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Accomplishing More by Doing Less

By: Marc Lesser

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Paperback | 1 July 2026

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192 Pages

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21.6 x 14.0 x 1.12

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Antidotes to busyness and practices for a calmer, more productive life

A certain kind of busyness is crucial to life, allowing us to earn a living, create art, and achieve success. But too often it consumes us and we become crazy busy, nonstop busy, and we expend extraneous effort that gets us nowhere. Marc Lesser's new book shows us the benefits of doing less in a world that has increasingly embraced more - more desire, more activity, more things, more exhaustion. Less is about stopping, about the possibility of finding composure in the midst of activity. The ideas and practices that Lesser outlines offer a radical yet simple approach to transforming a lifestyle based on endless to-do lists into a more meaningful approach that is truly more productive in every sense.

Industry Reviews

"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

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