Living the Simply Luxurious Life

Making Your Everydays Extraordinary and Discovering Your Best Self

By: Shannon Ables

Narrated by: Shannon Ables

What can you uniquely give the world?

We often sell ourselves short with self-limiting beliefs, but most of us would be amazed and delighted to know that we do have something special - our distinctive passions and talents - to offer. And what if I told you that what you have to give will also enable you to live a life of true contentment? How is that possible? It happens when you embrace and curate your own simply luxurious life.

We tend to not realize the capacity of our full potential and settle for what society has deemed acceptable. However, each of us has a unique journey to travel if only we would find the courage, paired with key skills we can develop, to step forward. This book will help you along the deeper journey to discovering your best self as you begin to trust your intuition and listen to your curiosity.

You will learn how to:

• Recognize your innate strengths
• Acquire the skills needed to nurture your best self
• Identify and navigate past societal limitations often placed upon women
• Strengthen your brand, both personally and professionally
• Build a supportive and healthy community
• Cultivate effortless style
• Enhance your everyday meals with seasonal fare
• Live with less so that you can live more fully
• Understand how to make a successful fresh start
• Establish and mastermind your financial security
• Experience great pleasure and joy in relationships
• Strive for quality over quantity in every arena of your life

Living simply luxuriously is a choice: to think critically, to live courageously, and to savor each day as much as the grand occasions. As you learn to live well in your regular days, you will elevate your experience and recognize what is working for you and what is not. With this knowledge, you let go of the unnecessary, thus simplifying your life and removing the complexity. Choices become easier, life has more flavor, and you begin to feel deeply satisfying true contentment.

The cultivation of a unique, simple, and luxurious life is an extraordinary daily journey that each of us can master, leading us to our fullest potential.

©2018 Shannon Ables (P)2019 Shannon Ables

life changing

Ive followed Shannons blog and podcast since the beginning and never tire of her ideas and charm. Please dont stop inspiring us to keep living luxuriously.

loved the content, but...

I loved the content, but I cannot stand the nasal, rushed reading. Kindle this book.

This book is a true luxury!

I have read and thoroughly enjoyed both of Shannon's books and still I jumped at the opportunity to hear her narrate her own words. What a pleasure it turned out to be! Shannon's "take" on what it means to live a luxurious life is gracious and inclusive. It has everything to do with what luxury means to the reader as an individual and nothing to do with trends or materialism. I have learned from her how to live more fully and to actively pursue with courage the things that are especially important to me. As a high school English teacher, Shannon is the "real deal" - a person living an everyday life that is beautiful, luxurious, and perfectly suited to her taste, temperament, joys and goals. And- the gift of the audible book is the listener gets to hear all of her ideas in her own voice. I listen when I'm in the car or winding down at the end of the day as a way to relax and reboot. You will enjoy listening to Shannon's book!

I will definitely listen to more than once

I appreciate that the book was read by the author and don't mind her putting her own inflections on what she is reading as she is allowed to take the liberty to do so as the author. This book offers some similarities to her last book but still new material within the same theme of living luxuriously. It was so packed with good information and although some themes repeat themselves in different sections of the book, I feel it puts the emphasis on certain behaviors that deserve it. This book is a summary of a lifetime of reading books on bettering oneself and presented to the reader in a pleasurable succinct way considering how much material was reviewed for the writing of this book. Loved it!

Excellent Second Book!

I have been following Shannon for several years. I enjoy her podcasts and listened to this book on Audible. I loved this experience as this book has been the soundtrack for many miles of travel. However, I will be purchasing an actual book to be able to share with my adult daughter. Wish I had this information in my twenties.

Well worth your time!

This book delivers exactly what it promises... ways to make your everydays extraordinary and discover your best self. I found Shannon's blog and podcast when I was turning 50 and on a journey to do just that, and I was not disappointed! Shannon teaches (and/or reminds!) us of the elegance in simplicity, and of choosing quality not only in our purchases but also in our decisions. She encourages us to find our true selves and design our life around that, and how simple and attainable such a goal truly is. At this stage in my life, I thought I already knew these things but was very surprised by how a little life coaching led me to find the simple, elegant life I want, and with it, contentment. I love when authors narrate their own books, and Shannon is no exception! It feels like a warm conversation with a classy and elegant friend, and I one I will return to again and again when I need reminding.

It's true what they say

I have no idea what the book is about. It's extremely hard to focus on content with this narration. Gives me nausea. I should have listened to the sample... I want refund.

Poor narration, Content has no flow

I could not tolerate the narration, which surprisingly was done by the author. It felt very rushed and I wanted to tell her to just slow down and breathe between thoughts and sentences. Actually I'm not sure there were many sentences because it felt like a long list of bullet points that did not have a main header. Consequently I did not finish the book because it reads exactly the opposite of the title. "Hurry, hurry, hurry and move to Bend, Oregon" was more like it.

Not too cool !

Sounds like it's read straight from the book which it most likely was. Self absorbed, self centered and not fun to listen to. Realizing it was a self help book written with a woman targeted audience, I thought I might be able to grab some nuggets. Just not there. Boring at most.

Not impressed

Not very useful information. Very tiring story about rather self absorbed woman. Reading was too fast and not enjoyable to listen to.