Streamlining Your Life: A 5-Point Plan for Uncomplicated Living

by Stephanie Culp and Stephanie Culp -

Book Overview

The fast-track of the '80s has countless people now running to catch up--and longing for a less hectic life. Organization expert Stephanie Culp comes to the rescue with quick, practical, good-humored... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898794625
• ISBN13: 9780898794625
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

When Life Seems Overwhelming...

If you are ready for a change, read Streamlining Your Life by Culp. It's not just timesaving tips and how to plan, it wants you to adjust your attitude. The chapter titled "Eliminate..." makes you think about the excesses in your life. We don't have to have everything, do everything, be everything to others. Here are the five points that is the basis for her plan: *Rethink what "having it all" really means *Prioritize and plan goals and obligations *Eliminate excess in your life *Organize what's important to you *Create systems that take care of themselves

Finally, a self-help book that is truely useful!

Stephanie Culp's "Streamlining Your Life (A 5-point plan for uncomplicated living)" is one of the most useful self-help books ever written. Much of the advice for organizing your life (which covers everything from processing junk mail to reviewing relationships) is pure common sense presented in a straightforward, no-nonsense style that is entertaining as well as enlightening.Once a person begins to follow the author's suggestions, they will wonder why they put up with their old ways of doing things for so long. This book is positively liberating!

A book which can be life changing

This book is not only packed with helpful insights on how to de-clutter and simplify your life, it can also remarkably instill the motivation and encouragement to actually put into practice the advice which the author gives. First of all, it's very easy to read and concise, cutting right to the chase (an especially important feature for those who have little time and patience in the first place!). Written in mostly outline format, Streamlining Your Life gives many dozens of specific examples of common, needless timewasters, and compelling reasons to eliminate them. For readers who may be somewhat compulsive, and set in their ways, Stephanie offers firm and serious encouragement to first recognize, and then dispense with unnecessary and wasteful tasks that are so easily done everyday without thinking. Several of the recommendations in this book may seem so obvious, they may hardly appear worth pointing out. But somehow, seeing this advice written down, and in such a no-nonsense fashion, it's like getting the permission some of us have been subconsciously waiting for to eliminate the time-wasting and money-wasting habits we have been bound to for much of our lives. One of the many helpful suggestions Stephanie gives is that whenever we are considering buying an item, we should always keep in mind that every item we bring into our home requires some amount of recurring action on it. Whether it be cleaning, maintaining, dusting, and/or repairing, and (less of the time) actually using. Even for things that we rarely will ever use, if it is in our possesion, it still will require storing, and at some point repacking, moving, and re-storing (or selling). This becomes a sobering realization, when we fess up to how pressed some of us really feel most of the time, and how little we can afford to have yet more time requirements heaped upon us. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It just may change your life for the better as it did mine.