Lighten Up

Peter Walsh

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9780731815128

In Enough Already: Clearing the Mental Clutter to Become the Best You, the process was taken a step further, exploring the impact that clutter has in our emotional and spiritual lives. The big question is: Now what? You've decluttered your home but what are you left with? For many people, it's some of the same feelings of wanting more and feeling deprived that you can't have everything you wish for. Many of us have never, in our entire lives, had to make the tough decisions about how to buy less, consume less, live with less, and embrace the entire concept of "less is more." Today, with the changes in the economy affecting our very homes and livelihoods, less is no longer a choice but a necessity.Lighten Up offers a roadmap for all those struggling with the lingering desire for too much stuff, on the one hand, and too little resources on the other which leads to a life that is essentially a financial and emotional lie. This is a book for each of us now called, by choice or force of circumstances, to make significant changes in our long-term habits of over-consumption and mindless acquisition of 'the more.' Peter Walsh starts the process by explaining that in order to know what you need, you have to know what you have. He asks readers to take 3 audits: a life audit (your overall goals and how close you are to them), a home audit (what do you own and what is it costing you), and a financial audit (how honest are you about what you make, what you own, and what you owe). These audits and Peter's step by step direction help readers to clearly see how to clear up their financial clutter (and any emotional baggage that goes with it) so they can reframe how they view what they own, what they can afford and how to prioritize what matters most for them and their families.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also By Peter Walsh
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Epigraph
• Half-title page
• Introduction
• Part I: From Living On Less To Living With More
• 1. The Life You Imagine for Yourself
• 2. What Makes You Happy?
• Part II: From Audit To Action
• 3. The Personal Audit: Your Life
• 4. Create Space for What Really Matters
• 5. The Financial Audit: Your Money
• 6. Face the Financials
• 7. The Home Audit: Your Stuff
• 8. Change the Way You and Your Family Measure Happiness
• Part III: From Today To Tomorrow And Beyond
• 9. Checkup and Maintenance
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• About the Author