The Power of Less

The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life

De: Leo Babauta

Narrado por: Fred Stella

With the countless distractions that come from every corner of a modern life, it's amazing that we're ever able to accomplish anything. The Power of Less demonstrates how to streamline your life by identifying the essential and eliminating the unnecessary - freeing you from everyday clutter and allowing you to focus on accomplishing the goals that can change your life for the better.

The Power of Less will show you how to:

Break any goal down into manageable tasks

Focus on only a few tasks at a time

Create new and productive habits

Hone your focus

Increase your efficiency.

By setting limits for yourself and making the most of the resources you already have, you'll finally be able work less, work smarter, and focus on living the life that you deserve.

©2008 Leo Babauta (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

simple book

less pages and small book with big benefits and effects. really less is more. done

good

for me it was a little all over the place but it was good overall

Less is more. Simple Life

What made the experience of listening to The Power of Less the most enjoyable?

Understanding that less is better. We buy so much and waste so much money, energy on things we don't need.

What did you like best about this story?

Understanding that we can live with less and that by doing so we get rid of a lot of stress it causes.

Have you listened to any of Fred Stella’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I did then listened again.

Any additional comments?

We should all do this. Live with less. Be more in present and use what we need and not waste so much.

Excellent philosophy

If you ever feel out of control in your life, this will help you take back that control. Busy life does not have to be stressful. If you follow the philosophy of this book, it will make sure that you don't crash and burnt through your busy life.

Good, a bit unoriginal

The ideas and advice are mostly solid, but Getting Things Done advocates would recognize many similar concepts. This doesn't diminish the message, it's quite succinct and is easier to internalize the methodology.
Without spoiling the listen, the final chapters don't have the same clarity and sharpness that the initial chapters do, but overall... a useful contribution to order, peace and sanity in today's world!

Great and informative

The book has a lot of specific detail and advice, which is both helpful and charming at times. At first, the narrator sounds a bit movie-commercial-like, but you get used to it; personally, I grew to like it. Listened on 1.25-1.5x and it helped. Overall good book.

WONDERFUL

Where does The Power of Less rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Top of the hill ~!~

Who was your favorite character and why?

The list of ideas he gives

What does Fred Stella bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

He reads faster then I do with expression. It's nice to have someone read to me...I fall asleep when I read a book. I can sit on the computer and listen and get work done also.

What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?

Oh where do I start...the habits, focusing, etc. Leo takes the pressure off and gives power to change where you are with what you can handle.

Any additional comments?

This book is simply life changing ~!!!~

Very Helpful !

This book has helped me tremendously. I’ve been listening to this book in my free time when I would otherwise not be doing reading, while driving in the car or walking or going to the gym. The ideas and concepts in this book I have help me debug some of my faulty patterns and behaviors and thinking, that is keeping me back from being happy and productive.

A fair review I think

Would you try another book from Leo Babauta and/or Fred Stella?

The narration was okay - it was the material I had problems with.

Any additional comments?

I could never give anyone a 1 star review - a person gets 2 stars in my book just for getting up in the morning and earns three for attempting something like writing a book.The book's recommendations can be summed up in a short phrase "Reduce the things you do to 3 things", which I have done for years - but primarily because it was intuitive that much more than this would dilute my effort. As someone who's been a practicing Buddhist for about 20 years, much of what the author was offering was basically some really simple Buddhist practice. I won't fault the author for that as a large amount of self improvement books are basically Buddhist practices without crediting the source, but the author lacked much understanding into the depth of it - or at least failed to communicate it - and in my opinion on some subtle points was just wrong. All in all, I try to give every book a fair shot - and listen to them all the way through and try to do it without passing judgement - often some great dharma presents itself after hours of filler - but this was so painful I just couldn't wait for it to end and alas left me with unfulfilled hopes. If you are of similar experience to me in Buddhism or meditative practices - keep walking - make the author happy by not leaving reviews like this - and press on to find more useful material. If not, maybe you will find the material not so simplistic and obvious.

Powerful and transformational book

I loved this book. It really challenged me to rethink my work and home environments and make some needed changes.