Peaks and Valleys

Peaks and Valleys

Making Good and Bad Times Work for you – At Work and In Life


Peaks and Valleys is a story of a young man who lives unhappily in a valley until he meets an old man who live on a peak, and it changes his work and life forever.

Initially, the young man does not realize he is talking with one of the most peaceful and successful people in the world. However, through a series of conversations and experiences that occur up on peaks and down in valleys, the young man comes to make startling discoveries.

Eventually, he comes to understand how he can use the old man’s remarkable principles and practical tool in good and bad times and becomes more calm and successful himself.

Now you can take a similar journey thought the book and the story and use what you find to your advantage in your own work and life.


Points to remember from Peaks and Valleys.

To Manage your Good and Bad Times: Make Reality Your Friend

Whether you are temporarily up on a peak or down in a valley, ask yourself;

What is the truth in this situation?

To Get Out of a Valley Sooner: Find and Use the Good hidden in a Bad Time

Relax, knowing that Valleys end. Do the opposite of what put you in the Valley. Get outside of yourself; be of more service at work and more loving in life. Avoid comparisons. Uncover the good that is hidden in a bad time., and use it soon to your advantage.

To Stay On A Peak Longer: Appreciate and Manage Your Good Times

Be humble and grateful. Do more of what got you there. Keep making things better. Do more for others. Save resources for your upcoming valleys.

To Get to Your Next Peak: Follow Your Sensible Vision

Imagine yourself enjoying a better future in such specific, believable, detail, that you soon enjoy doing what takes you there.

To Help People: Share It With Others

Help people make good and bad times work for them, too.

Peaks and Valleys is written by Spencer Johnson who has also written “Who Moved My Cheese?” and “An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change” and another book called “The One Minute Manager”

You can read up on Dr. Johnson and books he has written at his website:

www.PeaksandValleysTheBook.com