Getting Unstuck, Timothy Butler
Getting Unstuck, Timothy Butler
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Getting Unstuck
How Dead Ends Become New Paths

Author: Timothy Butler

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 12/21/2007


Synopsis

We all experience psychological impasse. This feeling of uncertainty about your next moves in life might come at predictable moments: the loss of a job, the end of a romance, an empty nest as your child heads for college, or the death of someone who has long helped you feel recognized, loved, and appreciated. It might also come at unpredictable moments: when the career of a lifetime somehow loses its juice, when you ache for intimacy but can't seem to find the right partner, when you find yourself longing to renew a sense of life's adventure.
Predictable or not, psychological impasse brings with it the sense of being stuck or paralyzed. At the office, you feel stale or unchallenged. In your personal life, you feel agitated, deflated, or downright bored. You know that something must change - and you're desperate to contribute at work, find a reinvigorated role in your family, and dive back into the current of your own life.
Though uncomfortable, impasse is necessary. It's the only place from which you can define a new vision for your life. Now business psychologist and researcher Timothy Butler leverages more than 20 years of research to offer strategies for finding your way from impasse to renewed meaning - at work, at home, with colleagues, and with family. He shows you how to:
Recognize the state of psychological impasse and use it as a springboard to real change
Participate in exercises that activate your new life vision
Identify the activities, rewards, types of people, work cultures, and communities that will most likely satisfy you
Make choices that transform your new vision into reality
Drawing on a wealth of stories about individuals who have successfully transitioned out of impasses, Getting Unstuck provides a practical, authoritative road map for moving past your immediate impasse and defining a meaningful path forward.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cav on August 28, 2023

Getting Unstuck was an OK read. I guess it just wasn't quite what I expected. Author Timothy Butler is a Senior Fellow and Director of Career Development Programs. His research interests focus on career decision making generally and the relationship between personality structure and work satisfaction......more

Goodreads review by Unwisely on July 10, 2017

Another of the disappearing reviews that I'm trying to reconstruct. This seemed awfully fluffer-nutter to me, but there were nuggets I liked. Not a waste of time but didn't really give me anything I could immediately use. The most useful part for me was the Appendix about is it depression or are you......more

Goodreads review by Jay on October 13, 2017

An OK book on dealing with personal crisis related to getting into ruts with your life. I appreciated the author’s experience at the Harvard Business School, working with students and consulting for these kinds of issues. I enjoyed the examples and thought they made a lot of sense. And I appreciated......more

Goodreads review by Donny on May 22, 2018

Listened as an audiobook, plan to reread physical. A lot of good information and it's very interactive, just too much to digest as audiobook, not to mention there are many parts to stop and do optional exercises that are hard to do without the book. Looking forward to rereading it.......more

Goodreads review by Zuzana on June 06, 2019

Comprehensive, to the point, based on science and very practical. This is how I believe self-helping literature should look like. Rather than a book of advice it’s a manual on how to identify, approach and use impasses to move forward - whether it means making an important decision, changing a job o......more