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  • Decluttering at the Speed of Life

  • Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
  • By: Dana K. White
  • Narrated by: Dana K. White
  • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (197 ratings)

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Decluttering at the Speed of Life

By: Dana K. White
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You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff - you can get rid of clutter for good! Decluttering expert Dana White identifies the emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter and provides workable solutions to break through and make progress.

While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress.

In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, decluttering expert and author Dana White identifies the mindsets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter. In her signature humorous approach, she provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out - for good!

Not only does Dana provide strategies, but she dives deep into how to implement them, no matter the listener's clutter level or emotional resistance to decluttering. She helps identify procrasticlutter - the stuff that will get done eventually so it doesn't seem urgent - as well as how to make progress when there's no time to declutter.

In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, Dana’s chapters cover:

  • Why you need this book (You know why)
  • Your unique home
  • Decluttering in the midst of real life
  • Change your mind, change your home
  • Breaking through your decluttering delusions
  • Working it out room by room
  • Helping others declutter

As long as we're living and breathing, new clutter will appear. The good news is that by following Dana’s advice, decluttering will get easier, become more natural, and require significantly fewer hours, less emotional bandwidth, and little to no sweat to keep going.

©2018 Dana K. White (P)2018 Thomas Nelson

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Dana is hilarious, spot on and strangely very knowledgeable about the state of my life?
I have listened to this for months and am still having lightbulb moments

The best audio book I own

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A helpful way to work through the home

You can listen and do at the same time. The author herself read the book aloud and does a fantastic job at engaging her audience and getting us to hold on to the most important take-aways of the book. Though a tad repetitive, it was helpful and great to motivate me to action. Thanks Dana.

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so inspiring

found this super helpful to overcome all the doubts holding me back. awesome! listen again regularly to keep myself on track

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Finally, decluttering explained in way I can understand

I have struggled with clutter nearly all my life. I’ve tried a gazillion different methods to organise my space, rearrange and clean up. But this book change how I think about clutter and already, within a week, my home has less than half the junk that it did have. I’ve been able to make decisions on stuff that I’ve held on to for decades. I feel so good for reading this book. I’ve already recommended it to my sister who also has a house full of stuff. Thanks Dana for sharing this information. It appeals to my ADHD brain because the steps are easy to follow and are already becoming part of my daily processes and I love that they apply to any type of mess. I’m looking forward to enjoying the space in my home.

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It actually works! The only decluttering book you will need.

If you’re finally ready to declutter, this is the book! Her defining the container concept, for me, was most helpful.
It just makes so much sense!
And to be able to declutter, without making any more mess, means it’s always a win win situation.
This book has helped me to finally clear out & stop paying for a storage unit, made my room an oasis rather than a stress nest, & improve other areas of the house.
I listen to this book over & over, it always proves helpful & boosts my decluttering momentum.
This is truly the most useful book I have ever bought & I will always recommend it to everyone.

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BRILLIANT!!!

Dana is an inspiration for anyone to start decluttering. I love her voice, her sense of humour and her advice is spot on. Can highly recommend this book and now I’m starting her next book. Love her!!!😍

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A relatable easy listen.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone feeling procrastination, shame or overwhelm around their clutter or managing their home. I particularly love the visibility rule, the container concept and being able to accept the ridiculous and illogical locations I choose for items to live in my home. Thanks Dana

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Very cool. Nailed it :)

Excellent process I have underway! I skip to certain chapters with my headphones on whilst following her suggestions. Wow Dana! Thank you, you are like the clutter buster Queen and you know every sneaky trick us clutterers have! Just starting it again and will continue to until I have worked through every room with you.

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Good to listen to

Found this book to be really good to listen to while Decluttering author talks to you like a friend and has helpful advice the book repeats itself a lot but she mentions this at the start and it’s kind of the point needed to get things done. Would recommend

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I was able to relate to this book really well. I will be able to put a lot of things in place.

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