It gives you time to explore what is big in your life right now, to know deep down what matters. There are exercises to ground you, give access to your intuition, to breathe deeply and allow your monkey mind to settle. It uses nature, creativity and your inner spirit to allow the energy to flow freely once again. This book gives you the space and the practices so that you can learn how to benefit from the power of the pause. It is an ancient message, but still just as strong when you pause to take care of yourself and your own life, you become the person you’re meant to be. Learning to say no, doing the things that make you feel good, and not doing the things that don’t make you feel good – these are not self indulgent, listening to your own heart and wisdom doesn’t make you selfish, slowing down to appreciate your life isn’t lazy or unambitious.

Pause allows you to finally put yourself, your feelings and your intuition first.

The fear of missing out makes us rush from one thing to the next, not really taking any of it in. Time is our luxury and yet with technology we are never able to leave the office, even when we aren’t there. We check our phones an average of 221 times a day, we have apps that help us sleep and remind us to be mindful while we secretly measure our success in ‘likes’. Pause: How to press pause before life does it for you book by Danielle North But isn’t it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible… Read more He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots – neighbours who can’t reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d’etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents’ Association. New York Times bestseller’Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving’ Daily Mail’Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it’ Spectator Books of the YearAt first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. Perfect for fans of Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project and David Nicholl’s US. The million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman’s heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step.

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