Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals ASIN: 0814471293 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Plenty of Wisdom---and a System Comments: Personal development, in years past, has been a primary interest among people of all ages. We don't hear as much about the topic today as we used to. Nevertheless, the need is still present . . . perhaps even more than ever before. With so many people today focused on their computers, some have forgotten about the fine art of balanced personal growth. Brian Tracy is a master in the field of personal and professional development. His speeches, seminars, and consulting around the globe have contributed to Tracy's reputation. He is highly respected and quite influential, particularly among the thousands who attend his presentations each year. As Tracy lived his life, then taught others his system, his approach was continually refined. In Focal Point, it all comes together for anyone who reads the book. Focal Point explains how users of this tool (you'll do more than just read the words in this book to get its powerful total value) can unlock their full potential. At the same time, using the system will enable you to double your productivity and simplify your life. Of course, this sounds like the makings of a fine motivational speech; Tracy is a motivator. But, this book invests most of its pages in the how-to. The chapters are filled with the knowledge of the sages in this field. Many teachings will sound familiar-good! In Focal Point, all that advice is pulled together into one place, one system to learn and apply. A listing of the chapter headings will reveal what you will explore in these pages: Tap Your Most Precious Resource, Practice Personal Strategic Planning, Supercharge Your Business and Career, Improve Your Family and Personal Life, Achieve Financial Independence, Enjoy Superb Health and Fitness, Become Everything You Are Capable of Becoming, Make a Difference in Your Community, and Spiritual Development and Inner Peace. Note that these are how-to chapters, filled with things like "Six Steps to Doubling Your Income and Doubling Your Time Off" and "Seven Keys to Higher Productivity." Each chapter includes challenging questions to help you see where you still have some work to do. Tracy's Focal Point process consists of seven steps to be applied in each area of concern: values, vision, goals, knowledge and skills, habits, daily activities, and actions. The whole valuable system is explained so you can use the book as a tool to make a substantial difference in yourself, your success, and your personal satisfaction. The book concludes with a chapter on Seven Lessons for the Twenty-First Century, a List of Values, a Recommended Reading list, and an index. If you want to strengthen your life, your effectiveness, and your happiness, you'll discover a great friend in Focal Point. And you'll probably recommend it to your friends. It's just that kind of a book: it bothers you, makes you uncomfortable, but shows you how to make the improvements you want to need and desire. Go for it!

Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That Really Matter ASIN: 0786880007 Customer's Rating: 2 Summary: simplistic simplification Comments: The book reads like a collection of household tips, e.g., "Hints from Heloise". Truly simplifying your life takes a lot more thought and effort than the tips in this book would imply. We live in a society that strongly encourages us to consume and/or strive for status. Real life simplification for many people, myself included, has meant painfully recognizing and kicking away many ego crutches, summoning up the discipline to let go of a lot in order to focus on what really matters. To her credit, the author has a significantly deeper take on this whole process in her later book, "Living the Simple Life". That is recommended as a complete replacement for "Simplify Your Life"; don't waste your time on it unless your intent is just to free up a few hours in an otherwise unchanged lifestyle. Also consider "Voluntary Simplicity" by Duane Elgin. It offers a sociologist's perspective, which is a bit dry but includes opinions of dozens of people he encountered in his research on the nationwide movement toward a less materialistic, more relationship-oriented style of living.

Powerful Leadership: How to Unleash the Potential in Others and Simplify Your Own Life ASIN: 0130668362 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Well-Grounded Advice Comments: Many managers may never seek to refine their management style. Subconsciously, they may feel that their "many years of experience" or innate intelligence has rightfully propelled them to their current position. For other managers, who constantly strive to improve their performance in the workplace, this book is for you. At first glance, the topics covered may seem intuitive. Readers may initially shun chapters that underscore the importance of ethics, employee independence, and worker satisfaction, dismissing them as old hat and self-explanatory. Upon further inspection however, the unsuspecting reader will discover that the book's true power lies in its explicit detail of the benefits associated with these seemingly well-trodden concepts. The book does an exceptional job of weaving the topics back into a bigger picture of organizational success. In order to help readers incorporate the book's seven essential changes into their own affairs, the authors include several memorable narratives in the latter chapters. Told from a very personable and realistic standpoint, readers should find these stories easy to understand and easy to relate to.

Organized Chaos : The Key to Declutter, Organize and Simplify Your Life ASIN: 0966419901 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: GREAT STUFF Comments: Sylvia's book has the information that will indeed help you to change your life if you are ready to do so. This is one of the best organizing books to cross my path.

