Pure and Simple: How to Simplify Your Life, Do Less, and Get More

by Martin Meadows

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 - 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.

Genres: Personal Development, Audiobook, Self Help, Nonfiction

98 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 18, 2015

About the author

Martin Meadows is the pen name of an author who has dedicated his life to personal growth. He constantly reinvents himself by making drastic changes in his life. Over the years, he has: regularly fasted for over 40 hours, taught himself two foreign languages, lost over 30 pounds in 12 weeks, ran several businesses in various industries, took ice-cold showers and baths, lived on a small tropical island in a foreign country for several months, and wrote 400-page long novel's worth of short stories in one month.

Yet, self-torture is not his passion. Martin likes to test his boundaries to discover how far his comfort zone goes. His findings (based both on his personal experience and scientific studies) help him improve his life. If you're interested in pushing your limits and learning how to become the best version of yourself, you'll love Martin's works.

Reviews

[Jackie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you want to know how to create a simple life, do less and get more done? Martin Meadows will show you exactly how to do this. This book is a self help guide that will help you journal questions and answers to help you with cutting away all the unnecessary things in your life and get more done so you can focus on doing less. A quote that we are all aware of but really need to concentrate on in our life is, "80% of your profits come from 20% of your clients." Martin Meadows writes self help books to help with your business life or personal life. The goal of his book is to help you escape the trap of complexity by learning how to focus on the vital few instead of the trivial many. The best part is the "Recap" at the end of each chapter. I have learned so many great things by reading his book. For example, limited options will give you a more satisfied life than if you have many options. If I go to a shoe store to look at all the types and styles, I have to admit it is hard for me to make a decision on what to buy. On the other hand I love the Harley Davidson brand name, so I stick to just that brand with fewer options. Martin Meadows suggests to take each area of your life for example, your clothes, get rid of all that you do not absolutely love to wear. Keep it simple, a famous newscast person wore the same suit each day and no one ever said anything, so if he can do that so can everyone. The same goes for fitness and health, stick to one thing that works, like 15 minute meals but eat that each day or week, so that you can limit your choices and simplify your eating choices, it saves money too. Most important I learned that if you are great at what you do in your Industry, know it inside and out, be the "go to" person. It reminded me of reading a book by Phil Cooke "One Big Thing." I have to say the writing style is simple, an it's an easy to read book. This book will invite you to explore new ways to simplify your life with examples, resources, stores, statistics and so that when you are finished reading it, immediate changes in your life become simple to do. I would recommend this book to those who need to get motivated and start making small steps to a more satisfying life. © 2015 Jackie Paulson

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a short read it's rather repetitive. I can see a chapter synopsis if the chapters are longer or have more info but when you only cover three points per chapter and then summarize, it's a bit repetitive.

[Karim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Average

I'm surprised by the all the stellar reviews. This book is very short and glosses over things without much details.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple

This book is what it says on the tin: simple.
Just enough information without feeling that it is padded out.