Keep It Simple Make It Real

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How to create a home that is beautiful, comfortable, and welcoming, yet meets the many demands of busy day-to-day life. In Keep It Simple, Atlanta Bartlett and Dave Coote present a practical and inspirational guide to create a happy and relaxed home that works perfectly for everyone who lives in it. They start at the beginning, explaining the key elements at the heart of their unique decorating philosophy, The Simple Mindset, which appreciates good, honest design, values quality not quantity, and advocates rediscovering the simple pleasures in life. In Chapter 2: Making it Happen, Atlanta and Dave focus on design essentials such as working with existing architecture and choosing color, furniture, fabrics, accessories and decorative details. Finally, in Living the Dream, they take a tour through every room in the home, from attic to cellar, revealing how effortless and enjoyable it can be to put together rooms that are practical yet personal and beautiful, and to create a home that's easy to live in and easy on the eye.

Has your personal finance plan become so complex, you can't even understand it? Who wouldn't be confused today? Investment pitchmen, mega-insurance companies, and even state and federal governments are vying for our money, making it more difficult than ever to manage it how we want. But simplifying your plan and reclaiming what's yours is easier than you think. In Keep It Simple, Make It Big, award-winning financial planner, Michael Lynch, uses his nearly twenty years of practical experience to help you create, protect, and enjoy financial success. You'll learn how to recognize and overcome common financial mistakes, from paying too much in taxes and falling victim to inflation, to blowing your investments and failing to protect what you cannot afford to lose. Michael's simple systems put you in the driver's seat to enjoy a lifetime of tax-efficient income, protect your family, and retire on your own terms. Ultimately, this book will help you cut through the BS and put you back in charge.

A Forbes Best Business Book of 2016 Have you ever said to yourself, "This feels far more complicated than it needs to be?" Cluttered processes are the enemies of control in your life and your business. Using simplification and focus as pillars, Keep It Simple teaches you how to take charge of your own goals and happiness. By eliminating distractions and focusing on the task at hand, you can streamline your processes and get results. With over 30 years of experience, Joe Calloway is an expert in simplification. If you want to create positive growth and change within your work, home, and overall routine, remove the obstacles that you have created for yourself. A flamethrower is not as effective at getting through a wall as a blow torch. The ability to focus your mind and actions allows for the most impactful change.

Why is this repertoire called simple? For the simple reason that the variations are straightforward, easy to remember and require little or no maintenance. International Master Christof Sielecki has created a reliable set of lines for chess players of almost all levels. The major objective is to dominate Black in the opening, by simple means. You don’t need to sacrifice anything or memorize long tactical lines. Unless Black plays something stupid, when tactics are the simplest punishment. Sielecki developed this repertoire working with students who were looking for something that was easy to understand and to learn. Most of the lines he selected are occasionally played by grandmasters, but on the whole they lie outside the mainstream of opening theory. That means that there is hardly any need to monitor theoretical developments. Sielecki always clearly explains the plans and counterplans and keeps you focussed on what the position requires. Ambitious players rated 1500 or higher will get great value out of studying this extremely accessible book.

After the success of his award-winning book Keep it Simple 1.e4 International Master Christof Sielecki is back. His new repertoire based on 1.d4 has a similar profile: variations that are straightforward and easy to remember, and require little or no maintenance. Sielecki has created a reliable set of opening lines for chess players of almost all levels. The major objective is to dominate Black from the opening, by simple means. You don’t need to sacrifice anything or memorize long tactical lines. His main concept is for White to play 1.d4, 2.Nf3, 3.g3, 4.Bg2, 5.0-0 and in most cases 6.c4. Sielecki developed this repertoire while working with students who were looking for something that was easy to understand and easy to learn. This new 1.d4 repertoire may be even easier to master than his 1.e4 recommendations, because it is such a coherent system. Sielecki always clearly explains the plans and counterplans and keeps you focussed on what the position requires. Ambitious players rated 1500 or higher will get great value out of studying this extremely accessible book.