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81) Dwelling
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Dwelling will help you learn to better care for your home environment so it takes care of you, make decisions that simplify your life, create more peace in your day, invest in relationships that make you feel positive, challenged, and supported, and lean into faith for strength and renewal. When you discover the connection between your home and body and the action steps you can take to improve both, you'll be on your way to a more balanced and happy...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Why do we pursue more when we'd be happier with less? Now in hardcover for the first time, this is the story of how New York Times bestselling author Jen Hatmaker and her family tried to combat overindulgence-and what they learned along the way about living a truly meaningful life. Simple and Free is the true story of how Hatmaker (along with her family) identified seven areas of excess-food, clothes, spending, media, possessions, waste, and stress-...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In a beautiful collection of essays, Simple Matters challenges readers to simplify their life by prioritizing emotional and physical health, curating a personal style, and pursuing one's dreams. Jenny Mustard has created a unique lifestyle book that taps into the ever-increasing human longing for less clutter and more meaning, be it at home, at work, or in our relationships. By encouraging readers to make their surroundings a little more lovely,...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Outwardly, Comer appeared successful. But inwardly, things weren't pretty. The advice his mentor gave him wasn't what he expected: "Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life." But it was the answer Comer needed. Here he shows you how to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive, by discovering a slower, simpler way of life. -- adapted from Amazon.com info
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
What happens when a graduate of MIT, the bastion of technological advancement, and his bride move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated?
Eric Brende conceives a real-life experiment: to see if, in fact, all our cell phones, wide-screen TVs, and SUVs have made life easier and better or whether life would be preferable without them. By turns, the query narrows down to a single question: What is...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Big meant economies of scale, lots of resources, and more power. Big meant better.Then small happened.Seth Godin, the avant-garde marketer and international bestselling author, explores how small companies with targeted ideas and savvy marketing are turning out to be the next big thing.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
So many women are living overcommitted lives and buckling under the nagging guilt. When they are busy, they feel guilty for not playing with their kids or having a quiet time of prayer and Bible study. When they try to rest, they feel guilty because there's so much left to do. It's an endless cycle of overwork and exhaustion. Yet inside every woman's heart is a longing for true rest. It's there because God designed us that way--but it seems out of...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A Walden for the 21st century, the true story of a man who has radically reinvented "the good life." In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollars of it-in a phone booth. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of freedom and security-ever since. The Man Who Quit Money is an account of how one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent. Suelo doesn't pay taxes, or accept...
Author
Series
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This is a charming and yet quite practical impulse book on how to sort through the too-much-stuff of life. The premise is so simple: the artist Lotte Dirks has illustrated hundreds of common items - oven mitts, incomplete board games, a pair of skis, novelty ice cube trays, a dying plant, a feather duster, flip-flops, a waffle maker, old Christmas cards, a manual typewriter, chipped dishes, defunct phone chargers, a rocking horse, and so on. Beneath...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married.
But as it turned out, in the real world Daniel Hays felt lost. So he took his love for the sea and his need to escape civilization and pushed it further: he bought an island off the coast of Nova Scotia; built a tiny house; packed up his...
Publisher
Catalyst
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
How might your life be better with less? Minimalism examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life--families, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former Wall Street broker--all of whom are striving to live a meaningful life with less.--
Author
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Are you ready to choose sustainable and creative and leave behind the overproduced, overdone, and overpriced? Combating the consumer mindset that more is move, Jen Hatmaker is here to remind us that less leads to a fuller life. She walks readers through practical ways to cut back on excess and find contentment, and a little comedy, in a greener, simpler, sustainable way of life. -- Adapted from back cover.
The author shows how one can live simply...
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