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Leap Year

How to Make Big Decisions, Be More Resilient and Change Your Life for Good

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Leap Year

By: Helen Russell
Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
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From the best-selling author of The Year of Living Danishly: How to make big decisions, be more resilient, and change your life for good.

Having spent the last few years in Denmark uncovering the secrets of the happiest country in the world, Helen Russell knows it's time to move back to the UK. She thinks. Maybe. Or maybe that's a terrible idea. Like many of us, she suffers from chronic indecision and a fear of change. So she decides to give herself a year for an experiment: to overhaul every area of her life, learn how to embrace change and become a lean, mean decision-making machine.

From how to cope with changing work lives and evolving relationships to how we feel about our bodies, money and well-being, Helen investigates the benefits of new beginnings, the secrets of decisive people and what makes changes last - and uncovers the practical life lessons we can all use to thrive when change is afoot and inject some freshness and magic if it's not.

©2016 Helen Russell (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton Anxiety Disorders Career Success Hygiene & Healthy Living Mental Health Motivation & Self-Improvement Personal Development Personal Success Psychology & Mental Health Health Funny Witty

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it is rare to find a book that challenges rereading or relistening as one reaches the final pages! Yet that is what I find myself doing. It is not that it is all new but the compilation and the entertaining way in which it is anchored and applied in Helen Russell's life story is compelling and never heavy. so now... I am starting again... Chapter One!

A book that challenges

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Excellent narrator. Thought provoking on how to live positively. Entertaining/amusing. Insight into living abroad and relationships.

Recommend - glass half full!m

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loved it. you finish the bookand you want more books of her!! definitely recommend it and definitely reading again in a year or so...

even better than the living danishly

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Loved this book she’s very funny, great voice to listen to and the book is jam packed with info and how to apply her finding on growing, excepting yourself and making changes. Brilliant. Really a massive thank you hug to you Helen because as I’ve listened to you chat away, whilst running. Yeap you helped me realise I needed to go back to my running, which I’ve fallen in love with again, I’ve also used each chapter to change with you and thought sod it and just stepped out of my comfort zone and owned up to feeling lonely, reconnected to friends and family and got clearer on what I want in my life and made realistic plans and started acting on them to get me to where I want to be. Read this book is my advice xxxx

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One of the best books I've read in a long time! Light hearted, real life but in a Bridget Jones style. Great read if you're facing changes in your life 👍🏻

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