Not My Department
How to Stop Managing Other People and Put Your Energy Back Into Your Own Life
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Not My Department
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AI Voice
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Narrated by:
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AI Voice
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By:
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Evan Caldwell
This title uses virtual voice narration
Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
Summary
You check whether your sister replied. You replay the coworker's tone from this morning. You draft a speech for a neighbor who will never hear it. By bedtime you're exhausted, and almost none of it was your job.
Most of what drains us belongs to someone else, or to no one at all.
Not My Department is a practical guide to one simple habit: when something bothers you, ask whose tray it belongs in. Mine holds your words, actions and next hour. Theirs holds other people's choices, moods and opinions. Nobody's holds traffic, luck, the news and the past. Hand back what isn't yours, then spend the energy you just saved on your own life. Every chapter ends with a short Tray Check you can try the same day.
You'll learn how to:
• Run a one-day audit and see where your energy really goes
• Use the three-second sort when you're annoyed and your thumbs are on the keyboard
• Stop renovating your partner, and make a request once instead of a hundred times
• Give grown children, parents and friends room without losing closeness
• Mute the family group chat and stay out of the comment section
• Stop blaming anyone, yourself included, for traffic, delays and bad luck
• Set boundaries that depend on what you do, not on what they do
• Go after a goal while other people watch and comment
Evan Caldwell also shows what to do when someone else's choice lands on you, why comparison is just peeking into another person's tray, and how to protect your focus at work. Along the way you'll meet people like Joyce, whose Sunday advice was shortening family visits, and Carlos, who sold forty loaves at a farmers' market before telling anyone about his bakery.
If you care about everyone and feel tired all the time, this book is for you. Press play, and clear your desk.
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