The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
10 best books like The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters (Sarah Susanka): The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life, Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich, Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life, The Woman's Comfort Book, The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, Creative Time and Space: Making Room for Making Art, Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design, Creating a Charmed Life: Sensible, Spiritual Secrets Every Busy Woman Should Know, God is No Laughing Matter, Bazaar Style: Decorating with Market and Vintage Finds
| Author | Martha N. Beck |
| ISBN | 0609609904 |
Discover a menu of ten behaviors you can add to your way of living and thinking to enhance every day's journey through the unpredictable terrain of your existence.
Add these behaviors gradually and watch your life become steadily more vivid and satisfying. Or you can go on a "crash Joy Diet"...
| Author | Duane Elgin |
| ISBN | 0688121195 |
When Voluntary Simplicity was first published in 1981, it quickly became recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the emerging dialogue over sustainable ways of living. Now, more than ten years later and with many of the planet's environmental stresses having become more urgent than ever, Duane...
Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life
| Author | Deniece Schofield |
| ISBN | 1558703616 |
Own.
My mom's copy of this book, published around the time I was born, was Confessions of an Organized Housewife. This revised edition was published in 1994, and homemaker is a better title for it than housewife. I wonder if her tone and approach was more "housewifey" in the 80's than in the 90's....
| Author | Jennifer Louden |
| ISBN | 0062505319 |
With over 200 prescriptions for giving yourself a break, this book helps the reader to sort out guilty feelings about self–nurture and to define her comfort/self–nurture needs.
In this book the author delivers a host of creative and comforting programmes like the self–care schedule,...
| Author | Gail McMeekin |
| ISBN | 1573241415 |
Sparked by her own long search for inspiration in her life and work, Gail McMeekin has worked closely with some the contemporary world's most creative women in her guide to maximizing creative energy. Over 50 of these dynamic women share their secrets to success. Through a series of interviews and conversations,...
| Author | Ricë Freeman-Zachery |
| ISBN | 1600613225 |
How do you make room for making art?
Do you long to uncover secrets to sneaking more creative time into your day, or to making your studio the perfect place to unleash your artistic potential? Have you often wondered how successful creative types seem to manage both with ease?
In her...
| Author | Carrie McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0316067164 |
Style Statement is a take on the power of style and authenticity. Deemed "style psychotherapists," Carrie and Danielle are the creators of the Style Statement: a two-word compass that helps you make more confident choices in life -- from your wardrobe to your relationships, your living room to your...
| Author | Victoria Moran |
| ISBN | 0062515802 |
How Does She Do It?
We all know-and envy-women who appear to live "charmed" lives. They seem to unhurriedly and effortlessly manage the whirlwind of their busy lives with grace and poise. Good things happen to them, and their lives are filled with serendipity, joy, and prosperity. But it's...
| Author | Julia Cameron |
| ISBN | 1585421286 |
In God Is No Laughing Matter, bestselling author Julia Cameron takes a witty, powerfully honest, and irreverent look at the culture of "spirituality" today and offers insight to enable readers to determine their personal spiritual path. The important thing to remember, she says, is that God is both...
| Author | Selina Lake |
| ISBN | 1845976266 |
If you love rummaging through markets for unusual fabrics, and can’t pass an antique or second-hand shop without popping in, Bazaar Style is for you. Stylist Selina Lake and experienced interiors writer Joanna Simmons show you real homes furnished with intriguing pieces from different eras...
| Author | Sandy Coughlin |
| ISBN | 0764207504 |
Hospitality can be a blessing to both the host and her guests, but for many women today, it simply doesn't happen. Feelings of inadequacy, unrealistic expectations, fear of failure, lack of time--all conspire to steal the joy that comes from opening one's home and sharing fellowship with others. In...
| Author | Jamie C. Martin |
| ISBN | 0984124608 |
You can apply the same techniques of efficiency, intention, and purpose that you've used in other careers to your most important position in life-motherhood. Steady Days takes you through the process of becoming a professional mother: one who is organized and excited to spend time with your young...
