A Minute to Think

Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work

By: Juliet Funt

Narrated by: Juliet Funt

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

“You’re going to want to share copies of this book with your overbooked friends and colleagues, but before you do, take some time to read it yourself. Funt’s wisdom around making space is priceless.” (Seth Godin, author of The Practice)

Do you wish you could stop the mayhem of work and life and just take a minute? Do you sense you could contribute more if there were a little more room in the day? Does busyness deprive you and your burnt-out team of the oxygen your talents need to catch fire?

Many have felt that way, yet taking a pause has seemed impossible - until now.

In A Minute to Think, Juliet Funt, a globally recognized warrior in the battle against busyness, provides a powerful guide that will give you the permission, framework, and specific direction you need to do the following:

• Regain control of your overloaded, caffeinated, inbox-worshiping workday
• Liberate yourself and your teams from burnout and busywork
• Reclaim creativity and focus despite the chaos around you
• Bring thoughtfulness into designing your next work norms
• Tame the beast of email and escape the mire of meetings
• Find your precious minute to think

You’re not alone in your yearning for freedom from constant reactivity. The global workforce today is so fried that it belongs in the food court of a county fair. We’re relentlessly behind the curve, dousing fires everywhere, and our three a.m. insomnia provides the only unscheduled thinking time of the day.

What we need reinserted in our lives is the missing element of white space - short periods of open, unscheduled time that, when recaptured, change the very nature of work. White space is the stepping back, the strategic pause, the oxygen that allows the sparks of our efforts to catch fire. White space has the power to radically - and simply - reinvent the way we approach work in this maxed-out, post-COVID 21st-century world.

With Juliet’s memorable stories, easy-to-use tools, and razor-sharp instruction, she carves for us an escape route from the overwhelming amount of low-value tasks and the daily avalanche of emails, meetings, decks, and reports. Using research, client stories, and a relatable voice, Juliet shows all of us how to reclaim time for thinking and make room for what truly matters. Whether you are an individual trying to build a more sane and humane flow of daily work, a team that wants new levels of efficiency and effectiveness, or an entire organization changing your culture toward thoughtfulness, this book will lead you there.

©2021 Juliet Funt (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

great to aim yourself to fight for some more space

This book is great to aim yourself with reasons to fight for some more space, to think to rest, to re-gain your life balance, to reflect on the things which matter mist in life!

Simple, yet profound

Great content to bring you back to reality that busyness is not a badge of honor, and the pause holds great power. Thank you, Juliet.

Allow for white space

Great ideas around making time in your schedule to think and be creative. Let’s normalize pausing and bring strategic in our response! You don’t have to have immediate answers!

Highly recommend this book!

book is greatest gift you could give yourself

wow she is a ridiculously good writer

she is a ridiculously good narrator

almost every sentence has a phrase that is interesting, fun or full of meaning

this book pays for 2 years of my Audible membership - it is that good

this book will stay with me for a long and help me live smarter, bettee

I'm sure her late, famous father would be proud of her - she and this book are fabulous!

I hope my wife and kids listen also

Warmed up eventually

Overall good listen. The author did a great job with her own material.
I found the book took awhile to get to the practical steps to take. A lot of time was spent making a case for making time. I suspect most people are listening because they’re already convinced that white space is necessary. I acknowledge that someone listening to this could eventually want to make a case at their organization, so I appreciated the information. A wee bit much for me, but appreciated!

Now just getting it to stick!

This was a much needed call to slow down and really take time to smell the roses. I will listen again so I can internalize the points.

Balance is the goal

I loved this book! Creating balance in my busy life as a teacher has been a difficult ride this last season of life--however, after seeing Juliet tall about this book at the GLS, I knew it was exactly what I needed to help me get rid of the guilt, understand the true root problems underneath, and rise with hope for a better work/life balance. Thanks!

Be present in the moment

This book will appeal to you if you want to know about mindfulness in the workplace. The final chapter also address white space in your personal life.

Thought Provoking

And maybe possible. This is one that you don’t need to fear the author being reader, she nailed it.

Pause

In a world that demands she reveals true focus and health choices. It touched me as I find myself in the traps that rob me of life joy.