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  • Pure and Simple: How to Simplify Your Life, Do Less, and Get More

  • By: Martin Meadows
  • Narrated by: John Gagnepain
  • Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (184 ratings)

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Pure and Simple: How to Simplify Your Life, Do Less, and Get More

By: Martin Meadows
Narrated by: John Gagnepain
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Get more out of life with less effort

You've heard of people living "the good life". They always seem to have plenty of time, money, and energy to fulfill their goals and dreams. Their secret? A simple life.

Pure and Simple is based on the 80/20 principle and suggests steps to simplify your life, accomplish more, and increase the quality of your time and efforts - all with less work!

Learn how and why you should:

  • Limit your choices in everyday life, and discover four areas of your life that can be greatly improved
  • Declutter your physical and digital space - this doesn't mean living with less than 100 things
  • Use the golden rules of simplification, and make decisions more quickly and with less effort
  • Cut unnecessary time commitments, and have the time to reach your goals and fulfill your dreams
  • Build a positive outlook, and learn to overcome a negative mind-set to better enjoy your life

All these suggestions are laid out to help you shift away from the frustrating mind-set of "fixing" your life by working harder, gaining more possessions, and holding on to what's truly limiting you in life.

Each step is supported with research by leaders in psychology, behavioral studies, and neuroscience as well as examples of real habits by successful people such as Warren Buffet and President Obama.

Once you finish, you'll be better prepared to take your life to the next level. You'll be able to enjoy the simplicity and ease of a life without unnecessary and exhausting demands on your time and energy. More importantly, you'll be able to stick to your simple, new habits instead of defaulting back to complexity.

©2015 Martin Meadows (P)2015 Meadows Publishing
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Excellent Audiobook!

Simple, useful, and to the point. It's worth reviewing it more than once to better remember and implement a simpler and mote enjoyable life.

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Enjoyed, good info. Easy listen.

Liked this book. Wasn't too long. Great info and to the point. narrator was good.

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Insightful If You Can Stay Awake

I found the information useful, but the narration was way too monotonous. It would Probably be better to read the book than listen to the audible.

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great book.

Mark Meadows has a down to earth way of writing. very relatable. I've bee struggling with trying to simplify my life and this book has helped a great deal.

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Pure and Simple Delivers!

Listening to this Martin Meadows's books always spark insights that clarify and focus the topics he covers. This book Pure and Simple is packed with value on how to implement strategies that do what the title promises.

Straight to the point. This is an 80/20 book that delivers!!

Backed with research, each of the sections make a compelling case for living a more simplified live. Simplifying life creates the opportunity to experience life the way we really want it to be. Experiencing what is really important to each of us!

John Gagnepain again does a great job voicing this book. His pace and tone make it easy to listen to.

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Worthy purchase, a good listen/read!

As a book worm, I would recommend purchasing this book for those interested in improving themselves and lifestyle. It is also a book you will want to pick back up and listen/read from time to time again for refreshers. Easy listen and the narrator was awesome, very clear cut voice. The author offers 3 other suggestion books, that this book reflects off of. Worth a book credit or personal purchase either way, enjoy!

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Brilliant

Martin Meadows is brilliant. John Gagnepin did an awesome job narrarating. The content of this book is valuable...it is what you make it. If you apply what he says and you truly believe it, then you'll see the changes in your life that your looking for. I recommend this book to anyone looking to take their life experience to a higher level.

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Mark Meadows is one awesome author..

Mark Meadows is an awesome author who gets right to the point and shares all the tools to help you get what you need to put you back on course.

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Reduce stress by focusing on what really matters

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Some of the concepts in the book may seem simple and obvious in retrospect, but they are very powerful and important. If you ever feel stressed out because you are unable to focus on what is important in your life, then you may benefit from this easy and enjoyable listen that manages to convey its ideas in a very economical and clear way.

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Practical and useful audio...

Another great audio/book that can help people live simpler, better lives. The appeal of this audio is its practicality and actionability. It's a contrast to other self-help material that is purely 'feel good' while giving the reader little value per page (or minutes listened to in this case). This audio however will give you something you can implement regardless of the chapter you listen to. It's also based on principles and techniques that is already known to work in the real world.

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