Pick three : you can have it all (just not every day)

Pick three You can have it all (just not every day)

Randi Zuckerberg

Book - 2018

Career and family-minded people everywhere understand the basic problem: Everyone wants to be able to do it all -- work, sleep, family, fitness, and friends -- but there are only twenty-four hours in a day. Randi Zuckerberg encourages others to follow her lead to be 'well-lopsided,' a term she says has saved her life. Between having her own radio show, appearing on Broadway, speaking across the globe, creating Facebook Live, and being the mother to two young boys, Randi has a lot on her plate. But, she explains, you don't have to focus on all five areas every day. More importantly, you can't! But you can prioritize each area over time. And if you choose just three each day, you can go a long way toward personal and profe...ssional success and satisfaction. Randi dives deep into each of the five categories, revealing anecdotes from her own life and from experts in each field to help you figure out which categories you're choosing (or not choosing!) and why. Including interviews with Olympic athletes, medical professionals, media moguls, seasoned Silicon Valley leaders, and even Randi's own mother, Karen Zuckerberg, who left her medical career to start a family, this practical handbook demonstrates a way to manage the tensions we face each day and reject the unrealistic burden of balance to enjoy success on our own terms.

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Subjects
Zuckerberg, Randi.
Time management.
Work-life balance.
Work and family.
Quality of life.
Success.
Celebrities > Anecdotes.
Self-help publications.
Genres
Self-help publications
Published
New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Randi Zuckerberg (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xxiii, 257 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257).
ISBN
9780062842824
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. What is Pick Three?
  • Let's Get Lopsided!
  • 2. The Big Five
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Family
  • Fitness
  • Friends
  • 3. Picking Your Three
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
Review by Booklist Review

Entrepreneur-author Zuckerberg (Dot Complicated, 2013) borrows from an old consulting truism that among cost, quality, and speed, clients should choose the two attributes that matter most to them for helping readers focus on three key life categories from a possible five: friends, family, work, fitness, and sleep. This kind of life organization makes great common sense to all those who are trying to have it all and/or find a better life balance. The solution Zuckerberg advocates is to become somewhat lopsided. She interviews a few-dozen well-known women, from Arianna Huffington to Halle Stanford (president of TV at the Jim Henson Company), who demonstrate excellence in one of the five categories, then creates a rubric of subcategories to describe different facets of each category. Each subcategory includes one of these characters: Passionista, Eliminator, Renovator, Superhero, and Monetizer. For instance, the Work Eliminator might need to pull back from full workforce employment for a while, whereas the Work Renovator refocuses his or her career. Zuckerberg also relates her own struggles and drops in frequent sidebars, covering the art of the pivot, how to be a better friend, and many other topics. At the end, helpful templates and self-assessment prompts enable readers to more fully embrace the pick-three concept. An easy-breezy narrative with advice that fits today's lifestyles.--Jacobs, Barbara Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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