{"id":3104,"date":"2015-05-03T22:24:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2015-05-04T07:46:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T21:46:15","slug":"better-than-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3104","title":{"rendered":"BETTER THAN BEFORE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BetterthanBefore_Tilted\"<\/a>Every now and then I torture myself with a self-help book.<\/p>\n

Usually I borrow them from the library, but this one I actually bought, on a whim, in Dymocks in Collins Street when I was in Melbourne last week.<\/p>\n

Actually, I’ve just realised that last time I was in Dymocks I bought a self-help book too: a book about what I should be eating\u00a0 called Eat Real Food<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em> I really needn’t have bought it\u00a0 – the title says it all. And I eat very well, anyway. What was I thinking?<\/p>\n

I know that if self-help books really worked<\/em>, there would be no new crop of advice each year. There’d be no need. Everyone would be vibrant and healthy, fit, mindful, cancer-free, happy, rich, blissfully wedded, empowered and spiritual and all the rest of it. I see self-help books all the time at the shop where I work and manage to resist their siren song very well, thank you. All that aside, Gretchen Rubin’s exploration of habits has been thought-provoking and even a prompt to action. When I first started this blog, I promised myself that I would post on my blog once a week, on Sundays. I haven’t kept that promise. Too busy, too tired, forgot, nothing to write about, uninspired…<\/p>\n

Posting on Sundays needs to become a habit. So here goes!<\/p>\n

\u00a0I’m reading:
\n<\/strong>Better Than Before <\/em>by Gretchen Rubin
\nTestament of Youth<\/em> by Vera Brittain<\/p>\n

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