Joyce Meyer offers 100 challenging, but practical ways to help readers identify things in their lives that are causing unneccessary stress and anxiety.
Joyce's solutions are realistic, and come from years of experience of trying to simplify her own life.
I like the way Joyce has set out this book, so you can work through each item one at a time.
A well compiled resource that you'll want to refer to again and again! ( )

By Joyce Meyer (author) and Sandra McCollum (reader)

Audio CD
Publisher: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (November 12, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1600241786
ISBN-13: 978-1600241789

I've always like Joyce Meyer because of her down to earth common sense. This audio book from her is no exception. I don't think any of the advice she gives is either earth shattering or new. She takes very down to earth advice and pairs it with a scriptural basis for it. Joyce reminds readers of God's instruction to focus on one day at a time. In the book she encourages readers to realize they don't have to do, fix, or manage everythingt themselves. You can start with just a few things and work on them and then add a few more. All of the ideas will help in some way to make your life a bit simpler - from learning to say no to learning to set boundaries. If you're someone who hasread a lot of self-help books, this might be a bit simplistic for you, but I think overall it's a helpful book. This book keeps things simple and straightforward. There's no magic cure here...just things we have heard over and over but now mixed with a little scripture and applicable stories from Joyce's own life. ( )

Some great tips and enlightening passages (for me). There were some repeats, but overall it was an uplifting read. ( )

First of all, Joyce Meyer is a Christian writer. I'm familiar with other books of hers, but I hadn't enjoyed any via audiobook. This book is read by Sandra McCollom who is Joyce's youngest daughter. She is a Christian stay at home mom to twin girls and did a wonderful job with this book. I enjoyed her passion in the reading as well as her voice and cadence.

100 Ways to Simplify Your Life begins with #1, moving all the way through #100. Each of the Ways are their own section in the audio, so it's easy to re-listen to them and refer back to them. Each of the 100 Ways begins with a quote and I found myself looking forward to them. In fact I made notes of some that were particularly interesting to me. I do not want to spoil the book for anyone, but I'd like to list a couple of the Ways.

#5--Don't worry about tomorrow
#11--Don't make mountains of of molehills
#33--Follow your heart
#42--Be thankful
#65--Give up control
#81--Bridle your tongue
#97--Be faithful
Many, if not all of these, contain biblical references, further backing up her view of the ways to simplify your life, by God's word. It is true that God wants us to lead a simple life and cast our troubles to him. I believe that was the message I was to take from this book since it's the one I noticed being repeated throughout the many Ways.

I loved this book. I was listening to this at the same time that I read No Experts Needed: The Meaning of Life According to You by Louise Lewis. I do not believe that these were sent to me at the same time was an accident. It was meant for me to read them. It is my goal, challenge, mission and prayer to begin living a better life. I really have this book to thank. ( )

I was impressed with Joyce Meyer's list, and as much as I'd love to do them all right away (or at least most of them), some of them require me to really think and re-program my thought process. Some of my more favored items from the list are: #1 Do One Thing at a Time, #6 Let Go of What Lies Behind You, #7 Learn How to Say No, #18 Establish Boundaries, #69 Be Realistic in Your Expectations, #87 Beware of Distractions, etc. I could go on and on. Many of the items on the list apply to me in one way or another.

Each section is only a few pages long, and it contains an inspirational saying, and a passage from the Bible. Joyce also uses some examples from life to help the reader understand how to apply the item to their own life.

This was a nice and helpful book that will need to remain on my nightstand for quite a while as I try to work through some of the items on the list that are more meaningful to me at this time.

These are not outlandish ideas, but rather things that occur regularly in life that when added together or tackled separately (you really don't need to tackle all 100 items at once! I'm going to start with two or three and do them well prior to adding more.) will help to create a simpler life. I would encourage you to pick up this book and read through it yourself. ( )