‘It’s not just about the focus and productivity aspect, it’s also about the mental health impact.’
Grace Marshall, author of Struggle, is featured on the BBC News speaking about protecting work-life balance and switching off from social media and the internet.
The people going ‘monk mode’ to limit social media use
A growing number of individuals are using apps to block access to social media and the internet.
Grace Marshall, author of Struggle, is awarded Virtual Speaker of the Year 2023 at the recent Speaker Awards.
Grace Marshall on LinkedIn: What a night! I came to The Speaker Awards already celebrating that I had… | 100 comments
What a night! I came to The Speaker Awards already celebrating that I had been shortlisted in two categories and get to spend the day learning from and evening… | 100 comments on LinkedIn
Grace Marshall, author of Struggle, speaks about her book on the Wow @ Work Podcast.
Wow @ Work 15: Wrong turns are where the magic happens
December 12th, 2022 * 55 mins 4 secs * Download (37.8 MB) * Link with Timestamp What do we do when life or work throws us a curveball? In her new book, productivity expert Grace Marshall explores ways we can reframe struggle as the place where the magic happens.
This year’s Business Book Awards gala evening took place on 16 May, celebrating the best business books from around the world published in the previous year. The finalists in 15 categories had been selected by a distinguished panel of judges from over 300 titles submitted by traditional and independent publishers, and even some self-published titles.
Practical Inspiration Publishing had an incredible 11 titles shortlisted, and the evening was very much about celebrating that achievement. However we were delighted to discover that Practical inspiration authors took the top award in two categories!
Congratulations to all the authors involved, and particularly to the award winners:
FINALISTS
Start Up/Scale Up: Michael Buckworth, Built on Rock; Rob Kerr, Project Future; David Pattison, The Money Train
Sales & Marketing: Lucy Werner and Hadrien Chatelet, Brand Yourself
Business Self-Development: Janie Van Hool, The Listening Shift
Work & Life: Grace Marshall, Struggle; Jo Richardson, Ignite
Wellness & Wellbeing: Sarah Kuipers, The Thriving Giver
Short Business Book: Ruth Murray-Webster and Eleanor Winton, The Disruption Game Plan
Specialist Business Book: Jo Filshie Browning, Scientifically Speaking
Business Journey: Babs Omotowa, From Storeroom to Boardroom
WINNERS
Start Up/Scale Up: David Pattison, The Money Train
Business Self-Development: Janie Van Hool, The Listening Shift
Grace Marshall, author of Struggle, is one of the experts featured in BT’s Skills for Tomorrow series, talking about how to be more productive.
How to be more productive with Grace Marshall – Work life – Skills for Tomorrow | BT
Grace Marshall head coach and productivity ninja shares her advice on how to be more productive. She helps people adopting new ways of working and thinking about their work to replace stress, overwhelm and frustration with success, sanity and satisfaction.
On World Book Day, we celebrated by congratulating all the finalists in this year’s Business Book Awards (with commiserations to those who missed out – the competition was fierce and there was much heated discussion!). It was a particular proud day for Practical Inspiration Publishing, with ELEVEN of our authors shortlisted this year.
Our finalists are, by category:
Start Up/Scale Up: Michael Buckworth, Built on Rock; Rob Kerr, Project Future; David Pattison, The Money Train
Sales & Marketing: Lucy Werner and Hadrien Chatelet, Brand Yourself
Business Self-Development: Janie Van Hool, The Listening Shift
Work & Life: Grace Marshall, Struggle; Jo Richardson, Ignite
Wellness & Wellbeing: Sarah Kuipers, The Thriving Giver
Short Business Book: Ruth Murray-Webster and Eleanor Winton, The Disruption Game Plan
Specialist Business Book: Jo Filshie Browning, Scientifically Speaking
Business Journey: Babs Omotowa, From Storeroom to Boardroom
See the full shortlists for each category here. Winners will be revealed on 16 May, 2022.
We’re keeping EVERYTHING crossed!
Grace Marshall, author of Struggle, invites us to think about the hard times differently in WellDoing Magazine.
How To Change How You Think About the Hard Times
How we respond to life’s challenges makes all the difference We have coaches available to support you – find yours here “It shouldn’t be like this. It shouldn’t be this hard. I shouldn’t be struggling.” Sometimes our biggest struggle with struggle is the fact that we’re struggling. Why is this so hard?
‘It’s where we step outside of the familiar, into new territory, or go beyond our comfort zone and into the stretch zone. Where there are no guarantees, and ‘success’ is uncertain and far into the horizon.’
Grace Marshall, author of Struggle, talks to Forbes about a new way of thinking about struggle.
Why We Struggle With Struggle
We all know that struggle is an inevitable part of life. But despite our many stories of overcoming adversity, struggle remains a taboo. We speak to Grace Marshall, the author of a new book Struggle, where she asks the question: have we got it all wrong about getting it wrong?