The Rest Revolution: – by Amanda Littlejohn

Whether you are working all hours around the clock, or retired and now expected to tend to everyone else’s needs as well as your own increasing amount of time spent on medical appointments and the like, as a general rule the world commonly asks of us more than we are reasonably able to give. And yet so often, we try anyway.

This book covers where this societal push came from, and why it’s been perpetuated despite ultimately serving very few people’s interests. How it results in “back-burnering” things that matter, and how we can recalibrate to put what matters back on the front burner.

Ultimately, she argues, overworking is not even best for personal productivity (because of burnout and diminishing marginal returns on the way to burnout), and thus neither is it even best for achieving personal ambitions. Her prescribed antidote for this covers realigning our time and space, restoring our connections where they are important, and—yes, we can still be productive—working with what we find is working for us, rather than what isn’t.

The style is personal at the same time as being delivered with professional skill and clarity.

Bottom line: if ever you feel like you’re not enough for all that is expected (or “needed”) of you, this book may be an important reset-point.

Click here to check out The Rest Revolution, and reclaim your energy!