![]() ![]() If you take away one helpful hint (which you are very likely to do), it’ll be worth it. Take a look through it next time you are at the library or the bookstore. A short book that combines technology advancements with wisdom of the ages is just the kind of focus that we muti-taskers need to help us calm the chaos that surrounds us online and off. Those have to be my only complaints about The Power of Less.* All in all, this is a good little book with some great logic in it, as well as links and suggestions on how to use today’s tools to make your life better. Professional organizers are THAT worth it. I hired a professional a few years ago to prepare a room for my soon-to-be-born son and I’ll never try to tackle a big clean out/organizing project on my own again. He is obviously very proud of his online community, but multiple mentions of a website went against the single-tasking posits of the book: Why keep mentioning a website at the same time you are telling me to stay off the internet and concentrate on one thing at a time? Also, he never mentions the beauty of hiring a personal organizer. A few times, though, I felt a little over-pitched on the author’s own website. After reading the book, I can see how “teh.interwebz” can add some Zen to your life. ![]() Babauta promotes the beauty of internet tools on almost every page. Although the Buddhist concept of mindfulness pervades the theme of the book, Mr. This tiny tome definitely isn’t for back-to-nature types. ![]() (Too bad he didn’t use Twitter’s 140 character limit! Same idea, though, and one that Mr. He uses the concept of Haiku to demonstrate this in the very early pages of the book. Babauta doesn’t pull punches about internet addiction and distraction, but as he is directing you toward websites, he is telling you how to rein in your unproductive internet use. Did that last bit sound counter-intuitive? It isn’t. In an amongst the tried-and-true lists are the author’s musings about his website and its members, his own struggles, and how to use the internet to keep your life simple. That’s where the commonalities with traditional how-to books end. The non-fiction work follows the traditional how-to book formula to employ numbered lists of steps. True to its name, the Power of Less is short. ![]()
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