You do not need to abandon a good life. You may need to change its size.
A meeting, a useful object, an unread message, or a possible future can keep asking for time, attention, money, space, coordination, and proof. None is necessarily wrong. Together, they can make a life too large to inhabit well.
A Smaller Life, Better Lived offers a practical way to reduce those continuing claims while protecting the people, responsibilities, useful ambitions, and delights that matter. The five-step Keeping Test helps you:
With humane, imperfect examples, carefully qualified research, and tools you can use immediately, this book shows how to make a calendar clearer, a home more workable, attention quieter, and shared responsibility fairer.
Smaller does not mean empty, pure, or withdrawn. It means building a life you can return to.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You do not need to abandon a good life. You may need to change its size.A meeting, a useful object, an unread message, or a possible future can keep asking for time, attention, money, space, coordination, and proof. None is necessarily wrong. Together, they can make a life too large to inhabit well.A Smaller Life, Better Lived offers a practical way to reduce those continuing claims while protecting the people, responsibilities, useful ambitions, and delights that matter. The five-step Keeping Test helps you: name what a commitment, object, channel, or status demand keeps asking from you;separate duty and devotion from habit, fear, possibility, and proof;count the full cost, including work transferred to other people;choose an honest size: keep, shrink, share, season, or release;protect what remains without turning every open hour into another project.With humane, imperfect examples, carefully qualified research, and tools you can use immediately, this book shows how to make a calendar clearer, a home more workable, attention quieter, and shared responsibility fairer.Smaller does not mean empty, pure, or withdrawn. It means building a life you can return to. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798193939047
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You do not need to abandon a good life. You may need to change its size.A meeting, a useful object, an unread message, or a possible future can keep asking for time, attention, money, space, coordination, and proof. None is necessarily wrong. Together, they can make a life too large to inhabit well.A Smaller Life, Better Lived offers a practical way to reduce those continuing claims while protecting the people, responsibilities, useful ambitions, and delights that matter. The five-step Keeping Test helps you: name what a commitment, object, channel, or status demand keeps asking from you;separate duty and devotion from habit, fear, possibility, and proof;count the full cost, including work transferred to other people;choose an honest size: keep, shrink, share, season, or release;protect what remains without turning every open hour into another project.With humane, imperfect examples, carefully qualified research, and tools you can use immediately, this book shows how to make a calendar clearer, a home more workable, attention quieter, and shared responsibility fairer.Smaller does not mean empty, pure, or withdrawn. It means building a life you can return to. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798193939047
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - You do not need to abandon a good life. You may need to change its size.A meeting, a useful object, an unread message, or a possible future can keep asking for time, attention, money, space, coordination, and proof. None is necessarily wrong. Together, they can make a life too large to inhabit well.A Smaller Life, Better Lived offers a practical way to reduce those continuing claims while protecting the people, responsibilities, useful ambitions, and delights that matter. The five-step Keeping Test helps you: - name what a commitment, object, channel, or status demand keeps asking from you;- separate duty and devotion from habit, fear, possibility, and proof;- count the full cost, including work transferred to other people;- choose an honest size: keep, shrink, share, season, or release;- protect what remains without turning every open hour into another project.With humane, imperfect examples, carefully qualified research, and tools you can use immediately, this book shows how to make a calendar clearer, a home more workable, attention quieter, and shared responsibility fairer.Smaller does not mean empty, pure, or withdrawn. It means building a life you can return to. Seller Inventory # 9798193939047
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