The Art of Enough: 7 ways to build a balanced life and a flourishing world

by Becky Hall

Overview

***THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE 2022/23 SHORTLISTED TITLE***

Ever feel like you aren’t Enough? Overwhelmed by too many demands?

Concerned about over-consumption and the climate crisis

You’re not alone. The Art of Enough is the challenge of our age.

In a world full of pressure to be more, do more and consume more, this practical guidebook will help you find your own version of Enough. Enough is a springboard for self-belief, a healthy work pace and sustainable living, so you can move from striving to thriving.

Weaving together ideas, stories and practices, The Art of Enough offers seven ways to ease away from the pull of scarcity and excess, towards flourishing with Enough; finding the balance and boundaries we all need for ourselves and for our world.

Becky Hall is a coach, facilitator and speaker and has worked for over 20 years with teams, organizations and leaders, helping busy people all over the world create their own Art of Enough.

‘If you want to have a better life and to make the world a better place then you must read this book. It is wise and practical and beautifully easy to read, everybody should read it’
Charles Handy, bestselling author of The Empty Raincoat and The Second Curve.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788602891
Publisher:	Practical Inspiration Publishing
Publication date:	09/21/2021
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Becky Hall has worked for over 25 years with people in a wide range of organisations as a consultant and executive coach. She specialises in helping people build gravitas, presence and inner confidence, and she has designed and run numerous resilience, leadership and change programmes for businesses to help them shape their cultures, often speaking and running workshops on these subjects too. This work on building confidence, resilience and presence, together with helping people manage overload in a 24/7 digital world, led to the development of the tools designed to enable her clients to create their own ‘art of enough’. Becky's credentials include a first-class English & Drama degree, a Masters in Adult Learning and Fellowships of CIPD and the RSA. She is a registered senior practitioner with the EMCC (European Coaching regulator), a Heart Math accredited coach and part of the Coaching Constellations systemic coaching teaching team. She also trained and worked for eight years as an actor and brings much of what she learned in the theatre to her practice now. A member of numerous networks in her professional work, Becky blogs and writes regularly about The Art of Enough.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why we need the Art of Enough 1

Part 1 The Art of being Enough 15

Art 1 Enough Mindset - source your thinking from abundance 17

Art 2 Enough Permission - the freedom of finding your belonging 39

Art 3 Enough Presence - how to manage your state to find flow 65

Part 2 The Art of doing Enough 91

Art 4 Enough Boundaries - the clarity of coherence 93

Art 5 Enough Resource - harnessing your power 121

Part 3 The Art of having Enough 153

Art 6 Enough Growth - the wisdom of growing sustainably 155

Art 7 Enough Connection - the love that glues Enough together 187

Epilogue: Enough Transformation 213

Glossary of practices 219

Acknowledgements 223

Permissions 227

Notes and bibliography 229