Making Time
A New Vision for Crafting a Life beyond Productivity
About
"A spiritually generous, deliciously well-researched, irreverently anti-capitalist manifesto for anyone compelled to create in an age of consumption."--Rachel Lyon, author of Fruit of the Dead and Self-Portrait with Boy
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Your life is more than a project to be managed
We are constantly fed the line that the way to greater satisfaction and meaning in life is being more productive with our time. But what if all the gold stars and checkboxes are actually distracting us from the very thing we are chasing? What would life look like if we acted from our being instead of merely doing?
If you long for a life full of meaning, creativity, and joy--a life where you don't feel pressured, rushed, or lacking in some way--Making Time is for you. This book isn't about 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 deep meaning in how you spend your time and energy
· resist external noise and reconnect with your inner creative spark
· find creative fulfillment as you make what you truly desire
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.
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
The Author
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Emma Jeanson Maria Bowler
Maria Bowler is a writer, coach, and retreat leader. She holds a masters in religion and the arts from Yale University, is a former magazine editor, and has taught creative writing at the university level. Canadian by birth, she now lives in the Driftless...
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