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300+ pages = Get rid of your stuff. Don't do everything.
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Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying More
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Following on the heels of St. James's bestselling books, "Simplify Your Life" and "Inner Simplicity, Living the Simple Life" fuses both sides of her liberating philosphy into a powerful synergy of thought-provoking methods for leading a life of well-being and inner peace through simplicity. 19 photos.
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1996
This edition
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320 pages, Paperback
- Published
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July 1, 1998 by Hyperion
- ISBN
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9780786882427
- ASIN
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0786882425
- Language
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English
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Easy-reading format. Each "idea" to simplify your life is 2-3 pages in this small-sized book. Lots of ideas to spark thoughts on how to simplify your life.
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This book is worth a read but I feel like it becomes repetitive at some point and loses my attention. There are principals to simplifying that you can apply to any aspect of your life. Those are about the first 2/3 of the book. Then it begins to repeat these for different areas of your life.
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Although this book was dated which I didn’t realise until I started listening to the audio version - it was actually funny because our lives have got so much more busier, noisier and messier since that time of original release of the book - this reminder and importance of the books message made up for it - ie simplify and declutter our environment, mind and more to try and cope with it all for a more balanced, less complicated and present life - funny and worthwhile read when you consider the irony of how the author has no idea what’s coming in the future - yet still thinks her time needed simplification - oh boy lol!
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While this book pre-dates Marie Kondo's "Konmari Method" I still found it very interesting to read and very useful. It compliments what I know and practice from having read "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo a couple years ago. "Living the Simple Life" taught me some things I was not previously familiar with, and I will keep this book and refer back to it for some time to come.
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Some suggestions were useful, but much was not applicable to me right now.
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This is a little out of date, and some of the stuff is sort of obvious, etc., but that doesn't mean it's not right. There are some good insights, and even the things that seemed off-the-mark got me energized to make changes anyway.
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A quick read, and a lovely one. I can only assume that I’m enamored with the idea of simplicity because it’s been evading me for so long. Like, my entire life. I am an anxious, hectic person by nature (and probably some nurture…) and I envy those who’ve somehow managed to clear their lives of the extraneous junk we as a society have inanely convinced ourselves is necessary— or admirable, even.
Slow and steady, and with the help of books like this, I am consciously making my way to zen and quiet and simplicity. I don’t know if I’ll ever get there (as if there were a “there” to get to), but I’m at least making some room in my closet along the way. Trust the process, right?
Either way, you should read this short little book and make some room in your life. A bit of clear and quiet is bound to do us all some good.
Slow and steady, and with the help of books like this, I am consciously making my way to zen and quiet and simplicity. I don’t know if I’ll ever get there (as if there were a “there” to get to), but I’m at least making some room in my closet along the way. Trust the process, right?
Either way, you should read this short little book and make some room in your life. A bit of clear and quiet is bound to do us all some good.
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