Table of Contents
A Toast xiii
Introduction 1
1 How to Create a Miracle 9
2 The You in the Center of You 14
3 Buckle Up, Because I'm About to Get Deep Here, People 17
4 Rested, Fed, Meditated, Walked, Cuddled, and Creatively Satisfied 23
Paus: Daily Grind 27
5 Nothing Is More Important Than Your Well-Being 29
6 Six Ways to Take Control of Your Time 33
7 Quit Playing Overwhelmed Poker 40
8 You're Overwhelmed Because You Have Too Many Ideas 42
9 Completion Is Overrated 44
10 Feel Free to Leapfrog 46
11 Actually, You're Underwhelmed 48
12 Quit Buying Groceries at the Quickie Mart 50
13 Cantsayno Syndrome 53
14 Minimum Daily Requirement 55
15 Time Boulders 58
16 You're Not Overwhelmed, You're Overwrought 63
Pause: All I Have 65
17 Reimagining Well-Being 67
18 Activating Your Weil-Being 70
19 In Search of a Fainting Couch 72
20 HALTT 76
21 Getting Out of the Urgency Trap 78
22 Your Weil-Being 80
23 Delegation for Recovering Perfectionists 81
24 Hire Geniuses 84
25 Delegate It. Really. You Can Do This. 87
Pause: Another Person 89
26 You're Not Thinking What You Think You're Thinking 91
27 New Thought versus Old Tapes 95
28 How My Intuition Led Me to Live in Paradise 98
29 Ten Ways to Cultivate Your Intuition 102
30 The Intuition Killers 104
31 Values-Based Decision Making 106
32 Happy Grown-Up Naked Time 110
33 There's No More-Perfect You 114
Pause: The Desert 117
34 Nothing Bad Is Happening 119
35 Your Slightly Future Self 123
36 You're Ready Now 125
37 Set Good, Better, Best Goals 129
38 The Inevitable Backlash 131
39 The Inevitable Backlash, Part 2: The Inside Job 135
40 What Are You Afraid Might Happen? 137
41 New Pain Is Worse Than Old Pain 139
42 The Middle Way 141
43 Being Decisive 146
44 That Little Kid Looks So… 148
Pause: Too Much 155
45 Five Ughs and Three Ahhs 157
46 Consider Future Costs, Not Sunk Costs 159
47 The Seven Kinds of Clutter Nobody Ever Talks About 163
48 Clutter Dive 167
49 Clearing Out Your Dream Closet 170
50 A Few Remarkably Destructive Communication Habits to Stop Right Now 173
51 No More Rehearsing Conversations 176
52 Greet Your Mistakes with Grace 180
Pause: Not Exactly What I Had Planned 183
53 Test-Drive a Bigger Goal 185
54 Life Does Not Move in One Direction 187
55 You're Getting Paid in the Currency You're Asking For 189
56 Swatting Away Success 192
57 An Antidote to the Fear 194
58 Will Success Make You Selfish? 196
Pause: The Talent Box 199
59 Your Tribe Is Looking for You 201
60 Sam's Twenty Guidelines for Successful Tribe
Building and Management 205
61 Of Course You're Concerned about Not Fitting In 212
62 Be the Elusive Rainbow Sparkles Unicorn 215
63 Are You in the Right Tribe? 220
64 There I Am 221
65 You Can't Take Everyone with You 225
Conclusion: My Perfect Life 227
Acknowledgments 229
Index 231
About the Author 239