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Skip to content HomeHow to Get the Most Out of This BookMore About Hillary Rettig Skip to contentHomeI & IIPart 1: Managing Your Missionmission descriptionManaging Your Mission1. Who Are You?2. More Questions3. Tips for Completing the Activist Project Histories4. How to Tell the (Absolute) Truth5. Honesty vs. Burnout–6. Three More Facts About Burnout7. How to Handle Uncomfortable Truths8. The Importance of Focus/Creating Your Activism Goals List9. How Much Activism Do You Really Want to Do?10. Health and Fitness11. Relationships–12. Money13. Why Are Activists Poor?14. The Worst Choice: Not Having a Well-Paid Career15. More Career AdviceOther NeedsYour Personal Mission StatementYour Mission PlanPart 2: Managing Your TimedescriptionManaging Your Time1. The Value of Time2. How Successful People View (and Use) Time3. Do You Suffer from the AACL?4. Lifestyles Inimical to Success5. Another Inimical Lifestyle6. Success Is Not a Hobby: The One Lifestyle That Will Support Your Success7. The Time Management Process–8. Time Management Step #1: Create A Time Budget9. Time Management Step #2: Create A Weekly Schedule10. Time Management Step #3: FOLLOW the Schedule and TRACK Your Time Use11. Time Management Step #4: TALLY Your Time and REVIEW Your Weekly Progress–12. Time Management Step #5: REFLECT and REFINE, then REPEAT13. Time Management Step #6: WATCH Yourself Get More Productive!14. Objections15. Three Crucial Skills for Staying on Schedule16. Seven Time Management Tips17. How Others May React to Your Time ManagementIII & IVPart 3: Managing Your FearsdescriptionManaging Your Fears1. How YOU May React to Your Time Management2. What Procrastination Is3. How Procrastination Feels4. Who Procrastinates5. The Problem You Think You’re Solving6. The Problem You Should Be Solving7. The Three Productivity Behaviors8. Adopting the Three Productivity Behaviors: A Process for Creating Behavioral Change9. Seven Success Tips–10. Solving v. Dithering11. Fear12. One More Point About Fear13. Fear Creates Obstacles to Success14. The Most Important Thing You Need to Know About Your Obstacles15. Perfectionism16. Negativity17. Negativity II: Why It’s Not All Your Fault18. Hypersensitivity19. PANIC!: The ObstacleAmplifier20. A Process for Defeating Fear–21. Defeating Your Fears: Requirements22. Defeating Your Fears: The Process in Detail23. Tools for Change #I: Journaling24. Tools for Change #II: Therapy and SelfCare25. Tools for Change #III: A Created Community26. Finding and Cultivating Mentors27. The Ultimate Solution to Managing Your Fears: Develop an “Empowered” Personality28. What Empowered People DoPart 4: Managing Your Relationship with SelfdescriptionManaging Your Relationship with Self1. Your Most Important Relationship2. A Vision of the Actualized Self3. How to Self-Actualize4. Self-Actualize to Become a Better Activist–5. Self-Actualization: A Progressive Value6. The Right’s Big Lie7. The Strict Father Model8. The Key InsightV & MorePart 5: Managing Your Relationship with OthersdescriptionsManaging Your Relationship with Others1. What Activism Is—or Should Be2. Marketing and Sales Defined3. The Most Important Point About Marketing and Sales4. How Marketing Works: An Activist Case Study5. More Lessons from the Case Study6. Bitter Truth #17. At the Heart of Bitter Truth #18. Why People Buy (a.k.a. Bitter Truth #2)9. Bitter Truth #2 and the Activist Sale10. The Primary Requisite of Effective Activism11. The Best Activists Do This (Part I)–12. The Best Activists Do This (Part II)13. More on Deep Needs14. The Ethics of Marketing to Deep Needs15. On Bullying16. The Bitterest Truth: It’s Not About You17. Why You’re Not Getting Through18. The Activist’s Need Not to Be Rejected19. Corollaries to the Bitter Truths20. More Marketing Basics21. The Marketing Process in Detail I22. The Marketing Process in Detail II23. The Marketing Process in Detail III24. Sales 101 for Activists–25. In Sales, Preparation + Practice = Success26. Sales Process #1: Prospecting27. Sales Process #2: Qualifying28. About Your Family29. Sales Process #3: Needs Assessment30. Eight Tips for Conducting a Good Needs Assessment31. Sales Process #4: Restate the Customer’s Problem32. Sales Process #5: Ponder & Present Solution33. Change is Hard34. Sales Process #6: Ask