DON'T MISS YOUR LIFE

New Book Offers Antidote to 'Life Deficit Disorder' and Economic Gloom; Kicks Off National Mood-Shift Campaign

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Oct 20, 2010, 01:44 ET

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- A rare free moment touches off the alarm to get busy. Someone asks you what you do for fun, and you can't think of anything. These are signs of a growing affliction in 24/7 times—Life Deficit Disorder, as identity gets so fused with work, we wind up with skills only to produce, not to live. Softball participation is down 30%, mountain biking 60%. Some 78% of Americans get NO exercise.

Work-life balance expert and former Los Angeles Times reporter Joe Robinson shows in DON'T MISS YOUR LIFE (Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-470-47012-1; $24.95; Wiley; November 2010) why we need a different skill-set to fully live and how we can use those tools to make life come alive with experiences that deliver the highest gratification.

Drawing on surprising research in positive psychology, optimal experience, and self-determination theory, Robinson, founder of Work to Live, details how the skills of life intelligence lead to active pursuits that the research shows satisfy your deepest aspirations. Along the way, he jumps in with a crew of passionate salsa dancers, dragon boat paddlers, rock climbers and more in a journey to the heart of full-tilt living.

Engaged leisure activities relieve stress and increase positive mood, things desperately needed in the current economic gloom. To lift spirits, Robinson has launched the Live A Little campaign. Activity providers across the country, from dance and yoga studios to volleyball instructors will offer free classes for the overworked and unemployed to reduce stress, find some fun, and shift the national mood.

DON'T MISS YOUR LIFE will help develop vital skills to:

Choose engagement over comfort.
Focus on the experience, instead of the outcome.
Carve out living time from a busy schedule.
Activate the epicenter of enjoyment: optimal experience.
Find and develop passions.

Step by step, the book shows how to overcome the obstacles to optimal life – busyness, work, guilt, the couch. We're always told to follow our bliss, but it's never spelled out how. DON'T MISS YOUR LIFE provides the practical tools, science and real-life lessons to make it happen.

http://www.dontmissyourlife.net

http://www.worktolive.info