The Full Body Yes: Change Your Work and Your World from the Inside Out

by Shute, Scott
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ISBN: 9781774580011
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Overview

In the world of work, the scales have tipped towards the employee over the years. We've come a long way from the days when we'd be likely to work for the same company for an entire lifetime. The modern workforce is slowly moving towards a more humane partnership between the company and the employee. Better benefits. Profit sharing. Flex time. And still, among the progress, there's a cut-throat culture in some workplaces, and challenges with inclusivity and diversity in others. This may be why we are often under the impression that work is bad and life, namely everything outside of work, is good.

But is it? We follow pre-laid paths at an early age because we do not have direction, nor do we understand our alternative options. For a majority of us, this means developing lifestyles consistent within the society in which we have become accustomed rather than of our own invention.

It doesn't have to be like that. Work and life can be more fulfilling, and the source of true meaning,

Scott Shute's story of finding his true self in his work at LinkedIn shows that we're starting to move in an even more positive direction. Scott learned that succeeding at a job doesn't just take hard work, it takes compassion. After a circuitous route, Scott became the Chief Mindfulness and Compassion Officer at LinkedIn. He shows that the evolution within companies lies in the evolution of ourselves, since we're the ones who make those companies, and who often decide where, how, and why we work. It is possible to find happiness and authentic meaning, rather than mere success, at work.

Scott demonstrates how we can start truly loving, and stop merely enduring, the jobs we have and the lives we create for ourselves. Our job isn't to succeed at work, it's to live in service to life. To do that, we have to learn how to start with self-preservation, graduate to self-care, and end with joy.

Scott shows that, through compassion, we can create a work lifestyle that allows us to:
● discover what is important to us so that we can spend more time doing just that
● recognize and empower that deeper part of us
● measure our success by our own happiness
● allow ourselves to develop and evolve at work
● love and serve all of life (including ourselves)

To make it easy, Shute has created a four-step action plan: Know Who You Are, Love Who You Are, The Mastery of Me, and Compassion in Action. He also guides readers through activities that they can follow to help them find happiness at work.

Everyone has the potential to be happy at--and as a result of--work. What have you got to lose? Open yourself up to the gift of compassion at work.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Shute, Scott
  • ISBN: 9781774580011
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.70 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 256
  • Publication Year: 2021

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