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The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life Hardcover – January 1, 2009

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With the countless distractions that come from every corner of a modern life, it's amazing that were ever able to accomplish anything. The Power of Less demonstrates how to streamline your life by identifying the essential and eliminating the unnecessary freeing you from everyday clutter and allowing you to focus on accomplishing the goals that can change your life for the better.

The Power of Less will show you how to:

Break any goal down into manageable tasks
Focus on only a few tasks at a time
Create new and productive habits
Hone your focus
Increase your efficiency

By setting limits for yourself and making the most of the resources you already have, youll finally be able work less, work smarter, and focus on living the life that you deserve.

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According to Babauta (Zen to Done), employing the power of less will propel readers from chaos to blissful and productive minimalism. Learning to set limitations, such as penning a three-item Most Important Task list every day and restricting e-mails to five lines, is a cornerstone for the authors plan for increased simplicity and satisfaction. With new boundaries in place, readers can discover flow, become wholly absorbed in tasks and live the paradox of doing less and achieving more. (Jan.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About the Author

Leo Babauta has been a reporter, editor, speechwriter, and freelance writer for the last 17 years. He founded ZenHabits.net with no funding in January 2007, and one year later it is a top 50 blog with about a million unique visitors per month. Using the methods he shars in THE POWER OF LESS over the last two years, he's trained and successfully completed a marathon, he's doubled his income, he's eliminated his debt, he's quit smoking, and he's written a novel.

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Hachette Books; Later Printing edition (January 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1401309704
ISBN-13: 978-1401309701
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 8.6 inches
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Average Customer Review: 217 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #179 in Books > Business & Money > Skills > Time Management
- #215 in Books > Self-Help > Time Management
- #591 in Books > Business & Money > Skills > Decision Making

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One of the BEST books on getting yourself organized and paring down life ...

January 9, 2018

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One of the BEST books on getting yourself organized and paring down life to a manageable amount of work to really effectively get done. I bought one for me, and one for each of my two sons and we are now on a mission to look at how to work with less...I highly recommend this to everyone, and his blog is great too!

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Matt A.

Less is More

May 23, 2017

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Simplify your life, live a healthier life, and eliminate most material possessions.

This book has saved me so much money. Helped me with the daily, monthly and annual planning. Realizing how I can limit my spending and suppress my desire for material things.

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Great read!!!

January 22, 2017

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This book is terrific. It combines GTD, mini-habits and some great ideas for formulation NH a program of improvement and goal setting. Highly recommend this.

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Barry K Brown

It was cool

April 17, 2016

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Nothing really groundbreaking, but I appreciated the breakdown of each step. It helps put the basics in perspective and seem more obtainable and sustainable.

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Brett Lee

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January 23, 2009

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In a world that consumes how we think, live and work there is a way to happiness and more fulfillment. Leo understands how people are and how we can easily be swayed by others to do more than what we need to be doing. He lays out simple easy to understand ideas that hit at the root of most of our problems. Our problems are that we take in and try to do more than we are comfortable or even capable of. Humans were never made for the fast paced lives that most of us live. We need to break free of the old ways of doing work and look toward a way that is better and more meaningful.
Leo taught me how to slow down, think about what's most important in my life and let go of the rest. We often find ourselves stressed and feeling that we don't have enough time because we tend to take on too many commitments that we don't need. He teaches how to let go of the non-essentials and focus simply on the essentials and the things in our lives that we want. To block out and stop doing things that are leading us from our goals and aspirations and spend the time saved not doing things that matter like spending time with family, exercise, how to achieve goals and to have fun again.
Too often people buy books that tell them how to do more, leaving the readers feeling like they are inadequate. Leo teaches us to not look for more but to instead look for quality and to change our life direction towards our goals rather than towards what others think we should be doing. If you need a change or a new direction this book is the best place to start. Also if you need a test run of the material before you buy it just go to zenhabits.com and see Leo's many other articles on topics like this. You'll see that he has mastered the art of simplifying so that we can spend our time working towards our goals.

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Nina Abbott

Well worth double the price and can be life altering

June 21, 2009

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Every year I dutifully make a list of New Year's Resolutions. At the end of every year, I review my resolutions and realize that I am no further in realizing them than I was when I resolved them initially!

My big problem: Overcomplicating the process. I've read every time management, goal management, productivity resource out there (or so it seems) starting with Alan Laekin in college through Dave Allen and Stephen Covey more recently. Each has added value to my life, but having read so many resources I want to employ every tip and task management strategy.

Leo's book simplifies the two halves of accomplishing one's "big" goals and daily tasks which keep life operating semi-smoothly: goal defining and time management.

Defining one's goal and values is a valuable process, but is nothing more than an emotional/intellectual exercise if it doesn't turn into action. Managing one's time through processes and tools creates a sense of purpose and accomplishment, but frequently becomes merely a way of creating the illusion of progress though endless busyness.

Leo's book simply describes how to achieve both...defining one's goals and structuring one's time to achieve those goals.

Yes, it isn't a big, complicated book with recommendations for further expenditures on fancy file folders, software, special "management tools." And, that is the beauty of it. You can start now and following a few exceptionally simple steps make progress towards your goals every day. So simple...but not so easy. Yet, so worth it.

Thank you, Leo. I look forward to reviewing my New Year's Resolutions at year's end and being able to check many of them off as realized.

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JimP

Nothing earthshattering, but some good ideas

July 5, 2012

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Not a lot that is new here, but the book can give you some good ideas on how to get to the basics and simplify your life. The tip on goal-setting seemed good: set your initial goal so low that you are sure to achieve it, then move up from there, rather than set a goal that is too hard to begin with, so that you don't achieve it, feel defeated, give up, etc.

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Two Stars

August 17, 2016

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Nothing new... Rehashing the common productivity themes...

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