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The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed and Overworked

10 best books like The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed and Overworked (Ernie J. Zelinski): Time Management For Creative People, Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed: The Ultimate Nap Book, The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self, Live What You Love: Notes from an Unusual Life, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece, Creating a Charmed Life: Sensible, Spiritual Secrets Every Busy Woman Should Know, Art Journals and Creative Healing: Restoring the Spirit Through Self-Expression, Living Artfully: Create the Life You Imagine

Time Management For Creative People
AuthorMark McGuinness
Delivering time management training and coaching for hundreds of creative people has taught a lot about what it takes to get original work done in the midst of the demands and distractions of the 21st century workplace.

It’s full of practical advice for creatives, including:

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Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed: The Ultimate Nap Book
AuthorS.A.R.K.
ISBN0684859300
Recently I went home to visit my parents, and I found – in the basement – this little book about napping. At my parents’ house, every object and book that cannot be classified is taken down to an old “wreck-room,” full of miscellaneous bits and pieces.

“Change Your Life Without Getting...
The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self
AuthorOriah Mountain Dreamer
ISBN0062516930
Welcome to The Dance, the wise and practical book that expands on Oriah Mountain Dreamer′s new moving prose poem. In this compelling book the acclaimed author of The Invitation challenges readers to live with passion, energy, and honesty. The key, says Oriah, is to savour the everyday world of family,...
Live What You Love: Notes from an Unusual Life
AuthorRobert Blanchard
ISBN1402728425
Bob and Melinda Blanchard's first book, "A Trip to the Beach," sold more than 85,000 copies and became inspiration for countless people who were ready to start living their dreams. Comprising stories, reflections, notes, insights, and a bit of advice, "Live What You Love" is the Blanchard's warm,...
Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life
AuthorIrwin Kula
ISBN1401301924
"Irwin Kula shows us how to to live our humanness -- the pleasures and the challenges, the messiness and the triumphs -- with a profound acceptance of our desires and foibles and a joy that can only come from understanding." --Deepak Chopra "Yearning. After twenty-three years as a rabbi, I can think of...
Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
AuthorFrederic Brussat
ISBN0684835347
A book that belongs in every seeker's home, Spiritual Literacy answers the universal question, "How can I live a spiritual life every day?" Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat reveal a way to read the texts of our lives and of the world around us for sacred meaning.
Using more than 650 brief examples from...
Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece
AuthorPatricia Storace
ISBN0679744789
"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint."  So begins Patricia Storace's astonishing memoir of her year in Greece. Mixing affection with detachment, rapture with clarity, this American poet perfectly evokes a country delicately balanced between East and West.

Whether...
Creating a Charmed Life: Sensible, Spiritual Secrets Every Busy Woman Should Know
AuthorVictoria Moran
ISBN0062515802
How Does She Do It?

We all know-and envy-women who appear to live "charmed" lives. They seem to unhurriedly and effortlessly manage the whirlwind of their busy lives with grace and poise. Good things happen to them, and their lives are filled with serendipity, joy, and prosperity. But it's...
Art Journals and Creative Healing: Restoring the Spirit Through Self-Expression
AuthorSharon Soneff
ISBN1592533647
A beautiful, artistic offering that offers projects on challenging, but universal subjects.In follow up to Faith Books & Spiritual Journaling, author Sharon Soneff will continue to show that there is a richer, deeper reward to artistic, creative journals beyond the beauty they supply. In this...
Living Artfully: Create the Life You Imagine
AuthorSandra Magsamen
ISBN0743291050
Many people today are looking outside themselves for well-being and happiness when what they're searching for has been inside them all along." -- Sandra MagsamenLiving artfully is expressing who you are through the moments that you create. "Living Artfully" reminds us to explore and experience...
Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself
AuthorJudith Duerk
ISBN1880913631
Long ago before the patriarchal period, in many places on Earth, the Goddess was worshipped. Circle of Stones draws us into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and creates a space for us to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual. Incorporating the most...
Stalking the Divine
AuthorKristin Ohlson
ISBN0452286409
I picked up this book because I recently read an interesting essay written by Kristin Ohlson and thought I'd like to see what else she had written. (The essay, by the way, about memories in childhood, is here:
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/wh... )

