Making Peace with Your Office Life: End the Battles, Shake the Blues, Get Organized, and Be Happier at Work($25.00Value)

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Do you feel disconnected and disorganized on the job? Do you feel powerless in the face of multiple office challenges, from organizing your desk to dealing with office bullies? Are you sick of it all and ready to be happy at work? Help is on the way! Cindy Glovinsky, licensed psychotherapist and expert on organizing and mental health, is uniquely qualified to offer solutions to your office blues, including: - Dozens of anecdotes and insightful exercises - Simple, effective organizing tips - Hundreds of easy ways to connect with colleagues - Great ways to make positive changes in the workplace Whether you dread coming to work every day or you're just looking for a new way to deal with office issues, MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR OFFICE LIFE offers a fresh, liberating view of the office world and practical ways to cope with its day-to-day challenges. “With its focus on workers' health and happiness, and emphasis on quality of life, MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR OFFICE LIFE is just the book for those who want to work to live rather than live to work. Read it and turn your office upside down!” ― John de Graaf, executive director of Take Back Your Time and coauthor of Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic “What makes this book so useful is the way that Glovinsky invites, inspires, and informs employees about changes they can make to transform their workplaces into situations in which they can thrive.” ―Jane Dutton, distinguished professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan Cindy Glovinsky, M.S.W., A.C.S.W., is the author of Making Peace with the Things in Your Life, One Thing At a Time , and Making Peace with Your Office Life . She is a licensed psychotherapist and professional organizer. A frequent lecturer and expert in the fields of chronic disorganization and attention deficit disorders, she is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Making Peace with Your Office Life End the Battles, Shake the Blues, Get Organized, and Be Happier at Work By Glovinsky, Cindy St. Martin's Griffin Copyright © 2010 Glovinsky, Cindy All right reserved. ISBN: 9780312576028 Introduction We gotta get out of this place . . . if it’s the last thing we ever do!” The words of the old Animals song wail through your mind after a particularly unpleasant conversation with one of your co­workers. Retreating to your cubicle, you imagine yourself magically entering the green pastures of your screen saver and dancing off to­ward the bright blue sky, away from  here, imprisoned in a job that suits you about as well as a dog house suits a canary. But instead, you start clicking your way through the forty- odd e-mails that accumu­lated while you were having the unpleasant conversation. Meanwhile, you brace yourself for the next attack. What will it be? Someone from Accounting calling to say you did your expense report wrong and must do the whole thing over? Your boss’s partner demanding information ASAP for a project that  doesn’t have to be done for at least another six months? Or that neat- freak colleague making sardonic remarks about the piles of papers on your desk? You glance around your cubicle for comfort, but your eyes meet only an inorganic desert of gray, white, and beige— they yearn for something green, natural hardwood floors, or a colorful painting. Machines beep and arguments buzz beyond the flimsy half walls. There’s a crick in your neck that refuses to go away no matter what you do, your legs itch for a good run in the park, and you can feel your brain cells dying in your head. Why did you bother to go to col­lege if this was where you were going to end up? Most of all, you long for good old unconditional love, for someone in your workplace with whom you can share your joys, gripes, and great ideas who won’t ever give you that I-can’t-believe- how- unprofessional- you’re- being look. Oh, yes, you know you’re lucky to have work at all in today’s economy, that millions of unemployed would love to have your job, but the fact remains: You’d give anything not to have to fl ush away enormous chunks of your life typing nonsense into a plastic box when your real passion is playing the saxaphone, quilting, writing novels, climbing rocks, or taking care of your own kids. So far, you’ve man­aged to survive by telling yourself that you just have to “get through the day,” but you wonder how much longer you can go on this way, living always for fi ve  o’clock, for Friday night, for the day when you can go back to school, marry someone rich, retire, or do what ever  else will take you out of the offi ce world once and for all. The weird thing is, everyone around you seems perfectly happy. Your coworkers smile and make squeaky- clean small talk, never say no to the boss, rarely take lunch breaks, and seem to fi nd fi lling out forms in an online system that constantly spits out error messages fascinating. At times you suspect that you’re working with some new, updated brand of Stepford wives who’ve been adju