Restlessness is your first clue. Discontent can creep into your life, making you feel uncomfortable, as if sitting too long in a cramped space. It can make you grumpy and put you in a bad mood. It can dampen your spirit and make you feel sluggish, dissociated, and disinterested. Yet you can use it to change your life."Instructions for Your Discontent" is an inspiring guide to making discontent the driving force for change in your life. A practical handbook for using bad times to make life better, "Instructions for Your Discontent deal"s with the feeling that we all have from time to time: something is wrong, but we don't know quite what it is. Supportive and refreshingly honest, Barrie Dolnick, author of the extremely successful Simple Spells books, identifies that feeling as discontent and urges us to respect it, rather than ignore it. Discontent is an intensely creative state, she says. It nags and pokes us to get ourselves going and to accomplish what we really want in life. It's trying to tell us something and we need to listen.
Covering all aspects of life, "Instructions for Your Discontent ex"plores relationships, love, jobs, money, family, self-worth, anger, and time. This captivating and thought-provoking book provides creative and sensible instructions to guide you through the challenges, anxieties, and fears that interrupt your life and cause you unhappiness. Instructions for Your Discontent offers accessible, intelligent advice for weeding through the downers and moving beyond a life that is just okay. Enjoy examining your discontent and being happy again.
- ISBN10 0743214420
- ISBN13 9780743214421
- Publish Date 22 April 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 March 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Imprint Scribner
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English