Organized to Be Your Best! Simplify and Improve How You Work ASIN: 0944708609 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: As practical and applicable as it is "reader friendly" Comments: Now in an updated and expanded fourth edition, Susan Silver's Organized To Be Your Best!: Simplify And Improve How You Work continues to be an indispensable instruction manual enabling the reader to control multiple, ever-changing projects and priorities, intense workloads and information overload. Readers will learn to manage email, voice, fax, and other instant communications, devise a time and information management system tailored to their needs, work more effectively with others, master a messy desk and "piles of files", maximize the work space (including alternative, virtual, and home offices), and get the most from the computer and the Internet. Very highly recommended, Organized To Be Your Best! is as practical and applicable as it is "reader friendly" and workplace productivity improving.

Simplify Your Work Life: Ways to Change the Way You Work So You Have More Time to Live ASIN: 0786885963 Customer's Rating: 4 Summary: Some great ideas, but a little biased Comments: Everyone working in America today should read "Simplify Your Work Life." People in the U.S. work way too much--and for what? Work is important, but it shouldn't be the only thing you do with your life. Elaine St. James offers simple suggestions to eliminate unnecessary work and stress from our lives. It's sad that our culture today thinks that people who work under 40 hours a week are "lazy". St. James tells us this is not true, and we can get as much work done working under 40 hours a week as working 60 hours a week, if only we learned how to manage our time better. People can get overwhelmed with our modern work society (with email, faxes, internet, etc.), but St. James says it doesn't have to be this way. My only complaint about the book is that it seems biased towards salaried professionals who work in offices. Her suggestions about reducing your work time, taking more breaks, etc., aren't relevant to hourly wage workers who HAVE to work a certain amount of hours or else get a cut in pay. Those same workers also can't take breaks whenever they want to. A lot of her examples revolve around people who have their own businesses (much like herself). Of course THEY can manage their own time--they're their own boss! Even so, a lot of the other tips she gives can be applied to everyone. Whether you need ways to find more time for yourself or need to reduce the stress in your life, this is the book for you! Easy to read and to the point.

The Biscuit Joiner Project Book: Tips and Techniques to Simplify Your Woodworking Using This Great Tool ASIN: 1558705929 Customer's Rating: 3 Summary: Read it for the examples Comments: I bought Hugh Foster's "Biscuit Joiner Handbook" at a firesale at the local bookshop and read it from start to end. Foster's book is about the biscuit joiner as a machine, how it operates, and outlines the different kinds of joints one can create. Next, I bought Jim Stack's book and I was pleased because it has lots of project examples that showed me where and how, in many different types of wooden furniture construction, I could apply biscuit joinery. This is the kind of information Hugh Foster's book does not have. As a result, I was able to pick up a Furniture and Cabinetmaking magazine, look at a project for a blanket chest that had 20+ mortise and tenon joints, and figure out how to replace those joints with biscuit joints! The other benefits from the book were the good, sharp photographs; Hugh Foster's book has black and white photographs that are murky and indistinct and I had trouble distinguishing the workbench, the wood and the tool in lots of the photos I did not give Jim Stack's book higher stars because there are a few subediting mistakes (e.g. wrong project and steps used in cross references - its annoying to be directed to project "x" to see how to do something when project "x" does not show this), I think it lacks an end-to-end example of how to make a panel door using biscuits and the (to me) dangerous examples of the use of circular saws (no riving attachment, no cover over the blade, fingers awfully close to the moving blade) and the jointer (fingers too close to the moving blades). I would have found the last acceptable if there had been a notice at the front saying the riving attachment and cover had been removed temporarily to make the pictures clearer. Lastly, a suggestion for the next edition. Please add in the warning that the biscuit joiner must be up to full speed before the plunging is done in order to prevent kickback and cutting your hand - there is a nasty accident detailed on the Internet somewhere (Mick's Woodworking Tools page???) that was caused by the person plunging before the machine was at full speed. Summary: complements Hugh Foster's Biscuit Joiner book really well, buy it for the examples of when and how to use, be aware of the dangerous circular saw and jointer photos.

The Simplicity Reader ASIN: 0765116766 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Only for enlightenment seekers... Comments: This book changed my life. It allowed me to focus on what is truly important in life. Once I started following just a few of her easy to implement ideas, a shift on priorities occured. Most all the simplifying books available suggest such complicated things. Elaine is to the point, with great insite and full of real experience. As a reader you understand how her life changed and how to change yours. One glance at any number of ideas, and you will understand the power in this book. You read it on your own time, let it unfold as you are ready. All the suggestions are practical and potent. Only a person who has a true desire to find peace and enlightenment will appreciate this book. I have given it to several people has gifts, and watched their life change before my very eyes.

