Organizing and Simplicity

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson

See my blog post review on this book here.

From Amazon: “A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.

In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning “death” and städningmeaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming.

Margareta suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you’d ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children’s art projects). Digging into her late husband’s tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and also become more comfortable with the idea of letting go.”

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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

See my blog post on this book here.

Both this book and Kondo’s follow-up book Spark Joy are landmark books in the organizing profession. Although Kondo’s style varies significantly from most professional organizers, there is no doubt that her books and her methods have gained a wide following. I agree with her principles and feel that she has brought much needed attention to the industry.

From Amazon: “This #1 New York Times best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.

Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?

Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you’ll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo’s clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list). 

With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house “spark joy” (and which don’t), this international bestseller featuring Tokyo’s newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home—and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.”

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Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To by Melanie Cullen

My husband Eric and I have completed this workbook. It gives us so much peace to know that if something were to happen to us, all of our records are organized. This workbook covers everything! I highly recommend it for everyone so that if something happens to any of us, our spouse and family have everything they need. 

From Amazon: “Get your life organized with the best workbook available!

Paperwork and personal information isn't always easy to find, and organizing your records can seem like an intimidating task. But, whether you need to organize records for yourself, your family or your executor, Get It Together will show you how to keep track of:

• instructions for survivors

• secured places and passwords

• final arrangements

• estate planning documents

• employment records

• insurance policies

• tax records

• retirement accounts

• government benefits, and

• real estate records.”

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Don't Toss My Memories in the Trash by Vickie Dellaquila

This is an excellent book by a fellow NAPO member (National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals). She recounts experiences with many of her senior clients over the years. Some have made good decisions with their possessions and others haven’t. There is much to learn in their stories. 

From Amazon: “Vickie Dellaquila draws on her experience as a professional organizer and senior move manager to share her most valuable tips on downsizing and moving. Here is a book that will help you downsize, organize, and move in an organized, efficient, and caring manner. With her background in healthcare and social services, Vickie brings expertise and warmth to helping seniors face the physical and emotional aspects of moving to a new home. Whether you are a senior embarking on this new chapter of your life or are helping family members or friends downsize and move, this book is your roadmap.

The first part of this book will guide you through the decision to downsize. Relatable anecdotes from Vickie s clients help you confront difficult questions like, What happens if I fall? or How will it feel to leave my house? Vickie touches on all aspects of the downsizing conversation, including topics such as moving versus aging in place, different types of retirement living, and health and financial considerations.

If you decide to move forward, parts two and three of the book will guide you through the downsizing and moving process. Vickie shares strategies for paring down possessions to fit a new space and/or lifestyle, advice for navigating the emotional challenges and changed familial relationships, and tips for when to call in a professional. She tackles subjects: When should I start? How do you sell antiques? What should I donate versus throw away?

When it comes to moving, Vickie will walk you through every step of your move from interviewing movers to tackling the logistics of your moving day. She even covers steps you can take to keep clutter from accumulating in your life again. This second edition includes updated information on organizing with new technology and updated resources for professional help, charities, and more.”

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Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern

This is one of the landmark books in the organizing industry, a true classic. Here is a link to my review of this book. 

From Amazon: “A completely revised and expanded edition of the New York Times bestselling guide to putting things in order.

Getting organized is a skill that anyone can learn, and there's no better teacher than America's organizing queen, Julie Morgenstern, as hundreds of thousands of readers have learned. Drawing on her years of experience as a professional organizer, Morgenstern outlines a simple organizing plan that starts with understanding your individual goals, natural habits, and psychological needs, so that you can work with your priorities and personality rather than against them. The basic steps-Analyze, Strategize, Attack-can be applied to any space or situation. 

In this thoroughly revised edition, Morgenstern has incorporated new information in response to feedback from her clients and audiences. These changes include

- new chapters on living or working with someone who is disorganized

- new chapters on organizing photographs, handbags, briefcases, and travel bags

- an expanded program for organizing your kitchen

- a new guide to getting started

- a fully updated resource guide”

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How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind by Dana K. White

I love Dana K. White because she is down to earth, funny, and not afraid to expose her mess so that people can learn from her mistakes. Many of my clients can really relate to her (and so can I in some areas!) 

From Amazon: “Bring your home out of the mess it’s in and learn how to keep it under control.

