Doing What Matters

Always busy, always “on”—yet feeling as though you are simply trying to keep going.

In Doing What Matters: Resilience at Work with ACT, you’ll discover how to find greater calm, direction, and meaning in a demanding work environment. Drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), you’ll learn to relate differently to stress, difficult thoughts, and emotions, while making conscious choices about what truly matters to you.

Combining scientific insights with relatable stories, this book invites you to see yourself, your work, and the people around you from a different perspective. Along the way, you’ll develop greater psychological flexibility: the ability to stay present, make room for difficult thoughts and feelings, and keep moving forward—even when things are hard.

The aim is not to eliminate stress or uncertainty, but to relate to them differently. In doing so, you create more room to make choices that reflect who you are and what matters to you.

Doing What Matters offers a compass for professionals, teams, and organizations looking to move beyond constant pressure and create more room to flourish—at work and in life.