Curating Your Life
Ending the Struggle for Work-Life Balance
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- $26.99
Publisher Description
Choosing the things you keep in your life and where you focus your energy is doable, and Gail Golden shows you how.
Curating your life means selecting those activities that are most important, meaningful, and joyful for you and fiercely focusing your energy on those endeavors. It also means putting a whole bunch of stuff in the back room, to be reconsidered at another time.
Curating your life means sorting your activities into three categories:
• The things you are not going to do, at least not right now
• The things you will be mediocre at
• The things you will be great at
This is not simple. But the payoff is amazing. Living a well-curated life is doable. You get to succeed at the things that really matter to you, and you still get to enjoy life. Join Gail Golden on a tour of how to curate your life for success, happiness, and fulfillment.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Golden, principal consultant for a management psychology consulting firm, seeks to help readers strike a better work-life balance in her motivating debut. Using dozens of her clients' stories as examples, Golden emphasizes that "nobody can do it all" and that choosing where to funnel one's energy is crucial to success. She encourages readers to "curate" the most important parts of their lives by spending less time and energy on things they don't enjoy or excel at. However, readers are also reminded that "no curation is going to last forever, any more than a museum exhibit should stay the same for all eternity." Shifting goals and reprioritizing, she writes, are necessary for continued happiness. In engaging prose, she shares techniques for self-reflection, bulleted lists for setting priorities, and expanded ruminations at the end of chapters. While Golden's book is aimed at those who feel overworked, readers of all ages and circumstances will learn from Golden's purposeful approach to life. This delightful fusion of psychology, business, and self-help will be a boost to anyone feeling overwhelmed.
