• Choosing the Simply Luxurious Life

  • A Modern Woman's Guide
  • By: Shannon Ables
  • Narrated by: Shannon Ables
  • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (110 ratings)

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Choosing the Simply Luxurious Life

By: Shannon Ables
Narrated by: Shannon Ables
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Publisher's summary

How can you have a rich and fulfilling life? The choices you make, not your income or financial assets, are the most powerful determining factor for your quality of life.

Women have never had so many options. Yet we often experience a kind of paralysis, an unconscious willingness to follow societal dictates rather than become the CEOs of our own lives. When we mindlessly follow the dots, we smother our innate gifts and miss opportunities to fulfill our true potential.

There is another way - choosing to live a simply luxurious life. This book will show you how to invest your time and what to eliminate from your life. It will enable you to:

  • Design a life of purpose that is aligned with your passions and talents
  • Become financially independent
  • Enjoy cultivating a healthy mind and body
  • Build and maintain strong, loving relationships
  • Create a chic, timeless signature style
  • Design a comfortable home that is a true sanctuary
  • Travel in comfort and style
  • Discover simple pleasures that make each day something to look forward to

You can curate the life of your dreams by being purposeful and selective, no matter where you live, your income, or your relationship status. Luxury and true fulfillment are ours for the having if we know where to look and how to make the right choices.

©2014 Shannon Ables (P)2016 Shannon Ables

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Better for Young, Single Girls

I love the concept of this book - choosing quality over quantity and embracing small luxuries. However, the ideas presented are really only applicable for women who do not have families. I think this would be a great guidebook for young, single, financially secure women who can devote most of their attention to themselves, but for a busy mom with a lot of responsibilities, many of her suggestions were laughably unrealistic. Maybe I’m just bitter that I can’t spend all my time, money, and energy on myself, but I don’t feel like the ideas in this book are doable for or relevant to most women.

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A nice reminder of how to enjoy everyday life!

I really enjoyed this book! It is a nice reminder to really savor and truly enjoy everyday life! Shannon gives practical tips on how to incorporate this mindset into your everyday life. The book could get a bit repetitive at times but the material was good. Overall it’s a good read!

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a long cliche

I like the podcast. The author seems sincere. The book is rambling and she makes it sound like one run-on sentence.

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It's ok

felt more like a self congratulatory story than a useful how to. No whimsy or satire, very dry. performed well, but fairly dramatic for the content.

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struggled to finish

I finally finished it, the mundane tone she had made it hard to keep listening.

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So much content presented as lists - more suitable for a blog than a book

The concept and the cover art drew me in, but the execution fell flat. The organization was odd. Too much content was presented as lists and listening to the author read her lists grew tiresome. I was amused by the author giving travel advice for getting around Paris like a pro when from what I could glean she had made three recent trips to Paris. If I was the editor I would have nixed the travel advice and left that to the travel writers and encouraged more narrative writing on the underlying concept of living a SLL.. I’m trying to imagine who the audience of this book is - perhaps women in their late 20s or early 30s,, women who are moving away from their Zara wardrobes and setting up homes and routines, women who need to find focus and perhaps instruction (if they lacked that growing up). My favorite pages came early in the book when the author explored discovering your life’s purpose through an interview with yourself. As for the performance, the author has a pleasant reading voice, but she does not pause at natural section breaks and as another reader remarked in her review, it feels like one long run-on sentence.

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Tone Deaf and Privileged

I tried to get through this book as it's been recommended over and over, but the author is incredibly tone deaf to the daily lives of any group of people that isn't as privileged as they are. If you are a part of any marginalized community, you will not find value from this book. I was especially frustrated by the finance section, which assumes that all of our financial woes are self imposed. Gotta love the victim blaming and the assumption that we're all just out buying designer jeans that we can't afford. That was the final straw for me, I'll be trading for my credit back.

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Love the podcast

I really enjoy the podcast from this author and have listened to several of them multiple times so I thought to try the book. It is good overall but the organization is confusing sometimes. I liked it overall but I think reading a physical copy would be better.

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Waiting for a refund

The story teller was tiresome and the whole book is not acceptable for women with children. This book is more for young and restless girls

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Overall message great

Overall her book and message are great. Her pronunciation of some words is a a little interesting. And sometimes pauses, and lack thereof, is off.

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