CHAPTER SEVEN

nine rules to negotiate nirvana: how to change your whole work deal

On Sunday as the day wore on,” remembers Christy Runningen, “I would become more unhappy, more cranky and more frantic.”

Oh, that Sunday evening feeling. It’s a state of mind we can relate to.

“You know that gross feeling you get in your stomach,” Christy explains, “before the workweek starts, thinking, ‘OK, now I’m going to be locked in, I’m going to be at the office, for these forty-plus hours.’”

How about a world where you never have that Sunday evening feeling? Where that nausea in the pit of your stomach is banished?

How about a world where even the concept of eight to five-thirty for forty-nine weeks a year doesn’t exist at all? A world where you can ...

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