
Beyond Balancing the Books
Sheer Mindfulness for Professionals in Work and Life
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The key to a healthy work-life balance and heart-centered inner success.
As a busy professional working in a high-demand career, it’s easy to put your work and clients first and ignore your own needs. Becoming physically run-down, emotionally burned-out, and spiritually depleted can result in frustration, anxiety, and even disillusionment.
Beyond Balancing the Books is a practical guide that will help you find your authentic heart-centered focus. Using powerful everyday exercises and intentional questions, Marino’s grounding meditations will instill a reinvigorated sense of purpose. You'll enlighten yourself on how to align with your deepest values, uncovering your authentic voice while strengthening your focus, resilience, and overall well-being.
In Beyond Balancing the Books, you’ll discover:
- The number one method for revealing your meaning and purpose
- Mindfulness exercises and everyday practices you can start doing today to reconnect with your true nature
- How to focus attention and explore untapped creativity
- The keys to connecting with the present moment to manifest your desires, including mindful financial planning
- Where inner success comes from and how to develop it for yourself
- Heart-level connections, practical advice for creating harmony, science-based logic, and much, much more!
Beyond Balancing the Books is an empowering resource sure to set you on a more balanced life path, no matter your profession or personal circumstances. Whether you are working or retired, raising a family, or just in need of more self-care, George Marino's empowering insights, profound teachings, and inspirational techniques will help you deal with the stress and frustration of life's dilemmas.
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"A welcoming, comprehensive guide to practicing mindfulness and presence in professional life." (Publishers Weekly)
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- EG
- 08-20-22
A path of discovery
George has created a masterpiece with Beyond Balancing the Books. He touches on many aspects the common individual has not consider spending time. We move in life thinking being busy means being proactive but just fill our days with worries of the future or regrets for our pasts. His focus on being in the present moment using different techniques and his ability to make abstract concepts easy to digest made of this book a great tool and a book you will go back to each time you have forgotten about these important lessons.
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