Making Time

A New Vision for Crafting a Life beyond Productivity

by: Maria Bowler

• Format

  Paperback

  ISBN

  9781540904072

  Dimensions

  5.5 x 8.5

  Pub. Date

  Jan 2025

  SRP

  $18.99

  Carton Quantity

  40

  Number of pages

  224

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About

We are constantly fed the line that more productivity will bring more ease, satisfaction, and meaning to our lives. But what if all the gold stars and checkboxes are just a distraction? What if we could stop project-managing life and act from our being instead of all our doing?

If you long to leave the pressure to do enough behind in favor of a life full of meaning, creativity, and joy--a life where you don't feel rushed because you can't fall behind--Making Time is for you. You won't find any life hacks to control your schedule in order to cram in more work. It's about liberating yourself from the myth that humans are producers and discovering the freedom of being a maker who trusts life as a creative process. In this bold, revitalizing call back to human being, you'll learn how to

· let go of the constant pressure to do more
· find deeper meaning in how you spend your time and energy
· resist external noise that crowds out inspiration
· make what you really desire to make with your time

You don't need to do more or try harder. It just takes a new, transformative vision for how to live from your values every day.

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Endorsements

"In Making Time, Maria Bowler welcomes us with wit and honesty into a vision for creativity that rests what we do in who we are. This is a book about becoming that speaks straight to the maker's soul."

K.J. Ramsey, therapist and author of The Book of Common Courage

"Though Making Time at once inspires its reader to do as it suggests and announces its intention with delight--hey, everyone, it's MAKING time!--here is more than a self-help book about creativity. Maria Bowler has written a spiritually generous, deliciously well-researched, irreverently anti-capitalist manifesto for anyone compelled to create in an age of consumption. Bowler's creative wisdom runs deep; her social critique cuts sharply; her convictions stand firm and bold."

Rachel Lyon, author of Fruit of the Dead and Self-Portrait with Boy

"Wow! Making Time is so wise and wonderful, so insightful and profound! I want to reread it annually. Every page contains gems of truth to help release you from productivity culture, embrace your creative identity, and live more freely. If you're caught feeling that your worth is found in your doing, if you feel a little bullied by time and to-dos, if you yearn for a life of more meaning, truth, and connection, Bowler offers the gentlest, most harmonic wake-up call. An antidote to the tyranny of productivity culture, Making Time can set us free to live lives that are truly worth living. I've run out of fingers and toes thinking of all the people I plan to give this book to."

Heather Lanier, assistant professor of creative writing at Rowan University, author of Raising a Rare Girl and Psalms of Unknowing

"With gentle wisdom, Making Time guides readers toward reclaiming a deeply buried truth about rest and being. This work of art is the salve to what ails us as a lost and imbalanced society."

Ellen Vora, MD, psychiatrist and author of The Anatomy of Anxiety

"Making Time by Maria Bowler is a profound and poetic guide for anyone yearning to befriend their innate creativity. This book disarms the spiritual anguish of being trapped in cycles of achieving, performing, and producing, and lights a pathway back to the artistic capacity we each possess. Reading Bowler's wise and gentle invitations, I felt the shame and urgency of my 'doing self' give way for making again. Her writing reminds us that creative fulfillment is alive and within reach."

Amelia Knott, art psychotherapist and author of The Art of Thriving Online

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