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Making Peace with the Things in Your Life: Why Your Papers, Books, Clothes, and Other Possessions Keep Overwhelming You and What to Do About It

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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

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Do you spend much of your time struggling against the growing ranks of papers, books, clothes, housewares, mementos, and other possessions that seem to multiply when you're not looking? Do these inanimate objects, the hallmarks of busy modern life, conspire to fill up every inch of your space, no matter how hard you try to get rid of some of them and organize the rest? Do you feel frustrated, thwarted, and powerless in the face of this ever-renewing mountain of stuff? Help is on the way. Cindy Glovinsky, practicing psychotherapist and personal organizer, is uniquely qualified to explain this nagging, even debilitating problem -- and to provide solutions that really work. Writing in a supportive, nonjudmental tone, Glovinsky uses humorous examples, questionnaires, and exercises to shed light on the real reasons why we feel so overwhelmed by papers and possessions and offers individualized suggestions tailored to specific organizing problems. Whether you're drowning in clutter or just looking for a new way to deal with the perennial challenge of organizing and managing material things, this fresh and reassuring approach is sure to help. AUTHORBIO: CINDY GLOVINSKY, M.S.W., A.C.S.W., is a licensed psychotherapist and personal organizer. The program director of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization, she has presented at the National Association of Professional Organizers conference. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9780312284886
ISBN: 0312284888
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2002-05-03
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Changed my life -
Over a year ago I realized that I had a problem with clutter, and just maybe, I could do something about it. I read books, I embarked on ambitious de-cluttering routines, I attacked the problem with enthusiasm. But somewhere along the way, I would lose the motivation and sink back into clutter. Only to start over with renewed determination and end up in the same cycle. Then I found this book, and it changed everything. I am happy to report that I have finished getting rid of my clutter and now am able to maintain my possessions much better. And I now understand myself so much better, and have confidence that I will keep peace with my things for a long time to come. I would also recommend the book Clutter's Last Stand by Don Aslett if you need a little kick-start in the motivation department.

Interesting for Sure -
Lets you know that your clutter problems are in your head and that you need to get your mind right to live a peaceful and happy life without drowning in crap.
Here are a few other ideas I hope you find helpful since I am a de cluttering junkie.
First I have been working diligently on de cluttering my personal and business life. I have read so many simplifying and de-cluttering and efficiency books I almost have a clutter problem with all the books on the subject. (Cured that recently too with the Kindle 2.)
I run three business. One brick and morter and two online. I was getting over four hundred emails a day and was drowning in mail and spam. So I utilized ideas / suggestions from several sources to cure my problems. From the Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss we started using detailed faq's lists on our websites and an auto-responder that answered many questions so we would no longer have to reply to as many emails. For the ones we do answer the questions are predictable and we saved the answers as email drafts that way we just cut and paste and all done.
For the Spam we ran our eight email accounts into one google mail as they have the best spam filters and you can reply from the email address to which the mail was sent so they dont know that anything is happening. And suggestions from the life hacker Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better by Gina Tripani has some interesting ideas for sure.
Keeping your inbox empty we use suggestions from Stress Less and Zen to Done by Leo Babauta and you would not believe how much better you feel when things are under control. But it is you who must Work the system or you will be overwhelmed again.
A much more detailed program is used in Getting Things Done David Allen book, but the above is kind of the simplified version that I currently prefer.
And for just getting rid of all the clutter in your life any of the books from Peter Walsh, How to Organize (Just About) Everything, and Enough Already, are great even though they tend to recover some of the material from his other books somewhat but thats not a big deal since the info is worth repeating. Another good author but she covers pretty much the same thing is Julie Morgenstern. The books by Koch on the 80/20 principle are also worth looking into. While there are tons more books out there and I seem to have most of them, these are the best to get things under control and to get you the time to do the things that matter to you.

Best book on topic -
I've read a few books on clutter and this is the best. The author does a wonderful insightful job of getting at the issues behind clutter. She understands brain and body physiology and incorperates that information to help the reader understand why clutter happens. The stance is supportive, empathic, realistic and encouraging.

Effective -
This book is the only book I've read that has had a permanent effect on decluttering for me. While it is a little tedious to get through, I discovered that upon finishing it, I was actually changing my habits. I had been in the midst of a house-wide declutter project, but it would certainly have crept back to the normal messy state of things if I hadn't changed my habits. It changed the little day to day ways I manage my things and changed my way of thinking. It was a little short on specific strategies, and was quite deficient on managing papers, reading materials and documents (was more focused on getting rid of/managing things), but I am still giving it 5 stars since it has had such a positive impact in my life.

Making Peace with the Things in Your Life -
I did not read the book entirely. From my brief scanning the book seems to be very informative and instructional-- a good guide.

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