How Full Is Your Bucket? Our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. The results of our encounters are rarely neutral, they are almost always positive or negative. It is the accumulation of these interactions that profoundly affects our lives.
How Full Is Your Bucket? is powerful, inspirational and easy to read. Grounded in decades of research and co-authored by Donald Clifton, a pioneer in the practice of positive psychology, this book uses the simple metaphor of a bucket and a dipper to illustrate the effects meaningful “bucket filling” can have on our life. The authors share with their readers discoveries based on research conducted on relationships in the work place, the military and among married couples. Along with scientific research, the authors tell engaging stories and leave the reader with five strategies for beginning to make positive change:
- Strategy One: Prevent Bucket Dipping
- Strategy Two: Shine a Light on What is Right
- Strategy Three: Make Best Friends
- Strategy Four: Give Unexpectedly
- Strategy Five: Reverse the Golden Rule
This book seems to have a heart of its own offering the perfect combination of narrative, explanation and action plans. The back of the book holds a pocket containing a wallet-size interview guide along with a few tools to get you started on filling the buckets of those around you. Additionally, visit http://www.bucketbook.com for more information, tools and tests.
How Full is Your Bucket?
By Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton, Phd.
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