From the cover, I see that this...
Bazaar Style: Decorating with Market and Vintage Finds
AuthorSelina Lake
ISBN1845976266
If you love rummaging through markets for unusual fabrics, and can’t pass an antique or second-hand shop without popping in, Bazaar Style is for you. Stylist Selina Lake and experienced interiors writer Joanna Simmons show you real homes furnished with intriguing pieces from different eras...
Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life
AuthorGregg Levoy
ISBN0609803700
How do we know if we're following our true callings? How do we sharpen our senses to cut through the distractions of everyday reality and hear the calls that are beckoning us?
is the first book to examine the many kinds of calls we receive and the great variety of channels through which they come to us....
Nomad: A Global Approach to Interior Style
AuthorSibella Court
ISBN1452104964
In this deluxe cloth-covered style guide, celebrated designer Sibella Court travels the world in search of eclectic inspiration. She explores far-flung destinations and captures the essence of each in small details, exotic color palettes, exquisite textures, and traditional crafts. Along the...
Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You
AuthorSimon Doonan
ISBN1416535438
Ok, so I have both a problem and a strange fascination with fashion books. Fashion books are mostly name-droppy, classist, expensive, dictatorial twaddle that make women feel bad while purporting to make them feel good. "Oh, honey, you can't have square glasses with that square face!" "One Balenciaga...
Eat More Dirt: Diverting and Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending an Organic Garden
AuthorEllen Sandbeck
ISBN0767909208
A witty, whimsical gardening primer for anyone who wants to tend their patch of earth with a truly green thumb.

A garden can either bring you bliss or drive you insane, but organic landscape gardener Ellen Sandbeck has spent a lifetime discovering creative, effective techniques for growing...
Blogging for Bliss: Crafting Your Own Online Journal: A Guide for Crafters, Artists Creatives of all Kinds
AuthorTara Frey
ISBN1600595111
Today’s crafting community is online, connected, and blissfully blogging about their work and ideas. Blogging is hot in this highly creative world—and here is the only how-to book aimed directly at them. Everyone from knitters and beaders to scrapbookers and altered artists will find the practical...
Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0: How to Stand Out from the Crowd and Tap Into the Hidden Job Market Using Social Media and 999 Other Tactics Today
AuthorJay Conrad Levinson
ISBN1118019091
The latest strategies for job hunters revealed in this revised and updated edition This new Third Edition features the latest job-hunting strategies for the Information Age. You'll discover key techniques to reach hiring managers at the employers you want to work for most. New chapters integrate...
Reluctant Entertainer, The: Every Woman's Guide to Simple and Gracious Hospitality
AuthorSandy Coughlin
ISBN0764207504
Hospitality can be a blessing to both the host and her guests, but for many women today, it simply doesn't happen. Feelings of inadequacy, unrealistic expectations, fear of failure, lack of time--all conspire to steal the joy that comes from opening one's home and sharing fellowship with others. In...
A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-The-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place
AuthorEric Abrahamson
ISBN0316114758
Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder-or suffer guilt over the mess they can't avoid. No longer!With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the...
The Anti 9 to 5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube
AuthorMichelle Goodman
ISBN1580051863
Today, lots of women would love to integrate their passion with their career and are seeking advice on how to do just that. Michelle Goodman, a self proclaimed, "wage-slave" has written a fun, reassuring, girlfriend-to-girlfriend guide on identifying your passion, transitioning out of that unfulfilling...
How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle
AuthorCharles K. Long
ISBN1894622375
Too many of us trade our happiness and well-being for the reliability of a steady paycheck. We work long hours at jobs we dislike or find unfulfilling so that we can buy a lot of stuff that never really seems to satisfy us. And when that paycheck turns out to be not so reliable, we panic. Unemployment terrifies...
Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions
AuthorMichael D. Watkins
ISBN1422147630
After three months in a new job, are you up to speed? Will you sink … or swim? Transitions into new roles are the crucibles in which leaders get their toughest tests, and they're the defining factor in professional careers today.

Yet far too often, leaders fail to move effectively into new roles....
Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why: 10 Things You'd Better Do If You Want to Get Ahead
AuthorDonald Asher
ISBN1580088201
Do your job, do it well, and you'¬?ll be rewarded, right? Actually, probably not. According to career guru Donald Asher advancement at work is less about skill sets and more about strategy. WHO GETS PROMOTED, WHO DOESN'¬?T, AND WHY details exactly what puts one employee on the fast track to an exceptional...
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