Editorial Review:
Organizing as a spiritual art? Yes. After all, being organized is a spiritual process. Chaos is conquered as much by awareness, gratitude, grounding, and breath as by a well-labeled filing system. Simplicity and order are valid -- even crucial -- choices. And they are found within. Organizing can also be creative and fun. Peppered with poetry, snippets of song lyrics, inspirational quotes, and wisdom from the ages, The Spiritual Art of Being Organized is a unique and enjoyable book on organizing. While most organizing authors tell you how to organize your kitchen or your files, Claire teaches you the 12 Basic Principles -- practical and spiritual -- that embody every organizing tip you've ever heard. By learning the "why" instead of just the "how," you can easily organize anything, anytime, anywhere.
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Stress Free Organizing 2008-11-27
This is the book for anybody, who needs a way to get it together with ease. Claire defines the need and purpose of organizing your life without stressing. Great job.
This is a great little book. 2008-03-14
I loved this book. Claire doesn't come in like a bulldozer and demand that you throw away everything you haven't touched in 6 months. She is gentle, encouraging the reader to look at the reasons for their clutter or disorganization vs. demanding a completely clutter-free outcome. She touches on time management, gratitude, decision making, and asking for help. After reading this book I felt a sense of clarity and a purpose when it comes to dealing with my "stuff," my time management, and my decision making process.
The Spiritual Art of Being Organized 2007-07-17
The Spiritual Art of Being Organized examines the problems and underlying psychological issues surrounding office and home clutter. The author suggests that often we put off putting items away in their rightful place thinking that we simply don't have time. We think, I will get to it later, right now the dog needs water, supper needs to be made, or I'm late for work. However, the author points out that one stray bill or one dirty cup quickly evolves into more and more clutter. Soon, even the mere thought of cleaning up this massive mess is too overwhelming and potentially time consuming to even consider dealing with the resulting clutter. With this book, the author aims to illustrate how to create and apply practical, useful storage systems while making use of realistic clean as you go methods that reduce impending clutter while not adding significant time to already busy schedules. The author also guides the reader through the cleaning and organizing of current clutter in short rational blocks of time to reduce the overwhelming nature of this task.
The Spiritual Art of Being Organized is a great organizing resource that teaches the reader to think about clutter in a different way. We often think about cleaning as time consuming. However, with proper forethought and planning, cleaning can actually make our lives easier and give us more time for other activities. This book will be useful to even the most chronic disorganized chaotic individual.
A lovely book 2007-06-07
that along with two others, Choosing Simplicity and How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free, I reread yearly for perspective and motivation. The Spiritual Art of Being Organized by Claire Josefine is the one that is read first. Without organization, it is pretty hard to simplify or to be happy, wild and free. With the author's gentle guidance, you will find her 12 organizational steps, i.e., Think!, K.I.S.S., Create and Use, Habits and Schedules, Be Realistic, etc., will help you to create the best system for you. Each of the author's 12 basic principles has its own chapter which explains the reasoning for the step, ways of integrating it into your lifestyle, and a question/answer conclusion providing additional clarifications as to how it works. Appropriate quotes from others are included at the beginning, and sometimes within, each chapter. You can pick and choose the principles that are best for you at the moment in time when you are reading the book, or you can choose to take advantage of all 12 at the same time. The 12 principles are followed by a chapter on clearing clutter, something those of us with organizational skills that are not as finely tuned as we wish they were can definitely use to our advantage.
This little book will help you to enjoy a simpler, better-organized life. Recommended.
Much more than a material guide... 2006-03-06
This book was very helpful to me because rather than addressing merely the do's and don'ts of household organizing, it deals with the underlying attitudes that cause chaos in the first place. Have you ever seen the supposedly humourous placard hung in a disaster of a home, declaring that "A clean house is the sign of a sick mind?" Claire Josefine's book shows how the opposite is true, without making any such judgments about the psychology of slobs, of course. She only points out that if we are not fearful of letting go, or afraid of having it all together and getting on with our lives, we can eliminate clutter and disabling excuses based on confusion. A tidy home, or desk, or time schedule, is actually the sign of a healthy mind.
Claire's book doesn't dwell exclusively on these spiritual or psychological factors, however; she also gives us the tools to pare down, simplify, order, and prioritize effectively. The book is about half of each: self-help attitudinal assistance, and hands-on training for practical application.
All in all, an extremely helpful book. It would make a lovely gift for somebody who seems overwhelmed by the logistics of life. And the beautiful cover makes the volume itself welcome on any coffee table--part of your newly appealing decor!
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