Less: Do Less, Accomplish More, and Transform Busyness into Composure and Results

"This wise, beautifully written book is grounded in a refreshing new way to understand busyness and filled with concrete strategies to recapture your quality of life -- for good."
-- Cheryl Richardson, author of Take Time for Your Life

"A wise, compassionate, and insightful guide to finding spaciousness in the only place it truly exists: inside your own mind, heart, and life."
-- Jane Hirshfield, poet and author of After and Nine Gates

"With gentle wisdom and real-world common sense, Marc Lesser effortlessly integrates profound spiritual wisdom into a clear and doable program for sane self-improvement, whatever the challenges of your work or life."
-- Norman Fischer, Zen abbot and teacher, poet, and author of Sailing Home

"Marc Lesser dives into one of the most pervasive and persistent difficulties of our time -- overwhelming busyness -- with courage, deep practical know-how, profound spiritual understanding, and kindness....Less goes way beyond most self-help books -- yet stays within everyone's reach. Quite amazing."
-- James Flaherty, founder of New Ventures West Integral Coaching and author of Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others

"This valuable work is so loaded with practical, applicable insights and suggestions to simplify work and daily existence that after reading it I felt that I should be studying at Marc's feet....Give your daily life and work a spring cleaning by following the practices and path suggested in this book."
-- Peter Coyote, actor and writer

"This Buddhist teacher-cum-lifestyle coach has come up with a very practical life plan."
-- Mandala magazine

"Less is more, as the old saying goes. Author Marc Lesser takes this to heart in his new book, Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less. 'Too often we mistakenly believe that doing less makes us lazy and results in a lack of productivity, ' Lesser writes. What it really does, he argues, is make us better appreciate the things we actually do get done. The author offers a 'Less Manifesto' aimed at getting more of those kinds of things you can't put your hands on: patience, love, kindness, generosity, and quiet self-reflection."
-- Body + Soul magazine

A Zen teacher and corporate coach makes recommendations for simplifying and slowing down hectic schedules, drawing on Buddhist tenets to counsel readers on embracing a more contemplative, self-nurturing approach to life that is less frenetic and more productive. Original.