Time Away from the Norm is a self-inspired guide for those of you experiencing time off work, and are looking for ideas and inspiration to help manage your time, and enable you to cope and deal successfully. It is brimming with useful advice and stimulation for ensuring that you make good use of your time off and gain some valuable experiences and insight along the way. Work tends to occupy a third of our daily lives, so to suddenly have all of this extra time available can come as quite a shock, and be a difficult and emotional time for some. This guide addresses these issues and bases itself on the concept of creating a new routine; a new Norm, an exciting Norm. By unleashing your inner being and helping to discover a whole new you, this Norm will help you get by when your usual Norm is temporarily out of bounds. The guide is aimed primarily at those who have been signed off work, but can just as easily be applicable to all types of people experiencing Time Away from the Norm: graduates, school leavers, pensioners, contractors, freelancers, the post-op as well as those who are job-hunting, on maternity leave or have been made redundant – this is the ultimate guide in helping you get started and seeing your time off through to the end.