Gudrun Smith

1 bookSelf-HelpBusiness & EntrepreneurshipProductivity & Time Management

Gudrun is a health and traffic psychologist, burnout coach, and the founder of SMITH-Consult, based in Lehrte, Germany. With a Dipl.-Psych. — Germany's equivalent to a Master's degree — and a background that spans academic teaching at Hochschule Fresenius in Köln and MEU Magdeburg, Gudrun has spent her career helping people understand the mechanics of stress and rebuild sustainable ways of working and living. Her practice today runs across two brands: START-with-Gudrun!, her English-language resilience coaching work for professionals and leaders internationally, and MPU-mit-Gudrun!, a fully online German-language traffic psychology practice. She has also worked with Lycra, a Zurich-based Employee Assistance Program, since 2012. Her work is built around frameworks she developed through years of clinical and coaching practice — among them the Stressor Landscape, the Circle of Control, the Perfect Day system, and the Map Breathe Deliver methodology — tools designed to make the invisible mechanics of stress visible, and manageable. She brings a rare combination to her writing: the rigor of clinical psychology and the pragmatism of someone who has also built and run her own businesses. The result is work that doesn't just explain stress — it gives readers a map through it.

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Reroute: A Stress-Smart Way to Plan When Life Won’t Cooperate

How to adapt, recover focus, and make meaningful progress when circumstances disrupt your routine

Self-Help
Business & Entrepreneurship

You are not failing your plans—your plans are failing your reality. Most productivity frameworks make a fatal assumption: that your energy, time, and focus remain constant day after day. Yet when real life intervenes—a sudden work crisis, family demands, or the exhaustion of chronic stress—rigid schedules crumble. Left with feelings of guilt and frustration, we fall into all-or-nothing thinking and abandon our most meaningful goals. In Reroute, Gudrun Smith introduces a revolutionary, stress-smart framework designed around your actual capacity rather than an unachievable ideal. Treating personal planning like a sophisticated satellite navigation system rather than an inflexible railway track, this book provides the tools to establish your true starting Location, identify a clear Destination, and map an adaptable Route built to bend. Discover how allostatic load secretly drains your cognitive stamina, master the skill of recalibrating without shame when plans break, and apply practical four-week templates tailored to your life. Stop forcing unyielding routines into chaotic weeks and learn how to navigate your ambitions with resilience, clarity, and peace of mind.

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