Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work And In Life
Talk about your peaks and valleys, this book is filled with them! Self-help books are usually not my thing...and neither was Peaks and Valleys: Making Good and Bad Times Work For You - At Work and In Life blah blah blah, get a longer title why don't you?!. I gave it an extra star because it's not embarrassingly horrible or too preachy, plus there is a redeeming quality to it. It strives and mostly succeeds in making you feel like you just received a promotion with a fat raise and your mom is giving you a big lovey hug...and your mom is a huge fuzzy bunny.
But as is the case with most self-help books I've read, they tend to offer only common sense ideas and wrap them up in a bullshitty philosophy, perhaps to make it all sound more complex than it is or to imbue the author with a guru-esque importance. I'm not saying I know it all or have my shit together completely, but I think this sort of stuff is targeted more towards the depressed, the down and out, and/or those with their heads up their asses.