Tune Up Your Career

By following this guide, readers who are unsatisfied with their current career paths will learn to recognize the 10 crucial warning signs, rate themselves on the complete job burnout scale, envision their ideal working conditions, and more.

“A comprehensive and holistic guide to dispelling aging concerns by empowering yourself spiritually, emotionally, professionally, financially, and physically.” —Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., author of Radical Curiosity Coming from a baby boomer who has packed more highs and lows into his first forty-eight years than most people dare to dream, Tim Burns’ common-sense lifestyle recommendations, drawn from his own varied experiences and observations, offer sturdy, clear advice for adults at every age. Follow his proven framework; apply your own discipline, focus, and courage. Whether you’re at the top of your game or dismayed by your current direction, you can benefit from his experiences, observations, and research and dramatically improve your life. Approached with insight, zeal, and redirection—if necessary—a midlife tune-up can be the catalyst for a more meaningful, satisfying, and rewarding life. This guidepost illuminates personal passion, purpose, power, planning, perspective, and perseverance. Building on these six empowering elements, Burns offers solid, concrete steps to design your own midlife direction in seven key areas: emotional, financial, career and relationship opportunities, and physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Rousing, inspirational quotes and real-life examples spirit you to higher levels as you make these practical steps work for you. “A practical, comprehensive, well-written guide for anyone wishing to improve the quality of their life in every major dimension. If you want to make the second half of your life much better than the first, this guide points you in the right direction. Bravo, Tim Burns!” —Michael LeBoeuf, author of The Greatest Management Principle in the World

Career experts Chuck Cochran and Donna Peerce apply their popular Heart & soul philosophy to help anyone manage the inevitable ups and downs of their career. ideas for those

Tune Up Your Business guides you through the beginning stages of holding and financing your company to hiring and running your company to maximize your profits.

You've worked for several employers, paid some dues, and attempted to climb the corporate ladder, but despite your years of experience, do you still find it hard to navigate the corporate world? Have you lost your drive? Has the evolution of your working life slowed, or worse yet, stalled? If the answer to any of those questions is yes, you'd better take a look under the hood before it's too late and learn to - Take ownership of your career: Assume complete responsibility for your life of employment. - Consider entrepreneurship: Take a hard look at whether you are meant to be in business for yourself. - Take a broader view of "wrong" moves: Embrace a more positive perspective about the missteps taken on your career path. - Realize a step down can be a step up: Learn to align yourself with a job that allows you to be true to yourself.

Two teaching experts offer methods for maximizing student comprehension in all areas of education—with extensive research and practical examples. All teachers want their students to think, learn, and understand. In this helpful guide, veteran educators Dr. JoAnn Jurchan and Dr. Chuck Downing examine what successful teachers are doing—and not doing—to achieve those goals. Often without realizing it, many teachers provide students ways to complete their assignments with minimal effort or comprehension. The problem is how to avoid the “TMI” trap—because Too Much Information can stifle critical thinking. Tune Up Your Teaching provides clear and detailed methods teachers can use to raise the level of both thinking and learning in their classrooms. Written in a conversational style, Jurchan and Downing use concrete examples in all core areas of education. To clarify critical points, the authors include “He Said She Said” dialogues providing insight into their thought process. Neither a “cookbook” nor a “one size fits all” solution, Tune Up Your Teaching instead describes a research-based process that can be personally tailored by any teacher to her or his situation.