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How Full Is Your Bucket?: Positive Strategies for Work and Life | 
| Authors: Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton
Publisher: Gallup Press
Category: Book
Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 190146
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
Publication Date: July 6, 2004
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Product Description
How did you feel after your last interaction with another person?Did that person -- your spouse, best friend, co-worker, or even a stranger -- "fill your bucket" by making you more positive? Or did that person "dip from your bucket," leaving you more negative than before? How Full Is Your Bucket? reveals how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and grounded in 50 years of research, this audiobook will show you how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work and your life while reducing the negative. Filled with discoveries, powerful strategies, and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sure to inspire lasting chances and has all the makings of a timeless classic.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 86 more reviews...
 Over flowing buckets July 24, 2004
110 out of 121 found this review helpful
How Full is Your Bucket? is a quick, but worthwhile read. The books subtitle really says it all, positive strategies for Work and Life. The basic premise of the book is that each of us has as an invisible bucket. It is emptied or filled by what others say and do to us. Likewise we empty or fill the invisible buckets of others.
The book goes on to give some examples of filling or emptying of buckets. Next the book goes on to list some practical strategies for filling buckets. They are as follows:
1. Prevent bucket dipping - ask yourself whether you are adding to or taking from another bucket.
2. Shine a light on what is right - don't focus on the negative, spend time, energy and attention of what is right.
3. Make best friends - great relationships lead to increased satisfaction
4. Give unexpectedly - the gifts can be material, trust or respect, but given unexpectedly increases their bucket filling power
5. Reverse the Golden rule - "Do unto others as they would have you do unto them".
The book gives some unexpected gifts. In the back cover is a free id to allow you to use the "Clifton" strengthfinder - so you can discover your strengths. Also there is five strategies wallet card and oh wait a minute I don't want to ruin the unexpected gift factor. This is a great book. Buy some for friends and family.
Quick Read / Well worth it September 22, 2004
39 out of 45 found this review helpful
The 'bucket book' is a good little book. This whole book focuses on being more positive than negative. Sounds easy right? Probably because it is if you try. Gallup, specifically Tom Rath and Don Clifton have put together a workable theory that states you need to try and have 5 positive interactions with people you meet before you have 1 negative thing to say. They cite research that shows most marriages will fail if the ratio of positive to negative is not better than 1 to 1. So, keep it positive, and life will be better. A simple and important concept. Bravo Gallup
Also, you get to take the StrengthsFinder assessment tool, the best tool out there to figure out how you are wired. That is worth buying the book all on its own.
Joseph Dworak
Change your life, and everyone elses July 21, 2004
30 out of 34 found this review helpful
I read this book the day I received it. In a sentence, I can tell you that the biggest statement that the book relayed is that if you fill someone elses bucket with positive energy, words and praise, it fills yours. In a few sentences... I will say that the authors vision and recommended actions, as well as reading examples in the book, really hit home. I was able to realize that by speaking in negative terms about things in life, whether they pertained to me, someone else, or life, really dipped from my own bucket of positivity. Positive actions reinforce one's ability to adjust and heal from within. Good words are contageous. Caring discussion with another spreads not only between you and who you are speaking with, but the energy from positivity spreads from individual to individual, a domino effect.
A must read. Buy this book!
 You Have Got To Be Joking, right? August 23, 2004
24 out of 41 found this review helpful
At the risk of dipping from the author's buckets, I have to say that this book ranks amongthe worst that I have read so far this year. Most of the book is spent on selling us that praise and compliments improve everyone's lives, performance etc, inclusing the giver of that praise. Hello...is this new to anyone out there? So then I look for the five "strategies" for increasing positive emotions, and we get revelations like "Make Best Friends" and "Prevent Bucket Dipping". Do yourself a favour if you have ordered this book - send it back as I have done and trade it for "How to Win Friends and Influence People". That book is a classic and says it all so much better, with much greater wit and originality.
Great idea - Simplistic and extremely short book September 5, 2005
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
The entire contents of this book could fit in one chapter of most other books. About a third of the book is just pictures of a bucket with text written in it (which was already written on the previous page) and the pages with text have very large printing. I read it in just under 20 minutes and I read at about an average speed. People say that if you take away one good idea from a book, it is worth it. This book has just one basic idea. Although that idea is valuable, it can be found in many, many other books - try Seven Habits of Effective People. If you must read this book, just read it at your local book store because it is a very fast read, and that way you do not have to buy it.
I don't mean to empty any buckets here (referring to the authors concepts) but your money will be better spent on many other books with much more significant content.
Hope that this helps!
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