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An Overachiever's Guide to Breaking the Rules: How to Let Go of Perfect and Live Your Truth Kindle Edition

by Heather Whelpley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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*Gold medal winner for the Living Now Book Awards
*Winner in the Motivational category for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards
*Short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize
*Finalist for the First Horizon Book Award

Let's face it. You've been surrounded by messages your entire life telling you to work harder, produce more, and ALWAYS do your best.

Over time, those messages become rules you follow, often without knowing it. They make you believe everything will fall apart if you slow down. They tell you it's your job to be responsible for everything and take care of everyone. They make you feel guilty for saying no. They tell you to DO more, WORK more, and BE more.

It's time to stop. It's time to break the rules.

An Overachievers Guide To Breaking The Rules invites you to get off the hamster wheel of constant performing, take a breath, and rediscover your truth. Join speaker and women's leadership development consultant Heather Whelpley as she shares her life-changing journey to let go of proving, pleasing, and perfecting—and guides you to do the same.

Through a seamless blend of vulnerable, heartfelt stories and practical tools, you'll discover why you go into overachieving perfection mode and learn how to:

Quiet the inner critic
Slow down
Rediscover your joy and creativity
Set boundaries, accept help, and say no
Let go of what you "should" do and redefine success on YOUR terms

This is more than a personal development book. It's an inward journey to free yourself from the weight of perfection and start living your truth.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08K3QF5NY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wise Ink Creative Publishing (October 5, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 5, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1924 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 163489460X

Best Sellers Rank: #1,538,005 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #5,215 in Self-Esteem Self-Help
- #6,740 in Happiness
- #10,533 in Personal Transformation

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Heather Whelpley is an award-winning author, speaker, and leadership development consultant that works with women to live, work, and lead with grounded confidence.

Heather has spoken to thousands of people across the US and internationally, on creating your own rules for success, imposter syndrome, discovering your authentic voice, managing burnout, and authentic leadership.

Prior to starting her business, Heather spent over a decade in human resources and managing development programs for high-achieving women at Fortune 500 companies in the US, Australia, and Latin America.

Her first book, An Overachiever's Guide To Breaking The Rules: How To Let Go Of Perfect and Live Your Truth, has won multiple awards, including the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Living Now Book Awards, and the Eric Hoffer Book Awards.

She is also the host of the Grounded Wildness podcast.

Heather lives in Colorado where she enjoys as much hiking and exploring as possible.

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Not Just for Overachievers!

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023

This is a great book, very insightful! My employer offered this as an optional learning course that covered several aspects in the book. Discussion around how to find your authentic self, be happy with your choices and learn where your best fit is (personally AND professionally). I didn't read the book until after the course was completed due to time constraints, but I enjoyed it very much. When I didn't see myself in some of the examples, I definitely saw it in others. This allowed me to understand why some people operate the way they do and has encouraged me to a better coworker.

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Tiffany Putland

Heather's book is life changing!

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023

Literally, this book not only changed how I look at my professional success but my personal life as well. I often reflect back on Heather's words of wisdom when I am struggling with self-doubt known as "imposter syndrome". Her personal stories made the messages real and resonated with me like no other book I have read. Anxiously waiting on book #2!!

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Extremely helpful for personal development

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023

Heather gave examples of challenges especially for young women in everyday life, provided strategies on how to make positive changes and an opportunity to journal and reflect on a new path. I found this book to be very helpful.

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Everything I needed to hear and and more

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2021

I started this book a few months ago and had stopped because I wanted to do the reflections at the end of the chapter and kept telling myself I didn't have time so I couldn't continue. Talk about overachiever and needing to let go of perfect. I started it back up and decided to give myself a break and just let me read the book and I am so happy that I did. I loved the book, the stories helped me to understand how I did things like that in my life all the time. It was so great to not feel alone in pushing myself and the pressure that I felt. There are so many tips and tricks to help you grow as a person. I plan on reading it again and making time for the exercises, I think I will get much more out of them having read through the book once already. I think this will become a dog eared, overly used book in the very near future.

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Laura Enwere

New favorite book - high impact advice, fun read

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2020

This is the best personal development book I have ever read. As a working mom who happens to also be a perfectionist/over-achiever, I found everything in this book so applicable. It was almost like reading a story about my own life! I love that Heather shares personal, often funny stories - making it an easy read. At the same time, she gives multiple exercises you can do to apply what you're learning. I read through the whole book first and now I'm going back through and taking time to do the exercises so I can start to implement what I'm learning. It has been a life changing experience and I am already embracing creativity, quieting my inner critic, and finding joy. I would highly recommend this to anyone - even if you aren't a perfectionist/overachiever/woman/mom. You'll definitely take something away from it to learn - and possibly even change your life!

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Stephanie Green

Excellent Read for those who think they can do it all - very insightful and a quick read

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2020

Of all the self help books I have read, this one meant much more. First and foremost the author is a local Minnesota gal, the material is very relevant for 2020, the exercises are enjoyable and easy to accomplish, and the content is very relatable for ANYONE! I was impressed to see examples that incorporate some thoughts and behaviors I see in my young children. My favorite part of the book was doing the visioning exercise which requires going to her website to listen to the 5 minute process. Super simple, very enlightening and different. I am most certain that reading this book will address various topics that are extremely relatable - especially during a pandemic for those working from home while homeschooling kids and trying to do it all. If you ever wanted to pin point what it is and cannot articulate what that is - learning about Imposter Syndrome pretty much sums it up. I highly recommend this book.

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Attention Perfectionists! Get Ready to Break Some Rules With "The Overachievers Guide"

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2021

Overachievers, the secret is out: we need boundaries to break the rules! Gift yourself with creativity, balance, joy and boundaries. Stop pleasing others so much, and please yourself. Quit striving for perfection, and strive for goals that mean something to YOU. Whelpley's "Overachievers Guide to Breaking the Rules'' is right on time. The pandemic presents us with the perfect opportunity to slow down and take a look at the life we are creating for ourselves. Pandemic aside, "The Guide'' is a very serviceable handbook for re-creating your daily life at any time. Re-discover creativity, re-pace your speed, and re-claim small, medium-sized and BIG joy. Whelpley's book provides overachievers with something we should crave today, and tomorrow: boundaries. Let's hope this is not the last we hear from this practical, truth-telling candor coach!

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Kristin L.

Wow! That sounds like me!

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2021

There were so many pieces of Heather's life that easily reflect my own. This made her book very relatable and I personally know many "over achievers" who would also strongly relate to the authors narrative. This book is far beyond "self help", (although it does that too!). It really has the reader take a deeper look as to why they feel the need to be the best. The book is sprinkled with many short activities and questions to help the reader focus their attention and INtention of the importance of slowing down and finding joy. This is what resonated with me the most. That it is MORE than ok to not be perfect all the time, but it in many cases, it is absolutely necessary to live a joyful life.

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