Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do
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“Get Your Sh,t Together” is the followup to Sarah Knight’s “The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F,ck” about mental decluttering. This book aims to take you one step further in organizing the f,cks you care about, and overcoming bullsh,t self-sabotage, to achieve sustainable happiness.
Some of the areas covered:
- The power of negative thinking
- Tools for getting your sh,t together
- How to conquer your fear of failure
- How to save money and spend less
- Ways to manage anxiety and avoid avoidance
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If you have a question or problem, ask us:Table of Contents/ List of Topics Covered:
I. What we talk about when we talk about getting your shit together
- Who needs to get their shit together -- and why
- I lost my shit so you don’t have to
- Winning at life (without being an insufferable prick)
- Life is like an adult coloring book
- A coloring exercise
- Your real and metaphorical keys, phone, and wallet
- GYST Theory
- Let’s talk strategy
- Focus pocus
- Saying “I do.”
- But (thing I want to do) is too hard!
- The power of negative thinking
- Ready, set, goal!
II. SMALL SHIT: Nailing down the day-to-day to build a better future
- Beginning for beginners
- The What/Why Method for Setting Goals
- The bar is too damn high
- Time flies when you don’t have your shit together
- It’s on the calendar
- Your best friend and worst enemy (Feat. Prioritization, procrastination, and the difference between “to-do” and “must-do” lists)
- Best Friends 4 EVA
- Fuck Overload
- The Must-Do Method
- Sleeping with the enemy
- Ten things I’ve done that weren’t on my to-do list to procrastinate doing things that were
- Get your shit together: a flowchart
- Where does the time go?
- Frailty, thy name is distraction!
- The Wizard of Impulse Control
- Making the sober decision
Correspondence course
- It’s not the size of the inbox, it’s how you use it
- Reining in your sending habits
- “Great, thanks!”
- The Purge
- The day-to-day (or week-to-week)
- Inbox Anxiety
- Dialing it in
Quittin’ time: an experiment
- The midday ambush
The money shot
- Hey, Big Spender
- No pennies left to pinch
- FIve things on which you don’t need to spend $3.57 (or more)
- We bought a zoo
- A spoon of willpower helps the medicine go down (Feat. The Art of War Willpower)
- An emotional spanking
III. TOUGH SHIT: Getting older, getting ahead, getting healthy, and getting better at life in general
Responsibilities & Relationships
- For adults only
- Life’s a pitch
- Righting the relation-ship
- Missed connections
- “Hi” maintenance is low-maintenance
- Wish you were here!
- The Relationship Relay
- Strategize, focus, (de)commit
- Nobody puts Baby in the culturally acceptable corner
Work & Finances
- Skills include
- Be a con(fidence) man
- Ask and ye shall receive
- Five more ways in which you can demonstrate to your boss that you have your shit together
- I’ll show you my out-of-office if you show me yours (Feat. Anticipation vs. reality)
- Make like Elsa and let it go
- Good things come to those who delegate
- But what if it doesn’t get done to my standards?
- Nobody’s going to die on the table
- The 411 on your 401(k) or IRA (Feat. Charts!)
Health, Home & Lifestyle
- Let’s get physical
- Work it out, or find the work-around
- Get your sheets together
- Take the cinnamon bun, maybe leave the cannoli
- Good clean living
- HGTV is lying to you
- I’ve got a guy for that (and so could you)
- Winning by osmosis
- PS Don’t be such a fucking martyr
- “Me time” is a right, not a privilege
- Hobbies with which I have rewarded myself for getting other shit done (Feat. Bubble baths)
- You have to lobby for your hobby
- Become pro-creation
IV. DEEP SHIT: Mental health, existential crises, and making big life changes
- Getting your shit together to get out of your own way
- Anxiety, you ignorant slut (Feat. Ripping off the Band-Aid and The Practice Test)
- Avoidance is not a zero-sum game
- How to start a difficult conversation
The other F-word(s)
- Analysis paralysis
- The call is coming from the inside of the house
- Things that are healthier to fear than failure
Just say no to being perfect
- Twelve steps for defeating perfectionism
Help wanted
- The case of the disappearing girl
- Want to make big life changes? Look at the small picture.
- B-I-N-G-O
- I know you are but what am I?
- Get your shit together, Pam
- Hello from the other side
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
What You Get:
- Hardcover $12.35
- Audio CD $16.62
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