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

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.

About the Authors

Marty Seldman earned his PhD in clinical psychology. In 1986, he started his career as an international executive coach. At that point he had lived in many other cultures and worked in a variety of roles in the interpersonal skills training field. Eventually, coaching became his primary professional focus, and in the past 22 years he has conducted in-depth, one-on-one coaching sessions with more than 1,500 executives. He counts himself fortunate to have worked with a number of companies and clients consistently over many years, which has allowed him to track individual career paths and corporate procedures. This has given him a thorough understanding of why certain individuals reach higher levels of achievement, and others don’t.

Joshua Seldman is a highly respected cycling and fitness coach, and through his experience as an athlete and coach, has become one of the foremost experts on endurance performance. During his career as a professional athlete, he was a 12- and 24-hour solo mountain bike champion, and competed in the Elite national championships, world championships, and international stage races, such as the Tour of Chile.

Joshua worked for many years as a lead coach for Carmichael Training Systems, one of the top coaching companies in the world. He has coached all levels of individuals including national and world champions, as well as members of the Leukemia Society’s Team in Training, and riders who had survived cancer as they completed the Lance Armstrong/Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Tour of Hope ride across the country from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. in eight days.

Currently he specializes in corporate wellness and executive performance, working with individuals and companies to maximize their performance through the benefits of improved fitness, higher energy levels, increased stamina, and a balanced life.