<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/06edca47-8f98-49c2-919f-0fdeeeecff5e/50E71EFE-1015-4C79-974F-CEA6A84BA154/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/book-review-simplify-your-life/" href="http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/book-review-simplify-your-life/" style="font-size: 11px;">zenhabits.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/book-review-simplify-your-life/"><H2 id="post-300"><A title="Permanent Link: Book review: Simplify Your Life" rel="bookmark" href="http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/book-review-simplify-your-life/">Book review: Simplify Your Life</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/book-review-simplify-your-life/"><P><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786882425?ie=UTF8&tag=zenhab-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0786882425"><IMG vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="left" src="http://zenhabits.net/fotos/simplifybook2.jpg" /></A><IMG width="1" height="1" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=zenhab-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0786882425" /> She took a retreat and examined what was really important to her. She decided to change her entire life. She and her husband began decluttering their home, and eventually got rid of so many things that they could move to a smaller home. She sold her business and started writing and doing other things she enjoyed more.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/book-review-simplify-your-life/"><P><STRONG>Her books</STRONG> St. James has written at least 4-5 books, but the two I listed here are my favorites. The reason I’m reviewing them together is that they’re essentially two halves of the same book — it’s worth getting them both, because they each have a lot of great insight and tips, but the philosophy, style and format are basically the same for each.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/book-review-simplify-your-life/"><P>The format for each is 100 short chapters, each one a tip on how to simplify different areas of your life. From this, you can probably already see how she shaped me and this site: each tip is extremely practical, easy, and full of common sense.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/50E71EFE-1015-4C79-974F-CEA6A84BA154/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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