Optimism had been a mainstay since the post-World War II days. Few of us exptected the economic slowdown would be more than a pause. A SIMPLICITY REVOLUTION: FINDIG HAPPINESS IN THE NEW REALITY is a commentary on America’s Boom and Bust decade and the “Corporatocracy” that caused it.
The book is divided into chapters full of practical advice t assist readers on their personal lifestly journeys. We now can see that America’s desire to supersize everything was unsustainable.
What economists refer to as America’s “New Normal”, Author Sue Schell calls our “New Reality.” She writes, “After millions of people lost their jobs and some ultimately their homes, we had heightened anxiety over the possibility that America’s best days may be behind us? Would our American Dream survive for future generations? What was to become of the vanishing middle class?
Social Anthropology Professor Dr. Robert Launay, of Northwestern University, penned the forward to the book. He writes, “The challenges we are facing are new, and so the solutions and values we forge to meet them must also be new. Here, Sue Schell has hit the nail on the head.”
A Simple life is not about frugality. It is about living an authentic life that lets you live the life that you dream of living. A life that is rooted not in the stuff you own, but in your relationships with family and friends. This may very well prove to be the silver lining we find in this Great Recession.
Schell is an ex-journalist, who worked for a Chicago newspaper and was a legislative liaison to then Governor Thompson before working in the business world for 25 years. She is a writer who can make a laugh out read of a not so funny topic. She now is a freelance writer living in the Chicago, IL area.
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My thoughts:
I had the pleasure of talking to Sue before I read her book. She told me a bit about it and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it and start reading.
Sue has a lot of great ideas in this book on how we need to slow down and go back to living the simple way. She makes a lot of suggestions on how to change the predicament we are in, in this county. How to dig ourselves out of the economic whole we have found ourselves in. There are a lot of us worried about our jobs, finances etc and Sue makes us feel like we are not the only ones going through this. The advice is easy to follow and the quotes are magnificent and more important now then back when they were first mentioned. Sue has humor and is not all serious, but she is right we need to go back to the things that make us happy the simple things. She makes you think about what is really important.
I have shared this book with a friend as I felt this was a great way to share the advice. If we all listen to Sue the world will be much happier and healthier economy.
