Authentic Inaction™ is not about standing still or doing nothing. It’s not another form of procrastination. It is about keeping things in motion—but allowing for more space and fluidity in-between our actions so we can choose more authentically.
Resources.
Below are various resources I have put together to support you with this topic and all its related components. I am continuously adding to this list so keep checking back. If you have a suggestion for a resource to add, please share!
Articles
My publications on this topic…
Our Doing Lives
By Renée Dineen
It is a good time to question how our ‘doing lives’ define us. For the majority of my life, I have been proud of being a doer. In fact I come from a long line of doers.
A Complicated Nature
By Renée Dineen
Human beings are a complicated nature. We change our minds. Say yes when we mean no. We speak of love and hate in the same breath. Embrace some, and shun others.
Doing as an Identity
By Renée Dineen
Who am I if not a doer? What then, am I to do? It isn’t as if I don’t know myself more completely. But this part of me — the busy bee, the curious pony, the boiling pot…
Your Work. Your Life. Your Way.
By Renée Dineen
I was grateful for my work. Passionate about my work. But I was tired — literally exhausted from the inside out.
This Hidden Career Trap Can Be Worse than Imposter Syndrome
Could a lack of authenticity in your career increase stress, cripple confidence, and ultimately hold you back? The short answer is yes, according to Renée Dineen.
A ‘Call to Action’ for Leaders to Reduce Suffering
By Renée Dineen
There has never been a more crucial time for leaders to take on within their own hearts and organizational …
Meditation My Ass!
By Renée Dineen
I was participating in one-year coaching certification. My coach asked me to establish a daily practice of ‘sitting.’ Meditation My Ass! That was pretty much my response.
Publications I’ve been inspired by…
Stop Being Productive
By Taylor Lorenz
How To Feel Ok Doing Less
By Vanessa Loder
Nothing At All
By Aytekin Tank
Productivity Isn’t About …
By Adam Grant
Tell Me What You Say Yes To
By Benjamin Hardy
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit…
By Kit Troyer
Silence
By Madisyn Taylor
Being Aware is the First Step
By Madisyn Taylor
Taking A Break from WhatYou Are Doing
By Madisyn Taylor
Your True Inner Voice
By Madisyn Taylor
Silence of the Heart
By Madisyn Taylor
Why Slowing Down Can Make You Feel More Alive
Free Yourself from What You Should Be Doing
By Andy Molinsky
How to Fill Your Life With What’s Important
By Laura Haver
The Beauty of Imperfection
By Laura Haver
Stop Being ‘So Busy’
By Chris Bailey
Is Your To-Do List Making You Nuts?
By Anna Phelan
Mind Going a Million Miles A Minute?
By Judson Brewer
The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet
By Justin Talbot-Zorn and Leigh Marz
The Dark Side of Women’s Empowerment
By Acknella Ndoro
A Simple Path To A Winning Strategy
By Graham Weaver
Don’t Work on Vacation. Seriously.
By Laura Giurge and Kaitlin Woolley
Your Life Should Revolve Around Sleeping
By Laura Vanderkam
Want to Be More Productive? Try Doing Less.
By Kate Northrup
This Year, Resolve to Do Less
By Devon Price
7 Mental Habits That Successful People Can Overdo
By Brad Stulberg
In Planning Our Your Week, Prioritize ‘White Space’
By Michael Thompson
The 7 Types of Rest That Every Person Needs
By Saundra Dalton-Smith
This hidden career trap may actually be worse than impostor syndrome
By Anouare Abdou
Knowing When to Stop
By Ana Lucia Jardim
Exchange Working Hard for Working Soft
By Sophie Lucido Johnson
Forge Course Day 1:Tracking Your Time
By Felicia Sullivan
Why Breathing Is So Effective at Reducing Stress
By Harvard Business Review
The Audacity of Nope
By Bonsu Thompson
How to Drop the Ball in Your Life Without Letting Anyone Down
By Tiffany Dufu
Stress Relief: When and How to Say No
By Mayo Clinic Staff
No Amount of Success Will Calm You Down
By Kathleen Smith
‘Circling Back’ to Yourself Is a Powerful Form of Self Care
By Kaki Okumura
A 5-Minute Exercise to Find Your Motivation
By Kelli Maria Korducki
I Will Teach You to Be Time-Rich
By Luke Mac
Do You Ever Feel More Like a Human ‘Doing’ Than a Human ‘Being’?
