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 Clutter Remedy Principles and Philosophy 

• Identify what you truly want out of life. Create goals to achieve an ideal lifestyle, ideal relationships, ideal health, and an ideal space.
• Acknowledge any emotional clutter that will block you from remaining organized long-term.  Clear and heal™ trauma, grief and loss, health challenges and personality challenges. 
• When decluttering, ask yourself: Will it be used? Will it serve a purpose? Is it sentimental? Is it loved?  This will help you gain clarity on what to keep and what not to keep in your life.
• Change how you speak in order to be a better communicator, more decisive. Share authentic feelings about what you want in life. 
• Eliminate the word "need," from your vocabulary when it applies to objects or things you want to accomplish. 
• Improving communication skills increases goal achievement, productivity and enhances long-term organization.
• Contain all finely-tuned categories, create permanent homes for all your stuff and "will" yourself to put things back.
• Develop a schedule to give yourself time to create and maintain order.
• Beautify your space with The Clutter Remedy™ space planning strategies.

Book Reviews

Marla Stone’s The Clutter Remedy approaches the issue of possessions that overwhelm people’s lives in cohesive and compassionate terms, addressing the root causes of clutter and suggesting holistic methods of emotional healing and behavioral modification. Clutter turns homes into hovels; the book suggests that having too much may be attributed to a cocooning need for self-protection, or to past experiences with lack and scarcity. In many cases, maintained items have sentimental value; they may represent aspirations, too, as with garages full of athletic equipment or slews of art supplies gathered by a person who longs to paint or draw.Stone encourages honesty in assessing one’s relationship to clutter, and insists that people allow for self-care and time to reflect. Once individual motivations are explored, a plan for phasing out clutter can be developed, along with exercises like visualizing ideal environments and working to maintain an organized, but not sterile, living space. Beyond this psychological approach to disorder and excess are intriguing suggestions for “decluttering” feelings and speech patterns. Being more forthright about personal needs is encouraged, as is speaking in direct terms, such as saying “I will” as opposed to “I’ll try” or “I might.” The book suggests redecorating in a way that keeps vital energy flowing, with mirrors polished for truthful reflection and dried or artificial flowers discarded. It even suggests that portraits of celebrities who died tragically be avoided so as not to attract negativity or addiction. At the core of The Clutter Remedy is a strong message of empowerment: that, while controlling a morass of ever-growing stuff may seem hopeless, all can be managed with effort, focus, and the desire to live an emotionally and spatially healthier life. Forward Review by Meg Nola 

Get ready for some soul-searching when you open this book. Getting organized through Marla Stone’s method involves a process of knowing yourself and your values and seeing your ideal lifestyle and surroundings from that viewpoint. Only then does she begin to walk you through the physical aspects of getting “perpetually organized.”“Learning how to brilliantly extinguish clutter and manifest a clear, functioning, vibrant space helps you understand that organizing and decluttering is about creating an environment that you are pleased with, that creates energy for you, rather than stagnancy,” Stone writes. With Stone’s method, it also means you don’t have to get rid of all of your stuff; you just have to know what things mean to you, what you truly want to keep, and how you want it to remain in your space.Once you know yourself well and you’ve visualized what you want a room or your home to look like, you’re ready for the physical aspects of decluttering. Something I’ve not read in other books is to completely empty a room you’re organizing and go through everything. Setting up your organizing space for what gets thrown out, given away, or retained and contained, you’re then ready to put the room back together the way you want it to be.The Clutter Remedy walks you through every room in your home and addresses the many challenges and issues you might face in letting go of things or figuring out what to do with them. This is a holistic approach to decluttering and creating space the way you really want it to be on a long-term basis. There’s definitely work to be done with this method, but the results would be worth it. Krysta Gibson New Spirit Journal

A clean and organized house usually produces a calm and happy environment for people; for most people though, they equate an organized space as having minimal items. Marla Stone is here to tell you that you’ve got it all wrong. With a background in social work and as a psychotherapist, Stone’s advice centers around the idea that to keep up with an organized external living space, you must keep up with your internal living space. There is not much hope of keeping your things, however much or little, in an organized fashion, if you still need to be working on yourself to appreciate the things you have. Filled with self-help tips, as well as advice on how to organize your home based on the room and items, Stone’s words of wisdom can be useful for anyone if they will allow the help. Just hearing the title, I assumed it would be a book with pictures and ideas for organizing your home, but instead, it’s a book with life advice, tips, and useful organizational skills all presented in the text. I believe every word that Stone has to say, and know that it can help so many people on their journey to a cleaner home and life. ​Rachel Dehning Seattle Book Review 

Why use the The Clutter Remedy Strategies?

There is no denying the fact that everyone strives to live an ideal lifestyle, in their personal and professional lives. Whether it involves going on dream vacations, having a beautifully designed home, enjoying down-time, or accomplishing life and work goals. You want what you desire. 
 
​The Clutter Remedy strategies teaches you how to bring your desires to the surface, and achieve them methodically and efficiently. Figuring out what you truly want in life, and setting clear goals ultimately leads to an organized self and space.

You will find all these secrets and more in The Clutter Remedy: A Guide To Getting Organized For Those Who Love Their Stuff. This is not a book solely about decluttering your space and stuff. This is a book about decluttering your personal self, relationships, your goals, current strategies, and your professional life.

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