Product Description

The Joy of Simple Living is a wonderful guide for the men and women everywhere. The author takes a very comprehensive, methodical approach in offering ideas to achieve simplicity in every aspect of your life. He tackles every room in your house, and within each room every possible space such as closets, shelves, drawers, cabinets, desk and tables. It also serves as a wonderful gift book for special occasions.

Simply the best of the genre. You only have to open a number of the other simplicity books to see how "light" they are by comparison. This one is full of both easy and involved ideas on how to get your life and the spaces of your life back into control.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #802821 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

About the Author
Jeff Davidson is a leading authority on lifestyle and career strategies. In strong demand as a conference speaker, Jeff offers dynamic learning keynotes and seminar presentations, combining outstanding high-content with humor, flair, and inspiration, leaving his audiences supercharged and ready for action. Frequently quoted or featured in USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, and on 100s of talk shows, a worldwide audience has found Jeff's 25 books and more than 3000 articles to be enlightening, entertaining, and life-changing. His book, Breathing Space, is ground- breaking text that will show you how to avoid racing the clock and gain more control over each day. His latest book, The Joy of Simple Living, is the most definitive work on the topic to date, offering nearly 2000 tips arranged by room, drawer, and space in own's home, car, and office.

The hallmark of Jeff Davidson's books and keynote presentations is an insatiable quest to find an easier way to accomplish goals, a versatile intellect, an empathetic perspective, and an extraordinary capability to focus on the current issues and obstacles blocking the path of today's career professionals. These qualities are all brought to bear as Jeff actively engages, stimulates, and inspires both his readers and his audiences. The result is an enjoyable, educational, uplifting experience.

Customer Reviews

This is highly worthwhile book.
"Not only does it give dozens and dozens of suggestions on how to simplify every area of your life, it then goes on to simplifying your office, your desk, your commute, your holidays, vacations and so on. What's more, every chapter is packed with stuff that makes it easy to get through the chapter such as a feature called, How complex can it get?, which is a humorous antidote about someone or something that represents the extreme opposite of simplicity. Other features such as boxes and vignettes are all highly readable. Even though the book is almost five hundred pages, it is actually quite easy to get through. If here and there some of these suggestions represent too much of a leap there are dozens of others that offer great value. I highly recommend this book"

An Insightful Approach
The author takes a room-by-room approach to simplifying your house, garage, then backyard, and other aspects your life. The arrangment is very easy to follow. There are many useful charts and checklist. Many experts are cited. There are also end of the chapter summeraries. The sly humor is well appreciated as well. I've told several friends about this.

Lots of great ideas, easy to read
I usually stay away from simplify your life kind of books because I find them to be, well, too simple. This one strikes the right balance. There are lots of ideas in every chapter on how to simplify your life and at the same time, these are concrete ideas, actions you can take that will actually make a difference. Too often I have seen books where authors talk about skipping through the daisies barefooted, or stripping down your wardrobe to the essence, or some other suggestion that I am not going to follow. In the Joy of Simple Living the author seems to be speaking directly to me and addressing the kinds of issues and obstacles that I face on a daily basis. The sprinkling of humor throughout the book makes it all that much easier to read.