‘The dirty little secret about most organizing advice is that it’s written by organized people,’ says blogger, speaker, and decluttering expert Dana K. White. ‘But that’s not how my brain works. I’m lost on page three.’ Dana blogs at A Slob Comes Clean, chronicling her successes and failures with her self-described ‘deslobification process.’ In the beginning she used the name ‘Nony’ (short for aNONYmous), because she was sharing her deep, dark, slob secret. Now she has truly come clean—with not only her real name but the strategies she has developed, tested, and proved in her own home. She has learned what it takes to bring a home out of Disaster Status, which habits make the biggest and most lasting impact, and how to keep clutter under control.

In How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind, Dana explains that cleaning your house is not a one-time project but a series of ongoing premade decisions. Her reality-based cleaning and organizing techniques debunk the biggest housekeeping fantasies and help readers learn what really works. With a huge helping of empathy and humor, Dana provides a step-by-step process with strategies for getting rid of enormous amounts of stuff in as little time (and with as little emotional drama) as possible.”

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Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K. White

From Amazon: “You 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 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 a home that 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 mind-sets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter. Then, in her signature humorous approach, she provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out--for good!

But more than simply offering strategies, Dana 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.”

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The More of Less by Joshua Becker

I always recommend this book. So thought-provoking! It will help you think differently about your possessions. 

From Amazon:  “‘Maybe you don’t need to own all this stuff.’ After a casual conversation with his neighbor on Memorial Day 2008, Joshua Becker realized he needed a change. He was spending far too much time organizing possessions, cleaning up messes, and looking for more to buy.

So Joshua and his wife decided to remove the nonessential possessions from their home and life. Eventually, they sold, donated, or discarded over 60 percent of what they owned. In exchange, they found a life of more freedom, more contentment, more generosity, and more opportunity to pursue the things that mattered most. 

The More of Less delivers an empowering plan for living more by owning less. With practical suggestions and encouragement to personalize your own minimalist style, Joshua Becker shows you why minimizing possessions is the best way to maximize life. 

Are you ready for less cleaning, less anxiety, and less stress in your life? Simplicity isn’t as complicated as you think.”

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The Minimalists Rulebook by The Minimalists

I have found these “rules” to be very helpful guidelines for helping myself and my clients look more objectively at their possessions. They talk about the rules frequently in their podcast.

From their website. “The Minimalists created 16 rules to help you get organized—No Junk Rule, Seasonality Rule, Just-in-Case Rule, Gift-Giving Rule, and 12 others—and we collected them in a beautifully designed ebook.”

The book can be downloaded free from their website by subscribing to their email list (which I also recommend) at this link. You can always unsubscribe if you don’t want to receive the emails.

Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works by The Minimalists

How might your life be better with less?

Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less clutter, less stress and debt and discontent—a life with fewer distractions. Now, imagine a life with more: more time, more meaningful relationships, more growth and contribution and contentment—a life of passion, unencumbered by the trappings of the chaotic world around you. What you’re imagining is an intentional life. And to get there, you’ll have to let go of some clutter that’s in the way.

In Love People, Use Things, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus move past simple decluttering to show how minimalism makes room to reevaluate and heal the seven essential relationships in our lives: stuff, truth, self, money, values, creativity, and people. They use their own experiences—and those of the people they have met along the minimalist journey—to provide a template for how to live a fuller, more meaningful life.

Because once you have less, you can make room for the right kind of more.

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Uncluttering Christmas: 25 Ways to a More Organized Holiday Season by Liana George

What if you could simplify Christmas? Feeling weary from the holiday hustle and bustle? Imagine a Christmas filled with warmth, connection, and genuine holiday spirit—a season where you feel present, peaceful, and fully immersed in the magic around you.

In Uncluttering 25 Ways to a More Organized Holiday Season, you’ll find inspiration to clear away the chaos and focus on what truly matters. Through personal anecdotes and heartfelt tips, this guide invites you to simplify and savor the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. *Reflective journal pages, and practical checklists can be downloaded separately.

From organizing gifts to planning meals and honoring cherished traditions, Uncluttering Christmas equips you to create a holiday that’s joyful, meaningful, and beautifully uncluttered.

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What's a Photo Without the Story?: How to Create Your Family Legacy by Hazel Thornton

Think you don't have stories to tell? Of course you do. Everyone does!

