Making Peace with Your Possessions: Organizing Papers, Books, Clothes & More to Reduce Overwhelm - Perfect for Home Decluttering & Stress Relief

Are you the type of person who wants someone to tell them how to organize, what's the best method for storing this, that, or the other thing, and what you should get rid of? Are you someone who wants someone else to put an organizational system in place for you so you don't have to think about it? If so, grab another book. There's plenty of them out there, and I'm sure you'll find one with an approach and a system you can live with.But I'm the kind of person who has Things. I'm the kind of person who is driven up the wall by professional organizers whose mantra is "get rid of it - decluttering is key to successful organization!" I'm the kind of person who, by and large, likes my Things but sometimes feels overwhelmed. I'm the kind of person who needs a certain amount of chaos to spark my creativity. I'm the kind of person with ADD who will focus on what I'm doing wrong, who spends a lot of mental energy thinking about what I *should* do, who thinks I have to do it all, and do it all at once. In short, I'm the kind of person this book was written for.I want to understand how I differentiate between Things and things, why I acquire more Things, and how I let Things pile up. I want to understand how to own my Things instead of having them own me or feel overwhelmed by them. Books that tell me I'll never be successfully organized unless I get rid of my Things don't work for me. If all I need to do is get rid of my things so that there is very little to organize, why do I need an organizer? And where is the organizer going to be when, a week after I've "decluttered" and gotten rid of my Things, I'm sitting there making plans to get more Things or crying because some Things are gone and I'm sorry I let them go? Unless I understand my relationship with Things, I will never be successful at being organized, and I'll never find a system that works for me. I know, because I've tried numerous times to be "more organized." I read the books, I try this system or that, and I do get more organized -- for about a month or 2 or 3. And then it all falls apart, and I'm tired of that.Glovinsky's book gives the structure to develop this understanding so that I can put a good system together once and for all. The exercises in this book have given me a lot of insight, and Glovinsky's non-judgmental approach has increased my willpower to do what I need to do with that insight. I still have a ways to go, but I'm well on my way to cutting my Thing habits and creating to an organizational that will work for me not only for the next 2-3 months, but for a very long time. Am also planning on getting the companion book to this one to make things even easier. Thanks, Ms. Glovinsy, and my mother thanks you, too!