How Full Is Your Bucket?: Positive Strategies for Work and Life by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton

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How Full Is Your Bucket?: Positive Strategies for Work and Life
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Updated on 6-28-2008.

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Audio CD

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (December 20, 2004)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0743544269

ISBN-13: 978-0743544269

Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5 x 0.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 5 ounces ()

From Publishers Weekly
In this brief but significant book, the authors, a grandfather-grandson team, explore how using positive psychology in everyday interactions can dramatically change our lives. Clifton (coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths) and Rath suggest that we all have a bucket within us that needs to be filled with positive experiences, such as recognition or praise. When we're negative toward others, we use a dipper to remove from their buckets and diminish their positive outlook. When we treat others in a positive manner, we fill not only their buckets but ours as well. The authors illustrate how this principle works in the areas of business and management, marriage and other personal relationships and in parenting through studies covering a 40-year span, many in association with the Gallup Poll. While acknowledging that most lives have their share of misfortune, the authors also make clear that how misfortune affects individuals depends largely on their level of positive energy and confidence. The authors also underscore that our human interactions provide most of the joys or disappointments we receive from life. The book comes with a unique access code to www.bucketbook.com, which offers a positive impact assessment and drop-shaped note cards that can be used to give praise and recognition to others.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

O, The Oprah Magazine , October, 2004
"This positive give-and-take leads to solid marriages, higher worker satisfaction and productivity, and a happier world." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life (Hardcover) How Full is Your Bucket? is a quick, but worthwhile read. The books subtitle really says it all, positive strategies for Work and Life. The basic premise of the book is that each of us has as an invisible bucket. It is emptied or filled by what others say and do to us. Likewise we empty or fill the invisible buckets of others. The book goes on to give some examples of filling or emptying of buckets. Next the book goes on to list some practical strategies for filling buckets. They are as follows: 1. Prevent bucket dipping - ask yourself whether you are adding to or taking from another bucket. 2. Shine a light on what is right - don't focus on the negative, spend time, energy and attention of what is right. 3. Make best friends - great relationships lead to increased satisfaction 4. Give unexpectedly - the gifts can be material, trust or respect, but given unexpectedly increases their bucket filling power 5. Reverse the Golden rule - "Do unto others as they would have you do unto them". The book gives some unexpected gifts. In the back cover is a free id to allow you to use the "Clifton" strengthfinder - so you can discover your strengths. Also there is five strategies wallet card and oh wait a minute I don't want to ruin the unexpected gift factor. This is a great book. Buy some for friends and family. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)

How Full Is Your Bucket?: Positive Strategies for Work and Life
Available from Amazon
Price: $4.49
Updated on 6-28-2008.