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The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less

Discription : How do you define the good life? For many, success is measured not by health and happiness but by financial wealth. But such a worldview overlooks the important things in life: personal contentment, family time, spirituality, and the health of the planet and those living on it. A preoccupation with money and possessions is not only unhealthy, it can also drain the true joy from life.

In recent years, millions have watched their American Dreams go up in smoke. The international financial collapse, inflation, massive layoffs, and burgeoning consumer debt have left people in dire financial straits—including John Robbins, a crusader for planet-friendly food and lifestyle choices, who lost his entire savings in an investment scam. But Robbins soon realized that there was an upside to our collective financial downturn: Curtailed consumerism could lead us to reassess our lives and values.

The New Good Life provides a philosophical and prescriptive path from conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption. Where the old view of success was measured by cash, stocks, and various luxuries, the new view will be guided by financial restraint and a new awareness of what truly matters. A passionate manifesto on finding meaning beyond money and status, this book delivers a sound blueprint for living well on less. Discover how to
 
• create your own definition of success based on your deepest beliefs and life experience
• alleviate depression, lower blood pressure, and stay fit with inexpensive alternatives for high-cost medications
• develop a diet that promotes better health—and saves you money
• plan for—and protect yourself from—future economic catastrophes
• cut down on your housing and transportation costs
• live frugally without deprivation
• follow in the footsteps of real people who have effectively forged new financial identities 
 
The New Good Life provides much-needed hope and comfort in a time of fear and uncertainty. Here is everything you need to develop high-joy, low-cost solutions to life’s challenges. Practical and timely, this book equips you with the skills needed not only to survive but to thrive in these challenging times. 
 


From the Hardcover edition.


More review coming soon.



John Robbins' new book is utterly captivating! The New Good Life guides us to make wise choices, from the small to the big ones. We can take heart that there is an other way to live. As I read The New Good Life, I felt something growing in me steadily and surely. My capacity to live with joy was expanding, as was my ability to live with compassion for myself and for others.

This man really walks his talk. With every page we can feel his integrity on how to integrate the new good life into our lives and the pages are full of a smart, entertaining and practical wisdom in a time where we need it so much.

I highly recommend this book and learned so many good tips along the way. It's a very entertaining, touching and informative read and it couldn't have been timed more perfectly.


This book, like John Robbins' other books (which I also loved), is life-changing. This book takes his message of compassion and integral living to a whole new level. You will be glad when you buy and read this book, and your life will be enriched when you live it. It is both intimate and expansive, personal and universal. It tells the very personal story of his own financial ups and downs, and why he has made the choices he has in his own life. It is also a book written to help the readers to a deeper understanding of their own relationship to money, and to what they define as "success." It is more than a self-help book, and more than an autobiography. In a gentle, thoughtful, and compelling way, it invites us to discover what we really value in our lives, and to build a deeper connection to it by the choices we make with our money, our relationships, and our daily choices. Highly recommended.

I didn't work today, so I went to the bookstore and sat down and read this book cover to cover. I really loved it. I have read most of his other books, ('The Food Revolution, Diet for a New America, Healthy at 100, and May All Be Fed: a Diet for a New World) and this one offers a nice medley of things from his other books. There is a chapter on your money spending archetype, i.e. 'the saver' or 'the sensualist?' And many true stories and outcomes of people who have these spending personalities. Full of great advice! There are recipes for having a smaller waistline (Robbins says that some Americans have a larger waistline due to the Old Good Life-and obesity is a disease of affluence). There is a very educational chapter on the question of having children or not.
Robbins is such a compassionate person, and he has lived his life in such a humble, loving way. Helping so many people. In this book he explains that 'The Old Way' was the way of the consumer who equated material wealth as happiness and weighed his or her self-worth with how much he/she was able to consume. With these hard economic times, the definition of the 'good life' is changing, (thankfully) and he helps alleviate the pain of "not having enough" or as much as you may have had in the past, helps you take back your humanity, and makes you feel incredibly grateful for learning the new skills he has in this book to lead a more humble life. A life that is free of the old material clutter-which was so often connected to a deep confusion we had about our own worth.

I also highly recommend his other book, 'The Food Revolution'



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