Summary of Simplify

Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul, written by Bill Hybels, is a book that promotes simplicity and balance in life, and offers a plan for readers to achieve it. Hybels encourages readers to break down their lives into four categories: spiritual, physical, relational, and vocational. Throughout the book, Hybels offers tools to de-clutter his or her life from inner and outer chaos in order to bring around true balance. He emphasizes that “life is too short to flounder in clutter” and offers actionable advice for readers to make meaningful changes. It is ultimately Hybels’s belief that an individual’s “soul is losing strength to confusion and chaos” due to being surrounded in and by too much stuff, and that simplifying one’s life can help readers reconnect with their core self.