I was an overweight corporate roller in my early thirties, who smoked, ate, and partied too much; I was riding towards the heart-attack-land. But then I read Nigel Marsh's book titled Fat, Forty, and Fired - and I decided to change my trajectory. This book is one of my dreams come true: publishing a creative work while turning forty without being fat (or fired). I've written this for my children, Diana and Peter Jr. It's a book that my teenage self would love to find among the shelves of that public library back in Maribor, Slovenia. I found joy in my life, and I wish for my children - and anyone else reading this book - to find it as well. The secret is to find your "enough." -That middle between excesses and scarcity.

Discover the Thai approach to food and wellness-and use nature's elements to eat for optimum health, beauty, and spiritual well-being The traditional Thai philosophy of diet and health involves eating meals planned around your "home element"-earth, water, wind, or fire-as well as the weather, time of day, and other factors. In this book, award-winning author Su-Mei Yu explains this age-old philosophy and gives you information and recipes to help you prepare meals that will promote better physical, spiritual, and emotional health. She describes the personal characteristics related to the each of the four home elements, as well as the tastes, flavors, aromas, and natural ingredients best suited to them. She shows you how to identify your home element and eat foods that accommodate it through different times of the year and different times of the day. Beauty treatments geared to your home element will help you to relax, rejuvenate, and feel renewed. This beautifully designed book Includes an interactive wheel that helps you calculate your elemental sign Explains how to plan meals appropriate to your home element Offers tempting recipes for every home element, season, and time of day Shares dishes with a delicious variety of ingredients and flavors, from Cold Soba Noodles to Stir-Fried Chicken or Port with Watermelon Rind Contains beauty, mind, and spirit sections with recipes for face masks, hair treatments, and massage oils based on each home element Features more than 120 full-color photographs of finished dishes and life in Thailand Written by the IACP Award–winning author of Cracking the Coconut and Asian Grilling, the simple, inspiring recipes and straightforward, easy-to-follow advice found in The Elements of Life will inspire you to live according to the elements and follow a traditional path to health, beauty, longevity, and inner peace.

Shows the interconnections among the elements of well-being, how they cannot be considered independently, and provides readers with a research-based approach to improving all aspects of their lives.

From the rising-star designer and author of the hit blog, Elements of Style, a full-color, fully illustrated book packed with honest advice, inspiration, ideas, and lessons learned about designing a home that reflects your personality and style. Elements of Style is a uniquely personal and practical decorating guide that shows how designing a home can be an outlet of personal expression and an exercise in self-discovery. Drawing on her ten years of experience in the interior design industry, Erin combines honest design advice and gorgeous professional photographs and illustrations with personal essays about the lessons she has learned while designing her own home and her own life—the first being: none of our homes or lives is perfect. Like a funny best friend, she reveals the disasters she confronted in her own kitchen renovation, her struggles with anorexia, her epic fight with her husband over a Lucite table, and her secrets for starting a successful blog. Organized by rooms in the house, Elements of Style invites readers into Erin’s own home as well as homes she has designed for clients. Fresh, modern, and colorful, it is brimming glamour and style as well as advice on practical matters from choosing kitchen counter materials to dressing a bed with pillows, picking a sofa, and decorating a nursery without cartoon characters. You’ll also find a charming foreword by Erin’s husband, Andrew, and an extensive Resource and Shopping Guide that provides an indispensable a roadmap for anyone embarking on their first serious home decorating adventure. With Erin’s help, you can finally make your house your home.

