Executive Stamina: How to Optimize Time, Energy, and Productivity to Achieve Peak Performance »

Joshua Seldman is a highly respected cycling and fitness coach. During his professional athletic career, he was a twelve-hour and twenty-four-hour solo mountain bike champion. He was also a lead coach for Carmichael Training Systems and Lance Armstrong's Tour of Hope cross-country ride. He can be contacted at joshuaseldman@yahoo.com.

What does stamina have to do with executive success? Consider the following: stamina gives you the ability to remain consistently focused on and energized about the task at hand. Being overworked, overstressed, and exhausted increases your chances of making career-damaging mistakes. With e-mail, cell phones, and Blackberry devices increasingly blurring the line between work and personal life, stamina is no longer simply an asset for executives; it's an absolute necessity.

In Executive Stamina, you'll learn all the skills, techniques, and positive practices needed to create a sustainable path to achieve your full career potential. Renowned executive coach Marty Seldman and endurance coach Joshua Seldman will introduce you to the revolutionary training system they've used with great success on top executives and endurance athletes. You'll find hundreds of tips and tools that will help you maximize your career potential, while maintaining your health, staying in touch with your values, and avoiding costly tradeoffs in your personal life.

It starts by learning how to align your career ambitions with your core values, commitments, current priorities, and long-term goals. You'll learn to determine what is most important to you, whether your schedule is actually aligned with your priorities, and how to find your career sweet spot.

You'll build stamina and optimize your job performance through:

• Progressive workout plans
• Stamina-building nutrition programs
• A personalized stress-management plan
• Identifying high-payoff activities
• Taking control of your calendar
• Dealing with distracting people who waste your time
• Recognizing change and understanding its implications

You'll also find inspiring profiles of executives from a wide variety of industries, whose extraordinary stamina has enabled them to maintain consistently superior focus, judgment, and leadership skills. You'll discover the secrets of their personal success and be able to apply them in your own career.

Whether you're trying to make it through a grueling project in one piece or planning for a lifetime of repeated success, Executive Stamina is your key to developing and maintaining the physical, mental, and emotional power needed to come out on top.

Dr. Marty Seldman is one of the world's most experienced and successful executive coaches. He is the author of five books and has designed impactful seminars like Organizational Savvy, Optimizing Differences, and Executive Stamina. Currently he is the President of Optimum Associates. For more information, contact www.optimumassociates.com.

Pt. I Work/Life Alignment

1 What Is Most Important to You? 21

2 Is Your Schedule Aligned with Your Priorities? 35

3 The Minimums and Shifts/Drifts Systems 45

4 Finding Your Career Sweet Spot 61

Pt. II Building Your Stamina

5 The Impact of Stress 75

6 Increasing Your Fitness 93

7 Your Lifelong Fitness Plan 113

8 Nutrition 137

9 Stress Management: Your Individual Plan 155

10 Yoga at the Office 183

Pt. III Optimizing Job Performance and Results

11 Identifying High-Payoff Activities 207

12 Taking Control of Your Calendar 223

Pt. IV Career Management

13 Reaching Your Full Potential 243

14 Avoiding Career Management Mistakes 255

Pt. V Personal Relationships

15 Maintaining Positive Relationships 273

Conclusion 297

Index 298