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.

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

"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."

"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."

"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."