Workaholics, Reform!

By Andrea Sachs

Get enough sleep. Eat healthy food. Exercise regularly. Think positive thoughts. That may sound like what your mother told you on the day you left home, but it's the advice that FORTUNE 500 executives pay big bucks to get from LGE Performance Systems in Orlando, Fla. Now the regimen, originally developed for world-class athletes like Pete Sampras and Dan Jansen, is available for $26, the price of The Power of Full Engagement, by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz (Free Press). The authors argue that energy, not time, is our most precious resource. We should therefore forsake our national workaholism and take better care of ourselves. That way we will have more energy when we go to work. Get it? In a series of case studies, the authors pinpoint the lifestyle shortcomings of people who sound suspiciously like us ("Gary A.: APATHY"). While some will be revved up by this ode to energy, others will just pour another cup of coffee. --By Andrea Sachs