 [Larger view] | 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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 Praise from a Professional Organizer | |
| As a professional organizer, I have shelves full of organizing books, but Glovinsky's is the first to consider the problem of disorganization from a psychological perspective. Her unique vantage point as a therapist who is also an organizer provides valuable insights for other organizers, yet is presented in a way that is accessible to anyone wishing to get a grip on clutter. Some people have success molding their lives around a generic how-to system, but many need to know why they are the way they are before they can embrace the change required to get organized. If you need a deeper explanation combined with an empathetic, humorous approach to clearing out your clutter, or if you are an organizer looking for new ways to help clients understand disorganization, I strongly recommend Glovinsky's book. | |
| thoughtful, helpful, and persuasive | |
| I'm not surprised this book's receiving consistently high ratings from its readers. It's the most useful book to address the problem of clutter I've read, apart from Julie Morgenstern's Organizing From the Inside Out. What I particularly like is its pace -- Glovinsky doesn't skip through issues, but rather she teases out the implications of our need for posessions in an intelligent prose that reads much more like a series of essays than a "how to." I'm impressed. | |
 Okay, but then what? | |
| This book is about the psychology of things - how and why we acquire then, how and why we organize them - or not, and how and why we do or do not discard things. The author suggests an approach to acquisition, organization and de-acquisition. Fine. I figured a few things out about my psychology. Get fewer things. Throw more things away. But - the middle step - the organization - is what I'm clueless about. This book offers few if any concrete hints for organization. Evidently the psychological insight alone is supposed to get you through. Uh, no. I wish I could return this book. I read it in one night and now it's just another thing to organize. |
