Day 29 - The Power of Less

The Power of Less, by Leo Babauta

I finished the book a few days ago, but I needed to also identify 3 things that I'm going to do with it so I took some extra time.

Some of the interesting quotes from the book include:

• Why must we rush through life?  Slow down and enjoy it more.  Life is a journey--make it a pleasant one.
• Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
• Focus all your energy on creating that one habit.
• Limited focus is digging with that same shovel in one spot until you hit water.

I have identified tasks #10, #11, and #12:

• #10 Power of Less: Reduce and organize my Boy Scout materials 
• #11 Power of Less: Create a time for solitude, use it for 12 times 
• #12 Power of Less: list all my commitments, then make the short list

Another interesting thing with this book was that I used Amazon's Kindle application for the iPhone.  This was the first complete book that I've read using my iPhone.  The reading interface is rather small, obviously.  It was fun to always have a book at my side.  I enjoyed being able to annotate and highlight key points and then later have access to them from the web.

This concludes Item #9.  However, as the key to doing something about it, I now have tasks 10-12.