A book by Jakob Gricar

No Off Switch. Why doing nothing feels like danger.

Each success was going to be the one, and you got there, and that need to chase more didn't stop.

This book will show you how to reverse that.

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Every action you take is either moving toward something you want, or away from something you don't want to experience.

For a while they look the same in a calendar and in your bank account, but over time, one leads to burnout, and the other to an epic life.

The trap

This is the big trap we've been sold.

  1. 01You say you want more time with your kids, or your spouse or your hobbies.
  2. 02That's why you work so hard, to create that freedom.
  3. 03And the act of working is, by design, you not doing the thing you say you want more of.
  4. 04You keep your gaze on the next milestone, needing every step to be filled with doing more.
  5. 05That voice goes quiet when you focus on the next thing, as long as you think big enough.
  6. 06Nobody hands you an award for stopping at the right time and going home.
  7. 07This book will show you how to reverse that.

Run it tonight

Toward, or away.

Take the last thing you did today that nobody asked you for. Write one line under it. Toward, or away.

That's the whole tool, and it takes almost no time, and you're going to want to argue with the first answer it gives you.

  • Each success was going to be the one
  • the next milestone
  • the next mountain to climb
  • the chase

Think about the last time you were at dinner and you were actually there with your whole being.

What's inside

Four parts. One thread, pulled straight.

01

Part One

See it

  1. 1No Off Switch
  2. 2You Are Not Working Because There Is Work
  3. 3Insight Is Not Freedom

02

Part Two

Trace it

  1. 4What You Get Out of It
  2. 5Where the Alarm Was Set
  3. 6The Ceiling You Built
  4. 7Worth, Outsourced

03

Part Three

Clear it

  1. 8Capacity, Not Regulation
  2. 9Clean It Up

04

Part Four

Build from it

  1. 10Pleasure Is Not a Reward
  2. 11An Ordinary Tuesday

Plus The Ground, The Seven Questions and the Field Cards.

Jakob Gricar
Jakob Gricar

About the author

I'm writing this because I've lived it too.

I've been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. I've also struggled with an inability to let go of my work, and burnt myself into the ground multiple times.

I've ruptured relationships, lost friendships and gotten physically ill from pushing too hard.

I spoke to dozens of founders in the process of writing this book.

I still work almost every day, but I also hike, surf, box, play, dance, enjoy dinners, go to cafes without my laptop.

The book isn't out yet. Put your name down.

  1. You hear from me first when the book is out.
  2. Tonight, the Toward or Away tool. Take the last thing you did today that nobody asked you for. Write one line under it.

Jakob

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