The Heart of Simple Living is your road map to a more balanced life - a life centered on self-discovery. Fewer possessions. More time. More friends. More meaning. This book will help you identify objectives for your life and create awareness of your actions and finances, while planning for your future. This inspirational book delivers seven tangible and actionable paths, woven together with real-life stories and humor along the way. You can follow these paths sequentially or cherry-pick them one at a time. Pursuing a life of simplicity is a journey, and as you blaze the trail to your simple life, celebrate the magic and joy of family, ritual and community - the perfect prescription for essential good health and well-being. For two decades, through her books and television programs, Urbanska has been an advocate for simplicity, a life of more meaning and fewer possessions. Given the growing popularity of the green movement and now the more austere financial realities brought on by the recession, Urbanska's viewpoints are gaining more widespread interest. Urbanska offers readers seven specific paths to simple living: financial independence through frugality; meaningful work; smaller, more eco-friendly housing that is paid for; reclaimed homemaking with green-conscious decorating and cleaning; healthier eating and family-oriented meals; a return to gardening for fresher, healthier fruit and vegetables; and a return to community engagement. Each chapter begins with a homily—live frugally, live liberally, retire debt as fast as you can—and solid advice on how readers can achieve the simple life. She offers plenty of examples from her own life, as well as those of others, of hard-earned lessons about the benefits of the simple life. --Vanessa Bush Wanda Urbanska is the defacto Martha Stewart of the Simple Living movement. -- O Magazine Wanda Urbanska is an acclaimed author and nationally recognized simple living expert. For more than 20 years, she has helped to define one of the top trends of our time—the quest for simplicity in our overbooked, environmentally challenged, high-tech era. The author or co-author of seven books on voluntary simplicity, she produces the PBS series Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska , currently airing on PBS stations nationwide. Urbanska has appeared on Oprah , The Today Show , CBS This Morning , and NPR's All Things Concerned . She hosted the PBS primetime special Escape from Affluenza: Living Better on Less . New Mint Condition Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon Guaranteed packaging No quibbles returns