Get Stuff Done Without the Stress

Awarded Silver for the Living Now Book Award in Personal Development/Growth

Stress Relief Tips for Peace of Mind 

Learn how to design your time to make space for things that are meaningful to you. Are you stuck in a "toxic productivity" mindset where output matters more than your personal wellbeing and happiness? Learn to practice self-kindness and stretch your perception of time by finding your calm each day, which can help you get stuff done without the stress. Using goal-mapping tools, you'll learn how to stay balanced across many areas of your life while achieving your goals, and how to feel "happy and done" with things you've just completed. We only have so much time on this planet, how do we really want to spend it?

Don’t let stress get the best of you. With stress becoming one of the biggest epidemics in recent history, more people are feeling more burnt out and stressed out than ever. That is why you’ll need a self-help guidebook about navigating your productivity in calmer, kinder, and healthier ways. Get Stuff Done Without Stress is a time management book sharing five key secrets for organizing your time, navigating your stress, and mastering your focus, that anyone can use in everyday situations. With psychotherapist and time management coach Risa William’s scientific yet upbeat advice for connecting with our balance and wellbeing, you’ll unlock more ways to go and get your goals without tipping yourself over into stress.

Figure out what matters to you and make it special. Unlike other time management books that provide overly complicated tools for managing your workload, Get Stuff Done Without Stress is full of simple and practical strategies that are about finding your life balance and general wellbeing, while taking small steps towards your goals. After all, who wants to achieve goals and feel worse after achieving them? Each chapter features encouraging prompts, advice, and illustrations that are guaranteed to boost your self-kindness and self-compassion. From time management tips to self-talk prompts, you’ll always find new ways to stay stress-free and more motivated with each read through.

Inside, you’ll also find scientific facts and wisdom such as:

How to break your big goals down into small weekly steps  

Learning the difference between "healthy productivity" vs. "toxic productivity"

How to notice the internal and external signs of stress and what to do about them

Why we don't let ourselves ever feel "done" with things and how we can start to emotionally connect with our successes more

So, if you are looking for a self-help anxiety book like Four Thousand Weeks, The Art of Letting Go, or It’s Up to You, then you’ll love Get Stuff Done Without Stress.

Risa Williams is a psychotherapist, writer, speaker, and wellness coach who specializes in time management and goal-setting tools. Combining her background in the arts and writing, along with her experience in clinical psychology, Risa opened her own consulting business with a wellbeing approach to time management and productivity. She has gone on to help hundreds of clients from around the world, as well as to be featured in many worldwide publications: Forbes Magazine, Wired, Women's World, Real Simple, and Business Insider. Risa’s also the host of the Motivation Mindset Podcast, and the author of five award-winning self-help books, including The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit and The Procrastination Playbook. She currently lives in Los Angeles, and spends her time working with clients, writing books, teaching at universities, and being a mom.