For the last month, I’ve rejected every self help book I started because the process in Your Best Year Yet by Jinny S. Ditzler has consumed every molecule I want to devote to self improvement right now.

But The Not So Big Life is different from the rest in a number of ways:

• I’ve been a huge fan of Sarah Susanka even before she started publishing books—ever since I realized that three of the houses in my dream house file were her design.
• I’m a huge fan of her other books, The Not So Big House series.
• I’m enjoying the metaphor that remodeling your life is much like remodeling your house—especially given how home-based many of my current projects are.
• This looks like a process that will work underneath the Your Best Year Yet process, providing emotional and spiritual underpinnings to the things that I get done.

So, I’m going to commit to working through this book, complete with special notebook and exercises.