Decluttering at the speed of life Winning your never-ending battle with stuff
Book - 2018
White has been on a "deslobification" journey for years. Now she shares the room-by-room decluttering strategies that transformed her home, walking you through applying the key concepts that will help you overcome the emotional challenges that make it difficult to let items go.
- Subjects
- Published
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Nashville, Tennessee :
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- xvi, 221 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780718080600
0718080602 - Main Author
- Decluttering expert?
- Building a decluttering mind-set
- Decluttering room by room
- Helping others declutter
- Special circumstances in decluttering.
A decluttering expert and creator of the Slob Comes Clean blog, identifying the mind-sets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter, provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out—for good. Original.
Review by Publisher Summary 2Shares practical, room-by-room strategies for decluttering the home at a pace that can fit in demanding schedules, including ways of overcoming the emotional obstacles to getting rid of things.
Review by Publisher Summary 3You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff—you can get rid of clutter for good! Decluttering expert Dana White identifies the emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter and provides workable solutions to break through and make progress.While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress.In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, decluttering expert and author Dana White identifies the mindsets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter. In her signature humorous approach, she provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out—for good!Not only does Dana provide strategies, but she dives deep into how to implement them, no matter the reader's clutter level or emotional resistance to decluttering. She helps identify procrasticlutter—the stuff that will get done eventually so it doesn't seem urgent—as well as how to make progress when there's no time to declutter.In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, Dana’s chapters cover:Why You Need This Book (You Know Why)Your Unique HomeDecluttering in the Midst of Real LifeChange Your Mind, Change Your HomeBreaking Through Your Decluttering DelusionsWorking It Out Room by RoomHelping Others DeclutterAs long as we're living and breathing, new clutter will appear. The good news is that by following Dana’s advice, decluttering will get easier, become more natural, and require significantly fewer hours, less emotional bandwidth, and little to no sweat to keep going.
Review by Publisher Summary 4Wall Street Journal BestsellerYou don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff'you can get rid of clutter for good!While the world seems to be in love with minimalism, many of us simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, decluttering expert Dana White identifies the mindsets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter, and then provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out'for good!But more than simply offering strategies, in her signature humorous approach Dana dives deep into how to implement them, no matter the reader's clutter level or emotional resistance to decluttering.Sections of the book include:Why You Need This Book (You Know Why)Your Unique HomeDecluttering in the Midst of Real LifeChange Your Mind, Change Your HomeBreaking Through Your Decluttering DelusionsWorking It Out Room by RoomHelping Others DeclutterReal Life Goes On (and On)As long as we're living and breathing, new clutter will appear. The good news is that decluttering can get easier, become more natural, and require significantly fewer hours as you get in the groove. Start your decluttering journey today!
Review by Publisher Summary 5You don’t have to live overwhelmed by stuff---you can get rid of clutter for good!