Simplicity Lessons: A 12-step Guide to Living Simply

Linda Breen Pierce

Gallagher Press, 2003 - Self-Help - 224 pages

Simplicity Lessons is a practical guide for those who long for a slower pace of life with more time for relationships, fulfilling work, and living one'ss dreams. Working on your own or as part of a simplicity study group, you will explore the major a

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Shy Simplify?: 9
• Do You Own Your Stuff or Does It Own You?: 19
• Making Friends with Money: 35
• Home is Where the Heart Lives: 47
• Where Did All the Time Go?: 63
• Working with Passion: 81
• Moving About at Home and Abroad: 99
• Awakening the Spirit Within You: 115
• Minding Your Health and WellBeing: 127
• Finding Joy in Friends and Family: 139
• Embracing Community: 153
• Caring for Our Home the Earth: 167
• Where Do We Go From Here?: 183
• The Simplicity Study Group Nuts Bolts: 185
• Agenda for Simplicity Study Group Sessions: 191
• Sample Press Release for Simplicity Study Groups: 193
• Sample Flier to Start a Simplicity Study Group: 195
• Hourly Compensation Worksheet: 197
• Money Worksheet: 198
• Time Inventory Worksheet: 200
• Buy versus Rent Analysis: 202
• Transportation Inventory: 203
• Notes: 205
• Bibliography: 211
• Index: 217

About the author

Linda Breen Pierce is the founder of The Pierce Simplicity Study (a three-year study of 200+ people who live simply) and author of Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World, winner of a 2000 Writer's Digest Award for nonfiction. She is also a keynote speaker, simplicity workshop leader, and a founding member of The Simplicity Forum ̧ an international alliance of simplicity leaders.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Simplicity Lessons: A 12-step Guide to Living Simply
• Author: Linda Breen Pierce
• Publisher: Gallagher Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0967206790, 9780967206790
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Self-Help / General