"The Time Trading Guru" by Robert Renaud

INTERVIEW

The Time Trading Guru:
Escape the workplace, take "life breaks,"
and start living again

by Robert Renaud

Read an excerpt from The Time Trading Guru as well as my interview with the author, Robert Renaud. 

Description

Read this book if you want more out of life. The Time Trading Guru provides a blueprint to escape the workplace, take life breaks, and to get more out of life. The formula details how to master the levers of life's principles of time, flexibility, and money, leverage the DREAM process to realize your dreams, and to trade one’s self to a more rewarding life; one full of experiences and relationships and no regrets.

Excerpt

Is it possible to really live life? Is it possible to change course mid-career? Is it possible to spend more time doing the things you love without becoming a penniless Bohemian? I’ll show you how you can. I’ll show you how you can live life again, how you can use the DREAM process to realize your dreams, and how you can get everything out of your life.

Time trading is the nouveau way to live in the millennium. Shed the old school of nine to five and the deferred life. Embrace life breaks and start living life to the fullest. You don’t need to be chained to an unforgiving life riding the treadmill with someone else setting the speed. You can reframe your perceptions of success, liberate yourself from the daily grind, escape the workplace, and integrate key relationships into your life.

Be a time trader. What, you ask is a time trader? You’re no doubt familiar with a day trader—a person who stands by monitoring the markets and leveraging the daily volatility to make quick short-term profits. A time trader is a person who becomes a master at pulling the levers of life to dream and trade themselves to a more rewarding life, one full of experiences and relationships and no regrets.

Here’s a primer for changing your life. These elements will be discussed more fully in later chapters, but let’s just see what the levers of life are:

Time: We only have so much time available to live. The key is to find the right balance in life.

Flexibility: Reframing your life will allow you to become more flexible in attaining your dreams.

Money: We need to diversify our income sources and establish, where possible, automated sources of cash. We also need to change our lens from working to owning.

By pulling these levers you can use the DREAM process to realize your dreams.

D: develop awareness of your dream.

R: realize understanding of the dream.

E: express knowledge of the dream by developing a plan.

A: assist belief by seeking opportunities to live your goal.

M: make realizable by readjusting where necessary to stay on track.

Time trading is a formula for living life your way, a way to have everything you want. Time trading is using the levers of life to give you the power to realize your dreams. It allows you to have what every human being wants—time to live life, real time to live, not a nine to five straightjacket, but time.

To live life as you want, you need to see life as it is. Understand it, learn from it, then change it! Time trading will tell you how.

Review

By Danita Dyess for Readers Favorite

If you could enjoy your life based on your perception of time, value and money, would you? If you could quit your job, bid a fond farewell to your boss and travel the world while effortlessly generating multiple streams of income, would you start packing now? If you said yes, then you are ready to read The Time Trading Guru by Robert Renaud. If you are working 40 hours and slavishly waiting for retirement, Renaud says you have an old school mindset. For the last 20+ years, he has mastered the art of trading time or diversifying income to lessen the gravity of economic changes. Time trading helps you leverage life breaks and determine how you will spend your time whether it is for one day or 10 years. Luxury is defined by perception.

Renaud is an executive, creator of The Bureaucrats comic strip, entrepreneur, world traveler and a father. I was swept away by his exotic travels. The conversations with Jack (a talented but misguided executive who was relying on his corporate job to provide for his financial future) helped convey his message. The chapter about money was so comprehensive and detailed that it compelled me to reconsider my notion of income. This book offers tips and eye-opening discoveries about the mundane things (emails and multitasking) that erode our time.

The Time Trading Guru is for those fearless souls who want to live life on their own terms.

Interview With the Author

Hi Robert, thanks for joining me today to discuss your new book, The Time Trading Guru.

Who do you recommend should read your book?
Everyone who works or doesn't, students, and the self-employed. Anyone who is looking to gain time back in their lives and who want a practical blueprint to become more fulfilled.

What sparked the idea for this book?
My life, really. I've experienced richness, lived poor, and in all persevered by changing my perceptions of life. I realized I had been following a blueprint to a more fulsome life. I was using the levers of life: time, flexibility, and money and the DREAM process to take life breaks to reach my potentiality.

What was the hardest part to write in this book?
To get started. This was a several years of procrastination that finally bloomed.

How do you hope this book affects its readers?
I hope people learn that there is indeed a blueprint to living life more fully. We all have the power within us. It's using the levers of life: time, flexibility, and money to take life breaks and to begin living today.

How long did it take you to write this book?
Several months. This time was harvested between my kids activities and just waiting.

What is your writing routine?
There is no routine, per se. I always carry a work book with me and I jot down ideas when they come to me.

What advice do you have for someone who would like to become a published writer?
Just write, the rest will works its way out.

What do you like to do when you're not writing?
I like to draw, I’m a cartoonist as well.

