"Best Dweller" Books...for Serious Achievers:
Finally, a publishing firm that links the career and personal sides of life. Tantalus Books is proud to publish books that last. Each one helps teams reach corporate goals and "jump start" individual humanity. Other "best dweller" titles record award winning literature and poetry that make life sing. The balance we seek is a tool used to arrive at honorable goals with time and energy left over for living life to its fullest. Our books are written to last. The selection of Tantalus (from Classical Mythology) evolved from Rick Griggs' vision in the early 1980's to meld management techniques that pass the test of time with 'human skills' of personal essence and authenticity. We hope to 'tantalize' you and get you reading a book a month. Everyone wants a great life and wonderful fulfillment in their work. Here's how to do it! We hope you enjoy the reading. TRIUMPH IN TEAMS
Spark your team with these short and spicy gems that create mastery. Discover how the Emperor
Napoleon triumphed and why he endured two exiles. Started over 200 years ago, find how his
"Arc de Triomphe" illustrates the way good ideas become great successes.
You’ll finish the book with 20 "sparkling" lessons and hidden secrets for you
and your team.
BRIDGES TO BALANCE 
This gem of a book offers nuggets of wisdom for the professional and the individual eager to achieve a more balanced lifestyle. #53 - The keys to balance and success begin with reflection. Next comes hard work and patient waiting #114 - Know the pace of life that keeps you happiest and keep that pace. #257 - When you're under unfair pressure, spare yourself by saying "no"
when "no" is what you need to say.
Described as "A Companion Guide to Professional Balance", author Rick Griggs' groundbreaking 1989 book on balance, recently re-issued, BRIDGES TO BALANCE is an excellent corporate gift or take-along guide for training courses and seminars. Don't miss out! This one's a keeper, rich with advice you'll return to over and over. Price: $9.95 Order this book from Amazon.com QUALITY ANGLES & THE "TANTALUS" COMPLEX 
What is quality? This book offers a new perspective, presenting "angles" of quality that illuminate and inform. Chapters devoted to the many aspects of quality in the workplace are interspersed with profiles of quality personified, in the lives and unique careers of twenty-five successful individuals. Chapter discussions cover such topics as empowerment, risk taking, setting and measuring quality standards, diversity, process and improvement, balance, and achievement. Also included is an overview of the "Tantalus" complex, the classic dilemma of wanting something badly, but being unable to get it. This book can make an important difference in how you perceive quality and what steps you take to achieve it. If you want to know why, "Good information and new perspectives will lead to quality products, services, and even lifestyles", this is a book you should read. Price: $25.00 Order this book from Amazon.com PROFESSIONAL BALANCE The Careerstyle Approach to Balanced Achievement 
Looking for the key to professional success? You'll find it in this ground-breaking book, and the key is BALANCE. Without it, you may find yourself thwarted at every turn, wondering why the going is all uphill. With it, you can turn your efforts into achievement and attain a higher level of success. Through thoughtful analysis and practical guidance this book examines the important interplay of such aspects as health, nutrition, sexuality, stress, failure, goal-setting and the psychology of achievement on one's personal and professional life. As author Rick Griggs asserts, "Balanced living and working come from understanding." PROFESSIONAL BALANCE will help you understand the crucial role balance plays, and give you tools to achieve it. Price: $25.00 Order this book from Amazon.com PERSONAL WELLNESS Achieving Balance for Healthy Living 
This comprehensive handbook is an invaluable guide for achieving and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Through tips, quizzes, charts, and personal planning programs, this book lays out the steps you need to evaluate and improve your overall health. Areas covered include back care, nutrition, exercise, heart health, stress management, substance abuse, the special concerns of children and the elderly, and the concepts of macro and micro balance. This book unveils a broad scope of information in an easy to read format. Changing your life to achieve greater health can be done. This book will show you how. Price: $11.00 Order this book from Amazon.com QUALITY AT WORK A Personal Guide to Professional Standards 
Quality sets you and your product apart. The seven sections in this innovative handbook provide a guide for setting quality standards based on your personal and professional goals, and implementing them. Using such novel concepts as the Q-match, P-A-S Options, role-storming, and principles of prevention, this hands-on book will take you through each step of the process needed to develop a plan and achieve maximum results. Included are the ten basic components of quality most helpful for beginning or changing a quality program. As stated in the preface, "This book is for everyone who works." Unless you are among the rare few who don't, this book is for you. Price: $11.00 Order this book from Amazon.com THE ROAD TO OPTIMISM Change Your Language -- Change Your Life 
This pioneering book, based on the premise that our words have the power to transform our lives, shows you how to use language to build optimism, the key factor in achieving personal and professional well-being. Offering invaluable insights into how we limit ourselves though negative language and perceptions, this book is also a roadmap for change. Through techniques such as the Language Inclusion Process, you'll be able to leave negative thinking behind, and embrace the power of optimism. Chapters include discussions on making choices, unlearning limiting behavior, achieving forward momentum, managing anger, coping with loss, and paying your dues. This book is a must for anyone who wants to learn to "focus on the good stuff, the choices you can make in your words that will lead you to the uplifting results you desire." Price: $25.00 Order this book from Amazon.com THE GRIGGS ANTHOLOGY SERIES The volumes that currently comprise this anthology series feature award winning poetry
and prose from writers honored in the "Across the River" Writers Roundtable's
annual writing competition. Judged by an independent panel of writing experts, these selections
represent the best of the best, writing you'll remember long after you turn the last page.
DAYLIGHT SONG 
A showcase of award winning poetry and prose, this second volume in the Griggs Anthology Series is a delight to peruse. Featured are talented teen writers like Valerie Nebo, whose eloquent poem, "Daylight Song" lends its title to this collection, and award winning adult writers. Included in the collection are Blanche Abram's poignant portrait of her grandmother in, "The Mixing Bowl", and Teresa Brandt's charming recollection, "Bluebells", rich in imagery and sentiment. This book makes compelling reading for any serious reader. Price: $11.00 Order this book by calling 1.888.647.4447
WHERE IS JOEY GARCIA? 
Like its title poem, this third collection in the Griggs Anthology Series, WHERE IS JOEY GARCIA? tackles compelling issues and features a laudable array of talent. Included are award winning writers Kirk Ridgeway whose haunting poem, "Last Note, First Note", sings with beauty, and Fred Norman, whose "Origin of Stories' mesmerizes with its rhythm and soul. This is a book you'll find hard to put down -- a must for anyone in love with words. Price: $11.00 Order this book from Amazon.com
DEATH AND DOUGHNUTS 
"We have come to this city across a map of ice on night roads winding through cast-iron darkness in a long convoy where men sleep while sitting upright..." This excerpt from James Garvey lyrical poem, "A Pause Too Brief", is typical of the
quality writing featured in this latest of the Griggs Anthologies. Prose or poem, fiction or
non-fiction, this book shines. Included are Jessica Inclan's stirring poem, "When We
Almost Drowned", and "Of Muu-muus and Memories", a non-fiction portrait by
Camille DeFer Thompson that unfolds with quiet grace.
MY WISH, Dave Boon 
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