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Boss of Busy

Combat Burn Out and Get Clear on What Matters
Series: Be Your Best
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Boss of Busy by Alison Hill offers practical strategies for gaining control over a hectic lifestyle. Designed for busy professionals and entrepreneurs, it provides insights into prioritisation, productivity, and maintaining a balanced work-life approach to achieve personal and professional goals. The book is filled with actionable advice to help readers manage time more effectively and reduce stress.
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Bring calm to the chaos in your life.

Whether you find yourself checked out, burnt out, or just plain freaked out; you deserve better. Psychologist Alison Hill takes you deep into the key pillars for our happiness, health, and sanity to help you live a life filled with purpose and progress.

Productivity training or the latest organisational system will only take you so far. To make lasting change, you need the right tools, mindset, and skills. Boss of Busy helps you find the courage and optimism to live the life you crave, let go of what is holding you back, and learn how to prioritise what really matters.

Originally published in 2016 as Stand Out, this book has been reviewed and redesigned to become part of the Wiley Be Your Best series, aimed at helping readers achieve professional and personal success.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780730369592

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 221.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Alison Hill is Australia's coolest psychologist. A regular on mainstream TV and in print media, she is the co-founder of Pragmatic Thinking.

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