Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms

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And I got to go… and then you get into this kind of rat race and I feel like that’s where many of us are spending too much of our time without actually pressing the pause button, stepping back and say, A, do I even care about this?

I see making art as an entrepreneurial journey because you’re a charting a course without a set map and you’re tapping into your creativity – so in my book you are an up and coming entrepreneur! I am working myself into the ground and I have very little spare time and when I do have time off I am so exhausted I don’t do anything at all! No, not every idea will work for everyone, but if you approach the book with an open mind the ideas that are laid out can help you start your own brainstorm to figure out what may work for you. I’m not… I don’t feel like I’ve found my thing, what I found is, the less I did, the less busy I was, the more powerful my work became and I felt less like I was pretending, playing business, and I felt more like, oh this is real.In the first part, you are really making the case, the philosophy of do less, have more, and in the second part of the book, there’s these 14 bite sized experiments that any woman, or man, could test for herself. I am so grateful for my journey and all the lessons learned through hardship and loneliness and overwhelm… and if it weren’t for those moments of respite, of making “space for grace,” I don’t know who or where I would be today, let alone who my daughter would be. In a way, it’s completely egotistical to think that if I don’t do it, no one else will or won’t do it as well as I could. Although I am an “empty nester” and have been gifted with more time as a mother I am going to join your experiment.

Marie: We both know the stats about this and most people feel it intuitively, they feel it in their hearts about loneliness is on the rise, people feel so socially isolated and this is a simple but unexpected way to combat some of that, to reach out. What if you had a blueprint to make sure everything that matters on 2020 gets done and that you’re blissed out and satisfied as you work your plan? Then Covid-19 happened and my gyms closed three weeks before I had even thought about starting my maternity leave. I can hit it hard and then I got to take a break or do something else for a little bit because just grinding doesn’t really work and then this was cool.Reading something in black and white that we “already know” can not only pull our knowledge from the back of our mind, but also validate that we’re on the right path. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect because as strange as it may sound, while parenting solo and working full time while also being a student to try to finish my undergraduate degree was a lot, and often incredibly stressful and lonely, I knew in my bones that there wasn’t enough of me to share with another and to have a healthy, meaningful relationship with both my daughter and a partner, no matter how much that person might have been able to lighten my load.

She has 14 experiments in useful areas as sleep and asking for help, but the chapters are heavy on anecdotal stories from her online community that she plugs in and after the book, and low on actual detailed experiments. So I said yes to being one of his subjects and had the best time with my one experience of being an artist’s model.

And I know I have gloried in being a ‘Jill of all trades’, and a spur of the moment creative person. Can you share the story about the friend that you had who you love her and she was fun and vivacious but she also came with a lot of drama? For anyone in our audience who’s unfamiliar, will you please give us a rundown of the 80/20 rule and then we can talk about how important it is to know your vital few. PLUS 6 Steps to Set Goals in Alignment with the Truth of Who You Are, and 7 Steps to Identify the 20% of Actions that Give You 80% of Your Results. Kate Northrup has written one of the most relatable, current, and savvy books for this new era of womanhood.