Balancingjane.com Website Review

My work as a freelance writer often takes me down interesting research rabbit holes. Lately, I've been spending a lot of time reading and listening to some of the top self-help books in the fields of productivity, motivation, and time management. This genre has always fascinated me, and even before I took on this particular project, I was a frequent listener of the podcast Simplify life better and then pulls out some of the key ideas. (My favorite was this one I think the reason I am so interested in the self-help genre is that it does so much more than just give advice. It also highlights our collective values and as*umptions about what success looks like. Because no matter how much an individual self-help book might couch itself as edgy or subversive, at their core, these books operate on a very normative definition of success, and it's typically one built on accu*ulating wealth, minimizing the amount of effort put into the daily tasks of employment, and getting to pursue individual activities I'm not knocking any of those things. (In fact, I'd take those. Who's got some to spare?) But I am kind of side eyeing the entire self-help After getting eyeba*ls de*p into dozens of self-help adages and systems, I'm feeling pretty left out. See, the advice from these gurus tends to pivot in a pretty small circle around a stable pillar of accepted truths. Sure, different experts might dress it up in different flavors to make it more palatable to a particular audience, but, all in all, the advice stays about the same.  If I said that to any of these gurus, I know what they'd say. You're making excuses. You're keeping yourself stuck. That's your faulty life script trying to keep you from reaching your potential. They'd tell me to believe in what I can achieve and push through those That sounds motivational and all, and I know why they have to say that, but it doesn't change the fact that most of their advice has very little to do with the life that I live, and it's not because I don't want (or deserve!) riches, leisure time, and world travel.