Good-Bye Clutter: Organize and Simplify Every Room in Your Home ASIN: 0806521341

365 Ways to Simplify Your Work Life: Ideas That Bring More Time, Freedom and Satisfaction to Daily Work ASIN: 0793122813 Customer's Rating: 3 Summary: It's a good start. Value the money Comments: Initially I bought the book while on vacation just to read something, and ended up using it as part of a People Management Program that I implemented in my department in order to improve the work life balance. It has ideas and suggestions very easy to implement, that you can execute very quick and get good results: ideas that you can communicate in a few lines and get a big impact. Buy it, it's worth.

Take Back Your Life: Smart Ways to Simplify Your Daily Living ASIN: 1573241326

The 50 Best Ways to Simplify Your Life: Proven Techniques for Achieving Lasting Balance ASIN: 1572242558 Customer's Rating: 2 Summary: information is too lightweight Comments: I did not get much of value from this book. It never really pushed home its concepts. There were certain important points, but there was not enough development or examples of the points to help much. Yet it was also not the type of book which is full of clever tips for "advanced simplifiers" (to coin a phrase), as the title might seem to imply. At best its a gentle introduction to the subject, to be followed up by a more substantial book or books later.

Using the Internet to Build Relationships and Simplify Business ASIN: B0000548NY

The Elaine St. James Value Collection: Simplify Your Life, Living the Simple Life, Inner Simplicity ASIN: 0553526324 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: AN ABSOLUTE MUST FOR YOUR LIBRARY! Comments: Tired of the everyday stress in your life? Do you long for peace and contentment in your life? Do you feel you no longer have as much time as you once did? This book is an absolute "must have" collection, filled with tips and hints on how to organize your life, reduce stress, save time, and live a much simpler lifestyle. For anyone who is tired of the stress, headaches and tension of a materialistic world, and truly has a desire to "get rid of the excess baggage," I highly recommend this book. It has a ton of smart suggestions on how to reduce the turmoil, stress, and financial burdens of everyday living. If you discipline yourself, seriously practise what you read and do not expect a "quick fix", it can change your life immensely. It is truly a fantastic collection, written in a straight-forward manner, and one you will want to recommend to others.

Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life (Walker Large Print Books) ASIN: 1410400409 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Absolutely Excellent! Comments: If you are having a bad day, this is definitely the book to read. There's no way that you can read it and not laugh! These women are incredible. Just reading one chapter a day gives you enough encouragement to tackle any obstacle you may have going on in your life. If you want something inspirational, light-hearted, and loving, this is the book for you.

52 Ways to Simplify Your Life ASIN: 0811818276 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: A mini book, sort of -- great gifts! Comments: We love this series -- a perfect gift for friends, family and co-workers. The cards look like a deck of playing cards, with bright illustrations. Each card offers useful information. We especially like this one, since it is about Simple Living, a favorite topic of ours. We're buying a bunch, so if you're on our Christmas list, act surprised! Extraordinary stocking stuffer with real ideas!

Spiritual Simplicity: Simplify Your Life and Enrich Your Soul ASIN: 0684838133 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: A Great writer and a fantastic book! A must read... Comments: This is a lovely book that will assist you in gaining control of your life, soul and work. A must read for everyone. David is a great writer; it's fun and easy to read. I'm ordering all his books now!

Feel Good: Little Changes to Simplify Your Complicated Life ASIN: 1865085111

Downscaling: Simplify and Enrich Your Lifestyle ASIN: 0802417841

Simply Organized!: The Practical Way to Simplify Your Complicated Life ASIN: 0425130886 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Great Time-Saving Tips! Comments: I was living in the fast lane until I read this wonderful little gem of a book and implemented its tips. I now have more free time for fun with family and friends.

201 Great Questions to Help Simplify Your Life (GREAT QUESTIONS) ASIN: 1576831469 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: A great tool to discover your priorities! Comments: This is a thought-provoking book that helps us understand what it means to simplify. I sat down with a friend and we went through a series of questions. Both of us were interested in simplifying our lives and this book enabled us to define exactly what that meant. Not only that... the questions were creative, challenging and fun to go through... that made it even better!

Simplify Your Life: A Little Treasury ASIN: 0740703544 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Great tips for simplifying! Great advice!... Comments: My name is Laurie Wing... I love Elaine St. James books for simplifying your life! They really make sense and if you follow her advice, it takes such a load off your shoulders. You feel like a new person! I highly recommend!

