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The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World without Losing Your Way

by Hillary Rettig Author

This book is a guide to a productive and joyful life led by values and activism. It will lay out instructions and a tentative framework to live authentically, focused on optimizing social engagement while mitigating regret, guilt, same, and fear in the process. It is divided into the following sections:

Managing Your Mission, that is figuring out what the reader really wants.Managing Your Time, that is building a schedule that will allows you to realize that mission.Managing Your Fears; that is navigating avoidance and procrastination and clearing roadblocks that come up when trying to stick to a schedule.Managing Your Relationships, that is navigating one’s strengths and best leveraging them with the strengths of those around you.

This book was made with many different kinds of people in mind — from teachers, students, artists, and academics to labor organizers, human services workers, entrepreneurs, but namely anybody interested in being more productive with their activism.