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Less on Purpose: Stop Living on Autopilot, Beat Decision Fatigue, and Design the Life You Actually Want
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Series: Bulletproof Mindset Mastery, Book 8
ISBN13: 9781998520909
Publisher: Scott Allan Publishing, LLC
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
You're not lazy. You're not undisciplined. You're making 35,000 decisions a day - and most of them are running on autopilot.
Every morning, you wake up with the best intentions. And every evening you look back at a day that felt full but produced almost nothing that actually mattered. The important work got pushed to the margins again. The creative project is still waiting. The life you've been meaning to build is still pending.
The problem isn't motivation. It isn't willpower. It isn't even time. It's the invisible layer of default decisions running your days without your knowledge or consent - the unconscious habits, inherited behaviors, and unconsidered commitments that quietly consume your best hours before you've made a single deliberate choice.
Less on Purpose gives you a four-stage framework for making that invisible layer visible - and redesigning it.
The LESS Framework walks you through exactly how to:
- Locate where your attention and decisions are actually going (not where you think they are)
- Eliminate the digital subscriptions, recurring meetings, and verbal commitments you never consciously chose
- Systemize your days so the right behavior becomes automatic - without relying on motivation
- Sustain the simplicity you've built through a three-layer review system that catches drift before it becomes the new default
This book is not about doing less of everything. It is about doing less of the wrong things - so there is finally enough of you left for the things that matter.
Based on documented research from UC Irvine, Economist Impact, Stanford, and Duke University - and drawn from the author's own experience building a 50-book publishing catalog while managing an adult ADHD diagnosis - Less on Purpose gives you the practical tools to stop living reactively and start living by design.
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