Did you ever imagine what a perfect life would feel like? Having anything you want and being in total control? The sad part is that most people don't even ask themselves that question. They wonder through life wanting things, but never taking action. They are scared of the things they have to sacrifice, they are scared for the very fact that they will not succeed in it. That they will quit right there in the process. Most people are even scared of the results they are going to get! They don't know if they are able to handle all that pressure. But what if I tell you something that you already know. You only have one life. If you ask 99% of people on an older age what they regret most in their lives. It is not the things that they did and didn't do right. It about the things they didn't do. The things that they didn't do because they thought they were not capable of doing it. Chances are that you are not part of that group of people. You actually want to make changes, but you just don't yet know how to. I am here to tell you that you are on the perfect place right now! I am going to explain you throughout my book what it takes to live a perfect life. What elements are crucial to achieve it, and the most important part how to do it. You might ask yourself the same question that I have asked myself over and over again. "Is there really a perfect life that is perfect for anyone?" The answer is a big fat no. I designed my book just for that! The elements of a perfect life are the same for all of us. But there is still a big variety in how to do them. For example in the first chapter of my book "Morning Ritual". I will explain what my morning ritual is and why it's so powerful. Then I will explain you the morning ritual of very successful people that do it daily too. After that I will explain you how to get your own strong and powerful morning ritual. Chances are that my morning ritual will be totally different then yours. But it will improve our lives in an equal way! So eventually there is a perfect life for us all. The cover is the same, the chapters are the same, just the content you will fill it in with, will be different. I have spent over 5 years struggling to live a life that felt meaningful, a life that gave me the feeling that I am doing the right thing. In the process I changed a lot of things in my life. But I always changed one thing. I always tried to change one thing and was waiting for the results. Not knowing that there are a few key elements connected to make you feel that way. I am very happy that I am able to share the Six Elements of a Perfect Life with the world. So that other people can also live a life that will give them the feeling that they are living it right. A life that will make you improve in every way possible, a life that will give you meaning, a life of fulfillment. The chapters of my book are carefully designed to read in the right order. If you skip the first chapter you will not get the benefits you really want in chapter 2. If you don't take chapter 2 serious you will not be able to get the most out of chapter 3. So this is your time to make a decision. Do you want to take your life to the next level? Do you want to improve your life daily? Do you want to feel more energetic, more happy more fulfilled just by doing so? Then proceed to the first chapter and allow yourself to step into that rollercoaster called life. The rollercoaster that you will have control over. In the process of making this book I intentionally tried to make the book as small as possible. My book is designed to read and take action right away. The moment you read the first chapter, the morning ritual, you have to be prepared that the next day you are going to start with your morning ritual. If not then when will you? Next week? Next year? Right, that's exactly what you don't want. We want action and we want it now!

New York Times bestselling author and popular lifestyle blogger Erin Gates shares everything you need to know about designing a beautifully stylish—yet practical and functional—family home through candid advice, inspirational ideas, and lessons learned. Loved by her readers for her chic interior designs and frank and funny revelations about life behind the scenes of her picture-perfect blog, bestselling author and designer Erin Gates presents a new book about how to live stylishly amidst the chaos of daily family life. Throughout her career designing homes for families of all kinds all over the country, Erin has always maintained that living with children and pets does not mean that you have to forego nice things. This uniquely personal and practical guide will explain how to create a home that makes you proud and reflects your own style while also being durable, safe, and comfortable for children. It focuses on the spaces families share, those that are dedicated to the kids, and the oft-forgotten retreats for parents. Erin combines honest design advice and gorgeous inspirational photographs with engaging and intimate personal essays about life lessons learned the hard way while struggling with infertility and becoming a mother, managing a business, overseeing her own home renovation, and finding time for her marriage. She’ll share how to store toys so that shared spaces don’t look like a kindergarten, the expensive-looking fabrics that will stand up to a marauding toddler with sticky hands, nursery looks that go beyond blue and pink, and furniture that does not have to be stored during the baby-proofing years. She also showcases the work of other designers she loves who surround parents, children, and their pets with comfort and beauty. Like a best friend who has a knack for style and a taste for fun, Erin opens her front door and invites you into her life and all of its beautiful imperfection.

With chapters that focus on developing a robust therapeutic alliance and inspiring patients to assume responsibility for their own well-being, this guide provides a framework for lasting, sustainable lifestyle changes.