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  <title><![CDATA[Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;DIV&gt;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&#8217;s new book shows us the benefits of doing less in a world that has increasingly embraced more &#8212; more desire, more activity, more things, more exhaustion. &lt;I&gt;Less&lt;/I&gt; 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.&lt;/DIV&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[My days are filled with busyness. I start each day with a huge to do list yet there just never seems to be enough hours in the day to complete all these tasks. Each day I begin with the best of intentions but somewhere between trying to keep up with the incoming emails and the little emergencies of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49949853">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ideas:<br/>A weekly sabbath.<br/>Ask positive questions for feedback. What can I do better, rather than what am I doing wrong? Ask for feedback, but then listen, just listen. Don't argue or try to explain the feedback, just listen. <br/>Make requests. This allows you to be transparent -- you are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53104995">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first thought was this was going to be a preachy book.  Perhaps a bit holier-than-though.  But I was pleasantly surprised.<br/><br/>Some of the advice is a re-hash of well-worn adages and tenets we've been exposed to in previous works of other authors, but Lesser's life-path gives it a holistic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66991795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best tip I got from this book was about multi-tasking.  I am a really, really ardent multi-tasker, even though I realize that sometimes I'm distracting myself by reading e-mail, making phone calls, etc.  Marc explains why multi-tasking is self-defeating and prevents us from really accomplishing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70461766">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the end of last year I found myself working 14 hours a day / 7 days a week and was exhausted.  This book coincidentally dropped in my lap and I am ever so thankful for it!]]></body>
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    <review id="49340394">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  My full review of it is here:  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/03/book-review-less-accomplishing-more-by-doing-less-marc-lesser/" title="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/03/book-review-less-accomplishing-more-by-doing-less-marc-lesser/">http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/03/b...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a bad little book.  It could have been more but then that would have been too ironic, given the title.  For a more thorough review:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://nibiruchallenge.blogspot.com/2008/06/gregg-bradens-mystery-of-2012-highly.html" title="http://nibiruchallenge.blogspot.com/2008/06/gregg-bradens-mystery-of-2012-highly.html">http://nibiruchallenge.blogspot.com/2008...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe it's not a good time for me to read this book.  So far what I read said &quot;Less...blah, blah, blah,.....Accomplish more...blah, blah, blah.&quot;  I need a break.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick easy read.  Nice reminder after busy winter to slow down.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Motivation to manage distractions.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great concepts, whittled down to bite sized steps to simplify and accomplish more.  ]]></body>
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