Product Description

Janet Street Porter has a unique view on life and this is no ordinary 21st Century survival guide. Drawing on the experiences of her fascinating life and incredibly successful career Janet Street Porter dispenses advice and tips on how to live life to the full, get what you want, do the things you crave, achieve more, feel happier and healthier and most importantly live the life you want to lead. Janet s philosophy is to believe in yourself totally to get out of bed every morning and tell yourself you re bloody brilliant to put yourself first at all times. In Life's Too F***ing Short she shows how we can successfully combine work, relationships, fitness, health, shopping, buying and preparing food for our self and others without spending a fortune, using up valuable time and making unnecessary effort. This book is the sum total of Janet's life's experiences, she proves that there are plenty of ways to get exactly what we want from life and feel better about who we are. Divided into eleven chapters, Janet focuses on why life is too f***ing short to spend hours cooking the way chefs tell us to; believe what men tell us; talk to people who are boring; spend £100 on face cream; diet; spend it in the same dreary job; shop for clothes that won t work; put up wallpaper; have a set of rules you can t live up to. Life s Too F***ing Short is here to help us clear away the (Word removed) and start again.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #682 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-04
• Format: Illustrated
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
Regardless of your view of JSP, this is a hugely entertaining read from a hugely ballsy woman who, crucially, knows how to laugh at herself and takes no nonsense from anyone --THE OBSERVER, 20th January 2008

How to live lifee to the full while kicking out the (Word removed), JS-P style - straight from the mouth of the lady herself. **** (out of 5) --HEAT magazine, 9th February 2008

In print her forthrightness works to hilarious effect. More importantly, she does actually talk a lot of sense. --BIG ISSUE, 4th February 2008

from Marie Claire APRIL 2008
(mail of the month) - following an excerpt from the book :-
THE RULES ACCORDING TO JANET gave me a much needed kick up the arse. Just after New Year, I was sacked and was feeling incredibly insecure. To my mind, I was old (33), unemployed, unmarried, fat and ugly. After reading Janet..., I was literally laughing at myself for being so pitiful. I soon realised that I will get a better job, I'm gorgeous and in my prime, my boyfriend is a wonderful person with whom i have a fantastic relationship and that I shoudl be grateful. There are so many terrible things happening to women all over the world that life is, indeed, far too short short to worry about the small stuff.
MARIE CLAIRE reader

Synopsis
""Life's Too F***ing Short"" is an indispensable guide for women to surviving in the 21st century, which enables you to have a fulfilling and successful life without spending a fortune or passing a load of exams. It will show you how to combine work, relationships, friends, fashion, health, shopping, cooking etc without using up valuable time you could spend enjoying yourself. Janet's mantra is to tell yourself every day 'I'm bloody brilliant'! She shows how you can do everything from building a successful career and looking good, to meeting and keeping friends without making unnecessary effort or setting yourself unrealistic goals.Once you've read this book, you'll realise there are plenty of things you can kiss goodbye to for ever. Life's too short to: start a complicated diet; talk to a friend who bores the arse off you; take the pips out of grapes and papayas; stay in the same dreary job for years; concoct a face pack; sew curtains; do the ironing; drive miles to buy hand made pasta; believe that Joan Collins just uses great face cream or think that you'll ever look like a picture in a fashion magazine if you buy that GBP500 dress.

The list is endless, and this book will just get you started. It's a new philosophy - that to succeed in life and be happy you must put yourself first at all times.

Customer Reviews

JSP debunks the myths surrounding modern lifestyles
She is just fabulous- what a brilliant book. This is a must have for every woman on the planet - no longer do we have to believe the "experts" JSP tells it like it is - no worries - enjoy life - just stop wasting your valuable time and energy on following the dictates of those self appointed experts who charge you a fortune and sell you unattainable dreams. Of course she puts it much better than I. JUST READ IT

She calls a spade a spade
I devoured this book in about a day and a half, not difficult as it's easily readable and fun. It is certainly not in the usual style of most self help books; JSP is no patronising therapist or analyst, and I think she would wholly disapprove of too much navel-gazing. She delivers her no-nonsense take on life in a loud, punchy, entertaining way - a sort of short sharp shock treatment! The JSP we all know and love is very evident; slightly scary, ball-breaking, arrogant, ambitious and bossy. But it is very clear that there is another side to Janet, a hugely likeable, self-deprecating, practical, intelligent woman; a realist, with a deep appreciation of life's simple pleasures. She comes across as someone who is at peace with herself, and she does this by NOT trying to be all things to all men(or women) and she wants us to learn to do the same - to listen more to ourselves and less to other people. Did it help me? Well, being 42 with two marriages, three kids and a succession of unfulfilling crappy jobs under my belt, this book didn't actually teach me anything I didn't already know, but it did reinforce much of what I've already learnt the hard way. If I'd read this 20 years ago however, I might have saved myself many years of wasted mental energy on things and people that didn't matter. Once you've read the whole book keep it by your bed, or in your loo for many years to come so that you can dip in and out at random. A few paragraphs of wisdom JSP style will help you focus on what really matters, sort the wheat from the chaff in your life, and go forth with more confidence in yourself.

Good Fun.
I enjoyed this book, which made me laugh out loud sometimes. I also found it useful, especially the chapter on work/writing a cv, which has given me more confidence to try for the kind of jobs I want. I also like what Janet Street Porter says about how nonsensical all these so-called scientific studies are, and gives the address of a website where you can read the facts.
And I love that she thinks going to spas is rubbish! I always thought that myself.
The only thing I'd knock off a star for is all the different colours/fonts. I found that a bit off-putting, and it made me want to eat kiddie sweets!