Smart Moves

The ultimate handbook for achieving your goals and transforming your life

In Smart Moves: Simple Ways to Take Control of Your Life, you'll find the knowledge, tools and confidence to go after what you want and live the life you've always dreamed of. This practical playbook is packed full of more than 100 actionable tips for levelling up in your finances, your career, your wellbeing and your relationships. Inside, you'll find everything you need to empower and motivate you to take charge—starting today!

Smart Moves breaks down a variety of complex topics into easy-to-understand steps, showing you how to conquer the challenges you encounter every day, in all aspects of your life. With tried-and-trusted strategies from Téa Angelos, founder of the wildly popular online community Smart Women Society, you'll learn how to:

• Make your money work for you: spend wisely, learn how to budget, pay off debts, and invest for your future
• Take your career to the next stage: write a resume that will land you your dream job, ace your interviews, advocate for yourself at work and negotiate a promotion
• Beat burnout and rediscover your motivation: develop simple but effective practices for self-care, time management, productivity and wellbeing
• Form and foster relationships that support and nurture you: learn to love yourself, set healthy boundaries, strengthen your friendships and build a healthy, happy love life

Smart Moves is the ultimate guide for any ambitious woman seeking to make smarter decisions and lead a happy, fulfilling and successful life.

About the Author ix

Introduction xi

How to Use This Book xiii

Money 1

1 Laying the foundations 5

2 Managing money 17

3 Saving money 43

4 Spending money 55

5 Growing your money 67

Career 79

6 Getting a job 83

7 Confidence at work 109

8 Your career pathway 129

9 Side hustles 149

Wellbeing 169

10 Self- care 173

11 Burnout 191

12 Motivation 199

13 Productivity 235

Love 257

14 Self- love 261

15 Setting boundaries 279

16 Friendships 299

17 Relationships 307

Final thoughts 329

TÉA ANGELOS is the founder and CEO of Smart Women Society (SWS), one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing online education platforms helping a thriving community of hundreds of thousands of women globally get smarter with their money, careers, wellbeing and love lives.

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The ultimate guide for going after what you want and creating your dream life

Smart Moves will empower you to make your life better, easier and more successful.

Do you want to grow your career? Are you stuck in a job you don’t like? Do you want to make more, spend less and feel confident with your money? Are you always putting yourself last, with burnout on the horizon? Could your love life and relationships use a turbocharge?

From Téa Angelos, founder of the global online community Smart Women Society, Smart Moves is the book you will keep coming back to, time and time again. Covering the four major areas of everyday life — money, careers, wellbeing, and love — Smart Moves breaks down over 130 topics and gives you actionable tips and tools to help you navigate anything and everything life may throw at you.

Learn how to:

• take control of your money
• elevate your career to the next level
• beat burnout, overcome procrastination and rediscover your motivation
• form and foster relationships that support and nurture you.

What’s your next move? With Smart Moves, you’ll find the right way forward, from wherever you are in life.