Change Your Life

by John Bird

If you wanted to be a successful chef you would read Gordon Ramsay's autobiography. He tells you how he became the successful cook and businessman he is today. His book provides you with a model of how he did it. Allen Carr's book does the same. It tells how he became a world-renowned therapist, helping millions of people to give up smoking. Change Your Life is for everyone else. Those who have the best will in the world, but never get round to using it. Those who start something, but don't finish it. Those who fail, and then fail again.Drawing on John Bird's own life experiences, this book outlines the mistakes he has made and the subsequent lessons he has learned along the way. Change Your Life is about getting lost, feeling self-pity, feeling a failure, disliking the world and oneself; and then climbing out of it. John Bird will teach you how to be a success.

176 pages, Paperback

First published June 5, 2008

Reviews

[Yassemin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Easy and reasonable read. Nothing groundbreaking here and probably not detailed enough to be of massive assistance.

[PRJ Greenwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful little book full of marvellous yet common sense advice. This is not your typical self help book that wants you to follow some 12 week plan and so on. Rather, it's a chapter by chapter largely anecdotal recounting of what worked (and didn't work) for Bird.

Very good stuff.

[Zoha Zarea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book in Arabic .. was good!.. I liked the 3% rule and I learned to apply it on big tasks.

[Vic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Conversational and simple. Enjoyed the insights from his journey launching and running The Big Issue to support homeless people to find ways to support themselves.

[Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book with simple yet profound instructions! Changed my life!