In this book you will learn how to:

• Tell your family stories

• Enhance your stories by adding photos and details

• Leave a legacy, not a burden

• Identify mystery photos

• Investigate family legends

• Dig deeper & climb higher on your family tree

Do as much or as little as you like!

Each section includes activity choices:

• Low effort (Do this if nothing else.)

• Medium effort (Your family will thank you.)

• High effort (Ask for help if you need it.)

A professional organizer and genealogist helps you tell the stories of your photos, family, and things.

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Organizing for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Styles for Conquering Clutter, Mastering Time, and Reaching Your Goals by Dorothy Lehmkuhl

The right-brain way to conquering clutter, mastering time, and reaching one's goals: the first book to show creative people how to arrange their desks, their time, and their lives in a style consistent with their unique way of perceiving the world. Suggests a host of practical solutions, all in harmony with the way creative people think and act.

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Organizing Your Kitchen with SORT and Succeed: Five Simple Steps to Declutter Your Kitchen and Pantry Shelves, Save Money and Clean Your Kitchen Countertops by Darla DeMorrow

Get rid of kitchen clutter and get organized with the 5 simple steps of SORT and Succeed.

What if you had a simple way to clear your kitchen countertops and an easy way to keep them organized longer?

What if your clutter solution also made meal planning and grocery shopping easier?

How much money can you save by being more organized in the kitchen?

What would you do with the extra time you could get from spending just 15 minutes at a time on organizing projects?

How will it feel to not have to shuffle things around in your kitchen to prepare a meal?

Kitchen organizing help is here.

Darla DeMorrow is a Certified Professional Organizer® with more than a decade of practical experience in real homes and real kitchens of all sizes. You will learn an efficient system of organizing when you use the SORT and Succeed system to get results.

Minimalism isn’t the goal. Peace is the prize.

✓ Find out where you should always start when organizing your kitchen.
✓ Learn the one easy thing you must do every day to keep your sink clean.
✓ Find out why some popular organizing tips don’t work, but systems do.
✓ Learn the one surefire way to eliminate wasting food stored in the pantry.
✓ Set your new diet up for success by organizing your kitchen properly.
✓ Never waste food in the fridge again with this weekly routine.

You can start in the next hour, see results fast, and enjoy your home more.

Whether you hate to cook or you love to cook, you’ll enjoy your kitchen more if it’s organized. Even if you depend on takeout meals, your kitchen is probably still the hub of your home. It is the place where many family memories, recipes and traditions are born. Model good habits in the kitchen that your children and family will notice.

If you are planning to remodel your kitchen, adding a few useful kitchen organizing products to your kitchen cabinets and pantry, or want to stop wasting time and food, you’ll find practical kitchen clutter solutions inside.

This book even includes an easy-to-follow daily kitchen cleaning checklist.

Getting organized may be your goal. Staying organized can be the greater challenge. The SORT and Succeed system goes beyond just kitchen cleaning solutions. Start in the kitchen, and use it all throughout your house.

Make lasting changes with these five simple steps to declutter your kitchen, save money and simplify your life.

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Productivity and Time Management

Getting Things Done by David Allen

This book focused on productivity is a classic, and it has changed my daily habits tremendously. I highly recommend it. There is also an app, conferences, website, etc. Great quality information on organizing everything on your To Do list, getting all of the things that clutter your mind into a trusted system, etc. I LOVE this book! 

From Amazon: “Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. ‘GTD’ is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots.

Allen has rewritten the book from start to finish, tweaking his classic text with important perspectives on the new workplace, and adding material that will make the book fresh and relevant for years to come. This new edition of Getting Things Done will be welcomed not only by its hundreds of thousands of existing fans but also by a whole new generation eager to adopt its proven principles.”

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The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Mark Comer

“Who am I becoming?”

That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he appeared successful. But inwardly, things weren’t pretty. So he turned to a trusted mentor for guidance and heard these words:
 
“Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life.”

It wasn’t the response he expected, but it was—and continues to be—the answer he needs. Too often we treat the symptoms of toxicity in our modern world instead of trying to pinpoint the cause. A growing number of voices are pointing at hurry, or busyness, as a root of much evil.
 
Perfect for anyone looking to de-stress and connect more during this holiday season, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry is a fascinating roadmap to staying emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world.

