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Forget Perfect™
Finding joy, meaning and satisfaction in the life you've already got and the YOU you already are Lisa Earle McLeod

Today's woman has a to-do list a mile long, but where is she on that list? In Forget Perfect™ (Perigee; November 2001; $13.95), author Lisa Earle McLeod shows women that forgetting perfect doesn't mean lowering their standards; it means raising them.

In an engaging and personal voice, McLeod offers compassion, understanding, and humor to the millions of women so busy trying to have it all they've forgotten how to enjoy it. McLeod uses funny and touching stories from her own life and from other 'real' women's lives to demonstrate:
  • Women don't have to change their lives -- they can just change the way they feel about them.
  • Trying to be perfect isn't the key to happiness; in fact it stands in the way of happiness. People don't like a perfectionist more, they like her less.
  • Women have put themselves last on their own priority lists and they deserve better than that.
Forget Perfect™ is a smart and funny look at how letting go of perfect means raising standards to live life to the fullest. Forget Perfect™ isn't six steps to change a life or a year long self-improvement plan, it's a story-- a story about what really matters to women and how it already exists in the life they've already got.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lisa Earle McLeod is a working mother, a motivational speaker, and a 15-year marriage veteran who's done the laundry, worked for a jerk, cleaned up the throw-up, overdrawn her checking account and lived to tell about it. She lives outside Atlanta GA.

Visit her Website www.forgetperfect.com

Forget Perfect™ by Lisa Earle McLeod
Perigee; November 2001; $13.95
ISBN: 0-399-52715-X

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