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Rest Is The New Hustle: A Meaningful Life Is Not Measured By Productivity

Rest Is The New Hustle: A Meaningful Life Is Not Measured By Productivity, by Paula Rizzo. Photograph of journals and papers and pen by Plush Design Studio
Photograph by Plush Design Studio

How life set on overdrive and a health crisis brought one UBER achiever to her knees — and how list-making revealed a new way to do it all

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We’ve become a society obsessed with being busy and doing more. It’s like a badge of honor to be spread too thin. The truth is that kind of thinking feeds the ego and leads to burnout.

I know because it happened to me.

A year after my first book, Listful Thinking: Using Lists to Be More Productive, Highly Successful and Less Stressed, was published my appendix burst.

That’s a very dramatic

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