Book description
The ultimate handbook for achieving your goals and transforming your life
In Smart Moves: Simple Ways to Take Control of Your Life, you'll find the knowledge, tools and confidence to go after what you want and live the life you've always dreamed of. This practical playbook is packed full of more than 100 actionable tips for levelling up in your finances, your career, your wellbeing and your relationships. Inside, you'll find everything you need to empower and motivate you to take charge—starting today!
Smart Moves breaks down a variety of complex topics into easy-to-understand steps, showing you how to conquer the challenges you encounter every day, in all aspects of your life. With tried-and-trusted strategies from Téa Angelos, founder of the wildly popular online community Smart Women Society, you'll learn how to:
- Make your money work for you: spend wisely, learn how to budget, pay off debts, and invest for your future
- Take your career to the next stage: write a resume that will land you your dream job, ace your interviews, advocate for yourself at work and negotiate a promotion
- Beat burnout and rediscover your motivation: develop simple but effective practices for self-care, time management, productivity and wellbeing
- Form and foster relationships that support and nurture you: learn to love yourself, set healthy boundaries, strengthen your friendships and build a healthy, happy love life
Smart Moves is the ultimate guide for any ambitious woman seeking to make smarter decisions and lead a happy, fulfilling and successful life.
Table of contents
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- DEDICATION
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- INTRODUCTION
- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
- MONEY
-
CAREER
- 6 Getting a job
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7 Confidence at work
- POWERFUL WORK AFFIRMATIONS
- OVERCOMING MEETING ANXIETY
- WHEN TO SAY ‘NO’ AT WORK
- HOW TO SAY ‘NO’ AT WORK
- BOUNCING BACK AFTER MAKING A MISTAKE AT WORK
- STOP OVER-APOLOGISING AT WORK
- DEALING WITH IMPOSTER SYNDROME
- ADVOCATING FOR YOURSELF AT WORK
- ACCEPTING A COMPLIMENT AT WORK
- TACKLING SCARY CONVERSATIONS AT WORK
- 8 Your career pathway
- 9 Side hustles
-
WELLBEING
- 10 Self-care
- 11 Burnout
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12 Motivation
- HOW TO SET GOALS THAT YOU'LL ACTUALLY STICK TO
- WHAT TO DO IF YOU FEEL STUCK IN YOUR LIFE
- FIXED VS GROWTH MINDSET
- DEVELOPING A GROWTH MINDSET
- VISUALISING YOUR DREAM LIFE
- LIMITING VS EMPOWERING BELIEFS
- HOW TO CHALLENGE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS
- WHY YOU SHOULD PUSH YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE
- HOW TO PUSH YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE
- OVERCOMING YOUR FEAR OF FAILURE
- HOW TO STOP DOUBTING YOURSELF
- FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL
- MAKE FASTER DECISIONS
- HOW TO STOP OVERTHINKING
- HOW TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF
- WHAT TO DO IF YOU FEEL LIKE GIVING UP
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13 Productivity
- PLANNING YOUR WEEK
- REMINDERS FOR WHEN YOU FEEL OVERWHELMED
- UNPRODUCTIVE WORK HABITS
- TURNING AROUND AN UNPRODUCTIVE DAY
- MAKE AN END-OF-WEEK CHECKLIST
- PRODUCTIVITY TECHNIQUES TO TRY
- EISENHOWER MATRIX
- BREAKING DOWN BIG TASKS
- POMODORO TECHNIQUE
- TIME-BLOCKING
- MUSIC
- PARETO PRINCIPLE
- YOUR FAVOURITE PRODUCTIVITY STRATEGIES
-
LOVE
- 14 Self-love
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15 Setting boundaries
- WHY BOUNDARIES ARE IMPORTANT
- COMMON MYTHS ABOUT BOUNDARIES
- TYPES OF BOUNDARIES
- HOW TO BUILD HEALTHY BOUNDARIES
- BOUNDARIES WITH FRIENDS
- HOW TO SET BOUNDARIES AT WORK
- WHAT TO DO IF SOMEONE CROSSES YOUR BOUNDARY
- HOW TO REACT IF YOU CROSS SOMEONE'S BOUNDARY
- SET BOUNDARIES WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
- HOW TO HAVE A DIGITAL DETOX
- 16 Friendships
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17 Relationships
- RELATIONSHIP: GREEN FLAGS VS RED FLAGS
- LOVE SOUNDS LIKE …
- HOW TO SHOW LOVE TO YOUR PARTNER
- QUESTIONS TO DEEPEN YOUR CONNECTION WITH YOUR PARTNER
- HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP TECHNIQUES
- HOW TO APOLOGISE
- WHAT TO SAY WHEN SOMEONE IS UPSET
- OVERCOMING A BREAK-UP
- BREAK-UP REMINDERS
- HOW TO BE HAPPY BEING SINGLE
- FIRST DATE CONVERSATION STARTERS
- FINAL THOUGHTS
- END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
Product information
- Title: Smart Moves
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2023
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781394160471
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