Rather than become overwhelmed trying to turn your life around in a week, these books help you turn your life around over 52 weeks, by adding and subtracting various aspects of life that work for you. Changing your life is not so much doing something major, but rather creating new habits, and letting old habits that no longer serve you go.
A Year of Weeks is a charming illustrated book, again broken down with 52 new ideas to try – from drinking enough water to trying out hand-lettering. Drawing on prompts (dreamy to practical), you can start with small morsels (like dusting small corners to buying flowers (see toxic plants to avoid near pets and don’t display near windows, to help stop birds flying into windows). This book offers endless opportunities to enrich your life, one week at a time.
One day you will wake up. And there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted to do. Do it now. Paulo Coelho
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns. Or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. Abraham Lincoln
Read The 52 Week Project. By the end of the book (one year), you should have transformed your life significantly, based on what’s best for you. The idea came after Lauren was lonely and miserable one winter’s night, after separating from her husband. Then came the night of 27 Rejections of Doom (she asked 27 people to hang out one Friday night, and they all said no!)
Realising she had to change her life, she decided to do what her book suggests, trying something new each week – from entering a stand-up comedy night to detoxing from social media to giving up alcohol for 6 months and going to a music festival alone. Not only did the experience change her life, it repaired the relationship with her husband!
