When Organizing Isn't Enough

A book by Julie Morgenstern
2008 - Simon & Schuster

• SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life
• SHED stands for “separate” your treasures, “heave” your trash, “embrace” yourself, and “drive into the future.”
• Before you shed, develop a new theme for the life you want in the future.
• Inventory the three primary “shedding points”: your possessions, your activities and your bad habits.
• Assign each item, to-do entry and habit an attachment score and an obsolescence score, so you know what you can discard and what to keep.
• To shed properly, hold onto only 10% to 20% of what currently constitutes your life.
• Once you start to shed, you will feel energized. Don’t look back. Discard your burdens.
• When you are done, spend some quiet time reflecting on what you want and then begin pursuing your real goals.