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Breathing Space:
Living and Working at a Comfortable Pace
in a Sped-Up Society
by Jeff Davidson

“Our contribution to the progress of the world must, therefore, consist in setting our own house in order.”
–Mahatma Gandhi

I use a lot of books in the executive training I offer, some of them well-known bestsellers like Flow [Click here to see Tony's review.], but only one do I advise my clients to read: Breathing Space. Jeff Davidson has filled each page of Breathing Space with insight, practicality, and specific advice. To get your hands back on the controls of your modern life, no book is better.

Life in the today’s world is busy, full, and rife with distractions. Satisfaction can easily slip away without special efforts to create an environment and habits that support our own goals and priorities. Fail to do so and you life will–as Jeff Davidson amply demonstrates–be thoroughly colonized by advertisers, entertainers, and co-workers. It has often been said, and is even more true today, that if you are not

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But a still more important consideration is that the chief part of the organisation of every living creature is due to inheritance; and consequently, though each being assuredly is well fitted for its place in nature, many structures have now no very close and direct relation to present habits of life.

Charles Darwin
Origin of Species
Page 160
Chapter VI

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The bottom line is that being accountable to ourselves is not enough. We clearly need others, preferably outside of our organization, to hold us accountable and to help us accelerate our learning. We need others to help us fight the continual battles against our own human nature and our tendency to do what we want to do, rather than what we need to do. We need others to

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Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermo-dynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

–Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
To see his autobiography, click here.

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I spoke recently with two groups of business leaders that I coach on the topic, “What should we be doing now to weather the down economy?” Seven ideas received broad support:

1. Stay in touch with your center and manage your outlook.
2. Get busy with personal, executive-to-executive selling.
3. Cash is king. Watch it closely.
4. Conserve cash: make sure every dollar out is going to come back–soon–in sales or profits.
   1. Cut your marginal players now
   2. Hire slowly or leave openings unfilled.
      Plenty of talent is

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