Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women

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Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women

Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women

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It has 3 main elements (and all of them are self-dated so you can start whenever you want and skip a day or two here and there): Marie: Yeah and it’s about meaning too. I actually highlighted this from the book. You wrote, the whole purpose of doing less, is to have the experience of having more, not more stuff, but more meaning in our lives and I thought that really beautifully articulated what so many of us are craving. You and I obviously both remember a time when we were running our businesses and social media didn’t exist. We also remember a time… Kate: Here’s what I recommend and I wrote… This was the longest section of the book. Obviously, some of it got cut but I wrote 25 thousand words just in a chapter on asking for help, which is like a third of a book because it’s so… Here’s the thing, we have been raised to believe that if the more we can do by ourselves, the more valuable we are as human beings but there’s nobody at the end of their life and I talked about Bronnie Ware’s book, The Five Biggest Regrets of the Dying, which I know you’ve referred to too. Nobody is having a regret at the end of their life like, I wish I had done more things by myself. No one is thinking that and here’s what I found, becoming a mom forced me to ask for help in ways I never would have before because the well being of my child depended on it and I recommend asking for help early, so asking before you think you’re going to need help. Ever since my first book, Money: A Love Story , came out in 2013 I’ve been waiting for the “next big thing” to emerge. Your energy levels (and hormones if you have a period that’s unmedicated) are primed for focus and completion at this time. Utilize this energy to take a look at your analytics, see what kind of content your people are resonating with the most, and think about what you want to do less of on social and what you want to do more of in the next cycle.

A practical and spiritual guide for working women and mothers to learn how to have more by doing less. To create more Kairos in my life, I honor the changing of seasons by celebrating holidays and special occasions with ceremonies. I gather with others with a common intentional purpose, this is why I love retreats so much! People don’t regret being more successful or having achieved more in life. They regret not living a life that was more true to themselves rather than the life others expected of them. This book had me pondering how I can shift that dialogue to create more space, stretch time, and be kinder to myself. Below, I will expand on some of my favorite concepts from Do Less.With these tools you can create more space in your life anytime, even when–and especially when–it all feels like too much. OVER TO YOU: I’m so thrilled to let you know that we’re giving you special, complimentary access for a brand-new course we’re making called Make Time for Business: Do the Things That Make Money So You Can Do Less starting February 3rd for a limited time. Marie: Yeah, no. I mean I’ve been guilty of that. I’ve talked about this a lot. I’ve become more aware of it in probably this time in my life than say earlier but I was like, if I don’t do everything in my career, if I don’t do everything as it relates to my relationship, if I’m not the one orchestrating my family, everything, it’s all just going to fall to pieces and I was doing that and I was diminishing everybody around me. The cyclical macrocosm of pregnancy and how the trimesters align with the phases of the moon/menstrual cycle/seasons and how that may impact your creativity and productivity. When we ask often, we’ve strengthened the muscle and we get good at it and then it allows us to ask kindly and it is so much easier to think about… I think about in my marriage, when I’m cranky and I’m way past needing help, I am not easy to help and no one wants to help me because I’m awful and if I ask early and often, then it’s really easy to ask kindly where I can be like, hey babe, next week I’ve got this thing, can you get the girls at daycare and whatever, what have you, and it’s like, oh yeah, sure. No problem because you are being lovely right now.

Yoga Nidra is a fantastic way for busy women and mothers to get rest. It’s a deep meditation that gets your brain into a state of deep relaxation where you're not asleep but you're also not really conscious. 20 minutes of Yoga Nidra has the same restorative benefits of three hours of sleep. It's a guided meditation where you lie down for 15-30 minutes and somebody talks you through it. Both Northrup and I feel like Yoga Nidra is way more effective than a nap! Christiane Northrup, M.D., New York Times best-selling author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and Mother Daughter Wisdom

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Kate: Yeah. Early in the book promotion process I was on a podcast and she started off the podcast saying, well, I was very surprised to say that I really loved your book and I was like, okay. And she said, because I assumed, by the title, I was very triggered by the title, and I assumed that what you were going to be talking about was exactly that, hiring a nanny, getting a house cleaner, dah, dah, dah. And she said, I was raised by a single mom who worked three jobs and I was pleasantly surprised and thrilled to see that there’s nothing you wrote about in this book that my mother could not have done. And I wrote it with that in mind because I want people to actually be able to do this and get really good results, not to diminish their results. I mean it was a very messy year and yet we have the same results in our business and so I thought, well if I could get the same results working half this amount, what was I doing my entire adult life being obsessed with the 40 hour or 50 hour workweek, which by the way, is completely this arbitrary number that was set up during the industrial revolution based on how machinery works and it’s not evidence-based at all and of course we’ll talk about the evidence that shows the alternative and I think it’s so important for women, especially with rises in adrenal fatigue, heart disease, all of the anxiety. It’s related to stress and stress is obviously related to our obsession with doing but I am not about sacrificing results. It’s not about lying on the beach and eating bonbons either, unless you want to. This book inspired me to learn more about cyclical living, and there is an entire science behind it called cycle synching! When we harmonize our natural cycles, hormones, work/rest habits, diet, and exercise, we can truly optimize our well-being. Alissa Vitti is a fantastic teacher to learn more about cycle syncing. Her TED Talk is a great place to start!

I think the idea of planning projects/activities around our feminine cycle is interesting but only works for those healthy enough to have a "normal" cycle. Hell, I'll try it. In Do Less, Kate uses her signature, crystal clear wisdom to insist that we stop wearing busyness as a badge of honor and begin to claim our time, our peace, our lives. Then she shows us how. I inhaled Do Less and as I finished, I found myself breathing easier. Important book, perfect timing. Kate: You just make a date… you know what the other one I’ll just add that’s not in the book is, do an activity rather than just hanging out. There have been people in my life where we’re going to continue the relationship but I’ve realized it works really well to go to a museum or, honestly, do a project. Make a cake or something rather than just being in conversation. When you decide to become a time bender, you decide to be in control of your time rather than your time controlling you.” Time can be experienced differently, relative to our perception of it. For example, compare the five minutes you waited for your coffee this morning in line and the five minutes that you held your child for the first time in your arms. As Northrup says, “The five minutes you held your child for the first time in your arms, you were not aware of time. Time stood still. It could have been five minutes, it could have been five hours, it could have been five seconds.”Rounding up to two stars because I was curious enough to finish it. This book is a dumbed-down, mystical-female version of Tim Ferriss, with often painful writing. Examples: "If you find yourself wearing your cranky pants six out of seven days of the week, something's gotta give, lady." The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.” — David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy. Body first, business second: When you tend to your body’s needs first, your brain and hormones are able to function optimally and you get more done in less time. Before you plan your week, identify what your body needs.



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