recommended reading
The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
A masterly treatise on the science of lasting achievement, centered on the premise that energy, not time, is the main determinant of high performance. Unless your spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional energies are strongly aligned, you are not performing at your optimum.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A book that has made many readers review their concept of enjoyment. Are you most happy doing little, just relaxing? Professor Csikszentmihalyi argues persuasively against that theory. True enjoyment arises when you are fully engaged in an activity, your capacities stretched, losing track of time.
Think Like a Winner by Yehuda ...