Editorial Review:
Practical wisdom on work, money, health, and relationships The international bestseller How to Simplify Your Life offers concrete advice on achieving happiness in a time of economic contraction and uncertainty. The book explains, in seven steps, how to get rid of unnecessary stuff and unload the burdens of modern life--and points the way back to what we know is important but have forgotten. By following the path outlined in the book, readers will learn to organize their time (and their desks), change the way they think about money, improve their health and relationships, and find meaning in their lives. The book shows readers how to: - Eliminate chaos in the workplace
- Cut back on activities and slow down
- Get rid of money hang-ups and get out of debt
- Balance private life with career life
- Make room for relationships
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Customer Reviews
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A MUST HAVE book for your day to day life  2008-10-05
Excellent book! Very well outlined, nice graphic interpretation with added humor. Very first book I bought from Amazon and I will buy more! Fast shipping too! This is a book that will keep you busy reading and makes you think that you can do much more to improve your well being.
RECOMMENDED!
Save Your Money  2008-09-17
Do not waste money on this book. First, the emphasis of this book is on simplifying your work place with limited references to simplifying your home or social life. Secondly, I did not find any new or revolutionary ideas in this book: It just took several pages to present ideas that take only one or two lines in other books on simplification and decluttering.
Elaine St. James' "Simplify Your Life" on CD, as well as any of the Don Aslett books on decluttering, are superior to this book, especially for motivating you to actually begin decluttering and simplifying your life. I also recommend Rita Emmett's "The Clutter-Busting Handbook."
Finally one that works!! 2008-05-05
Of all the organizational books out there this is to best. If you are looking to really change your life this book shows you in small steps how to do it and it really works. If you are going to byuy any book on organization make it this one you will not be disappointed!!
A life changing book! 2008-04-19
This is a life changing book. Clear away all the self-help books and cds and make way for this. Very simple, direct and clear. The pictures in themselves are very emotive. I am a bit of a self-help junky so very critical now of anything that comes my way but this simply is top dollar.
2.5 stars: A Challenge to Make Lasting Results on this Track  2007-08-02
Author touts this book as a way to live to one's full potential. It'll get the reader closer to that, but there are a few problems in the philosophy behind the methods.
The PRACTICAL tips for simplifying are the best part of this book, as it outlines methods for dealing with mail and other important possessions, whether at home or while traveling.
I concur with the review before me, in which the reader says he uses the book as a reference. And that is because most of the book's practical tips and methods of dealing with emails, debt and savings, the garage, closets, and even friends, are certainly workable. And they do take WORK. You'll need to crack open the book often, just to get back on track. Nothing wrong with a user's manual, no sir.
But there is an underlying philosophy that I find objectionable and I'll get right to that. The author is suggesting ways of doing away with stress which are, frankly, disempowering. I can totally dig that an angry, stagnated, confused, and hopelessly disorganized person is in dire need of sweeping changes... but this book has more than one section in which "letting go" is promoted to the point where readers see a choice of either staying obsessively stressed on the little things or else going into a virtual / mental rabbit hole. Without tools for dealing with many things that can be confronted and easily resolved.
I was aghast to find in the book a kind of encouragement for giving up on the problems of the world. Yeah, you will experience less short term stress if you stop thinking about global warming and the children starving in Africa, but people who involve themselves in small ways in these kinds of global issues will tell you that it does wonders for stress about our puny concerns in the rat race. Talk about simplification! That wonderful expansive perspective of the giving soul, the humanist, the global citizen, is not part of Kustenmacher's method. His vision is limited to a small scope.
There are some lovely self-affirming nuggets in the book like thinking positively and ideas on how to express yourself in positive ways. Plus a great section on ending TV addiction. These are things that do give a person an enormous boost in self worth. But many of the how-to-make-a-decision tips are ridiculously poor, and some of the relationship tips would be very, very difficult for most marriages to apply without supervision. Scant true knowledge of the workings of relationships, false data in the book will lead some astray.
What is really great about this book is that it helps the reader paint for themselves some very real, very healthy goals. The book's little nudges toward a less wasteful life, a more healthy life, and a less messy life, are definitely nudges in the right direction. But this book is not the be-all and end-all to why the average person's surroundings are so complicated and yet meaningless.
Some good tips for your personal realm, but doesn't help anyone reach Nirvana.
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