A certain kind of busyness is crucial to life, allowing us to
earn a living, create art, and achieve success. But too often it
consumes us and we become crazy busy, nonstop busy, and we expend
extraneous effort that gets us nowhere. Marc Lesser''s new book
shows us the benefits of doing less in a world that has
increasingly embraced more - more desire, more activity, more
things, more exhaustion. Less is about stopping, about the
possibility of finding composure in the midst of activity. The
ideas and practices that Lesser outlines offer a radical yet simple
approach to transforming a lifestyle based on endless to-do lists
into a more meaningful approach that is truly more productive in
every sense. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback
edition.
關於作者:
MARC LESSER is the founder and CEO of ZBA Associates, a
management consulting, coaching, and training company. A Zen
teacher with an MBA, Marc speaks and leads workshops throughout
North America. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback
edition.
目錄:
PROLOGUE: Accomplish More xiii
PART I
THE OVERWHELMING BUSYNESS OF OUR LIVES
CHAPTER 1: The Immense Sea 3
CHAPTER 2: The Art of-Less 13
PART II
TRANSFORMING BUSYNESS
INTO COMPOSURE AND RESULTS
CHAPTER 3: The Less Manifesto 29
CHAPTER 4: Fear 37
CHAPTER 5: Assumptions 65
CHAPTER 6: Distractions 89
CHAPTER 7: Resistance 113
CHAPTER 8: Busyness, or Finding
the One Who Is Not Busy 133
Epilogue 155
Acknowledgments 161
Sources and Recommended Reading 163
Index 165
About the Author 173