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Is work taking over your life? Is your life interfering with your success at work? Work-life balance is ever-evolving and can be hard to find and maintain, especially as your career develops and circumstances change. Get A Life! is a highly practical handbook to help you do just that.
Written by experienced coach, counsellor and wellbeing consultant Rick Hughes, this book covers everything from assessing your own needs, delegation and workload management and the myths of perfectionism, to managing and investing in relationships at work and at home, considering professional and personal development, and creativity and self-worth. With a wealth of advice, case studies and useful action plans founded in over 25 years of real-world experience, Get A Life! will help you find the balance that works for you, now.
List of contents
Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Personal development; Chapter - 02: People; Chapter - 03: Professional issues; Chapter - 04: Productivity and performance; Chapter - 05: Psychological and physical wellbeing; Chapter - 06: Practical factors; Chapter - 07: Pulling it all together; Chapter - 08: Appendix; Chapter - 09: Index
About the author
Rick Hughes (MBACP, MPhil, DipC, DipM) is the former Head of Service for the University of Aberdeen Counselling Service and former Lead Advisor: Workplace for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He has been a Wellbeing Consultant, Workplace Counsellor, Coach, Employee Support trouble-shooter and writer for over 25 years, providing support, counsel or guidance for thousands of individuals, and worked with clients such as the Royal Mail Group, Department for Transport, West Midlands Police, NHS Grampian and AstraZeneca.
Summary
Be happy and rested, fulfilled and successful, and stop work from taking over your life with this practical and handy guide to creating a work-life balance that works for you.
Foreword
Features case studies from diverse people and situations and practical action plans and exercises to help you manage your own work-life balance successfully, and apply the advice to your own circumstances and outlook
