Life as a series of distractions is seldom passionate and may even feel purposeless.

But eliminating all the background noise, in search of that one intelligent passion that imparts to life a meaningful goal, can be difficult. For those in search of their calling, 50 Things Your Life Doesn’t Need offers simple ways to fine-tune the frequency so that finding your passion becomes feasible. What are some things that you could eliminate to make your passionate contribution to the world a realizable goal? How about

• long commutes to and from the workplace
• storage units for all that extra stuff
• small dreams and bucket lists
• a tyranny of T-shirts
• unbatched errands and bad wine
• this book

That’s right, this book. But you will have to read it to find out why!