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Time Management from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule—and Your Life by Julie Morgenstern

In this thoroughly revised second edition, Julie Morgenstern takes her groundbreaking from-the-inside-out approach to time management to a whole new level. This volume enhances her proven three-step program—Analyze, Strategize, Attack—with invaluable new tools, tips, and exercises that will help you create a balanced life, one where you’re in control and satisfied with what you’ve accomplished at the end of every day.

For readers struggling to keep their heads above water, Morgenstern’s all-new quick-start program is a lifeline that offers the breathing room needed to approach the three-step program calmly and with confidence.

Whether you’re a working parent juggling the demands of a high-pressure job and raising kids, a busy entrepreneur who hopes to one day make time for a social life, or an artist who longs to find time for the work you love, Julie Morgenstern will you show you to make tie for what’s really important—to you.

This revised edition delivers

- a new chapter about the WADE formula for getting started

- new time maps for people with irregular schedules

- new four-, eight-, and twelve-week program guides for improving time-management skills

- a fully updated resource guide

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What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman

By anchoring your understanding of productivity in God's plan, What's Best Next gives you a practical approach for increasing your effectiveness in everything you do.

There are a lot of myths about productivity--what it means to get things done and how to accomplish work that really matters. In our current era of innovation and information overload, it may feel harder than ever to understand the meaning of work or to have a sense of vocation or calling.

So how do you get more of the right things done without confusing mere activity for actual productivity?

Matt Perman has spent his career helping people learn how to do work in a gospel-centered and effective way. What's Best Next explains his approach to unlocking productivity and fulfillment in work by showing how faith relates to work, even in our everyday grind.

What's Best Next is packed with biblical and theological insight and practical counsel that you can put into practice today, such as:

• How to create a mission statement for your life that's actually practicable.

• How to delegate to people in a way that really empowers them.

• How to overcome time killers like procrastination, interruptions, and multitasking by turning them around and making them work for you.

• How to process workflow efficiently and get your email inbox to zero every day.

• How to have peace of mind without needing to have everything under control.

• How generosity is actually the key to unlocking productivity.

This expanded edition includes:

• a new chapter on productivity in a fallen world

• a new appendix on being more productive with work that requires creative thinking.

Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done--the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. You can learn how to do work that matters and how to do it well.

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Habit Change

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Undoubtedly one of the best books I’ve ever read about making successful habit changes. Infinitely practical and readable, Clear is a master at explaining why we do what we do and how to go about changing those habits if they aren’t in our best interests. From Amazon: “No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.”

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The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin

This book has proven to be tremendously helpful both for myself and for my clients. Finding out and using your tendency to your benefit can be a game changer! 

From Amazon: “OBLIGER? REBEL? QUESTIONER? UPHOLDER? Which one are you? Everyone falls into 1 of 4 personality types and knowing yours could make you happier and more successful. During her investigation to understand human nature, explored most recently in her bestselling Better Than Before, Gretchen Rubin realised that by asking the seemingly dry question 'How do I respond to expectations?' we gain life changing self-knowledge.

She discovered that based on their answer, people fit into Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behaviour, so using this framework allows us to make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress, and engage more effectively.

More than 800,000 people have taken her online quiz, and managers, doctors, teachers, spouses, and parents already use the framework to help people make significant, lasting change.

The Four Tendencies hold practical answers if you've ever thought...

- People can rely on me, but I can't rely on myself

- How can I help someone to follow good advice?

- People say I ask too many questions

- How do I work with someone who refuses to do what I ask - or who keeps telling me what to do?

With sharp insight, compelling research, and hilarious examples, The Four Tendencies will help you get happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.”

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The Happiness Project, Tenth Anniversary Edition: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.

In this lively and compelling account—now updated with new material by the author—Rubin chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Among other things, she found that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that money can help buy happiness, when spent wisely; that outer order contributes to inner calm; and that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference.

This updated edition includes:

• An extensive new interview with the author

• Stories of other people’s life-changing happiness projects

• A resource guide to the dozens of free resources created for readers

• The Happiness Project Manifesto

• An excerpt from Rubin’s bestselling book The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles that Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too)

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The Problem With Potential: How to Stop Overthinking and Get Out of Your Own Way by Joe Ignace

Overcome your problems, build confidence, and live an impactful life.

