Downsize to upgrade your whole existence. YOU can live the highlife on a budget. Get the lowdown!
We’ve all met someone who’s accumulated great wealth but utterly failed to find joy. We all have friends that overbuy, overeat, and overthink. It’s easy to note the excess in other people’s lives... but putting ourselves under the microscope? That’s a whole other matter.
Well, don’t wait another day. It’s time to examine your own life with the same scrutiny applied to others’. Upon reflection, you may discover clutter pervading every nook—and nothing bodes worse for happiness than stultifying messes.
In Vol. IV of the Declutter Workbook Series, the big guns are brought out... and promptly put away. Minimalism is truly the key to getting more from every day. Don’t shroud your soul in material trappings. Live with deep contentment.
Inside you’ll uncover a treasure trove of poignant AND MORE!
Accumulations hold us back from grasping greater inner-bliss. Clear the clutter, and what remains is YOU... in perfect form.
Luigi Harbin is a lecturer who has a decade of experience working in the Quality Management Industry. He currently lives in Washington ... and is the successful author of the Declutter Workbook series.
When he isn't busy putting together presentation slides for classes of 40, he enjoys a spot of tidying up and organizing. It is this precise ritual that allows him to gather his thoughts freely and put some order into the chaos that is life.
Having read a fair number of books about minimalism, I found this one to be very strangely written and organized. There are ten chapters to this book, They're not all long as the book is relatively short. Yet some chapters do not feel like the same person wrote them. The tone and even the spelling and word choice are different. It's almost as if the author cobbled it together from a variety of sources, adding a little of a personal touch here and there but not removing all vestiges of the other people from whom this book was taken. One thing that certainly suggested that to me was in the chapter about doing minimalism and decluttering with children around, Chapter 4, right at the beginning, the author asked the question, “What is minimalism” ... despite the fact that three previous chapters had been focusing on minimalism! Despite the fact that the book is called the Declutter Workbook, not much guidance was given on how to actually approach the decluttering process. I think a few paragraphs were given early on, but that was basically it. Other chapters in the book were ones I had never seen in other books on minimalism/decluttering, and for good reason: they don't actually relate much to the topic at hand. Later chapters included a discussion of minimalism as it relates to entrepreneurship, exercise, and diet. I found some center chapters bizarre in topic as well, and somewhat repetitive, because I don't necessarily associate minimalism with some concepts that the author does, like penny-pinching or having to live a monastic lifestyle. All in all, this was a very disappointing book, and you can find much better books out there on minimalism and decluttering.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
—>>> There are a number of good take-away bits of instruction which I will certainly incorporate into my plans going forward to declutter and further simplify our home by making mindful choices in the future. We endeavor to construct the organized haven we wish it to be!