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Stress-Proof Your Life: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Taking Control

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This is an advice book at its best. It constantly uses the authors own experiences and wonderful quotes. I am glad I read it as it could add years onto your life and will certainly make you smile.

Some useful suggestions on how to deal with stress. Some suggestions were not that useful, but on the whole the book is written in a very readable style. Definitely worth a look as I'm sure there will be something that everyone can take away from the wide range of suggestions offered.

Loved this book. We all get stressed and it was full of good ideas and motivation to get your life on track and improve the way you live. I wanted to go out and buy a copy for all my family and friends. I got it free on kindle and when I last checked it was still free. Go check it out yourself and download now, even if you don't read it for a little while.

This is probably the most useful book on stress management I have read so far. This comes not as a result of the author having conducted the most in-depth or most omprehensive research but primarily due to the realism of the author - she does not insist on a 'wishful thinking' complete adherence to all rules in order to achieve success but breaks it all into little steps, all of which help and allowing the reader to choose the ones that work best for a start.

Each of the 52 ideas is broken down into a short introduction, a description of why the practice is stress mitigating, some practical guidelines for successful implementation and finally an alternative idea to combine it with, a famous person's quote related to it, as well as two Q&As related to the difficulties wih the specific practice.

Some readers may miss the academic vigour, as many steps are only partially validated by appropriate scientific studies; much comes from the author's own experience, as well as her general appreciation of the motivation / stress literature (without her always referring to the sources directly). Still, this is likely to make the book more appealing for the majority of readers at the same time, as much of it is simply up to the point (and the advice is usually not that counterintuitive that the reader would find it hard to swallow).

Finally, the proof of the pudding is in trying the steps out. They do work (in my opinion) in general and you will have enough of a choice from what the author offers, to find the handful of ideas that you like and want to start with to make your life a bit more serene and enjoyable.

As a busy mum I did find a few things in this book helpful. Especially the tips on time mangement and completing tasks. Reading the book from cover to cover I did feel alot of it was repetative or of no use to me. But all the same it was free on kindle and found a couple of ways to make my life easier.

A very good book indeed. Excellent value for money as it was offered free in Kindle store.

The boot itself contains lots of useful and practical advice which does resembles real life scenarios.

Some good ideas to dip in and out of, read it at night before sleeping then try to implement one thing the next day.

Easy to read. I really enjoyed it. Full of good, realistic advice which allows you to set achievable goals to stress proof your life. Would recommend.

I liked the style the book was written in. Friendly, non threatening and non preachy!! It was an easy read and some of the ideas I've used. Its something that I will dip back into from time to time

I am loving this. I am half way through and have found some wonderful sensible tips. Elisabeth has a very dry sense of humour and no nonsense approach. Bite size pieces to read and try. No waffle or jargon. Just some good ideas. Try it. There maybe just one really good idea for you that makes a difference to every day.