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The Sweet Spot
- How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work
- Narrated by: Christine Carter Ph.D.
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you’ve glimpsed but can’t seem to hold on to—the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease.
Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and a speaker, writer, and mother, found herself exasperated by the busyness of modern life: too many conflicting obligations and not enough time, energy, or patience to get everything done. She tried all the standard techniques—prioritizing, multitasking, delegating, even napping—but none really worked. Determined to create a less stressful life for herself—without giving up her hard-won career success or happiness at home—she road-tested every research-based tactic that promised to bring more ease into her life. Drawing on her vast knowledge of the latest research related to happiness, productivity, and elite performance, she followed every strategy that promised to give her more energy—or that could make her more efficient, creative, or intelligent.
Her trials and errors are our reward. In The Sweet Spot, Carter shares the combination of practices that transformed her life from overwhelmed and exhausting to joyful, relaxed, and productive. From instituting daily micro-habits that save time to bigger picture shifts that convert stress into productive and creative energy, The Sweet Spot shows us how to:
- Say “no” strategically and when to say “yes” with abandon
- Make decisions about routine things once to free our minds to focus on higher priorities
- Stop multitasking and gain efficiency
- “Take recess” in sync with the brain’s need for rest
- Use technology in ways that bolster, instead of sap, energy
- Increase your ratio of positive to negative emotions
Complete with practical “easiest thing” tips for instant relief as well as stories from Carter’s own experience of putting The Sweet Spot into action, this timely and inspiring book will inoculate you against “The Overwhelm,” letting you in on the possibilities for joy and freedom that come when you stop trying to do everything right—and start doing the right things.
Critic Reviews
“If you, like me, are a fan of a certain kind of self-improvement book—the kind, like The Happiness Project or 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think or Getting Things Done, that offers up strategies for making certain areas of life work better without requiring that you embrace a new belief system—then I have a new book for you . . . The Sweet Spot.”—KJ Dell’Antonia, The New York Times (Motherlode blog)
“With all the agonizing about ‘having it all,’ UC Berkeley sociologist Christine Carter, PhD, blows us a breath of fresh air with her five-step, common-sense primer The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work. Based on personal experiments with living life in what she calls the ‘pressure cooker,’ Dr. Carter offers advice in easily digestible nuggets.”—Working Mother
“Carter gives actionable ways to balance your life, your health, and your career. This book is packed with smart advice and hard-earned wisdom.”—Inc.
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- Rebecca
- 26-10-2015
Highly recommend
Found this book very inspiring and useful. It has a lot of useful content for all different areas in your life. Lots to think about and try.
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- Meagan
- 29-05-2015
Fantastic read!!
I found this book wonderful. It was well read, practical and made me smile, laugh and cry! I have just finished listening to it and want to start at the beginning again.........You won't be disappointed with this one :)
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- Anonymous User
- 13-11-2019
So many gems for living a better life
Really enjoyed this book. It was very relatable especially for the busy lives of us women.
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