Book Review: SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life

SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life

Like her earlier book Organizing from the Inside Out, Julie Morgenstern takes an inner approach to working with clutter. Instead of  tough-love and admonitions that "less is more", she offers a rational approach that takes into account both our emotional attachment to the past and the potential for our things to support us … [Read more...]

Book Review: Strengths Finder 2.0

StrengthsFinder 2.0

This book and the included test identify your top five strengths and explain how to maximize them. The authors advocate working on your strengths rather than your weaknesses, arguing that you will only see marginal improvement if you try to strengthen a weakness, whereas you can polish a strength to genius level. I am … [Read more...]

Book Review: Comfort Secrets for Busy Women

Comfort Secrets for Busy Women

I love this book. Louden weaves stories about her own life and journey into a book of journal prompts for connecting to Self. She emphasizes "living the questions" over finding the answers. The first prompt I picked from the book was, “What do I really need right now?”. The answers turned out to be simple, but … [Read more...]