- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd; Reprinted Edition edition (12 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1902757521
- ISBN-13: 978-1902757520
- Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 20.1 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 861,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Do you feel out of control ...not enough hours in the day ...no time for yourself? This book offers motivational guidance to stress-free living and ways to maximise quality of life. It focuses on seven aspects of daily life: waking up; getting around; working; home; relaxation; entertaining; and bedtime. Each chapter is packed with Top Ten Tips, Ten Things You Can't Live Without, Best of Product Ideas, and Inspirational Role Models. There is also a handy reference section featuring suppliers, useful addresses and websites.
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Helpful for those who need organising..,
By A Customer
This review is from: New Leaf, New Life: : " How To Do Everything And Still Have Time For Yourself " (Paperback)
If you always put your keys down in the same spot and always return your used coffee mug to the kitchen, then this book isn't for you. If you've ever spent two weeks hunting for your house keys (fallen into the mechanisms of the sofa bed) or regularly go around collecting up the mugs, then you'll find this book helpful. I was cured of these problems long before I saw this book but I still enjoyed reading it.The book is nicely produced with inspiring photos. I've rated it as 4 stars and not 5, simply because I think the food recipes should have been omitted. Most of us have plenty of cookery books (in many cases they are clutter) and we neither need more recipes nor do they really belong in a book on organising. For simple straightforward recipes, I suggest collecting free recipe cards from supermarkets - just remember to throw old ones out before they become clutter! I liked the top 10 tips and am thinking of putting the 'Top Ten things to do before you leave your bedroom in the morning' on the back of my daughter's bedroom door. For those of us who find organisation is not our second nature, this book has some simple suggestions to help us become more methodical.
112 of 114 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A real treat! It covers almost everything!,
By A Customer
This review is from: New Leaf, New Life: : " How To Do Everything And Still Have Time For Yourself " (Paperback)
I have been waiting for this book for so long. I lived what had become a more-hectic-than- I-could -cope-with lifestyle: often starting work at 6 a.m, sometimes only getting home in time for a quick pot noodle dinner and then falling asleep, totally exhausted. The business of living (and paperwork, and laundry, and tidying up) usually had to wait until the weekend, if it got done at all. Unsurprisingly, leading this kind of a lifestyle was making me completely miserable. This book helped to put the sanity back in my life. It amazes me that one book can cover so many different aspects of one's life, with simple, straightforward advice on how to do things better and in the process, get more out of life. It was never an option for me to quit work, or to adopt a different lifestyle. Rather, this book helped to show me how I could get more out of my day, with simple, inspirational tips to get on top of things. It's beautifully illustrated, in a way that encourages one to get organised - with great ideas for dealing with the clutter in one's life, and even information on where to find the storage solutions in question. It is also very readable - subdivided into chapters that one can easily dip into whenever one has the time. And it deals with absolutely everything! I now know how to organise my wardrobe, isolating the clothes that I wear most often and to think about what it is that makes these clothes so wearable. No more impulse buys - I know what I want and what suits me now! I now start my days with wonderfully pampering power showers, no longer dreading early mornings and actually looking forward to the commute, thanks to Dawna Walter's '10 things to do on public transport'. I have just sorted out all my paperwork into easily accessible files and have also taken the book's advice and ordered all the presents for the upcoming birthdays of friends on the internet, saving myself a huge amount of time in the process. Thanks to this book's advice on daily, weekly, monthly and six-monthly chores, I now find housework immensely more manageable. I haven't yet dipped into the chapters on indulging at home or dinner parties, but look forward to treating myself soon - now that I finally have time. It's the little things that add to the quality of life, and Dawna Walters' New leaf, New life is a celebration of that - much more than just another 'how to get organised' book. The difference is that this one is actually fun to read - a wonderful treat deserved by anyone who thinks they are too busy to give themselves any time (and who are going mad in the process).
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
How obvious can you get ?!?,
By A Customer
This review is from: New Leaf, New Life: : " How To Do Everything And Still Have Time For Yourself " (Paperback)
I can't believe this book. I bought it despite the two reviews below saying that it was patronising and nothing new. I like (good) self-help books and did enjoy Walters' Life Laundry books. It might not be too bad as reading for a slightly clueless 18 year old who's leaving the parental home for the first time to do a course with a heavy workload or to start a full-time job, but at just 25 I feel I could have written this thing myself.Alternative books which are far better for grown-ups: Mark Forster's How To Get Everything Done, Fiona Harrold's Be Your Own Life Coach, DeJunk Your Life by Helen Foster or indeed the Life Laundry volumes by Dawna Walter herself.
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