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Name: Get Your Sh*t Together
Rating: 4 (437 reviews)
Author: Sarah Knight

Sarah Knight

A No F*cks Given Guide

4 (437 ratings)

14 mins

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Get Your Sh*t Together by Sarah Knight is a self-help book that aims to help readers organize their life and achieve their goals. It offers practical tips and tools for overcoming procrastination, managing time, and eliminating excuses to increase productivity and happiness.

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What’s in it for me? Get your life together.

How many times have you told yourself you’re going to do something and then just never followed through? Whether it’s cleaning the house, getting that promotion at work or making a loved one feel special, many of us are guilty of lacking the commitment to achieve the things we want in life. And it's not just our big goals that we struggle to fulfill – sometimes just getting through our daily routine can feel like a struggle, with not enough time in the day for even basic tasks.

Luckily, there’s a solution to this cycle of ambitious goal-setting, failure and self-loathing. Read these blinks to discover how you can start following through on your promises to yourself. From achieving your weight-loss goals to furthering your career, let’s go on a journey to discover how, with a little strategizing and a dash of focus and commitment, you can achieve your goals.

A polite word of warning before you start, though: as you might have guessed from the title, these blinks contain obscenities.

Read on to discover

how to harness the power of negative thinking;
why doing nothing can be the best strategy in a crisis; and
what career-changing conversation you need to have with your boss.

Get your shit together by allocating time to achieve realistic goals.

What’s standing in the way of you achieving your goals and being happy? When we’re challenged to get our proverbial shit together, our response is often “I just don’t know where to begin.” If this sounds familiar, then the first step toward getting your shit together is to consider exactly what your goals are, and when you plan to achieve them.

It’s crucial to be realistic about what you hope to achieve, but many of us set the bar too high when it comes to our goals.

This is problematic because we can’t become winners if we’re constantly holding ourselves to unrealistic standards. Our body goals are a perfect example. If you’re a normal person whose goal is to get in shape and lose some weight, it’s a tad unrealistic to strive to look like gorgeous fitness model Kate Upton. Most likely, you simply don’t have her body type.

So setting a goal of looking like her would be akin to aiming for an unreachable finish line. How discouraging is that? So discouraging, in fact, that it might be enough to make you quit the gym altogether, sit on your couch and mainline cookies rather than working out.

Therefore, get your shit together by ditching your unrealistic goals. Get on track by aiming for realistic progress that will make a difference to your actual life, like losing a few pounds of weight. In other words, don’t set goals based on other people’s measurements – measurements you’re unlikely to match.

Another key step to getting your shit together is to establish a better relationship with time.

If you feel as if you don’t have enough time to meet your goals, you probably have bad time-management skills. Combat this problem by gaining a better understanding of how you actually spend your time. You can do this by timing how long it takes you to fulfill routine tasks, such as having a shower or working out at the gym. Then, use this knowledge to create a realistic weekly schedule that contains all the things you want to do but never seem to have time for, such as learning a new skill. It really is that simple to start getting your shit together.

Maintain your romantic relationship through a strategy of loving competition.

A big part of getting your shit together is maintaining your valued relationships. To keep our social and family connections ticking over, we need to do things actively to maintain or improve them. One of the most central relationships in our lives is often the one we have with our romantic partner. But the best way to nurture this relationship isn't necessarily to be as accommodating as possible. Actually, a better way to improve or maintain a great relationship with your significant other is to get competitive with them.

By getting competitive with your partner, we’re not talking about playing a doubles tennis match. Instead, being competitive in this context means competing to be the most loving and thoughtful person in the relationship.

Get your professional shit together by exuding confidence and asking the right questions.

Getting your professional shit together means different things to different people. For the author, it meant taking the plunge, quitting her job as an editor and starting to work for herself as an author. For many of us, the equivalent might be gaining a promotion or a raise within our current position.

But whatever career path you find yourself on, there are some universally applicable tips for getting your shit together.

Get your health on track by prioritizing and by harnessing the power of negative thinking.

Millions of Americans are overweight and suffering from lifestyle-related illnesses such as type 2 diabetes. Given this, you might assume that this is a nation that cares little about its health and fitness. But you would be mistaken.

In fact, when the author conducted a survey asking people where they felt they most needed help, respondents overwhelmingly talked about their physical health.

Cope with anxiety by being proactive or by strategically doing nothing.

If you aspire to have your shit truly together, you’ll need to deal with your emotional or mental health issues too. For many of us, that means learning how to cope with anxiety, a common mental health issue. Barring turning to a medical professional for help, there are two simple approaches that can help you deal with your anxiety.

Sometimes the best strategy when dealing with anxiety-inducing situations is to face the situation head-on and rip off that anxiety Band-Aid.

Get house proud by dividing chores into 20-minute sessions.

What would it take for you to be able to keep your home clean? Although this aspiration might sound straightforward enough, for many of us, it's only a matter of hours before the dishes start piling up in the kitchen sink, and dirty laundry litters the bedroom floor again. When it comes to being house proud, our best-laid plans quickly go awry.

So how can you get your housekeeping shit together and remain in a perfect state of tidiness?

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What is Get Your Sh*t Together about?

Get Your Sh*t Together (2016) is a frank and practical guide to sorting your life out. From dealing with anxiety to exercise regimens, from your relationship to your career, these blinks will help you achieve your goals and get more out of your life.

Get Your Sh*t Together Review

Get Your Sh*t Together (2016) is a book that offers practical advice on how to organize and prioritize your life. Here's why this book is worth reading:

It provides concrete strategies for getting your life in order, making it a valuable resource for anyone feeling overwhelmed or unproductive.
The book's humor and relatable examples make it engaging and enjoyable to read, ensuring that you won't be bored while learning how to get your sh*t together.
With its no-nonsense approach to tackling life's challenges, it empowers readers to take control of their lives and make positive changes.

Who should read Get Your Sh*t Together?

Anyone struggling to achieve their goals
Those looking for help with time management
People struggling with stress and anxiety

About the Author

Sarah Knight is an editor and writer who previously spent 15 years working in the publishing industry in New York, editing bestselling authors such as Chris Cleave and Gillian Flynn. Knight’s TEDx Talk, “The Magic of Not Giving A F***” has been viewed over two million times.

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