Consumer Gadgets: 50 Ways to Have Fun--and Simplify Your Life--with Today's Technology ... and Tomorrow's ASIN: 0131827847

Simplify Your Work Life 2002 Day-To-Day Calendar ASIN: 0740716883

Simplify Your Life, 101 Ways to Create the Life You'll Love ASIN: 1928607004 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Big Stuff in a Little Package! Comments: Don't let the 'simplicity' of this booklet deceive you. The sections are very well organized in the perfect progression to reduce the complexity of your life and boil it down to what you really want. My favorite section is "Get Rid of Your Tolerations". It's amazing how much stuff I tend to put up with. I didn't know how much energy this stuff drained until I started getting rid of them. Take your time and really try these activities. It's like having your own little pocket coach.

Simplify Your Life: A Journey of Personal Discovery ASIN: 1928607012 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: A Life Without Tolerations Comments: I gave this book to a friend for her birthday in August. She was in transition looking to find a job and set goals for the future. Her Christmas card to me told me that she began at the beginning of the book, followed the exercises and realized how much her life was a mass of tolerations. She felt that the book gave her the ideas and the impetus to get rid of the things causing stress, define what she wanted and helped her discover how she really wanted she life to be. Thanks.

Simplify Your Life: Ways to Free Yourself to Enjoy the Things That Really Matter to You ASIN: 0743509404

You Know It's Time To Simplify Your Life When... ASIN: 0740700855

Get Organized! : Using the Internet to simplify your life in 10 easy steps ASIN: 1841121754

The Simplify Journal: A Workbook to Help You Regain Control of Your Life ASIN: 0880881984 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Simplify your hunt Comments: Perfect! I bought this journal in addition to several others then ended up returning the others and bought 4 more copies of this one. Once I took the time to read through the journal I couldn't help but to purchase 4 more copies for close friends and family. Not only does it help you gain control of your personal to-do's but assists with self development.

Simplify Your Household (Simpler Life Series) ASIN: 0762100664

Simplify Journal: Black and White ASIN: 0880882719

Organized to Be the Best!: New Timesaving Ways to Simplify and Improve How You Work ASIN: 0944708234 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Add hours to your day Comments: Every technique, every gadget or gizmo that could possibly help you get your life in order is covered here. Anyone, from the most harrassed homemaker to the jetsetting executive, can benefit from the information in this book. You don't even need to read the whole thing to start saving time. The book itself is wonderfully organized so you can just dip into whatever section suits your needs. This is a great resource guide to have and will help you have a more orderly life, one step at a time.

Slow Down and Simplify Your Life ASIN: 0876042744

Simply Happy: How to Simplify Your Life and Find Happiness ASIN: 1568250533

Simply Organized!: How to Simplify Your Complicated Life ASIN: 0399514511 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: It changed my life! Comments: This book is not only a how-to book. It deals with changing your attitude and ideas about organization and clutter. That alone was the catalyst to my new road to organization. Then you get a list of great ideas and tips to get you going!

Simplify Your Workday (Simpler Life Series) ASIN: 0762100982 Customer's Rating: 4 Summary: How to live and how to work simultaneously Comments: No one says before die: Oh I should had been more in the office. More think: I should had spent more time with the family. This book teaches how to do your work perfectly without stealing time from your family. Enjoy it and change your life.

Simplify Your Life and Get More Out of It! ASIN: 0842358978 Customer's Rating: 4 Summary: Real-world help for the overloaded life Comments: I've picked up other books on simplifying your life, but they usually look terribly complicated, dealing only with the surface busyness. But Norm's book uses thought-provoking questions and exercises that really make you stop and consider your current course and your desired course, as well as practical helps to get from A to B. He breaks life down into six areas of potential clutter: pace, expectations, activities, possessions, relationships, and spiritual lives; and spends two chapters on each subject. If you know you need help in certain areas, but others are in pretty good shape, then you can use and skip chapters as necessary. The author never really says, "You should do this and stop doing this." he just asks the right questions to get you thinking about what you're doing and why, and how you might "do" life differently, all the while letting you take into consideration what works best for your personality, goals, etc. No cookie-cutter solutions here! (My only complaint: I would have liked more personal stories about the author's journey toward a simpler life. And Norm! -- you just look a little too happy on the cover!) Helpful, practical, down-to-earth. Get it, and get more out of your life.

52 Ways to Simplify Your Life ASIN: 0840796684

Household Forms to Save Time and Simplify Your Life ASIN: 0966420705

Order Out of Chaos: How to Simplify Your Life and Housework ASIN: 1890826022 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Very helpful at home; in life. Comments: Marilyn Cannaday's book is easy to read, and very informative as she: One: gives us organizing principles; Two: gives us solutions to problems: and Three gives us handy checklists, to get more out of our time. The quotations are delightful reminders of how to simplify and better enjoy life. A great gift for young and old; a great addition to my bookshelf.

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