Unclutter Your Life: Transforming Your Physical, Mental and Emotional Space

by Katherine Gibson

Book Overview

Are you ready to move into a bright clutter-free future? From noise pollution to financial messes and stressful relationships, clutter affects ALL aspects of our lives--not just our physical spaces. If you ve tried feng-shui and other organizing techniques and you still can't find clarity in your life, this down-to-earth guide will show you how to evict the clutter culprits and cultivate peace of mind in your home and soul.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582701156
• ISBN13: 9781582701158
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Offers the best possible advice to reasonably become better

Unclutter Your Life: Transforming Your Physical, Mental, And Emotional Space is an absolute must-read self-help book for the ever-looming, ever-confusing, and ever-demanding twenty-first century. It directly addresses how to take control of one's space, possions, priorities, relationships, and free time in order secure that which is most precious - the opportunity to focus on achieving one's goals and dreams. From learning to distinguish true friendships from toxic or parasitic relationships and disentangling oneself from the latter, to limiting the physical clutter of needless consumerism and consumption of knickknacks, to setting aside time for oneself despite the ever-present encroach of technology that blurs the distinction between work and home, and much more, Unclutter Your Life offers the best possible advice to reasonably become better organized and accomplish more with less mess.

"I can see clearly now"

While the author is not a therapist, she has much to teach the mental health community in this ground breaking work.It's been all too easy to clutter my life with possessions, projects, papers, and people. Until I read Unclutter Your Life, I felt overwhelmed by the amount of space ...physically and emotionally...that I was "renting" to things that I don't need in my life. What's really amazed me is that I've put many of Gibson's "clutter buster" suggestions to the test, and they work! I can see clearly now.

"I can see clearly now"

While the author is not a therapist, she has much to teach the mental health community in this ground breaking work.It's been all too easy to clutter my life with possessions, projects, papers, and people. Until I read Unclutter Your Life, I felt overwhelmed by the amount of space ...physically and emotionally...that I was "renting" to things that I don't need in my life. What's really amazed me is that I've put many of Gibson's "clutter buster" suggestions to the test, and they work! I can see clearly now.

DROWNING IN CLUTTER

THE PREVIOUS REVIEWER SAID IT ALL. THIS IS A FANTASTIC BOOK FORTHOSE LIKE MYSELF WHO CAN NEVER BRING THEMSELVES TO THROW ANYTHING AWAY 'JUST IN CASE I MIGHT NEED IT'. I USED TO BLAMEMY PARENTS AND USED THE EXCUSE THEY LIVED THROUGH THE DEPRESSION AND IT HAD RUBBED OFF ON ME. AFTER READING MS GIBSON'S BOOK IKNOW THAT IS JUST AN EXCUSE. GETTING RID OF MY CLUTTER WAS BOTH FREEING AND EXCITING. TRY IT YOU WILL LOVE IT!

Easy, practical advice

Sitting at my desk, trying not to focus on the piles of scattered papers, post it notes, and sundry items that have no business being in my work environment, I know I need help.Enter Katherine Gibson's book "Unclutter Your Life". "Unclutter Your Life" has so many wonderful recommendations on organization, and they are all - one step at a time - suggestions that I really believe I can put into practice.Katherine offers a chatty, friendly way of advising how you can make transformations not only with the physical clutter, but getting rid of the mental clutter that hogtie our emotional space.Obviously the practical guidelines are important, but I liked the way Catherine explained the mindset of emotional dilemmas that lead us into the "clutter quagmires" we entrap our lives in, and the guilt sometimes associated with trying to free ourselves.Just like any problem, understanding the source, goes a long way in learning how to deal with the difficulty. This was a very enjoyable read, but also a practical resource guide you will want to reference many times over.Review as written in the "Thursday File"