in Electrical Engineering. He worked in many different jobs as an engineer, then started teaching in 2002. He taught in Austin public schools for 6 years and taught for 4 years in the Netherlands and 3 years in Oman.He is still alive, as far as I know.
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In Our Best Interest - Larry Rosenblatt
IN OUR BEST INTEREST
A self-improvement guide for people who work
By Larry Rosenblatt
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior consent of the author.
First Printing
Copyright © 2002, Larry M. Rosenblatt
Second Printing
Copyright © 2003, Larry M. Rosenblatt
Third Printing (digital form)
Copyright © 2004, Larry M. Rosenblatt
Fourth Printing
Copyright © 2010, Larry M. Rosenblatt
Fifth Printing (digital form)
Copyright © 2016, Larry M. Rosenblatt
e-mail: larry_rosenblatt@yahoo.com
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of Dick Toth – a wonderful human being who lived life to its fullest.
Preface
My aim in writing this book is to help people look at work a little differently. I am concerned that most people view their jobs in a way that is detrimental to their quality of life and, hence, is not in their best interest. My hope is that, if people can look at work a little differently, they might be able to look at life a little differently, as well.
Contents
Introduction
Most of Our Hours for Most of Our Days
Work Affects Us and Reflects Us
Work Is a Choice – Misery Is Optional
The Opportunity of a Lifetime
Ask Not What Your Company Can Do for You, Ask What you Can Do for Your Company
Attack Processes, Not People
Bring the System to Light or Toil in Darkness
In the End
Acknowledgements
About the Author
References
Introduction
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan (1860 – 1925)
This is a book about self-improvement. Persons interested in books dealing with the improvement of people other than themselves might be interested in my upcoming book, I’m OK, You I’m Not So Sure About.¹ But that’s another book. This book is about self-improvement. And towards that end, I’d like to examine what I believe to be the greatest opportunity to practice self-improvement in our lives – the time we spend at work.
Why is the time we spend at work important? Indeed, is it important at all? Well, that depends on how much time we spend at work. If you only work a few hours a week (or less), I would recommend focusing your self-improvement efforts elsewhere – preferably wherever you spend the most time. But for most of us, work is that place. We spend more of our waking hours at work than