A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough
From the moment we are born, we are seekers. Our culture obsessively promotes the pursuit of money, success and self-improvement. At the end of each activity-jammed day, though, we collapse into bed discouraged by everything we have
not
checked off on our to-do lists, in despair that whatever we...
Simpler Living: Over 1,500 Ways to Simplify, Streamline, and Remake Your Life
Life moves too quickly these days, as technology, work, and personal commitments make it almost impossible to relax and enjoy life. Finding yourself stressed over the clutter in your kitchen or the mass of paper in front of your computer? Relax. This book will help. Filled with tips on how to uncomplicate...
My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living
| Author | Jonathan Adler |
| ISBN | 0060820535 |
My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living offers a window into the life and mind of an extraordinarily creative person who was once told by a pottery professor that he had no talent and should consider another career. Not only did Adler stick with pottery, he transformed it from a dreary, unappealing...
Your Spacious Self: Clear the Clutter and Discover Who You Are
| Author | Stephanie Bennett Vogt |
IT'S A JUNGLE . . . IN HERE!
Behind our stress, clutter, and confusion is an infinitely spacious place one might call stillness or joy. This is our natural state of being, but we usually don't experience it, because we are caught in a web of material possessions, desires, and fears.
Our...
It's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys: The Seven-Step Path to Becoming Truly Organized
| Author | Marilyn Paul |
| ISBN | 0142196177 |
Overbooking? Running late? Feeling overwhelmed by clutter and to-dos? Management consultant Dr. Marilyn Paul guides you on a path to personal change that will bring true relief from the pain and stress of disorganization. Unlike other books on getting organized, It's Hard to Make a Difference When...
| Author | Mary Carlomagno |
| ISBN | 0811863948 |
Bulging in-boxes, out-of-control stress, and even climate change serve as reminders that when it comes to being happy and healthy, less is more. In this interactive journal, organization expert Mary Carlomagno leads readers on a journey toward release and discovery. Guided by the principle that...
The Unmistakable Touch of Grace: How to Recognize and Respond to the Spiritual Signposts in Your Life
| Author | Cheryl Richardson |
| ISBN | 0743226534 |
Dear Friend,
Twenty years ago, I made a decision to wake up and alter the direction of my life. This set in motion a series of events that proved to me there are no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has been put in our path for a reason. When we awaken to this fundamental...
Real Simple 869 New Uses for Old Things: An Encyclopedia of Innovative Ideas for Everyday Items
| Author | Real Simple |
| ISBN | 1603201408 |
"New Uses For Old Things" is one of Real Simple's most popular franchises. It showcases how to repurpose everyday items in clever ways. These ideas appeal to readers because they're a) economical, b) green, and c) surprising.
Over the past decade, Real Simple has developed 800-plus ideas...
Do It Gorgeously: How to Make Less Toxic, Less Expensive, and More Beautiful Products
It's official: In these tough times, clueless is out--and crafty is in. For both financial and environmental reasons, life is all about doing well with what you have. But that doesn't mean you can't still be fabulous. Do It Gorgeously shows you how to make nearly everything you would otherwise purchase:...
Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things
| Author | Ellen Lupton |
| ISBN | 0312532733 |
Design Your Life is a series of irreverent and realistic snapshots about objects and how we interact with them. By leading design thinker Ellen Lupton and her twin sister Julia Lupton, it shows how design is about much more than what’s bought at high-end stores or the modern look at IKEA. Design is critical...
Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home
| Author | Julie Moir Messervy |
| ISBN | 1561587346 |
In this groundbreaking book, noted landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy and bestselling author Sarah Susanka reveal how to bring house and garden into perfect harmony. After all, who doesn't yearn for a landscape that is as well designed as the interior of their home? In...
| Author | George S. Pransky |
| ISBN | 0971198802 |
A re-imagining of the American obsession and addiction to positive thinking - suppress, suppress and suppress negativity again for good measure and just think positively - the author is a gifted writer and communicator but it is missing a trick or two pertaining to truth and fact. Just smile and be happy...
