There’s nothing like finding satisfaction in life, especially the satisfaction of enough.  Just try to grasp one without the other!  Our culture is great at making both seem out of reach, where neither hares nor tortoises quite finish the race no matter how hard they try.  But how many people really want to be suspended in comical animation indefinitely?  Those days are over and a movement toward satisfaction in America has begun.

Get Satisfied: How Twenty People Like You Found the Satisfaction of Enough is brimming with the compelling personal stories of eleven women and nine men across the country in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s.  They are everyday people who prove that each path to The Satisfaction of Enough is unique and that everyone has a different take on what’s right at any particular time.  Whether they’ve chosen to be satisfied with a little or a lot, they are all wealthy in their contentment.

Get Satisfied is a project of Simple Living America, the first national, nonprofit membership organization for the general public centered on simplicity.  What is simple living?  It means many things to many people, but we are broadly defining it in lay terms as. . . The Satisfaction of Enough!  Simple Living America is part of the CRESP Center for Transformative Action at Cornell University and is partnered with the Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska national public television series.

We put out a call for mainstream submissions to the book in January 2007, figuring that there must be at least a few people who have found the satisfaction of enough in our culture and who would like to share their stories.  We were flattened straightaway by the avalanche.  After grinning a lot, a bowled-over committee made the fascinating selections.  Our quarterly membership newsletter is publishing some of the other excellent submissions in its “Outside the Covers” section.  Of course, posts to this site expand the offerings even further.

“GET SATISFIED heralds a satisfaction movement in this country, and not a moment too soon. Judging from the flood of public responses to Simple Living America’s call for satisfying stories, people want fulfillment and sufficiency. What a relief for our maxed-out lives and for our maxed-out planet! Everybody finds the satisfaction of enough in different ways and this book shines a light forward on many of them. I’m glad I’m satisfied. You will be too.” —Ed Begley, Jr.