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An Overachiever's Guide to Breaking the Rules: How to Let Go of Perfect and Live Your Truth
Let's face it. You've been surrounded by messages your entire life telling you to work harder, produce more, and ALWAYS do your best.
Over time, those messages become rules you follow, often without knowing it. They make you believe everything will fall apart if you slow down. They tell you it's your job to be responsible for everything and take care of everyone. They make you feel guilty for saying no. They tell you to DO more, WORK more, and BE more.
It's time to stop. It's time to break the rules.
An Overachievers Guide To Breaking The Rules invites you to get off the hamster wheel of constant performing, take a breath, and rediscover your truth. Join speaker and women's leadership development consultant Heather Whelpley as she shares her life-changing journey to let go of proving, pleasing, and perfecting—and guides you to do the same.
Through a seamless blend of vulnerable, heartfelt stories and practical tools, you'll discover why you go into overachieving perfection mode and learn how to:
Quiet the inner critic
Slow down
Rediscover your joy and creativity
Set boundaries, accept help, and say no
Let go of what you "should" do and redefine success on YOUR terms
This is more than a personal development book. It's an inward journey to free yourself from the weight of perfection and start living your truth.
Over time, those messages become rules you follow, often without knowing it. They make you believe everything will fall apart if you slow down. They tell you it's your job to be responsible for everything and take care of everyone. They make you feel guilty for saying no. They tell you to DO more, WORK more, and BE more.
It's time to stop. It's time to break the rules.
An Overachievers Guide To Breaking The Rules invites you to get off the hamster wheel of constant performing, take a breath, and rediscover your truth. Join speaker and women's leadership development consultant Heather Whelpley as she shares her life-changing journey to let go of proving, pleasing, and perfecting—and guides you to do the same.
Through a seamless blend of vulnerable, heartfelt stories and practical tools, you'll discover why you go into overachieving perfection mode and learn how to:
Quiet the inner critic
Slow down
Rediscover your joy and creativity
Set boundaries, accept help, and say no
Let go of what you "should" do and redefine success on YOUR terms
This is more than a personal development book. It's an inward journey to free yourself from the weight of perfection and start living your truth.
194 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 5, 2020
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January 18, 2021
Heather Whelpley is coming to speak to the CSB Alumnae Board meeting on Saturday, so I was really excited to read her book. The book triggered a lot of sensitive areas for me, so it's good that I read it. I need to do some of the activities within the book, so that's my next step.
If you are needing to take a step back from a very busy, overworked life, this book may help you.
If you are needing to take a step back from a very busy, overworked life, this book may help you.
March 14, 2021
I really enjoyed this book. I could relate to the stories Heather shared and even had to check myself on being an over achiever while reading it. I hadn’t done the questions at the end of the first chapter so felt I couldn’t move forward reading it. I did get past it and plan to go back and read the book again. There are great life lessons in this book.
April 19, 2021
Has some great starting off points and great activities. This book is VERY gendered, I found it frustrating.
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