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Unstuck in Your 20s and its companion, The Deep Workbook: a practical starting point, and a daily tool to put it into practice.

Cover of Unstuck in Your 20s by Dindze Olive
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Unstuck in Your 20s

How to Build Clarity, Confidence, and Control When Early Adulthood Feels Uncertain

A practical starting point for young adults who want clarity, confidence, and control.

Early adulthood can feel overwhelming. Unstuck in Your 20s is a practical and encouraging guide for young adults who want clarity, confidence, and a realistic place to start. Written from a perspective of someone only a few steps ahead, it offers grounded insights and actionable direction for building a more intentional future.

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Paperback · 6 × 9 in

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Who it’s for

  • You’re between 18 and 29, with so many demands, so much to learn and so much to start building.
  • You feel overloaded with life advice, and it leaves you stuck rather than moving.
  • You keep asking: where do I start? That is the question this book answers.
  • You’d rather learn from a peer just one or two steps ahead than from someone millions of steps ahead.

Inside: three parts, ten chapters

Part IComfort: Find yourself

  1. 1.What Drives Us
  2. 2.A Messy Process
  3. 3.Influence of Environment

Part IIEquip: Build yourself

  1. 4.Value Exchange
  2. 5.The Ultimate Strategy
  3. 6.Live to the fullest
  4. 7.People can see

Part IIISustain: Outlast the struggles

  1. 8.Curb the Excesses
  2. 9.Surviving the Undesired
  3. 10.An ever-present help

Also inside: a preview of The Deep Workbook, the companion tool to Chapter 6.

Book facts

Format
Paperback
Trim size
6 × 9 in
Language
English
Coming soon

The Deep Workbook

A deep-work planner that helps you focus on the work that actually moves the needle, so you can gain skills and create value early.

It’s the companion tool to Unstuck in Your 20s, built to turn the habits from Chapter 6, “Live to the fullest”, into daily practice.

“At 23, I struggled a lot with being busy yet not creating anything valuable nor acquiring any impressive skills.”
Olive, in her letter at the front of the workbook
Cover of The Deep Workbook

How it works

  1. Goal Setup

    Clarify one goal, set success metrics for up to four priority objectives, plan around obstacles with “if… then…” lines, and name the person you’re becoming.

  2. Deep Work Session

    Pick today’s priority, set your boundaries, mark up to two focus sessions on a 24-hour timeline, then review what you got done, what distracted you, how hard focus felt and your energy. A streak tracker keeps count.

  3. Biweekly Review

    Every two weeks, check each objective and your progress towards the goal, then look at the habit itself: average deep-work time, distractions, focus boosters and your longest streak.

  • Systems trump goals

    A system keeps you moving on low-energy days, when motivation fades.

  • Deep work beats shallow hustle

    A few hours of focused, distraction-free work outperform long stretches of fragmented effort.

  • Identity change is more sustainable

    You don’t “try” to write a book; you become a writer every time you sit down to write.

The three principles from the “Why this works” page in the workbook.

Look inside

Real pages from the workbook. Switch between a filled-in example and the blank page you’ll write on.

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Filled-in example of the Goal Setup page: clarify the goal, success metrics, obstacles and plan, identity shift.
Goal Setup · filled-in example
Blank Goal Setup page: clarify the goal, success metrics, obstacles and plan, identity shift.
Goal Setup · blank page
Filled-in example of the Deep Work Session page: priority objective, pre-session boundaries, session timeline, session review and energy level.
Deep Work Session · filled-in example
Blank Deep Work Session page: priority objective, pre-session boundaries, session timeline, session review and energy level.
Deep Work Session · blank page
Filled-in example of the Biweekly Review page: progress on goals and progress on deep-work habit formation.
Biweekly Review · filled-in example
Blank Biweekly Review page: progress on goals and progress on deep-work habit formation.
Biweekly Review · blank page

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How they’re being presented

The packaging designed for the book and the workbook, as photographed so far.

Packaging designed for Unstuck in Your 20s and The Deep Workbook, shown with gift boxes
Packaging preview

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Get an email when Unstuck in Your 20s and The Deep Workbook are ready to order.

The launch list opens soon. Sign-up is switched off until then, so no details are collected here yet. Until then, follow along on YouTube (opens in a new tab).

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Bring Unstuck in Your 20s to your campus, community or organisation

For schools and campuses, youth groups, faith communities, employers and mentors who want to put practical guidance in the hands of young adults.

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