Portland, ME, November 17, 2014 – After a few years outside the ordinary working environment, Dr. Deb Snyder found her reentry into the world of 9 to 5 profoundly difficult. Characteristically, she took a troubling situation and turned it into something positive: her job became a laboratory to study how people work and how they can quickly learn to work better. Ignite CALM: Achieving Bliss in Your Work (NorLightsPress) provides readers with deep wisdom in a fun, approachable style empowering anyone to improve their life using the CALM concepts.
Snyder gathered holistic techniques and lessons to help readers transform their lives for the better. Ignite CALM takes the steps of embracing conscious business qualities, teaching how to bring your best self to work each and every day and discover true happiness while on the job, no matter what the job.
The advice and practical guidance is for those who want to improve their lives and take positive action to attain success not just at work but in all aspects of daily living. Snyder says, “we can’t expect to live happy lives if we’re miserable at work. Within us, we each have the power to create working lives that are both pleasant for us and profitable for our employers. It’s up to us to make changes, and those changes begin in our own hearts and actions.”
CALM = Creativity, Authenticity, Luminosity, and Mindfulness. “Four questions connect people to their soul’s wisdom,” Snyder explains. “To ignite CALM, ask yourself these four essential questions and be absolutely honest in your answers.”
Creativity: Have I looked at this situation creatively?
Authenticity: Am I being true to my personal values and goals?
Luminosity: Am I bringing the best of me to this issue?
Mindfulness: How does this situation affect my life and others?
“This technique gets us into our best place, so we can see a situation clearly without distraction,” she continues. These four questions are the heart of the CALM approach – all you need to get the internal fire started. “This is your flash point, where you strike the match.”
Deb Snyder is an inspirational speaker, personal development teacher, and award-winning author of four books for adults and kids. She holds a doctorate in metaphysical philosophy and empowers people to live their best lives through embracing their own unique challenges, opportunities, and blessings. Deb offers her heart-centered services in workshops and private sessions worldwide to individuals, businesses, and groups of all sizes. She is also founding director of The HeartGlow Center, a public charity focused on wellness and conscious living. www.heartglow.org.
For more information, please visit the website: www.ignitecalm.com
Ignite CALM: Achieving Bliss in Your Work
NorLightsPress
Available November 11, 2014 at fine bookstores and online everywhere,
including http://www.ignitecalm.com/books.html
ISBN-13: 978-0-9906862-2-4
Early praise for Ignite CALM: Achieving Bliss in Your Work
Paul Coleman, Psy.D., Author, Finding Peace When Your Heart is in Pieces: “As is her style, Dr. Debra Snyder sheds a powerful beam of light on a topic important to your well-being. There is no need to be disappointed in your work and personal life. Get ready to be inspired! There is hope and power in Ignite CALM.”
Lynne McGhee, Fulfillment Coach, Lynne McGhee Coaching and Performing: ”This book is a must read for anyone struggling with the demands of today’s work environment. It is filled with powerful and practical ways to gain clarity around what YOU need to be happy. Deb takes you through a path of personal discovery which ends with the ability to make more conscious choices and lead a happier, more fulfilled life.”
Jennifer Crews, M.A., Speaker, Author, Intuitive Guide & Mentor: “Having personally worked jobs in the education, medical, and corporate professions this book speaks directly to the heart and soul in each of us. Deb Snyder’s simple CALM formula is brilliant and essential across all working environments. You will discover this book to be the very change you were looking for.”
Sunny Dawn Johnston: “Ignite CALM: Achieving Bliss in Your Work is a fabulous book full of golden nuggets of wisdom. This book will give you the tools to let go of the hard way and embrace grace, ease and CALM.”
Debra J. Snyder, author of Ignite CALM:
1. You tell readers they must “ignite CALM” to bring the best of themselves to work each day. Now this sounds like incompatible advice…what does “ignite calm” mean?
I mean this is the moment to LIGHT IT UP and stoke your inner fire by taking positive action—by accepting responsibility for your own life and how you live it. When we ignite CALM, we make an active choice to bring the best of ourselves to whatever we’re doing in that present moment. CALM is an acronym, which stands for the four essential components to happiness at work and in our daily lives.
CALM = Creativity, Authenticity, Luminosity, and Mindfulness
2. Your first book was on parenting…what prompted you to write a business book?
The idea for this book came to me when I spent twelve frustrating weeks in the trenches of corporate America being trained to manage claims for a Fortune 500 insurance company. Shelving my yoga pants for a suit, I put on shoes and walked back into an environment I had known in my younger years. From my new perspective as a personal-development expert, I discovered the soul crushing dysfunction of that environment and met many unhappy people. Although this diversion into the corporate world caused me great personal discomfort, it was also like paid research and gave me a tremendous opportunity to be of service to others—by reaching out to other workers, regardless of their professions, and helping them cope with difficult environments and make positive changes in their lives. It is possible to find greater happiness at work and at home.
3. How can businesses and workers improve their relationships? Where are we going wrong?
Even though people make the business world go round, the needs of the people are often the first to be neglected in business. If we take the responsibility of our work wellness into our own hands, then we are no longer at the mercy of a company that’s too busy to care. We will care about ourselves, make better choices, and create environments truly worthy of working in. The human factor has to come back into the equation. We must, all…businesses and workers, bring the best of ourselves to the relationship.
4. In your book you share the story of how you made $50,000 in ten minutes while wearing pajamas and a back cast. Do you believe anyone can do that?
Yes, I do. I hope by sharing my story it will help people be more open to the unbounded possibilities available to each of us. We must realize how all things are connected. Every decision we make, every action we take moves us closer to, or further away from, our soul’s purpose. And yes, that can also mean money. I believe by shifting our perspectives we can all unlock the doors to unlimited wealth and happiness.
5. Why do you think it’s essential we change how we work right now?
Simple…life is short and now is all we have. We need to make the most of every precious, messy moment and not wait until a crisis wakes us up. We create our life. Everything in life is connected. We can’t expect to live happy lives if we’re miserable at work. Not only do we spend about 50 hours per week at our jobs, we end up wasting energy complaining about work during our off hours. This often leads to frustration and disappointment with our friends and family who’ve heard it all, again and again. We are squandering valuable time. Yet, within us, we each have the power to create working lives that are both pleasant for us and profitable for our employers. It’s up to us to make changes, and those changes begin in our own hearts and actions. We can all live the life of our dreams starting right now.