cover image Work from the Inside Out: Seven Steps to Loving What You Do

Work from the Inside Out: Seven Steps to Loving What You Do

Nancy O'Hara. Three Rivers Press (CA), $14 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-609-80592-3

Work from the Inside Out: 7 Steps to Loving What You Do, by Nancy O'Hara (Find a Quiet Corner), a former publishing executive and a practicing Buddhist who now conducts corporate seminars and retreats on mindfulness, applies the Zen precept of doing things for their own sake, as opposed to for an end, to our work lives. Her seven broad steps include ""Understanding and Acceptance"" and ""Disciplined Attention."" She suggests specifics such as asking ourselves at the end of each day if we blamed someone else for something we didn't accomplish, or making a list of the aspects of our work situations we don't like and then assessing if it's within our power to change each one. )