Book Review - Repacking Your Bags by Richard J Leider/David A Shapiro


Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life


Most of us rarely take stock of our lives, unless there is a major crisis. The dawn of New Year also presents an opportunity for us to look at the old baggage we carry. How to lighten your load for the rest of your life?

There never seems to be enough time. We have less for ourselves and far less for each other. We are impatient with people who are reflective or who talk too slowly. We drive fast, make love fast, and expect our McDonald's hamburger in 15 seconds. We are more organised but less spontaneous, less alive. We are better prepared for the future but less able to enjoy the present. We are always going somewhere, never being anywhere.

"Repacking Your Bags" is a book that makes us to STOP & THINK.... Leider & Shapiro give the present-day 'busy-manager' a chance for 'stock taking'.

This isn't a book for people who believe that lightening their load means they have to sell all their possessions and move to the woods or an ashram in India! It's for people involved in the day-to-day struggle of juggling work, home, and relationship demands in a manner that enables them to make ends meet while burning the candle at both the ends. 

Don't wait for your heart attack to read this book ! 


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