 I do not have a simple life. I have a rich and complex life that goes topsy turvy every so often like a carnival ride with pretty twinkly lights designed to distract you from the rickety underpinnings while they spin you around in dizzying circles. My choice. My kind of fun.
In fact I learned to juggle for a junior high school play, and I found the sensation of keeping one too many things flying past my nose irresistable. Perhaps if I did not have this kind of three ring disposition, I would not have found the need to write Life Balance™ software in the first place. That said, I think there is value in choosing where you want your complexity to be. If you were to implement all the ideas in Simplify Your Life, you could in fact be choosing a different kind of complication.
This book makes for fun reading because structurally, a list of 100 things you could do leads to giving the items all the same weight of seriousness. You probably can't pay down your debt, move to a new smaller home, get up an hour early, stop sending Christmas cards, and consolidate your checking accounts all in the same week. You could ponder whether you want to own clothes that need to be dry cleaned, and contact the Direct Marketing Association to try to slow down your junk mail avalance. I found the section on not lugging around a 5 pound leather bound paper organizer particularly enjoyable.
This book actually contains far more than 100 practical suggestions for where to look in your particular circus tent for places that eat your time and effort without giving back an appropriate level of happiness. You might even find yourself getting rid of a few cranky old white elephants in favor of replacing them with good natured llamas.
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