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Get a Life!

Creating a Successful Work-Life Balance
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Get A Life! by Rick Hughes is a practical guide to achieving work-life balance amid evolving career demands and personal changes. Drawing on over 25 years of experience as a coach, counsellor, and wellbeing consultant, Hughes offers advice on needs assessment, delegation, workload management, dismantling perfectionism myths, and nurturing both professional and personal relationships. This handbook includes case studies and actionable plans to help readers find a balanced life that suits their unique circumstances.
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This book is ideal for professionals, managers, and anyone seeking to improve their work-life balance through practical strategies and real-world advice. It appeals to individuals interested in personal development and organisational wellbeing.

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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.

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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.

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Get A Life! is praised for its insightful, relatable approach to work-life harmony. David Roomes of Rolls-Royce highlights Hughes's deep understanding of what fosters fulfilling lives through relationships and communication, complementing the book with practical case studies. Dr Judith Grant from the MACE group endorses it as a valuable resource for workplace wellbeing, offering tools and ideas to handle work pressures effectively both individually and organisationally.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789662009

Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 March 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Kogan Page Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 290g

Pages: 232

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.

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