Simplify Your Life by James, Elaine St. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Welcome Table of Contents Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction One: Your Household

1. Reduce the clutter in your life 2. Use Dave’s uncluttering system 3. Use “Speed Cleaning” to clean your house 4. Cut your grocery shopping time in half 5. Buy in bulk 6. Plant a garden 7. Run all your errands in one place 8. Cut your laundering chore in half 9. Stop buying clothes that need to be dry-cleaned 10. Leave your shoes at the front door 11. Go for patterned carpets 12. Use food trays 13. Keep your plants outdoors 14. Replace your lawn with ground cover 15. At the very least, simplify your lawn maintenance 16. Pets simplified 17. Moving simplified 18. Recycling simplified

Two: Your Life-Style

19. Move to a smaller house 20. Drive a simple car 21. Sell the damn boat 22. Build a simple wardrobe 23. Reduce your go-go entertainment 24. Rethink your meals with friends 25. Turn off the TV 26. Stop the junk mail 27. Cancel your magazine subscriptions 28. Stop the newspaper delivery 29. Drop call waiting 30. Don’t answer the phone just because it’s ringing 31. Don’t answer the doorbell, either 32. Get rid of your car phone 33. If you don’t like the holidays, bow out 34. Stop sending Christmas cards 35. Gift-giving simplified 36. Traveling simplified 37. Take a vacation at home

Three: Your Finances

38. Get out of debt 39. Live on half of what you earn, and save the other half 40. Rethink your buying habits 41. Change the way you shop 42. Reduce your needs for goods and services 43. Get rid of all but one or two of your credit cards 44. Consolidate your checking accounts 45. Use this simple check register system 46. Consolidate your investments 47. Pay off your mortgage 48. Next time you buy a car, get it secondhand 49. Teach your kids fiscal responsibility

Four: Your Job

50. Stop being a slave to your Day Runner 51. Work where you live or live where you work 52. Do what you really want to do 53. Turn your hobby into your job 54. Work less and enjoy it more 55. Stop the busy work 56. Include your family in your work life

Five: Your Health

57. Simplify your eating habits 58. Always split a restaurant meal 59. Have a fruit or juice fast one day a week 60. Make water your drink of choice 61. Eat a muffin 62. Pack your own lunch 63. Beware exercise equipment, fire your personal trainer, and go take a walk 64. Get up an hour earlier 65. Be in bed by nine one night a week 66. Throw out everything but the aspirin 67. Create your own rituals 68. Learn to laugh 69. Learn yoga 70. Learn to meditate 71. Slow down to the posted speed limit

Six: Your Personal Life

72. Clean up your relationships 73. Just be yourself 74. Trust your intuition 75. If it’s not working, stop doing it 76. Stop trying to change people 77. Spend one day a month in solitude 78. Teach your kids the joy of solitude 79. Do a retreat once a year 80. Keep a journal 81. Do one thing at a time 82. Do nothing 83. Take time to watch the sunset 84. Just say no 85. If you can’t say no, prevaricate 86. Resign from any organizations whose meetings you dread 87. Learn to reinterpret the past 88. Change your expectations 89. Review your life regularly to keep it simple

Seven: Special Issues for Women

90. Ten minutes to drop-dead gorgeous 91. Kick off your high heels—and keep them off 92. Take off your plastic nails and throw out the nail polish 93. Stop carrying a purse the size of the QE2 94. Minimize your accessories

Eight: Hard-Core Simplicity

95. Rent rather than own 96. Get rid of your cars 97. Get rid of your phone 98. Stop making the bed 99. Get rid of all the extras 100. Build a very simple wardrobe

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