By Hope Horner
3 Aspects of Work-Life-Balance You Won’t Find in Company Presentations
By Ric Kelly
How to Disappoint the Right People
By Michelle Loucadoux
Are You Suffering from Mind Wandering Deficit?
By Gustavo Razzetti
4 Questions to Foster Your Authentic Self
By Carley Hauck
What’s the most important leadership principle?
By Claire Lew
4 Things Really Successful People Say ‘No’ To
By Alan Trapulionis
How to Recover From Burnout
By Paula Davis
Busyness 101: Why are we SO BUSY in Modern Life
By Kyle Kowalski
6 Signs You are Addicted to Being Busy
By Katie Avis-Riordan
Forget Resolutions for 2022 and Focus on This Inside
By The Good Space
Just One Thing for 2022
By Lisa Word
The Truth of Why You Get Distracted and What to Do About It
By Nate Anglin
This Morning Routine will Save You 20+ Hours Per Week
By Benjamin Hardy
People Who Brag About Being in Back-to-Back Meetings
By Tim Denning
R.I.P., Hustle Culture
By Jessica Wildfire
Fatigue Might Not Mean You’re Tired- 5 Major Causes & Solutions
By Health 1+1 & Wu Kup-Pin
How I Spotted the Early Signs of Burnout and Took Action
By Dr. Laurie Santos
Why You Can’t Focus Anymore
By Olesya Luraschi
4 Surprising Benefits of Rest
By Omega
Learn to Regulate Your Stress Response
By Susan Blum
5 Tips to Help You Stop Rushing
By Stephan Rechtschaffen
Meditation for Seniors
By Christian Simmons
Boredom
By Psychology Today Staff
What Does Boredom Do to Us—and for Us?
By Margaret Talbot
Being Bored Can Be Good for You, If You Do It Right. Here’s How
By Jamie Ducharme
Books
Podcasts
Podcasts I’m featured on for this work…
Impactful Authenticity
Authentic Inaction: Being in choice, making authentic contributions and learning to say NO!
I joined the Impactful Authenticity podcast host Lucy Rowell to talk about our tendency and societal need to “overdo” and how it affects our authenticity and confidence.
Teacher Turned Entrepreneur
Creating Balance in Your Entrepreneurial Journey – and Welcoming the White Spaces!
In this podcast, I talk with Dori Stewart about the fears I had to conquer before making the leap into entrepreneurship. I also share tips on creating a landscape that reflects your core values, ambitions and dreams.
Keeping Up with Chaos
Breaking an Addiction to Doing
In this podcast, I speak with The Chaos Keepers about why I have coined the phrase Authentic Inaction and how doing too much has caused a “Doing Addiction” in our society.
Avenue Code
Extraordinary Women in Tech
On this podcast, I share insights on three ways to live a balanced life of your choosing, achieving greater personal balance and cultivating deep leadership.
Reset with Raven
Are You Doing Too Much: Time to Re-evaluate
In this podcast, I about being a workaholic addict and how to overcome it.
Inspire Us
‘Doing Addicts’ - Are you doing too much at the expense of yourself and others?
In the podcast I open up about my addiction to "doing" and how I was able to overcome it before it resulted in severe loss.
Own Your Choices, Own Your Life
Always in the Being, Not the Doing
My hope in this podcast is to share a more aligned way of living that brings our being and our doing into harmony, activating our authentic presence and power.
Dying to Ask
How to Break An Addiction to “Doing” with Renée Dineen
Deirdre and I explore how to make the most out of an unprecedented year by taking a self-inventory.
Gritty Mystic
Un-Doing Overdoing Featuring Renee Dineen
I joined the Gritty Mystic podcast host Tracy King to talk about our tendency and societal need for overdoing.
Single Soul Purpose
Authentic Inaction to Undoing Organizational Suffering
Jennifer Watson and I discuss self-leadership: taking it back to the basics, back to the origin of leadership.
The Edge of Fear
Roles, Relationships & Rituals
Our conversation was part of her women's empowerment mini series. Join us for a meaningful journey into the roles, relationships and rituals that define and activate our femininity today.
