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Your One Wild and Precious Life

Your One Wild and Precious Life

An Inspiring Guide to Becoming Your Best Self in Midlife and Beyond

Summary

No 1 Bestseller and Irish Book Award Winner!

"A profound, important work, simultaneously wise, instructive and a love letter to humanity" Irish Times

A ground-breaking new framework for embracing middle age and beyond

Middle-age is cross-roadsy - having arrived, you're looking back in wonder about how you got here, and also looking ahead, thinking: where to next? The realisation that neither time nor choices are limitless is both daunting and exciting - this is the moment to take stock and figure out how to make the best of every precious moment of your second act.

Your One Wild and Precious Life is an eye-opening account of this vital and surprisingly liberating life-stage. Crucially, it sets out how you can transform your thinking to reclaim control over your life, connect with who you truly are and face the future with joy and a sense of purpose. This is both radical and reassuring - a book to fundamentally alter your relationship with time and to help you to understand that every age can be your best age.
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'I recognised entire sections that seemed to have been written just for me ... I don't think I've ever taken so many notes' - Irish Times

'A book I will keep by my bedside forever' Deirdre O'Kane, Sunday Times

'Warm, wise and immensely readable ... peppered with insights and advice about how to become your best self' - Irish Mail on Sunday

'Solid and practical advice about how to navigate those tricky, hurdle-strewn yeas that lie in between finishing the child-rearing and preparing oneself for dotage' - Sunday Independent

Reviews

  • A profound, important work; simultaneously wise, instructive and a love letter to humanity . . . I recognised entire sections that seemed to have been written just for me . . . I don't think I've ever taken so many notes
    Irish Times

About the author

Maureen Gaffney

Dr Maureen Gaffney is a leading clinical psychologist, writer and broadcaster. She has had a distinguished academic career and continues to work as a consultant, specializing in leadership and organizational change, working with companies around the world to build strong, emotionally intelligent leadership and innovative and resilient work cultures. Among her clients are Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Google. She is the author of two bestselling books Flourishing, about how to achieve a deeper sense of well-being, meaning and purpose, and Your One Wild and Precious Life, a guide to becoming your best self at any age. She lives in Dublin.
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