Purchase Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less

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

"If only I had had Marc's insight into my personal busyness earlier in my life, I would have been able to save thousands of heartbeats to spend with my grandchildren. The quiet perspective of Less will change how one works and how one lives."
— Warren Langley, former president of the Pacific Stock Exchange and managing member of GuruWizard Fund, LLC

"Like all great ideas, Less is disarmingly simple: know who you are, what you want to accomplish and why, and just do it, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of joy. 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, poet, Zen abbot and teacher, and author of Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls

"An author who offers a book titled Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less either really knows what he 's talking about or is perpetrating a commercial fraud. Marc Lesser knows, and 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. Marc and I have practiced Zen Buddhism in the same community for over thirty years. Yet I was surprised on page after page by how much I learned (and needed to learn) from my calm and unassuming friend. Give your daily life and work a spring cleaning by following the practices and path suggested in this book."
— Peter Coyote, actor and writer

"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. Any reader will be able to take up the methods he proposes to great and immediate effect — reducing stress and improving productivity with what really matters. You'll feel met and understood as you read and yet challenged to examine your actions, habits, and beliefs. Insights will abound, but the real payoff is taking them into your everyday life, and Marc shows dozens of ways to do that. 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