Please tell us a bit about your childhood.
It was challenging. I lived with middle class values with a poor family pay check and experienced many of the social ills first hand. Despite these challenges, I was able to change my perspectives of life and reach many rewarding goals.

Who was your favorite author as a child?
Funny enough, Dr. Seuss.

Do you hear from your readers much? What kinds of things do they say?
I hear from my readers quite a lot. Like me, they are looking for value and meaning in their lives. They appreciate the blueprint that The Time Trading Guru provides them and share with me their stories of enlightenment.

What can we look forward to from you in the future?
The Time Trading Guru lays a foundation of ideas and my readers can expect many of these ideas to flourish in a book on their own.

Thanks so much for taking the taking the time to talk to me today, Richard. I wish you every success.

About the Author

Robert Renaud was born in Toronto, Ontario, grew up in Muskoka, and lived in Ecuador for 2 years. For over 20 years he has slogged it out in the nine to five world and is currently an executive . He has pursued his personal interests with lively vigour, travelling, writing, and cartooning. His first book, The Red Tape Chronicles: The Bureaucrats, is a compilation of his cartoon strip, The Bureaucrats, the red tape comic strip about life in the service. His latest book, The Time Trading Guru, shows people how to embrace the time trading principles of time, flexibility, and money, and the DREAM process to take life breaks and to become personally fulfilled.

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"Meeting the Challenge of Bipolar Disorder: Self Help Strategies That Work!" by Association for Natural Psychology, Gabrielle Woods, PhD (Editor), Laura Pipoly, PC EdD (Foreward)

Meeting the Challenge of Bipolar Disorder:

Self Help Strategies That Work!

by Association for Natural Psychology,
Gabrielle Woods, PhD (Editor),
Laura Pipoly, PC EdD (Foreward)

Description

Self help for bipolar disorder can result in positive gains. Your moods involving mania and depression can be positively affected through Positive Lifestyle Changes. By developing an array of coping skills, and making gradual, incremental changes in your lifestyle, you will find that mood swings are less dramatic, and mood stability can be attained.

There are a multitude of factors that affect our mental health. Mental health treatment based on the medical model, usually involving psychiatric labeling and the prescribing of strong pharmaceutical drugs, sometimes with a little therapy, is based on a faulty foundation, and is not the panacea that it is proclaimed to be.

Whether or not you subscribe to the views of mainstream psychiatry, if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, or displays the symptoms of bipolar disorder, there is much you can do to overcome its symptoms.

Educate yourself on the many avenues of psychological recovery. Don't be satisfied with the medical model interpretation of psychiatric disorders. You have everything to gain by giving due attention to self help when addressing symptoms of bipolar disorder. Remission and recovery is within reach for most who suffer with bipolar disorder.

Additionally, prevention in mental health prevention is an important aspect of psychology that is often overlooked. A healthy lifestyle based on practical wisdom for good physical and mental health should be a part of both formal education and self-education.

The model presented in this book is based on actual experiences of bipolar disorder remission.

In addition to a consideration of the subject in the introduction of this book, the following topics are developed. Each section is researched and contains a recommended reading section.

A Foundation for Change, Growth and Progress

One: Identify and Correct Individual Target Symptoms and Triggers

Two: Education and Self-Education Put You in Control

Three: Self Determination as an Aid Towards Personal Responsibility and Recovery

Four: Journaling is a Stabilizing Multi-Dimensional Self-Help Tool

Five: Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) as Self Help (and/or CBT with a Therapist)

Balance

Six: Seek Balance in Your Thoughts and Activities, Along with Structure in Your Routine

Seven: Self Monitor Shifts in Mood and Behavior to Prevent Relapse

Eight: Control Overspending Binges and Get Control of Your Finances

Nine: Take Time Daily for Relaxation

Ten: Determine What Causes Stress and Endeavor to Correct It, Handle It and Modify It

Eleven: Read for Therapy, Information and as a Positive Life Habit

Twelve: Write for Self Expression as a Stabilizing Therapy

Nutrition and Physical Needs

Thirteen: Pursue a Healthy Diet, Give Adequate Attention to Nutrition

Fourteen: Avoid Alcohol and Other Mood-Altering and Mind Altering Substances

Fifteen: Eliminate Caffeine and Cigarette Smoking

Sixteen: Regular Exercise as an Important Element of Mental Health, which Contributes to Feelings of Self-Worth and Stabilization

Seventeen: Order and Personal Hygiene Facilitate Better Mental Health

Visual and Sensory Elements of Mental Process

Eighteen: Create Art - A Side-Effect-Free Natural Mood Stabilizer

Nineteen: Avoid Overstimulation

Twenty: Consider Unplugging

Twenty-One: Engage in Positive, Pro-Active Activities Rather than Indulging in Media Violence

Twenty-two: Avoid Pornography, Overcome Pornography Addiction and Hypersexuality

Twenty-three: Music can Positively or Negatively Influence Mental Health and Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder

