CONSCIOUS LIFE SKILLS NEWSLETTER - August 2007
Conscious Life Skills newsletter
No. 4, August 2007
Frequency: 6 times per year
Website: http://www.consciouslifeskills.com
Mail to: frances@consciouslifeskills.com
No. 4, August 2007
Frequency: 6 times per year
Website: http://www.consciouslifeskills.com
Mail to: frances@consciouslifeskills.com
BOOK REVIEW
It's never too late: 174 simple acts to change your life
It's never too late: 174 simple acts to change your life
c2007 Conscious Life Skills
It’s never too late focuses on the small and humble changes we can make, like turning off the TV or becoming conscious of our breath. These small and humble changes are a way of creating ripple effects in our life.
Each page offers a suggestion to change your life. The suggestion is rounded out with words that gently encourage you, and is then linked to a time-honoured proverb or quotation.
For example
For the times we find it hard to express love, or regret not expressing love
:
It’s never too late suggests...to say I love you. Then gives this gentle expansion of meaning, supplemented with a quote by Elizabaeth Barrett Browing
It sounds so simple.
And it is.
Yet it means so much.
To your partner.
Your family.
Your friends.
It’s a gift.
Give it freely.
But mean it.
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning).
For the times we feel stuck in our life, or keep revisiting situations we would rather move through
It’s never too late suggests…to learn from mistakes.
Take a wider view.
Look at the patterns in your life.
If there are recurring problems
Maybe there are recurring mistakes.
Mistakes don’t always look the same.
Look carefully.
Find the pattern.
Change your behaviour.
Learn.
“Experience is the mother of wisdom.” Proverb.
Enough said, perhaps. The pages in It’s never too late are unnumbered; there is no index; the entries are not alphabetical. Its arrangement is truly serendipitous - lucky dip or purposefully random? Trust that life delivers you the message you're needing to hear right now. The messge delivered is actually your soul whispering to you.
Each page offers a suggestion to change your life. The suggestion is rounded out with words that gently encourage you, and is then linked to a time-honoured proverb or quotation.
For example
For the times we find it hard to express love, or regret not expressing love
:
It’s never too late suggests...to say I love you. Then gives this gentle expansion of meaning, supplemented with a quote by Elizabaeth Barrett Browing
It sounds so simple.
And it is.
Yet it means so much.
To your partner.
Your family.
Your friends.
It’s a gift.
Give it freely.
But mean it.
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning).
For the times we feel stuck in our life, or keep revisiting situations we would rather move through
It’s never too late suggests…to learn from mistakes.
Take a wider view.
Look at the patterns in your life.
If there are recurring problems
Maybe there are recurring mistakes.
Mistakes don’t always look the same.
Look carefully.
Find the pattern.
Change your behaviour.
Learn.
“Experience is the mother of wisdom.” Proverb.
Enough said, perhaps. The pages in It’s never too late are unnumbered; there is no index; the entries are not alphabetical. Its arrangement is truly serendipitous - lucky dip or purposefully random? Trust that life delivers you the message you're needing to hear right now. The messge delivered is actually your soul whispering to you.
It’s never too late : 174 simple acts to change your life / Patrick Lindsay. Prahran, Vic. : Hardie Grant Books, 2007. ISBN 9781740665032
When I wear my hat as a librarian, I often catalogue inspirational books that schools send in for cataloguing. From time to time, one really stands out. When a book stands out to me, it is a book that simultaneously illuminates, inspires and teaches in a practical way .
Lindsay’s book, It’s never too late, does just that - illuminate, inspire and teach. Most of us become aware sooner or later that what we desire for ourselves falls often of who we have become. We are not living the life we imagined. Yet, how can we begin to change - do we need to get divorced, quit our jobs, or move to a new location?
When I wear my hat as a librarian, I often catalogue inspirational books that schools send in for cataloguing. From time to time, one really stands out. When a book stands out to me, it is a book that simultaneously illuminates, inspires and teaches in a practical way .
Lindsay’s book, It’s never too late, does just that - illuminate, inspire and teach. Most of us become aware sooner or later that what we desire for ourselves falls often of who we have become. We are not living the life we imagined. Yet, how can we begin to change - do we need to get divorced, quit our jobs, or move to a new location?