Elaine
St. James

  
Elaine St. James is a best-selling author and has been acclaimed by The New York Times as the leader of the simplicity movement. She has appeared on numerous national and international television and radio programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Good Morning America. She ran a successful real estate business before beginning the process of simplifying her own life in 1990. She and her husband now live in Santa Barbara, California.
  

  

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So our lives get frittered away by a social engagement here,
a luncheon there, an evening of television here, or the habit of
working evenings or weekends or both on projects that we don't
have all that much interest in.  And the things we really want to do,
in our heart of hearts, get put on the back burner.  One of
the things simplifying your life will do is free up time for you
to figure out what really matters to you, and then enable
you to arrange your time so you can do it.

Elaine St. James