The Awesome Human Project
Break Free from Daily Burnout, Struggle Less, and Thrive More in Work and Life
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Stop struggling and start living your best life—with the inspiring, proven program that's transformed over a million people.
We are all experiencing unprecedented levels of stress and burnout. Exhaustion is at an all-time high. Leaders are depleted, employees are burning out at an alarming rate, and parents met their breaking point long ago. We are struggling and in desperate need of a new path forward.
In The Awesome Human Project, Nataly Kogan, emotional fitness and leadership expert and author of Happier Now, shows us the way. She makes the compelling case that while challenge in life is constant, struggle is optional. Here, she shares an accessible, super-practical, and unboring guide for reducing daily struggle and burnout—so you can live, work, and lead with more energy, joy, and meaning, even during difficult times.
Nataly wrote The Awesome Human Project in response to her own journey. A refugee who achieved tremendous success, she had come to see struggle as a way of life. But her burnout taught her a powerful lesson: you can’t give what you don’t have. She writes, “Strengthening your emotional fitness is an essential investment in your success and leadership, and an act of love to everyone you care about.”
Filled with simple, science-backed practices and Nataly’s contagious energy, The Awesome Human Project will teach you how to strengthen your emotional fitness skills, create a more supportive relationship with yourself as well as your thoughts and emotions, reduce self-doubt, and cultivate more honest and meaningful connections with others.
The Awesome Human Project is a book that you do—not just a book that you read. It includes:
• Nataly’s proven, science-backed, five-week program to boost your emotional fitness
• Bite-sized neuroscience lessons so that you can learn to be the boss of your brain
• What awesome leaders do differently and why it matters
• Ways to get rid of guilt around self-care for good
• An “SOS” section to get you unstuck right now
• Nataly’s wildly popular “Notes to Self,” with inspiration to support your progress
• Awesome Human Awards!
There is an Awesome Human within every single one of us. The Awesome Human Project is the essential guidebook to help you embrace your Awesome Human and become the best version of yourself—with courage and compassion.
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Kogan (Happier Now), the CEO of Happier Inc., prods readers in this gusto-filled guide to transform themselves into an "Awesome Human," which she defines as a person forgiving of oneself, willing to question negativity, and who leads others to do the same by example. After divulging that "most of my life, struggle was my religion," she lays out a regimen to becoming "Awesome" that includes developing courage and habits of self-care (she challenges readers to work on their "emotional fitness" over five weeks); exercises and "rewards," such as writing out "Your Awesome Human Commitment"; and lauding oneself with an "Awesome Human In-Training" Award (much like praise on student homework, awards are doodled and circled on the book's page). Finally, Kogan encourages readers to put their new skills to work in a variety of real-life situations, including feeling stuck, overwhelmed, surrounded by negativity, or flooded with guilt. The core message can be summed up with the chorus phrase: "Challenge is constant. Struggle is optional." It's not a particularly novel revelation, but it bears repeating. Fans of Rachel Hollis will enjoy this cheery but down-to-earth approach to emotional wellness.