Pure and Simple: How to Simplify Your Life, Do Less, and Get More
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Get More out of Life with Less Effort
You’ve heard of people living “the good life.” They always seem to have plenty of time, money, and energy to fulfill their goals and dreams. Their secret? A simple life.
Pure and Simple is based on the 80/20 principle and suggests steps to simplify your life, accomplish more, and increase the quality of your time and efforts – all with less work!
Inside, you’ll learn how and why you should:
- limit your choices in everyday life. Discover four areas of your life that can be greatly improved.
- declutter your physical and digital space. This doesn’t mean living with less than 100 things.
- use the golden rules of simplification. Make decisions more quickly and with less effort.
- cut unnecessary time commitments. Have the time to reach your goals and fulfill your dreams.
- build a positive outlook. Learn to overcome a negative mindset to better enjoy your life.
All these suggestions are laid out to help you shift away from the frustrating mindset of “fixing” your life by working harder, gaining more possessions, and holding on to what’s truly limiting you in life.
Each step is supported with research by leaders in psychology, behavioral studies, and neuroscience as well as examples of real habits by successful people such as Warren Buffet and President Obama.
Once you finish, you’ll be better prepared to take your life to the next level. You’ll be able to enjoy the simplicity and ease of a life without unnecessary and exhausting demands on your time and energy. More importantly, you’ll be able to stick to your simple, new habits instead of defaulting back to complexity.
Buy the book now to accomplish more in less time and get more joy out of life than you thought possible.
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Power of Fewer Choices
Chapter 2: What Really Makes You Happy
Chapter 3: Simple Rules for Simplification
Chapter 4: Release Yourself from Unnecessary Time Commitments
Chapter 5: Life Is Simpler for the Positive Mind
Epilogue
Bonus Chapter: A Simple Life Needs No Lies
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About Martin Meadows
Prologue
When I heard about the 80/20 Principle for the first time (from Richard Koch’s book The 80/20 Principle[i]), I didn’t fully understand its implications. The most common example was: 80% of your profits come from 20% of your clients.
That was easy enough, but didn’t sound practical for everyday use except for business.
It took me a few years to grasp the full meaning and impact of this rule and the power of simplification implemented on a daily basis.
Simplification started making more sense each time I cut away the unessential and got better results while doing less. Soon, I made it my number one rule in life.
This book won’t explain in detail the 80/20 Principle or its implications in business. We won’t discuss statistics or talk about theory.
Instead, the goal of this book is to help you escape the trap of complexity by learning how to focus on the vital few instead of the trivial many. I’ll show you why you should trim away the fat
in your life and how to do it.
Once you finish the book, you’ll have a better idea how to reduce or eliminate the activities that don’t bring value in your life. You’ll be able to enjoy the simplicity and, most importantly, stick to it instead of defaulting to complexity once again.
Just like maintaining a healthy weight requires healthy habits, living a simplified life requires maintaining a few simple habits, too. You’ll discover the most important question to ask yourself each time you want to add something in your life. You’ll also increase your life satisfaction by making a simple switch in your priorities and acquire a powerful skill for virtually unlimited achievement.
As in my every book, I point to numerous resources and scientific research to base the advice and claims on something more than just my subjective opinion. However, the book – as every book in this genre – is still based primarily on my views and ideas which you may or may not agree with. My goal is to help you reconsider how you live your life, not tell you how you should live it, as the answer varies for each person.
Each chapter ends with a quick recap to help you review it. If you’re after getting the most knowledge in as little time as possible, you don’t need to read the entire book. 80% of its value will be found in these short chapter summaries. If, however, you want to have a more enjoyable reading experience, I invite you to follow me through every single chapter.
Chapter 1: The Power of Fewer Choices
Let’s start with a quick exercise. Please come up with a general outline for a short story in your mind. It can be about anything you want. Nothing constraints you. Who are the characters? What do they do? What’s the conflict?
How difficult do you find it to come up with something on the spot?
Now come up with a short romance story taking place in a small town between a local doctor and his patient.
How difficult was it to come up with a quick storyline with these constraints?
I bet you could imagine a scene between the doctor and the patient right away.
That’s the power of exclusion and constraint. Logic says