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Growthful – 100 words

January 20, 2023 By Ellen

Growthful Ping. New email informs me that the deal of the day is another audiobook promising to solve me – this time by showing me how to fix unhappiness to live my best life. It clamoured to join the others in a library of accusations about the: paths not travelled at all, friends neither won […]

Filed Under: 365, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, personal growth, self-help, therapy

Escaping the curse of the to-do list with a ta-da list

May 27, 2020 By Ellen

It may be another universal division – the list-makers and the, well, frankly mysterious people who don’t have to write their tasks down. (If that’s you… please explain how it works?) I have lists. Sometimes I have lists of list. I have systems of lists. I have lists with different timescales (today, tomorrow, sometime – […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: advice, boys, busy weekend, family, humour, in my life, self-help, Something happened in my life, to-do

Grateful for another self-help book…

January 6, 2020 By Ellen

The thing about self-help books is the optimism. Not so much that of the author, thought it helps. How To Win People Who Vaguely Remember Your Face or Feel The Unease And Decide Not To Bother wouldn’t sell very well, would they? No. It’s my optimism. My hope that this one will be the one […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: advice, books, Gillian Anderson, Scully, self-help, X Files

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