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  • By: Marlee Grace
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  • Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)
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Summary

This audiobook is a quiet revolution, a guide filled with practical advice to help you curb your obsessions and build boundaries between your work, your job, and your life. From business anecdotes about fulfilling orders to more personal stories about Marlee Grace’s recovery from divorce and addiction, this audiobook is full of wisdom and resilience, with plenty of discussion about ritual and routine as ways to create effective and positive creative life change.

In her workshops on healing and creative process, Grace helps people acknowledge their blocks and address them by setting distinct parameters that change their behavior. Now, she brings her methods and ideas to the wider world, offering all of us concrete ways to break free from our devices and focus on what’s really important - our own aliveness.

Part workbook, part advice manual, part love letter, How to Not Always Be Working ventures into the space where phone meets life, helping listeners to define their work - what they do out of sense of purpose; their job - what they do to make money; and their breaks - what they do to recharge and to feel connected to themselves and the people who matter to them. Grace addresses complex issues such as what to do if your work and your job are connected, provides insights to help you figure out how much is too much, and offers suggestions for making the best use of your time.

Essential for everyone who feels overwhelmed and anxious about our hyperconnected world - whether you’re a corporate lawyer, a student, a sales person, or a yoga instructor - How to Not Always Be Working includes practical suggestions and thoughtful musings that prompt you to honestly examine your behavior - how you burn yourself out and why you’re doing it.

A creative manifesto for living better, it shows you how to carve sacred space in your life.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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©2018 Marlee Grace (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers

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I’m the narrow target audience and I still didn’t get much from it.

Felt more like notes to self than a book written for other people. I liked the basic idea of categorising what was and was not work, but it’s far too zoomed in on the authors personal experience to make it helpful to anyone else. If your work is posting on social media it might be relatable but not particularly helpful.

I am a social media influencer so I am technically her target audience but I actually came away from this book frustrated and that’s a first for me. none of the ideas in this book are anything people don’t already know and could have been summarised in 3 points that we all see on instagram every day - spend more time outdoors, turn your phone off, make time for self care.

More suited to a magazine article than a book.

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