Live Better With Less

Boost your wellbeing with lagom – Sweden’s answer to mindfulness.

- Eve Boggenpoel

There’s no stopping our love affair with all things Scandinavian. From flat-packed furniture to Nordic crime novels, we can’t seem to get enough of the continent’s ideas, exports and culture. No surprise then that hot on the heels of last year’s hygge phenomenon (aka all things comforting and cosy) comes lagom, a word that roughly translates as ‘just right’. Or, as Anna Brones, author of Live Lagom: Balanced Living, the Swedish Way (Ebury Press, £9.99) puts it, ‘not too much, not too little… just something in the middle, the moderate choice between two extremes’.