How Twenty People Like You Found The Satisfaction Of Enough
Filled with compelling personal stories of true satisfaction, Get Satisfied: How Twenty People Like You Found The Satisfaction Of Enough is being published October 1, 2007. The talented authors are eleven women and nine men across the country in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. They are everyday people who prove that each path to The Satisfaction of Enough is unique and that everyone has a different take on what's right at any particular time. Whether they've chosen to be satisfied with a little or a lot, they are all wealthy in their contentment.
A prominent scientist has written the foreword to the book. Peter C. Whybrow, M.D. is Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and author of American Mania: When More Is Not Enough. Carol Holst, codirector of Simple Living America, has written the introduction to the book. The Simple Living Network has compiled the extensive bibliography.
Simple Living America put out a call for mainstream submissions to the book in January 2007, figuring that there must be at least a few people who have found the satisfaction of enough in our culture and who would like to share their stories. We were flattened straightaway by the avalanche. After grinning a lot, a bowled-over committee made the fascinating selections.
Easton Studio Press is publishing this book according to principles of "enough." They are not printing to waste copies, unlike most contemporary books. They prefer to print smaller quantities and connect to readers directly so they do not have books damaged in the selling and overstock returning process.
- T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S -
FOREWORD
Peter C. Whybrow, M.D.
INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Carol Holst
ORGANIZING THIS EXPLORATION
Michael Beck
PERSONAL STORIES OF SATISFACTION
Resolving Dramatic Challenges
The Phoenix Rising.
J. Eva Nagel, 57 - Stillwater, NY
The Glamorous Life
Todra Payne, 40 - Harrisburg, PA
To Walk a Fine Line
Michael Beck, 66 - Glendale, CA
A Breath of Life
Tamsen Butler, 33 - Papillion, NE
Discovering the Sanity Within
Forest Solitaire
Andrew Vietze, 38 - Appleton, ME
Ignoring Walden
Katherine Hauswirth, 39 - Deep River, CT
Losing and Winning
Galen Warden, 49 - Rockaway, NJ
Downward Mobility: How I Stepped off the Ladder
Brian Simkins, 33 - Chicago, IL
‘Unstuffing’ One’s Life
More Is Less: Confessions of a Clutter Queen
Liz Milner, 51 - Annandale, VA
Remembering the Power
Jon Myhre, 73 - Ojai, CA
Moving into Focus
Stephanie Barton, 34 - Kailua, HI
A Man on a Mission
Fred Ecks, 41 - South San Francisco, CA
The Wonderment of Enough
Just Enough.
Derek Donald Hambrick, 32 - Decatur, GA
Toolittle, Toomuch, and Enough
Bob Hinschläger, 51 - St. Marys, OH
Trading California for Kentucky
Teena Hammond Gomez, 39 - Shelbyville, KY
A Key to Enough
Ruth Pittard, 61 - Whidbey Island, WA
Cruising to Satisfaction
Small Moments.
Beth Herndon, 28 - Murfreesboro, TN
The Economics of Time
Erik Richardson, 37 - Milwaukee, WI
Simplicity in the City
Emily Houston, 24 - Brooklyn, NY
The Brass Ring
Steven Fisher, 43 - Hartford, WI
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PRAISE FOR GET SATISFIED
"Judging from the flood of public responses to Simple Living America's call for satisfying stories, people want fulfillment and sufficiency. What a relief for our maxed-out lives and for our maxed-out planet! Everybody finds the satisfaction of enough in different ways and this book shines a light forward on many of them. I'm glad I'm satisfied. You will be too."
-- ED BEGLEY, JR., Actor and Activist
"This book is a watershed in America's quest for national and planetary sanity."
"Recycle all those other self-help books -- this is the only one you will need."
-- ALEXANDRA PAUL, Actor and Activist
"Get Satisfied is a wonderful antidote to our over-stuffed and over-rushed world... we are given insight after insight into what really makes life satisfying and complete. It may not be a simpler life, though sometimes it is, but it is certainly a life in which the delight of being fully alive permeates every day and every breath."
This is the book we really need, the one that cuts to the core: firsthand stories of truly satisfied people.
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