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    Escape the Rat Race: Change Your Mind or Take the Emergency Exit
    Escape the Rat Race: Change Your Mind or Take the Emergency Exit
    Escape the Rat Race: Change Your Mind or Take the Emergency Exit
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    Escape the Rat Race: Change Your Mind or Take the Emergency Exit

    By Derek Ralston

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    How can you escape the rat race? Should you change your job? Or can you keep it, while making smaller changes to your daily habits and ways of thinking? This mini-book explores both options, and teaches you when each is appropriate for escaping the rat race.

    This mini-book teaches:

    * How to escape the rat race by changing your inner reality and daily habits
    * How to escape the rat race by changing your outer reality using the emergency exit approach
    * How to overcome your addiction to the rat race and workaholic lifestyle by creating healthy work habits
    * How to overcome your bad leisure habits and addiction to mass media by creating healthy leisure habits
    * How to create personally-selected goals for work and leisure

    Part of the Evolve Your Life: Mini-Books For Finding Happiness Series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDerek Ralston
    Release dateJan 18, 2012
    ISBN9781466113602
    Escape the Rat Race: Change Your Mind or Take the Emergency Exit
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    Derek Ralston

    ​​Derek Ralston is an agile coach by day and personal transformation expert by night. His goal is to help growth-driven individuals find their own path to personal transformation through self-experimentation. Derek is the author of three personal transformation books, one of which became top in its category on Amazon. He is the author, most recently, of Transformational Fasting: Reconnect with Yourself, Get Healthy, and Find Your Purpose. Find out more about Derek at DerekRalston.Com.

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      Escape the Rat Race - Derek Ralston

      Escape the Rat Race

      Escape the Rat Race

      Change Your Mind or Take the Emergency Exit

      Derek Ralston

      DigitalFan Books

      Copyright © 2012 by Derek Ralston. All rights reserved.

      www.derekralston.com

      Published 2012 by DigitalFan Books

      Cover Design by Carla Gabriel Garcia

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Contents

      Introduction

      1. 2 Approaches for Escaping the Rat Race

      2. Changing Your Inner Reality: Buddhist / Stoist Approach

      3. Changing Your Daily Habits: Buddhist / Stoist Approach

      4. Taking the Emergency Exit Approach

      5. Putting It All Together

      Questions and Answers

      Notes

      References

      About the Author

      Also by Derek Ralston

      Introduction

      The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

      -William Sloane Coffin

      The rat race is generally described as a way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth or power. But the term rat race has changed over time. Its colloquial use in the first half of the 1900's alluded to a rat's desperate struggle for survival. This was a metaphor for the fierce competition of maintaining or improving one's position in the workplace or social ladder.

      The more recent use of the term alludes to the futile existence of lab rats. Lab rats run mazes daily and receive a prize at

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