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SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE

This isn’t a book about slowing down, reining in ambition, finding better balance, or leaving your job.

It is a book about your energy and how it shapes your relationship with work, including the beliefs you hold and the approaches you take to success, stress, and rest.

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DEAR WORK is About: 

When your energy is overused, underused, or invested in the wrong places, you get stuck, burn out, and get pulled away from what matters most, leaving you spinning your wheels in the survival zone.

Over time, this creates a vitality debt: the gap between functioning and feeling fully alive. You’re still getting things done, but feeling less connected to purpose, possibility, and personal fulfillment at work or in life.

THAT is what this book changes.

When you learn to direct your energy in ways that fill you up and fuel you forward—into the Vitality Zone—everything starts to feel different. Not because work changes, but because you do.

You'll Discover How to: 

  • Stop spinning your wheels in survival mode with new skillsets and mindsets to operate from the Vitality Zone, bringing a sense aliveness back to your work, your relationships, and within yourself
  • Identify the four “success traps” that look like discipline and dedication on the outside but limit your potential and drain you on the inside—proving burnout is not the cost of success.
  • Convert stress into a strategic ally by learning how to work with it instead of against it, using a “Yes, And” possibility mindset to boost resilience and clarity in the face of change and challenge.
  • Build your Rest Intelligence in a world increasingly shaped by technology to access the energy already within you and generate more of the vitality that will sustain you—because the rest you want is often not the rest you need.
  • Elevate you emotional intelligence to increase leadership vitality and foster cultures that support vital work and vital people.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO SACRIFICE YOUR GOALS, TEMPER YOUR PASSION, OR EASE UP ON YOUR AMBITION. DEAR WORK WILL SHOW YOU HOW REIGNITING YOUR TAKE-ON-THE-DAY VITALITY WILL BE YOUR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AT WORK AND YOUR PATH TO ALIVENESS OUTSIDE OF IT.

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DEAR WORK

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“A RALLY CALL TO CHANGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO WORK. SARA ROSS SHOWS YOU HOW TO REDISCOVER YOUR SENSE OF ALIVENESS—ENERGIZING YOU TO WORK, LEAD, AND LIVE WITH A GREATER SENSE OF MEANING, CONNECTION, AND JOY.”

—Jen Fisher
Chief Well-Being Officer; Wall Street Journal bestselling coauthor, Work Better Together

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“WORK CHANGED, YET MANY ARE STUCK IN PAST HABITS AND NORMS. IN DEAR WORK, SARA ROSS TEACHES US HOW TO EMBRACE THE VITALITY TO SUCCEED AND THE COURAGE TO RETHINK OUR APPROACH TO WORK, STRESS, AND REST. IF WORK IS IMPORTANT TO YOU, THIS BOOK SHOULD BE AS WELL.”

—Kevin Oakes
CEO & cofounder, Institute for Corporate Productivity (I4cp); bestselling author, Culture Renovation

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“DEAR WORK IS A PERFECT COMBINATION OF FASCINATING SCIENCE, UNCONVENTIONAL MINDSETS, AND PRACTICAL ADVICE. IT WILL CHANGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH WORK.”

—Liane Davey
New York Times bestselling author, The Good Fight

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“IF YOU WANT TO GO FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING IN YOUR WORK—RE-ENERGIZING YOUR MOST VITAL SELF, AND BRINGING IT WITH JOY TO ALL THAT YOU DO—YOU MUST PRIORITIZE GIVING DEAR WORK A READ TODAY.”

—Laura Gassner Otting
Washington Post bestselling author, Limitless

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Dear Vitality What Exactly Are You?

DISCOVER HOW TO SHIFT FROM JUST DECREASING EXHAUSTION TO INCREASING YOUR ENERGY.

Sara will show you how to direct your energy toward what matters to you - in a way that is healthy for you. Using the Work Vitality Quotient, you’ll be able to quickly identify where and how you can bring more aliveness into your life and work.

Dear success is it time to rethink how to achieve you?

DO FEAR, OBLIGATION, AND GUILT ABOUT WORK LOOM LARGER THAN (YOUR) LIFE?

If these emotions overly influence your perspective and decisions, you may be caught in a success trap. In this section, Sara reveals the 4 most common success traps and how to shift those beliefs and behaviors to better serve yourself, your values, and the success you desire.

Dear stress do I really need to break up with you?

WHAT IF YOUR BELIEFS AND STRATEGIES AROUND STRESS ARE CAUSING YOU MORE STRESS?

Sara upends common beliefs about stress—including the divide between “good” and “bad” stress, popular coping mechanisms, and more. Find out why stress is a non-negotiable element in generating vitality and how you can work with it in a meaningful, healthy way.

Dear energy how do I get more of you?

SELF-CARE ISN’T A LUXURY, NOR IS IT SIMPLY “DOING LESS.”

Expand your understanding of self-care to include actively building vitality using the CARE index: Connection, Activation, Restoration, and Exploration. You’ll learn how to pour your best into the world while ensuring you can manage and protect your vitality, so you can do it all over again the next day.

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Relationships are a key element of vitality. Go deeper into the lessons of Dear Work with coworkers or friends and discover how you can thrive in your work together.

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About
Sara Ross

SARA ROSS IS ON A MISSION TO HELP PEOPLE BRING A SENSE OF ALIVENESS BACK TO THEIR WORK AND LIVES, REDEFINING SUCCESS AND TRANSFORMING THE FUTURE OF WORK.

Sara is the Chief Vitality Officer and founder of the leadership research firm, BrainAmped, a keynote speaker, and author. Sara shares her work on worldwide stages to companies such as Microsoft, T-Mobile, PepsiCo., as well as leading agencies and associations, including professional spots teams and the US Navy.

Outside of work, Sara is a coffee-loving, Converse-wearing, self-proclaimed nerd. Her husband says her title should be Chief Eavesdropper-People-Watcher. Sara argues she’s simply a street scientist—endlessly curious about why humans do what they do!

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