The Workaholic Cure

The Workaholic Cure

If you want to kick the habit of working too hard, help is here!

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If you want to kick the habit of working too hard, help is here! The tips in these books will help you find a better work-life balance and avoid burnout.

The Workaholic Cure

If you want to kick the habit of working too hard, help is here!

It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Reclaim your work-life balance
21 min4.0
How to Do Nothing
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
Resisting the Attention Economy
19 min4.3
Less Doing, More Living
Less Doing, More Living
Ari Meisel
Make Everything in Life Easier
21 min3.7
The 4 Day Week
The 4 Day Week
Andrew Barnes with Stephanie Jones
How the flexible work revolution can increase productivity, profitability, and wellbeing, and help create a sustainable future
25 min3.9
Do Pause
Do Pause
Robert Poynton
You Are Not a To Do List
18 min4.4
The No Asshole Rule
The No Asshole Rule
Robert I. Sutton
Building a Civilised Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
13 min4.0
Designing Your Work Life
Designing Your Work Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work
23 min4.2
Four Seconds
Four Seconds
Peter Bregman
All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want
15 min4.0
Essentialism
Essentialism
Greg McKeown
Improve your life by only focusing on the essentials
20 min4.5
The Happiness Advantage
The Happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor
The Seven Principles that Fuel Success and Performance at Work
24 min4.5
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Robin Sharma
A guide to using ancient practices to improve your quality of life and achieve your goals
15 min4.5
The Refusal of Work
The Refusal of Work
David Frayne
The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
19 min4.5
Best Self
Best Self
Mike Bayer
Be You, Only Better
18 min4.3
Leisure
Leisure
Josef Pieper
The Basis of Culture
11 min4.3
The Power of Bad
The Power of Bad
John Tierney and Roy Baumeister
How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
31 min4.5
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig
Build your very own twenty-first-century survival kit
21 min4.4
The Science of Living
The Science of Living
Stuart Farrimond
219 Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine
20 min4.0
Be A Free Range Human
Be A Free Range Human
Marianne Cantwell
Escape the 9 to 5, Create a Life You Love, and Still Pay the Bills
21 min4.3

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