Shifting the Dials is a call to bin the toxic mental model that is work-life balance and an offer of what to replace it with. Work-life balance is a static, oppositional, binary approach which only sets us up for disappointment. A 2D model in an 4D world. Instead, I'm sharing a new mental model - The Dials - as well as perspectives on many too rarely talked about topics in the world of careers and life.

The Dials is a flexible, open, empowering approach to working life - not work and life as separate entities, but as a series of constantly evolving and coexisting components - your dials - reflective of an honest assessment of YOUR values, goals, and priorities - the dashboard upon which those dials sit upon. The Dials is a method that encourages you to expand your notions of both 'life' and 'work', and then fashion a sustainable, nourishing and most of all, realistic way of knitting all those many pieces of a rich and varied existence together, dynamically and responsively. Because dials are designed to be adjusted: up and down, as needs, opportunities, and seasons of life change.

On top of all that, the book dives DEEP into what shifting your dials out there in the real world involves. The book looks at resilience, at quitting, at how a life helps rather than hinders a career. It touches on finding career fulfilment, and all about the trades every single person makes in life and in work (my personal favorite chapter!). As well as the important topics of making an impact with our lives and breaking taboos around money.

Writing this book has been an incredibly humbling experience. I am so so proud of it, and slightly terrified about sharing it. This isn’t a book about being a banker, or a yogi, or a mother, or an author. Though there is lots of that in there. It’s about how each of us can find a way to live true to ALL aspects of ourselves, sustainably and realistically, in a world which is very much not set up to do any of that with ease. Because the more of us who can, the more likely we are to create the very world we would like to see.

If you have any questions about the book, shoot me an email by clicking the email button above.

Love,
Rebecca

Read more about my first book below, and/or order it via the buttons coming up…

The Book of Yoga Self-Practice is the ultimate guide for every aspiring yogi or dedicated student who wants to find the magic of an independent yoga self-practice - one that's simple, practical, captivating and attainable.

No need to travel to a class, or struggle to find the exact type of teaching you need in any given moment. No need to follow a video or come up with the pre-planned sequence. No need to keep spending money on classes or subscriptions that never quite fit the bill. This step-by-step guide will show you how to overcome the challenges of starting, continuing and progressing in a yoga self-practice.

It combines heartfelt writing with beautiful, clear design to provide 20 usable and unbelievably helpful tools that you can implement in your yoga practice today. Learn to practice anywhere at anytime, not just do poses. Fast, slow, short, long - your flow starts here. Start reaping the incredible rewards for your body and mind.

Self-published in 2019, and published for real by Yellow Kite Books in July 2020, the book is the result my quest to fit yoga consistently into my ever-increasingly busy life. It's the book I wish I'd had with me when I started my yoga journey, and I hope it helps you as much as the lessons it contains have helped me.

Hit the email button above if you have a question to ask me about it.

Love,
Rebecca

Email is the best way to reach me: rebecca.andertondavies @ gmail .com