The Exhaustion Cure Review
The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy
From Low to Go in 21 Days
Laura Stack Broadway, $13.95 paper (368p) ISBN
978-0-7679-2751-2
With brisk efficiency, Stack (Leave the Office
Earlier) breezes through 21 factors affecting
the energy or capacity to perform the myriad
duties, obligations, responsibilities and
activities of daily schedules. In an appealingly
simple format, Stack breaks these factors into
three categories: physiological (including diet,
nutrition, sleep, exercise and metabolism),
practices (attitude, relaxation, time
management, etc.) and periphery (environment,
relationships and stress level), and guides
readers through three weeks of replacing “energy
bandits” with corresponding “energy boosters.”
Her health advice focuses on maximum results in
little time; her cures for major energy drains
(cigarettes, caffeine, electronic devices,
workaholism, perfectionism and procrastination,
for example) are practical, and her perspectives
on stressful home and workplace relationships
are refreshing. She helps readers distinguish
between status quo tasks and more fulfilling
ones that move them forward, and makes a strong
case for focusing rather than multitasking.
While her “just do it” approach may not work for
everyone, it just might help many clear a path
to realizing their dreams.
