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Books like Off Balance
The best books like Off Balance are Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, and Deep Work. Off Balance by Matthew Kelly is about work-life balance, satisfaction, values. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown · Self-help
Essentialism is Greg McKeown's argument that the way most people approach work and life — saying yes to almost everything — is a slow form of defeat.
A kindred self-help read.
Read the summary → - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman · Self-help
Four Thousand Weeks is Oliver Burkeman's philosophical attack on the entire project of time management as it is usually practiced.
A kindred self-help read.
Read the summary → - Deep Work
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Cal Newport · Self-help
Deep Work is Cal Newport's case that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and that people who cultivate it will thrive while everyone else stays stuck in shallow busywork.
A kindred self-help read.
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- The Happiness Hypothesis
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Jonathan Haidt · Psychology
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU who spent the early part of his career studying morality and happiness, and this book — published in 2006, before his work on political psychology brought him wider attention — synthesizes ancient philosophical wisdom with modern psychological research.
A kindred self-help read.
Read the summary → - Authentic Leadership
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Bill George · Business
Authentic Leadership arrived in 2003 in the aftermath of Enron, WorldCom, and the first wave of corporate governance scandals.
Shares values and purpose with Off Balance.
Read the summary → - True North
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Bill George · Business
True North is Bill George's argument that the most effective leaders are those who lead from a clear sense of who they are — their values, their purpose, their motivations — rather than from a performance of what leadership is supposed to look like.
Shares values and purpose with Off Balance.
Read the summary → - First Things First
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Stephen R. Covey · Self-help
First Things First is Stephen Covey's full-length development of the time management principles he introduced in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, particularly the distinction between urgency and importance.
Both dig into values.
Read the summary → - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Brigid Schulte · Self-help
Overwhelmed is Washington Post journalist Brigid Schulte's investigation into why so many people — particularly women with children — feel perpetually time-starved in an era when labor-saving technology is more abundant than at any point in history.
Both dig into work-life balance.
Read the summary → - Slow Productivity
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Cal Newport · Self-help
Slow Productivity is Cal Newport's argument that the dominant metric for productivity in knowledge work — visible busyness, inbox management, endless meeting attendance — is both exhausting and counterproductive, and that a more sustainable model exists.
Both dig into work-life balance.
Read the summary → - The 5 Types of Wealth
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Sahil Bloom · Self-help
The 5 Types of Wealth is Sahil Bloom's argument that financial wealth is one of five forms of wealth that actually matter, and that pursuing financial wealth at the expense of the other four produces a life that looks successful from the outside but feels hollow from the inside.
Both dig into purpose.
Read the summary → - The Happiness Trap
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Russ Harris · Self-help
The Happiness Trap is Russ Harris's accessible introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a psychological framework developed by Steven Hayes at the University of Nevada.
Both dig into values.
Read the summary → - The Productivity Project
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Chris Bailey · Self-help
The Productivity Project emerged from Chris Bailey's year-long self-experiment immediately after graduating from university.
Both dig into energy.
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Books like Off Balance: quick answers
What are the best books like Off Balance?
The best books like Off Balance by Matthew Kelly are Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, Deep Work by Cal Newport, The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt, Authentic Leadership by Bill George, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Off Balance, such as work-life balance, satisfaction, values.
What should I read after Off Balance?
A natural next read after Off Balance is Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. A kindred self-help read. Other strong choices are Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, Deep Work by Cal Newport, The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt.
What books are similar to Off Balance by Matthew Kelly?
Off Balance centers on work-life balance, satisfaction, values. Books with a similar feel include Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, Deep Work by Cal Newport, The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt, Authentic Leadership by Bill George, True North by Bill George — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
