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

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Prioritize: Identify your top 3 priorities for the week and devote yourself to them. Remember to focus on the vital few 20% of things that give you 80% results.

I think a lot of the advice she gives is important but she doesn't always provide ways to apply it to one's own life. For example, she dedicates two chapters to learning to ask for help, without offering concrete steps on how to actually do so. We can bend and stretch time by changing our perception of it, choosing to not, and fully inhabiting the time (Kairos).It’s pretty straightforward if you have a normal, healthy, regular 28-day menstrual cycle, but there are so many reasons that may not be the case. Marie: I mean for me, simply to amplify is like, I live my life by that and same thing, I have to remind myself of it often because ideas just… They’re like bunnies, popping out of my brain all the time. I got to corral this thing down. So it is, it’s wise. Talking about what really matters, tell us the story of you going to your annual direct sales convention. I thought that was kind of brilliant and this goes into the theme of really being rooted and knowing what matters to you and it’s going to be different for me, for you, for you, for everyone. So now it is, and if you’re ready to have time on your side, you can give yourself that gift right now .

Pareto’s Law of the Vital Few: 20 percent of our efforts produce 80 percent of results. I don’t know a coach or business entrepreneur who doesn't teach this, which means it’s super important! Northrup give us the following exercise to help us identify our vital few. The idea of this book is to take tiny experiments in your life revolving around doing less. Sounds like a great concept! The author spends a lot of time sharing experiences from her own life, marriage, and kids. Personal experience can be a profound place to begin a story. I just couldn't connect to the author in any meaningful way. I found the focus on "femininity" to be over the top. Create a weekly to-do list instead of a daily list: This allows you to see the big picture, be realistic about what is possible in the time you have, and leaves space for the unexpected.Kate: Yeah and your ideas will be better. When we do that, our work becomes richer. If you’re listening and you’re struggling with like, well what is my thing? 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. This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional life that's based on presence, meaning, and joy. As opposed to focusing on fitting it all in, time management, and leaning in, as so many books geared at ambitious women do, this book embraces the notion that through doing less women can have--and be--more. Kate: Yeah, a book launch is really a time… I mean I remember my first book launch, I really had an asking hangover. It felt really awful and I’m happy to report because I’ve been practicing what I preach, that this time it was… I do not have an asking hangover and that’s awesome.