Away
- Each success was going to be the one.
- That voice goes quiet when you focus on the next thing.
- Where the chase becomes self betrayal.
A book by Jakob Gricar
No Off Switch
Why doing nothing feels like danger
Each success was going to be the one, and you got there, and that need to chase more didn't stop.
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4parts
11chapters
7questions to keep
I spoke to dozens of founders in the process of writing this book.
The trap
This is the big trap we've been sold.
You say you want more time with your kids, or your spouse or your hobbies. That's why you work so hard, to create that freedom. And the act of working is, by design, you not doing the thing you say you want more of.
You struggle to slow down and appreciate it, or maybe you cannot slow down at all, and you keep your gaze on the next milestone, needing every step to be filled with doing more.
This book will show you how to reverse that.
Every action you take is either moving toward something you want, or away from something you don't want to experience.
Toward
- At dinner and actually there, with your whole being.
- Forgetting where you put your phone, because you were simply doing what you enjoyed.
- Going to cafes without your laptop.
For a while they look the same in a calendar and in your bank account, but over time, one leads to burnout, and the other to an epic life.
Nobody hands you an award for stopping at the right time and going home.
From the introduction
What's inside
See it. Trace it. Clear it. Build from it.
Part One
See it
- No Off Switch
- You Are Not Working Because There Is Work
- Insight Is Not Freedom
Part Two
Trace it
- What You Get Out of It
- Where the Alarm Was Set
- The Ceiling You Built
- Worth, Outsourced
Part Three
Clear it
- Capacity, Not Regulation
- Clean It Up
Part Four
Build from it
- Pleasure Is Not a Reward
- An Ordinary Tuesday
Plus The Ground, The Seven Questions and the Field Cards.
The list
The book isn't out yet.
Put your name down and you'll hear from me first when it is.
- 01The Toward or Away tool, tonightTake the last thing you did today that nobody asked you for. Write one line under it. Toward, or away.
- 02First to knowYou hear from me first when the book is out.
You're on the list.
While you wait, run this tonight. Take the last thing you did today that nobody asked you for. Write one line under it. Toward, or away.
That's the whole tool, and it takes almost no time, and you're going to want to argue with the first answer it gives you.
