Necessary Endings
by Henry Cloud
Cloud argues that pruning, ending relationships, projects and roles that are dead or dying, is a normal part of growth, and that most people avoid it far too long. The book covers how to tell what to end, how to overcome the resistance and how to do it well. It is practical, humane and uncomfortably accurate.
Read it if…
you are holding onto something, a job, a business line, a relationship, that you know is finished.
Skip it if…
you need a book on beginning; this is about stopping.
Three things you will actually use
- Prune the dead, the sick and the good-but-not-best.
- Get hopeless about the current path before you can change it.
- End well: clearly, kindly, without reopening.
Do this first
List what in your life is dead, dying or taking resources from what is thriving.
Our verdict
Clear and wise; the best book on quitting things properly.
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