A Month of Somedays: How One Woman Made the Most of Now

Catherine Cleary

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€12.99

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Publication date: 2012

ISBN: 978-1-907535-28-4

Category: Biography and Memoir

Type: Paperback, eBook

Price: Book: €12.99; eBook: €9.99

Have you ever longed to do something entirely new? Do you have a ‘someday’ wish list for that some day when there’s more time or space or money? Journalist Catherine Cleary doesn’t believe in someday lists. Instead of waiting for some day she spent one busy year trying to do things she’d always wanted to do as part of everyday life: mastering basic Mandarin, learning to play the flute, completing thirty consecutive days of gruelling Bikram (hot) yoga class; gardening (in her case in a city allotment); improving her fitness and selling items she had baked. She set aside part of her day, every day, for thirty days at a time to see what was possible. She talked to experts about the science of learning, fitness and motivation. She found pockets of happiness in daily life and had tremendous fun. By the end of the year she could still give masterclasses in procrastination but she has slowly figured out ways to manage or even trick herself into getting things done. It’s still a work in progress, one given day at a time. The end result may well be a new book genre: the contentment memoir.

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About the author

Catherine Cleary is an award-winning journalist. She began her career as a news reporter with The Irish Times and became the paper’s drugs and crime correspondent. She later joined the Sunday Tribune as its security correspondent. For many years she wrote a weekly restaurant column for The Irish Times. Her first book, Life Sentence: Murder Victims and their Families, was published in 2004. She is married to Liam Reid and they have three sons.