Toxic Person Proof
Navigating Toxic Workplace Culture
I joined the Toxic Person Proof podcast host Sarah K. Ramsey to talk about how we can navigate negative team and workplace patterns.
Tips for Transition
Undoing the Doing in a Do Crazy World
In this podcast I talk with Maria Tomas-Keegan about what kind of doer you might be, if your ‘doing’ is an addition and the worthy journey it is to overcome it.
Thrive
For the Recovering Workaholic…with Renee Dineen
In this podcast, I speak with Erica about what a “doing” burnout is, some of the signs that you might be “doing” too much, and a look at what drives each of the 5 doer types.
Jennifer Watson
Breaking An Addiction to “Doing” and Accelerate Your Craft & Happiness
In this podcast, I speak about “undoing” my addiction to the “doing” and the subtle signs in your life that may be asking you to “do” differently.
The Burnout Show
On this podcast, I speak with Jess Jones about a time when I needed to take a good hard look at my life and make a decision ….
Disinfecting Your Life
You Ain’t the Boss of Me!
Chris and I talk about how I was able to stop letting my job own my choices and started living life on my own terms.
Ctrl + Alt + Delete
Burnout Prevention: Tips from a Workaholic in Recovery
We get really honest about the causes and solutions available for you to be a kickass leader at work and in your life.
How to Choose Happiness & Freedom
Authentic Inaction with Renée Dineen
Lauren Foster and I speak about Being vs. Doing, our compulsion to DO at the expense of our Being, the detrimental effects it has on our happiness and freedom.
The Catalyst
Avoid Burnout by Taking Authentic Inaction™
My hope in this podcast is to remind us that just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
Inevitable Sh!t
Leading with Heart
How our sense of worthiness affects how we work, dream, parent, lead, and simply exist in this world.
Just Steve
Renée Dineen on Life Decisions & Big Goals
For my interview, Steve focused on two main parts of my background and story--my decision to leave corporate and doing a Ted Talk.
Podcasts that enrich this work…
The Hustle Sanely
Have exhaustion & burnout become your norm? Are you constantly overwhelmed by your never-ending to-do list? Do you feel guilty that your loved ones get your “leftover” time & energy? Jess Massey, teaches you how to create an intentional life by building healthy routines and a schedule that supports your priorities.
Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations
Awaken, discover and connect to the deeper meaning of the world around you with SuperSoul. Hear Oprah’s personal selection of her interviews with thought-leaders, best-selling authors, spiritual luminaries, as well as health and wellness experts.
Unlocking Us, Brené Brown
Conversations that unlock the deeply human part of who we are, so that we can live, love, parent, and lead with more courage and heart.
EmpowerHER
"EmpowerHER" is all about cutting through the BS fluff to have honest, and entertaining real talk conversations about life, business and relationships.
Heroine
Eavesdrop on real, vulnerable, intimate conversations with award-winning artists, best-selling authors, CEOs and execs you can’t get anywhere else.
Mark Groves
Mark Groves, a Human Connection Specialist, explores the complex world of relationships and connection. What underlies our connection with ourselves and others? Why do we show up the way we do in our romantic relationships, professional life, friendships, our own health and wellness and more?
Goal Digger
Just Getting By? Here’s How to Live Fully.
donothing® Podcast
This podcast is about how mindful leaders create extraordinary cultures that make a significant impact in the lives of their teams, communities and ultimately, the world.
The Happiness Lab
In "The Happiness Lab" podcast, Yale professor Dr Laurie Santos will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will forever alter the way you think about happiness.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
My name is Jay Shetty, and my purpose is to make wisdom go viral. I’m fortunate to have fascinating conversations with the most insightful people in the world, and on my podcast, I’m sharing those conversation with you.
On Being
Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning — spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and the arts. Each week a new discovery about the immensity of our lives.
The Good Space
A few ways to embrace the space
What happens when you go forward without an idea of what’s to come? When you let adventure unfold? Sometimes great moments happen because you are fully present. Fully alive. I’ve been learning about creating space in your life and embracing the space.
Meditations
Gabby Bernstein’s Meditation Albums
Tara Brach’s Guided Meditations
Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much
Journals
TED Talks
Other
Human Design Chart by Karen Flaherty
“Without first becoming aware of our addiction to action and how it is playing out in our lives, we are powerless to change it…no different than other addictions.”
— Renèe Dineen