Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms

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What’s next is, I really think our busyness is a way that we numb and it’s a way that we avoid being with the space of just like who we are. To feel more energized and confident about the most ideal times to do the things you want and need to do in your life? I’d love to date, find a less stressful job, or do something fun but I don’t know what I can release to make the room for it. Kate: Yeah because I mean if… On average, we get interrupted every 11 minutes and it takes us 25 minutes to get refocused on what we were doing and so if you do the math, you realize you’re spending zero minutes focused on what you were doing, on average, and our brain, if we don’t give ourselves the break, our brain will actually try to get the break itself by distracting ourselves. As an entrepreneur, best-selling author, mother, and activist, Kate Northrup supports ambitious, motivated, and successful women to light up the world without burning themselves out in the process.

It’s full of loads of exercises and things to try to help you discover what’s really important in life, what’s really beneficial as far as productivity goes, and what’s standing in your way of actually saying no to the things you don’t need any longer. It’s not about always receiving the help, it’s also about replenishing ourselves because there is this give and take and you will need and I will need and you will need and I will need and then the last thing is to ask for help kindly because when we ask early, before we need it, then we’re not in crisis.Although I am an “empty nester” and have been gifted with more time as a mother I am going to join your experiment. While I may not follow her exact methods, there were several parts that got me thinking about ways that I could do my own experiments to help me ‘Do Less’. I love you, I love your work, and even when I saw the title, I could feel this knee jerk… Wait, what? It would almost be worth it to tell my job, after being assigned a task, that I can’t do it this week because I am in a more reflective, introspective phase of my menstrual cycle right now, just to see what the reaction would be. I heard about Kate Northrup’s book Do Less two years ago in an interview she did on the Marie Forleo podcast and MarieTV.

Once the egg chooses which sperm (or sperms, in the case of multiples) to let in, if there’s anything wrong with its DNA, she actually has the ability to repair its DNA and improve it. One, consider changing your side of the relationship dance, which is exactly what you just described, right?

Then he thought about honey (which he did a lot) and what to do next, and decided to just follow the links below - thinking was hard work for a bear! Kate Northrup is an entrepreneur, best selling author, and mom, who’s built a digital empire that reached hundreds of thousands. And I wrote it with that in mind because I want people to actually be able to do this and get really good results, not to diminish their results.

It’s related to stress and stress is obviously related to our obsession with doing but I am not about sacrificing results.Obviously, some of it got cut but I wrote 25 thousand words just in a chapter on asking for help, which is like a third of a book because it’s so… Here’s the thing, we have been raised to believe that if the more we can do by ourselves, the more valuable we are as human beings but there’s nobody at the end of their life and I talked about Bronnie Ware’s book, The Five Biggest Regrets of the Dying, which I know you’ve referred to too. In the first part, you are really making the case, the philosophy of do less, have more, and in the second part of the book, there’s these 14 bite sized experiments that any woman, or man, could test for herself. I myself was shocked because I would just focus on how much I was earning and shaming myself for it. Once a month an egg is released from the ovary (at ovulation) and hangs out for a little bit being available for fertilization. I inhaled this book because it illuminates a language about women and work that I've lived by without realizing it.

I chuckled to myself as I read her message because I too am the product of a culture that’s taught me that my worth is associated with how much I do.

And it instantly changed the dynamic where she was like… I just tossed the hot potato back to her and she was like, oh, this is my potato and then it really honestly forever changed the dynamic of our friendship and we could go back to the fun instead of tossing the drama back and forth. Only after I had made myself the sickest I’ve been for a very long time by trying to do too much… all while five months pregnant. Committed to empowering women entrepreneurs to create their most successful businesses while navigating motherhood, Kate is the founder and CEO of Origin Collective, a monthly membership site where women all over the world gather to achieve more while doing less. So, rather than approaching doing less as an entire life overhaul (which is overwhelming in and of itself), this book gives the reader bite-sized steps to try incorporating over 2 weeks! When I do less of the things that don’t matter, I’ll have so much time for the things that really do matter to me.