Resources

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Borzoi/Knopf, 2016.
A brilliant and fun book on fulfillment as a guide to your career. Highly recommended.  Also see Designing Your New Work Life below.

Four Thousand Weeks:  Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Funny, wise and kind of relaxing: it’s not true that you could get everything done if you just had a better system. “Tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude.” 

Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive
Kristin Neff, Ph.D. Harper Wave, 2021.
How to “balance tender self-acceptance with fierce action.”  

Designing Your New Work Life.
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Vintage, 2021.
How to improve your current job through design thinking.  

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Eric Barker. HarperOne, 2019.
Amusing and useful insights into success in life and work. Barker knows the research and presents it clearly.

Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work’s Chaos
Michael Carroll. Shambhala, 2004.
Examples: Avoid idiot compassion. Study the six confusions. No blame.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen. Penguin, 2015.
A classic, practical guide to organizing your work so you can relax and be productive.

The Procrastinator’s Guide to Getting Things Done
Monica Ramirez Basco. Guilford Press, 2010.
A sympathetic guide to why we procrastinate and how to change.