Twenty-four: Neurofeeback Can Effectively Reduce Symptoms

Interpersonal Relationships and Support

Twenty-Five: Build a Support System of Concerned Friends and/or family and Extended Family

Twenty-Six: Towards Self-Disclosure: Take Down Psychological Defences

Twenty-seven: Build Your Support Team with a Coach

Twenty-eight: Get Control of Anger: Adaptive Behaviors and Responses Towards Anger Management

Spirituality, Values and Principles and Life Philosophies

Twenty-nine: Be Honest - A Force for Healing and Good Mental Health

Thirty: Seek Spiritual Growth as an Avenue Towards Recovery

Thirty-one: Avoid Negative Spiritual Views and Maintain a Healthy Balance in Your Spirituality

Thirty-two: Develop Life Principles and Philosophies that Facilitate Good Mental Health

Thirty-three: Improve Self-Esteem - Ideas Worth Considering

Excerpt

...bipolar disorder should not be considered to be a life sentence, and it certainly is not a death sentence. The mathematical adage, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" proves to be true with the label "bipolar disorder".

While some in the mental health field have painted a gloomy, even negative view of recovery from bipolar disorder, statistics indicate that not only is recovery and remission possible, but that hundreds of thousands have recovered from bipolar disorder and its symptoms for good. While current statistics might indicate that for the majority who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it is considered to be a lifetime condition, part of the problem may be in the way the disorder is dealt with or treated by the mainstream psychiatric community in the first place.

With heavy emphasis on pharmaceutical treatment, which is often not effective as a long-term cure, and where relapse rates are high, even with properly administered psychiatric drugs, adequate consideration of pursuing Positive Lifestyle Changes, in addition to support from family, peers and professionals, can result in a much higher rate of recovery, where remission is likely possible and even probable.

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From the Author

There is much that you can do to overcome symptoms associated with bipolar disorder. Good mental health is hard work. You need to be educated on what causes bipolar disorder and what you can do to address individual symptoms. Because a large percentage of cases of bipolar disorder are not severe, with simple lifestyle changes, many can help themselves through self help efforts. Educating yourself on bipolar disorder and self help methods is the key. This book helps demystify bipolar disorder and provides you with resources that help put you in control.

While it is often stated that bipolar disorder is a lifetime condition, this isn't always the case, and for a significant percentage of those diagnosed with bipolar disorder, recovery and remission can be achieved.

This book provides additional resources to help you reach your goal of recovery and remission. You can win in making gradual progress towards overcoming the symptoms of bipolar disorder.

(This book is not designed to replace professional psychological or medical assistance when necessary, but complements it).

About the Author

The Association for Youth, Children and Natural Psychology (AYCNP) is a New Jersey non-profit association operating as a 501 c(3) in the educational and psychology fields. It is rooted in public school education. It was started by a science teacher and doctor of educational leadership, both in Newark, NJ.

The AYCNP and its literature is non-religious and non-political. It is not supported or endorsed by any religious organization, nor are the ideas expressed in its publications rooted in any particular religious ideology. The literature of the AYCNP is eclectic in that it draws on a wide variety of resources for its information. The AYCNP has no political agenda but is strictly educationally oriented. The focus of Overcoming ADHD Without Medication and similar ideas on mental health is in practicality. Anyone can improve their mental health on any of a number of fronts through attention to practical measures, lifestyle changes and by developing coping skills.

Individual founders of the AYCNP are members of the Society for Teacher's of Psychology and NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness).

The AYCNP uses some of its funds towards charitable contributions directly to the Newark, NJ community to support the social, educational and artistic development of youth and children in Newark, and on a wider platform.

The AYCNP is a Member in good standing with National Council of Nonprofits and the Center for Non-Profits of NJ and operates as a 501 c(3) corporation. It provides materials and book donations to children and youth, as well as materials donations to public schools, public libraries, and to organizations involved with development of printed material on mental health issues.

The AYCNP website is Health on the Internet(HON) certified, Geneva, Switzerland, which is accredited by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

Laura Pipoly is a National Board Certified Counselor and is part of the teaching faculty of the University of Phoenix. In addition to teaching she has also worked as a school counselor, case manager, psychotherapist, behavior specialist, and mobile therapist. Laura has presented at the national level at the American Counseling Association and at the state level at the All-Ohio Counselor's Conference. Most recently, Laura was a co-presenter at the Northeast Ohio Regional Drug Summit.

Gabrielle Wood, Ph.D. is a research psychologist and consultant. She is a member of the International Leadership Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the American Psychological Association. She has ten years experience conducting multi-method research and leading numerous research studies. She is a former lecturer at Christopher Newport University teaching leadership, self- analysis methods, and values exploration. She has also taught Social Psychology, among other courses, at George Mason University. Dr. Wood was a Research Fellow for the Research Fellowship Consortium in Alexandria, Virginia.

  

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