I think it was 2 months ago when I read that my friend Lilou lost her job. I was on Facebook as everyday and I saw Lilou’s Status : “I lost my job today”. Nothing special in these days in London, actually, but still every time that a friend of mine told me that he\she was laid off, I felt a weird sensation.
I moved to London in August 2008, and in these months I saw London in a big economical crisis, lots of my friends from Italy, France and Spain went back because they lost their jobs and they couldn’t afford to live in London as is one of the most expensive city in the world.
Everything changed so rapidly that I was shocked, I come from Florence and in there nothing changes. People are always the same and the economy more or less is stable, who is poor will remain poor, who is rich, is rich and nothing can change it. If you are young you don’t get paid, you may get an internship if you are lucky, and when you get old even if you are not necessary to the company you get paid well, as no one can dismiss a senior.
You can understand the shock to see myself in the middle of hundreds of people of my age, with good jobs, earning a lot, and then people of my age living in very high class apartments in central London. Everyone was telling me that I will find a job soon and that everything is going to be all right, I was just incredulous …
SEPTEMBER 2008
From this month on, from Lehman Brothers collapse everything has changed. Lot’s of people of my age have been laid off and left the country. What make conversation is : Am I going to loose my job ? When? … Really mad, people are stressed, they look at each other thinking who is going to be the next one.
Newspapers and TV channels just talk about how many people lost their jobs in this or that company … and people get stressed and sad, of course than they don’t spend, they feel precarious.
When I first asked to Lilou, how is it going, she said that she was great and since she had lost her job she would have had time to be creative and write a book. A book about loosing a job but not loosing the smile and the optimism 
I saw in her the frame of mind that I was looking for, I’m graduating and starting to look for a job and I really was looking forward to find a friend that is full of hope and optimism for the future. In fact Lilou’s mission and vision is to help millions of people to live a joyful and fulfilled life. She is also a co-founder of the ‘100-Day Reality Challenge’, a global community experiencing the magic and power of the Law of Attraction 100 days at a time, you can find the video on you tube.
Here we are, the book is full of optimism so if you need some, just go for it, IT WORKS I PROMISE
You can find it at the library and on amazon.com, I’m sure lots of people will enjoy reading it .
The book is her 30-day stream-of-consciousness diary, from the moment she was lost her job. Travel with her as she grapples with doubt, relishes avocados and finds something to be grateful for in each and every step of her job search. Deploying a battery of mood-shifting, life-enhancing, and possibly reality-changing techniques, she attempts to prove to herself – and to you! – that a juicier way of living is possible. While 30-something Lilou would probably get on with the fictional Bridget Jones, her real-life diary is a very different thing.”
LILOU MACE
Lilou was born in Santa Barbara, California, in August 1977 of French parents. She grew up in Nantes, France, and, after graduating from Oxford Brookes University (UK) and ESC La Rochelle (France) with a BA in European Business Studies, returned to the United States, where she lived from November 2000 to July 2008. She now lives in London.
Lilou Mace is a co-founder of the ‘100-Day Reality Challenge’, a global community experiencing the magic and power of the Law of Attraction 100 days at a time.
From November 2001 until July 2008.
Lilou lived in Chicago and produced/hosted a local TV show called ‘Live a Juicy Life’. Her show was sparked by meeting Oprah Winfrey in November 2006. She has interviewed self improvement authors and Law of Attraction experts such as John Gray, Sonia Choquette and Judith Wright to name a few.
http://www.LilouMace.com
Lilou’s YouTube channel (over 415 videos, 1.8 million video views): www.youtube.com/liloumace
Antonietta Fishta
London
