Simplify - from Inside Out

by Carl Phillips

“If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.”- Wu-MenModern life can be hectic. Filled with noise. Filled with things screaming for our attention. Filled with complexity. Filled with tasks that need to be done. Filled with stress. This leads many of us to a state of cortisol overload. Jacked up on caffeine, we fight our way through To Do lists that never end. Trying in vain to ‘win the day’. Instead, the truth is closer to a feeling that we are struggling through many days. We can walk another path. Leveraging SimplicityLife can be calmer. It can be less noisy. It can be less stressful. A powerful tool we can all learn to wield in our lives is simplicity. We can simplify our lives. To do so, we must first go inside. We must simplify from inside out, to achieve a meaningful return. That’s what this book is about. What follows is a series of essays that prod at some big topics and challenges we all face. Where I can, I have shared some potential solutions that can support us living a simpler life. All are offered from the personal perspective of someone that believes in the power of simplicity. Someone that believes this journey to simpler, starts from inside out.

97 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 17, 2021

About the author

Carl writes short books full of big ideas including: Journeys in Simplicity, Unplug: Disconnect to Reconnect and Slow: Seeking Stillness in Fast Paced Times.

He is also the proud owner of Frictionless Living (http://frictionlessliving.net/) which is focused on helping readers find and live their own version of a simpler, good life.

You can find out more and reach him at his blog (www.frictionlessliving.net).

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found some useful tips and resources in this book. I think some more detailed strategies on how to trim the fat in life might be helpful for readers, noting that a one size fits all approach doesn't work.
Short and sweet.