Key Aspects of The Problem With Potential:

• Confront Internal Barriers: The book provides practical guidance on how to face your problems head-on. It encourages you to confront the mental barriers we create within ourselves, which often convince us to settle for mediocrity.

• Overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs: Through Joe Ignace's expert insights, readers are empowered to conquer self-limiting beliefs and thought patterns that hinder their progress. The book offers practical strategies to silence the inner critic and embrace a more confident and positive mindset.

• Unlock Your True Potential: "The Problem With Potential" is a roadmap to unlock your hidden potential. It emphasizes that by understanding and overcoming these internal barriers, you can embark on a journey towards achieving bigger and better things in life.

• Practical Guidance: Joe Ignace provides step-by-step guidance on how to identify, challenge, and overcome the mental hurdles that may be preventing you from reaching your goals.

• Live an Impactful Life: The book encourages readers to leave behind a life of mere existence and step into a world of purpose and fulfillment. By applying the principles outlined in the book, you can live a more meaningful and purpose-driven life.

The Problem With Potential: How to Stop Overthinking and Get Out of Your Own Way by Joe Ignace is a groundbreaking self-help book that delves into the challenges that hold us back from realizing our true potential. In this transformative work, Joe Ignace, serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and YouTuber, leads you to confront your internal obstacles and break free from the self-imposed limitations that have kept you from achieving greatness. Joe was born in Glasgow, Scotland, before eventually moving to Johnson City, TN, where he grew up. He attended the University of Tennessee and graduated in the top 1% of his class with a bachelor's degree in accounting. Before writing this book, Joe had met over 22,000 people in just seven years(most people meet 80,000 people over their entire lifetime) while selling books door to door and recruiting salespeople to do the same. He was a top 1% producer and worked 100+ hour weeks on straight commission. He’s never had a salaried job, and now he coaches and consults entrepreneurs, high ticket salespeople, and business owners ranging from start-ups to multi-million dollar businesses.

The Problem With Potential" is not just a book; it's a powerful tool that will equip you with the knowledge and strategies to break free from overthinking, self-doubt, and other mental barriers. Joe Ignace's approach is rooted in practical wisdom and personal empowerment, making it an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to unlock their true potential and achieve their dreams. If you're ready to face your problems head-on and unleash your full potential, this book is a must-read. Don't let overthinking hold you back; take the first step towards a more fulfilling life today.

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Explore Your Life: A journey to discover, live, and write your legacy! by Christy Lynch

Discover, live, and write your legacy.

This book is helping students, business owners, career-changers, family history makers, and retirees to look at their lives as a whole. They're learning to appreciate where they've been, take a closer look at what they're doing right now, and gain energy and motivation to dream about the future and how to make those dreams come true.

Are you looking at your options to make changes in your life? Wondering about your purpose(s) and the path you're on now? Interested in discovering what your future could hold for you?

Pick up this book and explore adventures to capture your past, truly live your present, and expand the excitement and opportunities for your future.

Explore Your Life is a wonderful and practical guide for discovering your life story and launching into your future at any age. If you're curious about your past, frozen in the present, or not sure where you want to go next, then this book is for you.

Create and shape your life story as you write it. Discover new perspectives and insights. Get clearer direction on the intriguing opportunities right in front of you, and choose your next quest.

Create a legacy for yourself and your loved ones. Embark now on your journey of self-discovery to Explore Your Life!

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The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power by Katherine Morgan Schafler

From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every “recovering perfectionist” to challenge the way they look at perfectionism, and the way they look at themselves.

We’ve been looking at perfectionism all wrong. As psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google Katherine Morgan Schafler argues in The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control, you don’t have to stop being a perfectionist to be healthy. For women who are sick of being given the generic advice to “find balance,” a new approach has arrived.

Which of the five types of perfectionist are you? Classic, intense, Parisian, messy, or procrastinator? As you identify your unique perfectionist profile, you'll learn how to manage each form of perfectionism to work for you, not against you. Beyond managing it, you'll learn how to embrace and even enjoy your perfectionism. Yes, enjoy!

Full of stories and brimming with humor, empathy, and depth, this book is a love letter to the ambitious, high achieving, full-of-life clients who filled the author’s private practice, and who changed her life. It’s a clarion call for all women to dare to want more without feeling greedy or ungrateful. Ultimately, this book will show you how to make the single greatest trade you’ll ever make in your life, which is to exchange superficial control for real power.

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