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I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt Hardcover – January 11, 2022

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How to release productivity guilt and embrace the hidden values in our daily lives.

Any given day brings a never-ending list of things to do. There’s the work thing, the catch-up thing, the laundry thing, the creative thing, the exercise thing, the family thing, the thing we don’t want to do, and the thing we’ve been putting off, despite it being the most important thing. Even on days when we get a lot done, the thing left undone can leave us feeling guilty, anxious, or disappointed.

After five years of searching for the secret to productivity, Madeleine Dore discovered there isn’t one. Instead, we’re being set up to fail. I Didn’t Do the Thing Today is the inspiring call to take productivity off its pedestal—by dismantling our comparison to others, aspirational routines, and the unrealistic notions of what can be done in a day, we can finally embrace the joyful messiness and unpredictability of life.

For anyone who has ever felt the pressure to do more, be more, achieve more, this antidote to our doing-obsession is the permission slip we all need to find our own way.
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"While many books insist on changing your life, this one invites you to expand your life. A radical masterpiece."
 — Mari Andrew, author of My Inner Sky

'A remarkable combination: part broadside against our culture of frenetic busyness, part consolation for the days when things don't go to plan'
 — Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
"I found a lot to steal here and you will, too."
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"Read it and sigh with relief"
 — Hugh Mackay, author of The Kindness Revolution
 
“Deep, thoughtful, gently instructive, nourishing.”
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Madeleine Dore is a writer and interviewer exploring how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent. For the past five years, Dore has been asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. She regularly conducts life experiments and hosts events to examine how creativity isn’t just something we do, but how we approach our lives.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avery (January 11, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593419138
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593419137
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 1.06 x 8.28 inches
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Madeleine Dore is a writer and interviewer exploring how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent. As a labour of love, Madeleine spent years asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. She now dabbles in various freelance projects and tries to hold things lightly.

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  • Book lover
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2022
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    This is a great read, well-written and thoroughly researched. It’s perfect for people like me, who are a little too driven, slightly OCD, and have some Catholic guilt! I’m sure that I’ll read it again, and everyone can find some inspiration in this wonderful book.
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  • Rick
    2.0 out of 5 stars Not for me
    Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2022
    I checked this out from the library before buying, and glad I did. Author could have said the same message in a dozen pages. Hey, you don't need to have a perfect fixed routine to be successful. Not every day is going to work out great. Enjoy other things in life. Don't feel guilty if you don't get done what you set out to do, just do something else or enjoy doing nothing. The end. She tends to like run-on sentences with lots of commas, that seem like they are never going to end, and never do, and just continue forever, and ever, and give repeat ideas, never stopping, striding away ike a long distance runner, or the planets rotating around the sun in a never ending cycle of seasons, like winter, spring, summer and fall, and it drives me nuts. There are five times as many commas in this book as there are periods. Every chapter starts with a quote, and then almost every page has a quotation or rephrase of an idea that she got by interviewing someone else. Maybe the concept of the book is original, but the material is certainly not. There must be 150 names dropped and quotations or paraphrases of other people's ideas, and many redundancies. it was a LOOONG read. And if you don't get things done now, you'll wish you won't have wasted the time reading this book. ...unless you don't really want to accomplish anything, and are the type who feels guilty about it, and thus this will take a huge chunk of time from your life and maybe you'll end up feeling better about yourself, because some days its just ok to not get anything accomplished. My opinion, as a person who's started several businesses successfully, use the GTD method, find a routine that works for you, and stick with it if it halfway works. If it doesn't try something else, and if you have a bad day or week and get nothing done, well, that's life. Get over it and get going again!
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  • A.L.
    1.0 out of 5 stars I just can’t finish this book
    Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2023
    I really wanted to get some good out of this book, but honestly, it feels like it’s just making excuses for not getting stuff done. Nobody can convince me that pi$$ing away my evenings and weekend mornings is somehow benefiting me. Yea, I know that being creative requires some percolation time and we need to stop and smell the roses and I do way more of that than makes sense, but at a certain point, that’s just a bs, time-wasting, self-sabotaging excuse. Especially when at the end of it all, the to-do list from 6 or 16 months ago is still pretty current because you’ve barely scratched anything off of it. Not to mention putting away the laundry or putting up those curtains that need to be hung or that box that needs to get mailed has been sitting there for months. (Ok, I did actually mail the box yesterday but it had been sitting there for months.) Glad I got this as a library e-book instead of buying it. :-(
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  • Dotti U.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love it
    Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2022
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  • Elena Corpas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Genial
    Reviewed in Spain on July 22, 2023
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    Genial, este libro fue un regalo para mi hermana, a ella le encantó.
    Vino en perfecto estado.
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  • PoppySeed
    5.0 out of 5 stars A welcome antidote to faster, stronger, harder productivity books
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2022
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    Madeleine Dore has produced a book that is both practical and inspiring; that recognises the tensions in life, that we can’t always do all the things, but also that sometimes those things are still important. This is a series of chapters which contain both wise advice, kind words and a realistic recognition of the struggles we all face. There are no 10 step plans, or neat systems. This book recognises that work, creativity and life are messy and complicated. It feels like a rare female perspective in the world of personal productivity, and I enjoyed it immensely.
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  • CW
    5.0 out of 5 stars A relief to read. Breathtaking writing
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2022
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    I found this book a dream to read! It was written so eloquently and I feel like I've underlined something on every page. Makes a lovely present too. I've gone and bought a bunch more to give as gifts to my team/ colleagues as I'm moving on. Highly recommended! Do yourself a favour and get a copy and let yourself feel the stress ooze away!
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    A relief to read. Breathtaking writing

    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2022
    I found this book a dream to read! It was written so eloquently and I feel like I've underlined something on every page. Makes a lovely present too. I've gone and bought a bunch more to give as gifts to my team/ colleagues as I'm moving on. Highly recommended! Do yourself a favour and get a copy and let yourself feel the stress ooze away!
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  • Jane L
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book makes you feel less stressed.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2022
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    This is sort of an anti-help book. It looks at why we get obsessed and guilty if we don't stick to rigid lists and rules.
    It's helped me realise that I can choose my own definition of time.
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