Working Hard, Hardly Working: How to achieve more, stress less and feel fulfilled: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Product Information

And with lockdown forcing us closer to our screens, closely examining our working habits and those of the people around us for the past year, this exact comparison culture has really found the capacity to thrive. I was pretty surprised that there was so much talk about Gen Z and Millennials, probably because I didn't really know who the author was. In Working Hard, Hardly Working, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed 'lazy workaholic' Grace Beverley challenges this unrealistic and unnecessary split, and offers a fresh take on how to create your own balance, be more productive and feel fulfilled. Some good ideas and sentiments that resonated with me, but mostly this was nothing new or even clearly explained, mixed with rambling sentences, quirky jokes and lots of privilege.

I think this will speak to a lot of young people and can help to start changing the direction of how we see the workplace etc. In the second part „Hardly Working“: Redefining self-care as being productive, the matter of wanting or needing to „have it all“ and the art of doing nothing. Recently announcing her pregnancy, Lydia Rose is sharing the highs and lows of her pregnancy, giving her followers exclusive access to her journey so far. In Old English, the adverbs “hardly” and “hard” were heardlice and hearde ( -lice and -e were adverbial endings).All I knew was that I wanted to have a conversation about work and I wanted to reflect upon my approach and motivation and this book seemed as good a start as any other. m. (because you feel like you should or do you feel like you should always be connected) then it's about to get so much worse if you're two metres from where you've been working all day’. However, although this book is marketed for everyone I think it is a lot more transferable for those who are self employed or have their own management of their work load.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.This naturally gives a privileged position to her perspective, yet she suggests we all have vastly different experiences of work and her privileges are not lost on her. It probably makes women feel like they shouldn't be that confident or that they don't deserve to be there or they think, 'I don't see other people in those seats', and that would be far worse for women who also aren't white and it multiplies in all directions. They seem familiar, but sometimes having known concepts reiterated can be a useful nudge to actually implementing them to our daily lives. She talks about how she was determined to turn it around and exactly how she did that, after her journey on becoming a teenage mother to then going back into education and going to university to study law to realising she couldn't study law because she couldn't afford the LPC. You can plan everything in the world, but if you're not doing the things you should actually be doing, then you're going to have a problem.

I listened to this on audible and I’m not sure if I’d have found it so irritating written down, but there were so many cliches or cringe phrases that really clanged for me. Grace recommends monitoring yourself for a week and taking note of how long certain tasks take you to complete. Therefore, the adverb hardly has the opposite meaning of hard, and reduces the intensity of the action.Whether you lean more towards working hard or hardly working, Grace has you covered in an amusing one size does not fit all approach with university essay like references to other relevant works in beautiful Times New Roman font. I got to reflect a lot on what works and what doesn't for me, whether the definitions that I have set up are relevant and whether the strategies that I adopt for work and personal life are really effective or beneficial.