Crazy, as Usual: Master Your Mental Monkeys & Set Your Brilliance FREE
£6.80
“I’m not insane,” Donna Carlson writes, “I’m fully aware I’m crazy. It’s time we talk about the realities of depression and burnout in the workplace. Then we can admit that we’re crazy, as usual, and set our brilliance free.”
Donna has a recurring record of success and self-sabotage in the workplace and in close relationships. Every crash has been linked to the crazymaking voices in her head she calls “the monkeys.” Those cheeky, sarcastic, wily monkeys in your mind can make you crazy with their constant chatter: You’ll never be good enough. You’re alone. What’s wrong with you? Why can’t you think/be like other people?
The monkeys can be your greatest source of wisdom and they can be a thief, trying to kill your opportunities, steal your confidence and destroy your dreams. “I used to think if I could cage the monkeys, they’d lose control over me. Then a friend showed me an even better way,” Donna says. “I’ve learned to pay attention to what the monkeys are telling, then let them know I’ve got it from here.”
Through candid conversations between two close friends in different stages of life—one a mom in her early forties locked in a high-pressured career, the other a retired CEO—Donna:
- Explains how monkeys can undermine workplace success and damage relationships.
- Demonstrates how monkey messages are often rooted in childhood trauma.
- Provides language to discuss the monkeys and their impact on mental health.
- Presents a tested prescription for neurological well-being called the NeuroRx.
- Underscores the ineffaceable value of community and friendship, Fridays at Five.
Join this journey. Make a new friend. Together let’s create more humanity in the workplace.
About the Author
Donna Carlson helps companies create happy customers, from the inside out. She started out as a journalist, then a long career in high-tech PR, where she realized that customer loyalty was less about marketing and more about experience. Instrumental to customer experience is a thriving, happy workforce, which led her to study for a Master of Arts in Global Leadership to cultivate a whole-life leadership program. Her training included three years as a Strategic Business Partner for the Center for Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs, before launching 360 Life Strategies in 2018. Her pandemic shift in 2020, when all her programs had to shut down, was a chief executive role starting a new Chamber of Commerce in Estes Park, leveraging that customer relationship strategy to triple membership in two years. For an encore she led member development in Colorado Springs in 2022 before creating a consulting program that provides customer relationship strategy from the inside out, connecting wellness service providers to catalyze thriving organizations.
She lives in Colorado Springs with her husband Jeff and their only son—Riley, the eternal puppy—just looking forward to the next time their three brilliant adult daughters can visit. Find Donna @crazyasusual67 on Instagram or DonnaCarlson360 on LinkedIn. Visit www.crazyasusual.com to learn more about speaking opportunities and working women connecting on Fridays at Five in your city.
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Additional information
Publisher | Honest Press (12 Sept. 2023) |
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Language | English |
File size | 808 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 | 156 pages |
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