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Simplifying Life: Simple Steps for Finding Your Way
Dr. Google says that author Brett Taylor has a 30 percent chance of living five more years (his real doctors are non-committal). Living with the threat of death has (not surprisingly) taught him a little about how to suck the most out of life.
Other authors who write about life make it too complicated. Brett doesn’t have time for that. That’s why he wrote this book. He doesn’t want people to travel through life randomly. He believes that everyone needs simple directions for experiencing life’s essence.
Using the metaphor of an epic journey, Brett encourages us to start out by making peace with past demons, the broken stuff that keeps us from getting out of the driveway of life. He then helps us to set a destination for our journey, a grand and exciting destination, not just to the corner shops for a carton of milk. Next is a section on the “rules of the road,” the attitudes and behaviors needed to make the trip joyful. Being a realist, Brett writes about the hazards of the journey and how to avoid them, and follows with what he calls“advanced driver training” which are common sense strategies for creating a better life. Then, in keeping with such a simplebook, he wraps things up by revealing the meaning of life.
(Well, at least as he sees it; Nietzsche was not consulted.)
Here’s one reviewer’s opinion of Simplifying “There are a lot of books that have influenced me over the years,but this book, with its down-to-earth, logical, clear, and common sense language and humor is in my humble opinion the one (and maybe the only one) that people need to get life right.”
—DR. RONALD JACKSON
Other authors who write about life make it too complicated. Brett doesn’t have time for that. That’s why he wrote this book. He doesn’t want people to travel through life randomly. He believes that everyone needs simple directions for experiencing life’s essence.
Using the metaphor of an epic journey, Brett encourages us to start out by making peace with past demons, the broken stuff that keeps us from getting out of the driveway of life. He then helps us to set a destination for our journey, a grand and exciting destination, not just to the corner shops for a carton of milk. Next is a section on the “rules of the road,” the attitudes and behaviors needed to make the trip joyful. Being a realist, Brett writes about the hazards of the journey and how to avoid them, and follows with what he calls“advanced driver training” which are common sense strategies for creating a better life. Then, in keeping with such a simplebook, he wraps things up by revealing the meaning of life.
(Well, at least as he sees it; Nietzsche was not consulted.)
Here’s one reviewer’s opinion of Simplifying “There are a lot of books that have influenced me over the years,but this book, with its down-to-earth, logical, clear, and common sense language and humor is in my humble opinion the one (and maybe the only one) that people need to get life right.”
—DR. RONALD JACKSON
200 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 27, 2017
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