Edit Your Life, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
Edit Your Life, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
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Edit Your Life
A Handbook for Living with Intention in a Messy World

Author: Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

Narrator: Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/25/2023

Synopsis

An inspiring guide to focusing on what matters most in life—and hitting delete on what doesn’t.

    Life is noisier, messier, and more complicated than ever. In our quest to keep up, we can lose sight of what we care about most, and instead try to do it all—with mixed results.
    In this beautiful call to examine and edit our lives, writer Elisabeth Sharp McKetta shares eight simple ways to cut through the clutter, drama, and overwhelm of modern life to live with more intention and joy. Inspired by her own experiments with reprioritizing, tiny house living, and finding the right balance of work and family time, Edit Your Life brings together personal narrative and practical takeaway, with inspiring results.
    Whether you’re pivoting, downsizing, relocating, or just ready to have more time and energy for the people and activities you love most, this engaging and practical guide will bring you on a journey of exploration and reflection—and point you toward the life you truly want to live.

About The Author

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is an award-winning author, teacher, and speaker. She is the author of twelve previous books, including the writing guide The Creative Year. Her shorter writings have appeared in Real Simple, The Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. Since 2012, she has taught writing at Harvard Extension School, where she won the 2018 James E. Conway Excellence in Teaching Writing Award. She currently lives with her family in Boise, Idaho.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mariana

La portada de este libro me llamó la atención simplemente por el hecho de pensar que nuevamente el concepto de 'edición' se puede aplicar a métodos de crear/organizar una vida o el personaje de nuestra propia serie. Me gustó escucharlo en la voz de Isa Alonso y me quedo con ciertos ejercicios que of......more

Goodreads review by Catherine

I’m biased, because Dr. McKetta was one of my professors, and is currently one of my writing mentors. But when you read this book, you’ll feel that she is your teacher too. McKetta’s advice is instructive without making assumptions. This is no self-help book; she doesn’t prescribe blanket strategies......more

Goodreads review by Margaret

I am not normally a self-help book reader, but this is a great addition to anyone's shelf. Edit Your Life is a short guide to learning how to examine your own life, lean into what you're good at and build your life around what matters to you instead of what feels like should be important. She goes t......more

Goodreads review by Kate

Elisabeth was my professor at Harvard Extension School. I always loved her optimistic and refreshing perspective on writing and life, and I was thrilled to see her apply it to the concept of life editing. Essentially, she explains the idea of editing your life as though it is a piece of writing, by......more

Goodreads review by Naturalbri (Bri

I am definitely in the realm of not having enough time, everything from my house to my mind becoming cluttered and just feeling flustered that there is way too much going on for what little time I have in the day. This book takes a look at everything we know is becoming too much, just overwhelming a......more

Quotes

“Living intentionally in our messy world requires work. Fortunately, in this inspiring and practical guide, Elisabeth shows us how to edit out what doesn’t matter—so we have more time for what does.”
—Laura Vanderkam, author of Tranquility by Tuesday
 
“Edit Your Life is a practical and philosophical guide to editing as a life practice, and a bighearted call to live a happier, more deliberate life.”
—Kim Cross, author of What Stands in a Storm
 
“A book of distilled wisdom and a life-transforming guide inviting readers to personalize what an ‘edited’ life means to them and what they need to let go.”
—Elizabeth Filippouli, editor of From Women to the World: Letters for a New Century
 
Praise for Previous Works by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

“Elisabeth McKetta is a wonderful storyteller who takes us generously into her life, which always seems initially off-balance, full of falls, disappointments, and reversals, and yet, in the end, joyous.”
—Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
 
“Captivating and evocative and original.”
—Grace Dane Mazur, author of The Garden Party
 
“Elisabeth Sharp McKetta examines the work of becoming oneself through the battle between the longing for travel and the desire for home.”
—Kyoko Mori, author of The Dream of Water and Shizuko’s Daughter
 
“For some years now, I have been reading and appreciating Elisabeth Sharp McKetta’s exceptional Poetry for Strangers project. With generosity, inclusiveness, and openness to the wonders of nature and the human spirit, McKetta reaches out to those strangers, encountered by chance, inviting them to participate in an art form that non-writers so often consider alien territory. She is a bridge-builder of the most original kind.”
—Lydia Davis, author of Can’t and Won’t and Essays One

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