What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this
inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance
while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.
Pouring yourself into a single full-time job is the riskiest move you
can make. Your parents' advice to focus on one career path? It doesn't
work anymore, for reasons ranging from recessions to student loan debt,
the gig economy, climate disasters, and a global pandemic (to name a
few). We need a dramatically different relationship with work, one that
allows us to define ourselves beyond our paid labor.
The answer? A Portfolio Life. An anti-hustle, pro-rest approach to
work-life balance, a Portfolio Life is built on three tenets:
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You are more than any one role or opportunity.
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Diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate
uncertainty.
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When (not if) your needs change, you can and should rebalance.
In The Portfolio Life, Harvard professor, serial entrepreneur, and
self-described "human Venn diagram" Christina Wallace adapts
tried-and-true practices from the business sector to help you eschew the
cult of ambition and experience the freedom of building the flexible,
fulfilling, and sustainable life you want. Drawing on research, case
studies, and her own experience, she walks you step-by-step through the
process of designing a strategy for the long haul. Because you deserve
rest, relationships, and a rewarding career--not someday, but today.
After all, you only live once.
