Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by Jim Loehr
Recommended by 5 notable people, including Derek Sivers and Noah Kagan
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Voice alternates between blunt coach commands and earnest encouragement, delivering a clear organizing idea about balancing stress and recovery. Its most useful element is practical language and repeatable routines that make energy limitations feel negotiable during busy workweeks. Limitations: the same model gets re-stated in different contexts, and the tone can flip from no-nonsense to earnest in ways that some readers find grating. Best approached as a slow read with space to try one or two changes.
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?Combines the gritty toughmindedness of the best coaches with the gentlebutinsistent inspiration of the most effective spiritual advisers? (Fast Company). This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recovery and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads ...
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Best Productivity Books, Most Recommended Books, and Psychology.
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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