Forward
The pace and intensity of our lives, both at work and at home, leave
several of us feeling like a person riding a frantically galloping horse.
Our day-to-day incessant busyness — too much to do and not enough
time; the pressure to produce and check off items on our to-do list by
each day’s end — seems to decide the direction and quality of our
existence for us.
However, if we approach our days in another way, we can consciously
change this out-of-control pattern. It only requires the courage to do
less. This may sound simple, but doing less can actually be very
difficult. Too often, we mistakenly believe that doing less makes us
lazy and results in a lack of productivity. Rather than, doing less helps
us enjoy what we do achieve. We learn to do less of what is
extraneous, and engage in fewer self-defeating behaviors, so we create
a rich life that we truly feel great about.
Just doing less for its own sake can be easy, startling, and
transformative. Imagine having a real and unhurried conversation in
the middle of an unforgiving workday with somebody you care about.
Imagine completing one discrete task at a time and feeling calm and
happy about it. In this book, you will see a new approach. The
approach is equally useful for our personal life and our work life. In
fact, the two hemispheres of our work and personal lives constantly
reflect on and affect one another, each changing and/or reinforcing
the other.
Every life has awesome meaning, but the fog of constant activity and
plain bad habits can often obscure the meaning of our own.
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