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Portfolio Life : How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card by Christina Wallace (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGrand Central Publishing

ISBN-10153871048X

ISBN-139781538710487

eBay Product ID (ePID)19062270374

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Book TitlePortfolio Life : How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCareers / General, Personal Success, Personal Growth / Success

Publication Year2024

GenreSelf-Help, Business & Economics

AuthorChristina Wallace

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.7 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Reviews"Your life is your enterprise. In The Portfolio Life , Christina Wallace masterfully shows you how to treat it as such, pursuing your personal and professional dreams to find happiness and success."-- Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times bestselling author

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SynopsisPourng 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, for reasons ranging from recessions to student loan debt, the gig economy, climate disasters, and a global pandemic (to name a few). We need an anti-hustle, pro-rest approach to work-life balance, one that allows us to define ourselves beyond our paid labor. The answer? A Portfolio Life: a life built around your needs time, skills, and interests, and not your job. Whether you're looking to add a side hustle, become a multi-hyphenate, embrace the good-enough job, or go all in (without burning out), a Portfolio Life will ground you in the three tenets of sustainable success: 1. You are more than anyone role of opportunity. 2. Diversification will help you navigate charge and mitigate uncertainty. 3. When (not if) your needs change, you can and should rebalance. In The Portfolio Life, millennial, Harvard professor, and serial entrepreneur Christina Wallace walks you step by step through tools like a Balanced Scorecard, 100 Wishes Assessment, time optimization benchmarks, and more, to design a practical, personal, future-proof life you dream of. If you're sick of being told your worth is inextricably tied to your career, or that setting boundaries and protecting your personal life means you aren't "all in," The Portfolio Life can help you eschew the cult of ambition and experience the freedom of building a flexible, fulfilling, and sustainable life. Because you deserve rest, relationships, and a rewarding career-not someday, but today., You are more than your job. Optimize your happiness, bank account, personal growth, with this practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance--perfect for readers of The Good Enough Job and What Color Is Your Parachute? "An actionable guide to leading a balanced life." -- Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again 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: You are more than any one role or opportunity. Diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty. 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.