for the Sale & Supervise the Action35. How to Handle a “No”36. A Day in the Life of a Successful ActivistConclusionConclusionNotesNotesResources/BibliographyResources / BiblioTranslationsArticles Welcome!Welcome to the Web home of my book, The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way (Lantern Books, 2006). It is based on my many years’ experience as an activist and coach: work in which I learned which personal habits, thoughts and beliefs tend to help people succeed at ambitious goals, and which don’t. The Lifelong Activist encompasses all I have learned, and recasts it for use by progressive activists, organizers, educators and others. It will thus teach you how to:Manage Your Mission: so you can determine your authentic path and not act out of guilt, shame or obligationManage Your Time: so you can create a schedule that allows you to live your mission, and to achieve the most within that missionManage Your Fears: so you can follow the schedule without succumbing to procrastination, perfectionism or blocksManage Your Relationship With Self: so you can be the strongest, most empowered, and most joyful person you can be. (And why that goal is fundamentally progressive.)Manage Your Relationship With Others: so you can leverage your energy, time, skills and other resources with those of others.The Lifelong Activist has sold thousands of copies, with many thousands more free excerpts in circulation around the Web. (It’s also gotten some great reviews – see the rightmost column.) But not until now has the whole text been available for free to any activist who wishes it. I’m so glad you’re here: please take your time and look around, and please tell others. Also, please sign up for my mailing list for monthly articles on topics related to time management and overcoming barriers to productivity and happiness.I hope you find the information useful, and encourage you to write if you have questions or need advice. Although I coach for a living, I will do my best to provide at least a short response to questions or concerns from any progressive. I also hold online classes which are an inexpensive way to get in-depth support, and of course I also do one-on-one coaching.To learn more about me and my current work, including my recently published book, The Seven Secrets of the Prolific: The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Procrastination, Perfectionism and Writer’s Block (Infinite Art, 2011), please visit www.hillaryrettig.com. At that site, you’ll also find abundant free ebooks and other downloads.I wrote, in the introduction to The Lifelong Activist:I believe that progressive activists are the world’s most precious resource. We tackle the most difficult and important problems— including hunger, war, disease, poverty, violence, cruelty and exploitation— and work to further humanity’s evolution in the direction of compassion and kindness. Conservatives may create more wealth, but we create more of the values, including justice, equality and freedom, that make life worth living. As history has repeatedly shown us, and as we are unfortunately witnessing in the United States today, wealth without the tempering of progressive values and mores leads inevitably to corruption and despair.I meant it then, and I mean it even more now.With gratitude – and in peace and solidarity,Hillary RettigP.S. – Translators Needed! If you are fluent in a language other than English, please consider translating a part of The Lifelong Activist that is meaningful to you. Even a couple of pages could make a difference to another activist! When you’re done, I’ll post your translation on this site. Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment.About Hillary RettigWelcome! My goal is to help you recognize and overcome any disempowering forces in your work and life so you can reclaim your joyful productivity, and achieve your personal and professional goals more quickly and easily than you ever imagined! Thanks for checking out my site, and I always welcome your comments, suggestions, and questions at [email protected] more about my life and work here. Like my page on Facebook!Follow me on TwitterThe single best thing you can do to support me and my work is to review one of my books on Amazon or elsewhere. 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