A smaller business, with fewer sleep problems
Professional success does not have to mean constant expansion, hiring, visibility, or more responsibility. Jarvis asks businesses to define “enough,” protect profitability, serve existing customers well, and question whether growth improves the owner’s actual life. A company designed around permanent urgency can deepen sleep problems by turning every evening into unfinished work. For women considering consulting or entrepreneurship, the book offers a counterweight to hustle culture: keep costs intelligible, automate selectively, set general rules for boundaries, and build resilience before scale. The purpose of success is greater choice—not feeding a business that can never feel full.
About Paul Jarvis
Paul Jarvis tested whether writing could replace web design by separating the income from each. His first book cost nothing: he traded design for editing, borrowed props, and paid a photographer with the food she photographed.
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