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The Lifelong Activist helps activists, volunteers, and others with a political or social mission be as productive as possible while avoiding burnout and leading a happy, healthy, and balanced life. The book offers easy and effective strategies for managing your mission, time, fears, and relationships.
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There are four categories of downloads:
1) My e-book, The Little Guide To Beating Procrastination, Perfectionism and Blocks: a Manual For Artists, Activists, Entrepreneurs, Academics and Other Ambitious Dreamers, is now available! It’s a substantially revised and expanded version of Part III of The Lifelong Activist (Managing Your Fears), that now offers important new material, including about the “false” solutions many people futilely employ to solve their procrastination problem. Of course, it also discusses the true – i.e., effective – solutions in detail!
Other topics discussed are: perfectionism, negativity, hypersensitivity, coping with fear and panic, time management, determining your authentic mission, and leading an empowered and joyful life.
- Download Adobe (PDF) version here.
2) My e-book The HIAPy Guide to Finding Work in a Tough Job Market. It offers an effective job search strategy and lots of other useful information, including: your primary task as a job searcher; attitudes and habits that promote success in a job search; what to do if your last job, or a prior one, ended badly; the primary goal of every job application; why you should only send out a few resumes at a time; the common mistakes applicants make that sabotage their applications and prolong unemployment; AND the fundamental things ALL employers look for.
- Download Open Document Text (ODT) version here.
- Download Text (TXT) version here.
- Download Rich Text (RTF) version here.
- Download Adobe (PDF) version here.
3) Time Management forms and the Bibliography from The Lifelong Activist:
- Download blank Time Management forms referred to in the book, in PDF (Portable Digital Format) format.
- See my annotated bibliography of books that will help you manage your Mission, Time, Fears and Relationships.
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4) Sample Chapters from The Lifelong Activist:
Introduction
“I wrote this book because I believe progressive activists are the world’s most precious resource. We tackle the most difficult and important problems—including hunger, war, disease, poverty, violence, cruelty and exploitation—and we work to further humanity’s evolution in the direction of compassion and kindness. Imagine how different the world would be if there were twice—or ten times!—as many progressive activists as there are now, and if those activists were happy and effective and enjoying long full-time or part-time careers . Entire societies and cultures, and quite possibly every society and culture, would be transformed…” Read more
About Procrastination
“Treating procrastination as a symptom of laziness or a lack of discipline doesn’t work because those are not the causes of procrastination. Rather, they are symptoms, just like procrastination itself is a symptom, of a deeper problem. That problem is usually either…” Read more
About Heroic Activism
“Many activists seek to model their careers after those of famous activists such as Gloria Steinem, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, or the nineteenth and twentieth century abolitionists, suffragists and labor unionists. The only problem is that, often, we don’t really know what those careers really entailed, and are modeling ourselves after a vague romantic ideal. If you really want to model yourself after your heroes then at least take that goal seriously…” Read more
About Your Family
“Many activists are brought to the edge of despair and beyond trying to convince their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives to embrace their values. But guess what? Nothing I’ve ever read says that your family are automatically qualified customers just because they happen to be your family. In fact, the opposite appears to be true: that your ideas are held in lower regard by the people who watched you grow up, and who in some cases diapered you, than by the general population…” Read more
The Right’s Big Lie
“There is one barrier that perhaps more than any other stands in the way of many progressives living a happy, self-actualized life: the view that being a progressive automatically dooms you to a life of unhappiness, or sets you tragically apart from the mainstream of humanity. This view is promoted by people on both the Right and the Left, for different reasons…” Read more
“Were Your Years of Activism Worth It?”
“So, imagine that you are an “ordinary” activist. You’ve worked for years or decades on an important cause, enduring poverty, isolation, disapproval from family and community, and the depression and (sometimes) trauma that comes from being a constant witness to society’s evils. In other words, you’ve made the usual sacrifices that activists make and endured the usual things they endure. But you haven’t achieved a vast amount of liberation, or even a little liberation. Maybe you’ve just held the line against one small evil. Or maybe, despite your best efforts, the line moved backwards. Were your years or decades of sacrifice worth it?…” Read more
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