The Obvious Changes: An Unbalanced, Ambitious, and Almost Unhinged Approach to Living an Intentional Life
What would it take for you to wake up excited about the monotony of the mundanity of your day-to-day tasks? To stop feeling guilty about the stuff you’re not doing, and instead be energized by what you’ve chosen to do?

This is the guide to building an awesome, aspirational, and fun life, to reclaiming optimism and meaning when the things we were once so excited to have—the dream job, the family and kids—become tedious obligations, each with a mounting daily task list that we can never seem to fully catch up on. It’s a book for the person who, already exhausted, keeps thinking they can “have it all” if they just work a little smarter or a lot harder.

We are all in a constant struggle to balance the primary competing priorities in our lives. Simplified, those are: Money, Health, and Relationships. Within each category, there are main elements. Within health, you have fitness, resiliency, and exploration. Within money, there’s guilt, comparison, and work. And within relationships, there’s family, community, and friendship.

The secret to self-improvement is simply a matter of strengthening one arm of the triangle at a time, without letting the others collapse. Over time, the entire structure strengthens.

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The Obvious Changes: An Unbalanced, Ambitious, and Almost Unhinged Approach to Living an Intentional Life
What would it take for you to wake up excited about the monotony of the mundanity of your day-to-day tasks? To stop feeling guilty about the stuff you’re not doing, and instead be energized by what you’ve chosen to do?

This is the guide to building an awesome, aspirational, and fun life, to reclaiming optimism and meaning when the things we were once so excited to have—the dream job, the family and kids—become tedious obligations, each with a mounting daily task list that we can never seem to fully catch up on. It’s a book for the person who, already exhausted, keeps thinking they can “have it all” if they just work a little smarter or a lot harder.

We are all in a constant struggle to balance the primary competing priorities in our lives. Simplified, those are: Money, Health, and Relationships. Within each category, there are main elements. Within health, you have fitness, resiliency, and exploration. Within money, there’s guilt, comparison, and work. And within relationships, there’s family, community, and friendship.

The secret to self-improvement is simply a matter of strengthening one arm of the triangle at a time, without letting the others collapse. Over time, the entire structure strengthens.

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The Obvious Changes: An Unbalanced, Ambitious, and Almost Unhinged Approach to Living an Intentional Life

The Obvious Changes: An Unbalanced, Ambitious, and Almost Unhinged Approach to Living an Intentional Life

by Jonathan Goodman
The Obvious Changes: An Unbalanced, Ambitious, and Almost Unhinged Approach to Living an Intentional Life

The Obvious Changes: An Unbalanced, Ambitious, and Almost Unhinged Approach to Living an Intentional Life

by Jonathan Goodman

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What would it take for you to wake up excited about the monotony of the mundanity of your day-to-day tasks? To stop feeling guilty about the stuff you’re not doing, and instead be energized by what you’ve chosen to do?

This is the guide to building an awesome, aspirational, and fun life, to reclaiming optimism and meaning when the things we were once so excited to have—the dream job, the family and kids—become tedious obligations, each with a mounting daily task list that we can never seem to fully catch up on. It’s a book for the person who, already exhausted, keeps thinking they can “have it all” if they just work a little smarter or a lot harder.

We are all in a constant struggle to balance the primary competing priorities in our lives. Simplified, those are: Money, Health, and Relationships. Within each category, there are main elements. Within health, you have fitness, resiliency, and exploration. Within money, there’s guilt, comparison, and work. And within relationships, there’s family, community, and friendship.

The secret to self-improvement is simply a matter of strengthening one arm of the triangle at a time, without letting the others collapse. Over time, the entire structure strengthens.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781400253432
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Publication date: 01/27/2026
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

JONATHAN GOODMAN is the creator of the Personal Trainer Development Center and host of the popular Obvious Choice podcast, a top show for coaches, entrepreneurs, and small business owners. Jon’s been featured in most major business and fitness publications including Men’s Health, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Robb Report, Inc., and many more. Over 200,000 coaches and small business owners in more than 120 countries have purchased business development materials from him. Originally from Toronto, Jon spends his winters exploring the World with his wife and two young sons.

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