It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan For Living A Richer Life With Less Stuff

As featured in Oprahs Book Club, an inspirational step-by-step program from organisational super guru Peter Walsh, ‘It’s All Too Much‘ is the perfect guide for clearing clutter and stress from your life. This easy-to-follow plan teaches you how to recognise the emotional cost of being bogged down by too much ’stuff’ and equips you with the tools you need to get rid of it — to create a more productive, carefree life.

Is your bed covered with laundry you haven’t put away? Is your kitchen table a dumping ground for mail, books and shopping bags? Are your counters covered with appliances you had to have but rarely use? Are your closets stuffed with clothes that you hope to fit back into or that you paid a fortune for but only wore once? Are your videos/dvds/cds piled on the TV or stereo? Have you been hanging on to that hideous teapot your mother gave you 10 years ago only because she gave it to you? Every time you go shopping you come back with bags of more stuff because that pillow/blouse/cd/mixer will be the one thing that changes your life and then it doesn’t change your life because you have nowhere to put it?

In ‘It’s All Too Much‘, organisational guru Peter Walsh challenges you to answer a very simple but scary question: Does the stuff you own contribute to the life you hope to achieve or does it get in the way of your vision?

Peter helps you assess the state of your home without any sugar coating and will teach you how to confront and conquer the stuff that is holding you back by identifying the purpose of each and every object in your home and assessing your reasons for holding onto it. He shows you how to identify which room is the heart of your home (Is it your kitchen? Bedroom? Living room? Maybe even bathroom?) and then shows you why it is so important to keep that space clean and clear of clutter — if the heart of your home is clogged what does that say about you?

He then helps you go room by room to ask the important questions: What is the room? What’s its purpose? What is this item? Does it contribute positively to the life you want? The answers to these questions will help you understand your priorities and fix your relationship with your stuff. And in gaining this understanding, you can start to clear out the clutter!

Peter shows that getting organised does not mean putting your clutter into stacked bins or hiding it away in neat little cabinets. Nor does it mean storing precious mementos in a closet — if an object is meaningful to your it should be put on display and treated with respect, not stashed away. Your home is the physical and emotional base for you and your family and how it looks will reflect your emotional and psychological well-being. A bookcase overflowing with self-help books will not solve your problems. As Peter says: ‘Forget the self-help books. Get rid of the clutter. Get organised and I promise that every aspect of your life will change in ways that you never imagined.’

For some people letting go is the hardest part of any relationship by Peter Walsh teaches you to identify your priorities and gives you permission to part with possessions that may be weighing you down emotionally and physically. His proven room by room process will help you to conquer your stuff-clutter once and for all so that your home becomes your haven once again.

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