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Do Less, Have More: How to Complete a Creative Project Without Burning Out

Do Less, Have More: How to Complete a Creative Project Without Burning Out by Kate Northrup. Photograph of a bright green office chair by New Data Service
Photograph by New Data Service

Doing less is the new creative clarity: a refreshingly candid take on motherhood, entrepreneurship and having it all (it’s possible!)

I was very quickly nearing the end of the second trimester of my second pregnancy when I finally got my butt in the chair to write my second book. There’s nothing like the looming dual deadlines of a book contract and a birth to get one’s rear in gear.

When we look at someone who has a lot going on, like kids and a business or a job with a lot of different moving parts, we like to ask them, “How do you do it

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