It's All Too Much

Peter Walsh

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780731814299
• eBook ISBN:
  9780731815241
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Self Improvement

Are your counters covered with appliances you had to have but rarely use? Are your cupboards stuffed with clothes that you hope to fit back into or that you paid a fortune for but only wore once? 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 do 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 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!

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by Peter Walsh
• Title page
• Dedication page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Epigraph page
• Introduction
• PART ONE: The Clutter Problem
• 1. This Is Not My Beautiful House
• 2. Excuses, Excuses
• 3. Imagine the Life You Want to Live
• PART TWO: Putting Clutter in Its Place
• Step 1: Kick Start--Tackling the Surface Clutter
• Step 2: Hash It Out!
• Step 3: Conquer Your Home
• Room 1: Master Bedroom
• Room 2: Kids’ Rooms
• Room 3: Family and Living Rooms
• Room 4: Home Office
• Room 5: Kitchen
• Room 6: Dining Room
• Room 7: Bathroom
• Room 8: Garage, Basement, and Other Storerooms
• Step 4: Maintenance
• Step 5: Cleanup Checkup
• Step 6: New Rituals
• Afterword: Take What You’ve Learned into the World
• Acknowledgments