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Declutter Your Stuff.key takeaway: Marie Kondo’s philosophy is about letting go of the things in your life that is taking up room, causing guilt or stress. You leave space in your life only for the items that give you pleasure.
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Declutter Your Mindkey takeaway: Not writing down tasks clutters your mind and causes stress. After this book, I embraced using digital task management and better physical file keeping in order to organize ideas and information.
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Declutter Your Timekey takeaway: Essentialism reiterates many of the themes in the prior two books but talks mostly about philosophy. Coming from a more business management perspective, there is still a lot in here that falls into the personal self-development world. Are you spending your time with people and on projects that matter most?
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Doing less is not being lazykey takeaway: I wasn’t sure at first which category to put this book under…is it personal development? Management? Or productivity? In the end, since the title is about only working 4 hours a week, I decided the author’s intent is to declutter your life and live more productively.
If you never heard of Tim Ferriss before, he has a bit of a cult following and a hugely entertaining and popular podcast which I suggest you check out. |
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Declutter to manifest your desireskey takeaway: Are you surprised that this book is here? If you read this book or anything by this author you will learn she believes the first step in manifesting your desires is to declutter both your physical and your psychological spaces.
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Old Fashioned Page Turners
By the way, all of the above books I read in the old fashioned way- not on audio- not on a kindle either. I really enjoy the pleasures of owning books and getting to mark them up with my comments and doodles. In the next series, there will be many books that I listened to but the best ones I went ahead and bought physical copies so I could deface them in the same manner.
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Just read this and I am excited about finding and reading some of these books. Can't wait to read your other blogs.