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At Your Best

How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor

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By: Carey Nieuwhof
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“A perceptive and practical book about why our calendars so rarely reflect our priorities and what we can do to regain control.” (Adam Grant)

“Carey’s book will help you reorganize your life. And then you can share a copy with someone you care about.” (Seth Godin)

You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. An influential podcaster and thought leader shows you how.

Overwhelmed. Overcommitted. Overworked. That’s the false script an inordinate number of people adopt to be successful. Does this sound familiar:

  • Slammed is normal.
  • Distractions are everywhere.
  • Life gets reduced to going through the motions.

Tired of living that way? At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow.

Influential podcast host and thought leader Carey Nieuwhof understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than one thousand productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you.

At Your Best will help you:

  • Replace chronic exhaustion with deep productivity
  • Break the pattern of overpromising and never accomplishing enough
  • Clarify what matters most by restructuring your day
  • Master the art of saying no, without losing friends or influence
  • Discover why vacations and sabbaticals don’t really solve your problems
  • Develop a personalized plan to recapture each day so you can break free from the trap of endless to-dos

Start thriving at work and at home as you discover how to be at your best.

©2021 Carey Nieuwhof (P)2021 Random House Audio Career Success Christian Living Christianity Personal Development Spiritual Growth Stress Management Inspiring Career Energy Management

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“The results we get are largely determined by the systems in our lives. The wrong system makes results harder to get. The right system makes it easier, almost effortless, to achieve the right results. This is brilliantly illustrated in Carey Nieuwhof’s new book, At Your Best.” (Greg McKeown, New York Times best-selling author of Effortless and Essentialism and the host of the What’s Essential podcast)

“Carey Nieuwhof offers a powerful recipe for thriving: Do what you do best, at the times when you’re at your best, while making sure other people’s priorities don’t get in the way. An important guide for anyone feeling burned out by their ‘successful’ career.” (Cal Newport, New York Times best-selling author of A World Without Email and Deep Work)

“Clear, concise, and highly practical, the strategies Carey Nieuwhof outlines will help you accomplish far more in far less time at work and at home.” (Nir Eyal, best-selling author of Indistractable)
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I began the high impact leader course but never finished it. This was great and I am going to start reading a second time to really let it sink in

Great book

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Excellent principles for maximizing not only your time but your energy too to ensure your priorities are accomplished and you are still sane!

Excellent, practical principles!

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This book allowed me to become aware of my daily activities, my purpose in how to approach my years, months and weeks.

This is a book for anyone who needs to gain control of their schedule, create healthy boundaries and learn how to work around their weaknesses. I dare you to apply this book into your life .

Prescription for being time poor

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I need to re-listen to this book... and take notes. Just identifying my green zone has positively benefited my professional and personal life. A great listen for anyone.

Helpful!

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This book is the single most helpful thing I have read on leadership! along with some of caries other work, it transformed my outlook on leadership in ministry and on life in general. This book is a game changer. I'm recovering from mid level burnout. I was fearing worse and not sure what to do, but this book has the answers. I will be following through on the thrive cycle and putting it into practice with those I lead.

Excellent! A game-changer

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I have enjoyed Carey’s podcasts do definitely wanted to listen to his book. I admire his seeking a balanced life and find myself growing as a leader taking his advice

I’m excited to access At your best website to utilize the tools to help me fully understand myself my zones and how to be a better leader

Thank you Carey!

Amazing thoughtful Leader

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so many great tips and guidelines for scheduling your time. Just making 1 or 2 of the suggestions and making changes hsd a great impact!

Great guides

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This book was presented by an author who told his story in an authentic and kind manner… So much so that I wish I knew him. He shared his insights along the way that led him to maximize his time and energy in order to make time for what was most important, to reduce stress & to meet his future goals.

The premise of the book is theoretically simple, and maybe even obvious, however, the implementation and application of the theory and plan that he shared really takes some thought and time to plan out for best results.

I downloaded the worksheets and completed them, however, I quickly recognized that there was a part that was missing. It asked me to categorize the tasks (work. Self-care, family time…all of it) that I am supposed to do as either requiring high, mid or low energy and/or priority. Here is where I found the conflict of time that I needed to resolve. For example, exercise and self-care is a high priority, especially since I was diagnosed with breast cancer, six months ago — thankfully I am presently without evidence of disease :-) I’m doing everything I can to prevent recurrence. And while exercise is a priority, which would put it in the green zone, I don’t need the mental energy to do it, and could do it in any of the zones. Since I run a bricks and mortar & online brain training learning center business (Brain Boost Academy), I have so many high priority things to do along with my own self care, but it’s difficult to fit everything into my day. This is why I got the book.

With the provided worksheets as a jumping off point, I created my own worksheet that included the self-care activities in my a.m. and p.m. routines - also categorized as low, mid or high priority. Another worksheet for my work activities with the same categorization. And another for my weekends and free time. I further labeled each am/pm task or activity as: sleep, exercise, connection, stress management, health/detox/nutrition/sunlight. Some activities ended up on both lists.

By creating additional lists, I was able to deduce down my tasks and activities in a functional way that I can apply to my every day life.

The concepts and examples shared by the author were very helpful! He helped me to realize that I was having one of my most important weekly meetings too late in the day. It was a high priority meeting that was being held in a low energy time of my day. I also realized that I was using some of my mornings to chop & cook veggies for my meals (another high priority in order to stay healthy), but this is easily something I could do in the evening, when I don’t need as much mental energy. And I feel more accomplished, because I am starting my work earlier and getting more done during my peak mental hours.

I’ve been gradually shaping how I am spending my time, and the tasks that I’ve chosen to take action on during my high, mid and low energy times of the day. I am feeling lighter, more organized, I’m getting more done, and I’m even a little bit happier. I’m definitely less anxious because I feel more in control and I am following the natural rhythms of my brain, body, and circadian rhythms of the day.

Thank you Carey Nieuwhof!

Worth your time…IF you apply the exercises

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Take a listen to this well narrated book. Learn how to utilize your time, energy, and focus. Thankful for this book!

Extremely helpful!

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Practical tips not just hypothetical. The questions to gauge your current situation were so helpful. I will get the book as well to browse through. Loved this book and have already recommended it to others.

Incredibly helpful!

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