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Although business leaders prioritize family, health, friends, spirituality, and "down-time", many agree that they spend too much time at-and give too much attention to-work. They struggle in their attempts at balancing work, family, and recreation. This imbalance takes its toll. Consistently putting in long hours can strain relationships, shorten lives, and limit memories to those of work. This working too much can also interfere with personal and professional development. Habitual, self-defeating beliefs and behaviors create personal problems that carry over from personal to professional life.

A recent Monster survey reveals that businesses seldom satisfy their employees' need for work/life balance. According to the Entrepreneur Daily blog, "In its 2007 Work/Life Balance Survey, Monster found that 89 percent of respondents look for work/life balance programs when evaluating a new job, but only half of HR professionals agreed on the importance of work/life balance...58 percent complain their employer works them too much." According to another recent (Inc. 500) survey, 29% of CEOs work more than 60 hours a week. It seems that their main purpose is to work until they drop. Even with all the technology designed to give us more time-the Palm Pilot, Black Berry, microwave oven, GPS navigating tool, Blue Tooth, and other so-called time-saving gadgets – high-ranking professionals still feel more hurried and distressed than ever before. Although taking time for rest, recreation, and socialization is crucial to their mental and physical health, these leaders still cannot seem to slow down.

Achieve Success In Spite of Stress addresses this frustration and hopelessness by providing you with practical solutions, step-by-step formulas, powerful exercises, insightful checklists, and valuable self-help tools. It contains interesting examples of coaching clients and their successes. These illustrations bring the ideas to life while making the techniques easier to use and understand. The book also provides explicit, step-by-step, easy-to-follow strategies for putting any self-improvement program into action.

You will feel hopeful and empowered because Achieve Success In Spite of Stress teaches you how to overcome your "hurdles" in life by identifying your own strengths, resources, and exceptions to your problems. It will help you recall and use solutions from your past-actions that worked for you before but, in your every day "hustle and bustle", you may have overlooked as possible solutions to your current situations. Achieve Success In Spite of Stress will help you recall these solutions while changing your self-limiting thinking and behavior.

Achieve Success In Spite of Stress can help you end your struggle by providing alternatives to self-defeating thoughts, beliefs, questions, and behavior. I show you that you can solve problems without “analyzing them to death” and without dissecting your past.

Many people sabotage their efforts at time and stress management by overextending themselves or driving themselves mercilessly. They may also hold irrational beliefs and ask themselves the wrong questions, leading to further stress. No matter how diligently you try to slow down, manage stress and time, and achieve work-life balance, you cannot do so unless you challenge your thinking and your negative focus. Achieve Success in Spite of Stress can help you transform your self-defeating, negative mindset into one that is more positive, rational, proactive, and empowering.

Achieve Success In Spite of Stress tackles several common, everyday situations in a way that leaves you feeling as though you have concrete ideas on how to respond immediately to your own particular stress. It is packed full of useful information that is easy to read. It begins by presenting a solution-oriented self-help program based on 20 powerful life-changing questions. These questions help you identify and clarify your "Magic" (goals or desired changes); recall when problems did not occur (or “exceptions”); and, focus on doing more of what works for you. The book is based on the premise that if you know exactly what you want; when, where, and with whom that has happened; and, what you do to make that happen again and again, you are bound to be successful.