[Cob] Book recommendations: Live Simply?

[Marlin Nissen]

I've never read Radically Simple but it sounds neat - maybe too 'radical' sounding a title for trying to COAX someone though. The great part of Your Money Or Your Life is that it doesn't try to tell you what your values should be and instead helps anyone figure out that they're spinning away their life without spending it doing the things they really want to do! I loved the book discussion that I went to  on that and for many around me it was the first time they'd raised their eyes above the cultural crossbar. 

Several of the group did some major re evaluation. One week of the discussion was a take off of the idea that "there aren't REALLY all these I HAVE TOs in life, they are almost all tradeoffs" (i.e. I don't have to work for this job, I choose to for such and such reason)

Interestingly if you can get someone to participate (We had plenty of skeptics get dragged into helping) in a Cob project for a day it CAN be mindblowing, especially if they end up in discussions with interesting folks......

Marlin



Travis Miller <wyrdbrew at gmail.com> wrote: On May 3, 2007, at 10:58 PM, drub wrote:

>
> Any recommendations on books to coach a person out of the  
> dependence on high
> income, high dwelling expenses, the conventional suburban  
> lifestyle.  I am
> *certain* they exist.  Hope that folks with the cob perspective  
> would have
> some of the best perspectives.  I could use a few recipes. I could use
> "lessons learned" and not re-invent the wheel.  I could use some "best
> practices".
>

My personal favorites are Radically Simple by Jim Merkel and Your  
Money or Your LIfe by Joe Dominguez.  I like the tapes that Joe  
Dominguez did too.  The tapes help make more sense out of the book.

The really great thing about both of those books is the authors both  
show with their own lives as an example that you can have a lower  
standard of living based in quantitative terms and achieve a much  
better life in qualitative terms.  Both books are totally non  
judgmental and encourage the reader that they can live a life that is  
more rewarding, more healthy and more enjoyable than working as a  
wage slave.


Travis
wyrdbrew at gmail.com

It is axiomatic that we are in no way protected from the consequences  
of our actions by remaining confused about the ecological meaning of  
our humanness, ignorant of ecological processes, and unmindful of the  
ecological aspects of history.

William R. Catton, Jr



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