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CURRENT IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Barnes & Noble University is now allowing sign-ups for its free course Simplify Your Life Now! at

I have copied the information from the course information below:
Title: Simplify Your Life Now
Course Type: Online Instructor-led Course
Estimated Completion Time: 24 hour(s)
Session Length: 4 week(s)
March 7, 2005 - OPEN Prerequisites None, except the desire to have a more streamlined, simplified, and rich life.
Description
Buried in clutter? Calendar crammed with commitments? Not enough money to do what you want? Feel drained and tired? Wish there were a better way? There is! You can simplify your life and have more time and energy to do what you really love. Our simplicity course will help you to focus on what's most important to you, and will help you effectively strip away all the excess things, commitments, and financial problems that keep you from living your life as you want.
Join Janet Luhrs, author of The Simple Living Guide, for this practical and inspiring course. Learn how you can view time in a completely new way -- one that frees you from hectic scheduling. Discover ways to streamline your home or office so that clutter has no place. Let go of the constant quest for more money. Instead, embrace a way of life based on choices that reflect your needs rather than your wants. By the end of this course, you will have made some real changes in the areas that have you frantic, and developed some new strategies for allowing life to be more enjoyable!
Audience: If you're stressed and harried in your daily life, then this class is for you -- no matter what your income, age, living situation, or occupation.
Objectives
Understand how simplicity can change your life. Identify where you spend your time, energy, and money. Explore ways to stop living on auto pilot and raise your daily awareness. Learn how your use of time affects your energy. Discover how to maximize what you love, and minimize the rest. Say "no" effectively. Learn how to spend and invest for financial freedom. Create a home that inspires you to unwind. Examine how clutter drains your energy, and how a simplified home gives you energy. Save time on housework, chores, and errands. Course Materials
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- The Simple Living Guide: A SourceBook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living
Course Creator(s)
|  | Janet Luhrs For everything you've ever wanted to know about simplicity, ask Janet Luhrs. As a mom, business owner, writer, friend, daughter, and ex-wife, she's seen, heard about, or lived through nearly every stress-inducer imaginable. She shares her wisdom in two bestselling books, The Simple Living Guide and Simple Loving, and in the newsletter she has published for ten years, Simple Living Oasis. The Boston Globe calls it the 'nation's premier newsletter on simplification.' Janet has appeared in nearly all major media in the United States and Canada, including Donahue, Oprah, The New York Times, and others. Visit Janet's website at www.simpleliving.com.
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