Living Lagom: A Swedish Guide to a Balanced Life Paperback – Import, 29 May 2018

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“It is a subtle and calm feeling of happiness. A happiness that does not yell at you or is overwhelming but happiness that is rising from a place of satisfaction.”Face it, we all want balance in our lives. We all want peace, calmness – serenity. But face it, without change, it can’t be accomplished, but where do we begin? Maya teaches us how the Swedish lifestyle is “lagom” or achieving balance in one’s own life.What an amazing book! I’ve tried the Zen books; I’ve tried the yoga books, all the other “life balance” books nevertheless none have inspired me as much as this one. Maya has a simple, easy writing style that creates peace in just slowing down and reading her book. She covers different areas of life from eating (check out the amazing recipes!), how to declutter our homes, balance in downtown, family and work to even becoming a better shopper and living a more healthy, environmental lifestyle. As an introvert, I found this was the first book that didn’t tell me I had to be more social to gain balance, so yes excellent for introverts and extroverts. The Swedish seem to have the answers and Maya is exceptional in teaching us how to achieve balance the lagom way. I highly recommend this manual for anyone desiring the true balance of peace in his or her life.

I love reading about Scandinavian living. However, this book disappointed. It is self-published, and didn't get a good proofread before being released. My copy had missing words, misspellings, grammatical errors, paragraphs that repeated themselves word for word, and at the very end of the book, the last page was repeated completely. The meaning behind the words is okay, but it doesn't really go in depth about lagom itself - I was frustrated each time the author said something about lagom, and that if you want to learn more, you can research it further. (That was why I bought the book in the first place).If you're interested in lagom, I highly recommend Niki Brantmark's Lagom: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life. Well written, well edited, beautiful colour photos and hardback. Perfect.

I read this book with the intent of figuring out what Lagom is and learned so much more. Not only is the book informative about the history of the term and how people of Swedish culture use it, but also about balancing daily life in ways that are manageable. Busy individuals and individuals with all the time in the world can find something similar and specific to them in this read. I'm definitely going to use the recipes and activities and try to integrate them little by little into my day and I hope everyone takes the time for themselves and with a good book like this one.

Just got the book today and I'm already halfway through reading it. It's been an interesting read so far and I like the advice to finding balance in every day life. However, the book is only like 50 pages long. Personally, I think it's a bit overpriced for what you get.