What I love about a new year is that feeling of a new beginning, and what better way to start that new beginning than in a fresh and clean space!  Have you ever noticed the joy, relaxation, and happiness sitting in an organized room? Or have you longed for coziness in a spotless home or been inspired in a pristine kitchen to whip up a delicious meal? I invite you to start the year off by decluttering your home and making it organized, spick, and span. Here are 10 books to help get you started, motivated, and encouraged to transform your life and experience the reward through a clutter-free home.

Here are 10 books to help get you started, motivated, and encouraged to transform your life and experience the reward through a clutter-free home.

Encourages readers to declutter their hearts as they do their homes, removing superfluous burdens and attachments in order to enjoy life and gain breathing room.

“We’ve all done it: looked around and thought, “How did I get so much stuff I don’t really need?” In Make Space for Happiness, Tracy McCubbin addresses that burning question, and offers a solution. What she’s found is that people who suffer from chronic clutter want, above all, to attract the feeling their “stuff” represents. In this exciting decluttering book with Gretchen Rubin appeal, Tracy presents the 7 emotional magnets, and how you can recognize your magnet to attract more of what you really want: love, self-confidence, time, and ease.”

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Cristin Frank, the original Reduction Rebel, shows you the freedom and fulfillment you can have when you simplify your life. You’ll learn how to use your talents, time, and space to combat stress, become more efficient, relieve money woes, open up opportunities, and provide self-fulfillment. Includes tips and advice on eliminating clutter, plans for regaining your time, ways to sell unused goods in your home, upcycling projects and dozens of exercises that help you identify and honor your talents, values, and goals.

“What causes the clutter in your home? Too little time and not enough space are common enough culprits, but are they actually the root sources? In the follow-up to her Wall Street Journal best-selling book What Your Clutter Is Trying to Tell You, decluttering expert, lifestyle designer, and coach Kerri Richardson helps you to address limiting beliefs and behaviors that can manifest into specific types of clutter, clear out your emotional obstacles in order to reclaim your personal space, and manifest your newfound mental clarity into physical reality through practical, actionable exercises. From tackling perfectionism to procrastination to toxic relationships, Richardson’s straightforward advice will help you to finally clear those stubborn stacks and piles, providing a clean start for you to transform both your home and your life.”

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The creator of the popular cleaning website Clean Mama and author of Clean Mama’s Guide to a Healthy Home shows you how to establish systems and rituals to transform your home into a clean, organized, and comfortable space for you and your family. We all want our homes to be cozy and comfortable havens where we can leave the challenges of the outside world behind. But too often the mail piles up, the laundry doesn’t get folded, or the kids forget to put their toys away, creating mess and adding to our anxieties. Becky Rapinchuk has taught people how to simplify their cleaning routine for years, with a simple 10-minute daily system that works. Now she reveals a game-changing method of freeing up mental and physical space to help us find joy and make our home-keeping routine effortless. By pairing up systems–how we get things done so that they become automatic–with rituals–tasks that bring calm and happiness–we can feel more at peace in our homes. Like Marie Kondo meets The Home Edit, Becky walks us through each room sharing the systems and rituals that she uses. Featuring two-color illustrations, decision trees, checklists, and space to reflect and record what’s working and what you’d like to improve, Clean Mama’s Guide to a Peaceful Home makes home-keeping a breeze and allows us to slow down and focus on the things that really matter in our lives.

“Successful business entrepreneur Allie Casazza shares her powerful and proven method for clearing the clutter in our minds by first clearing the clutter in our homes, the place where transformation begins.”

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“Decluttering your home has never been easier with this step-by-step action plan. Plus, hundreds of genius tricks help you create a calm and tidy life. Often the hardest part of organizing is getting started. This attractive book from the experts at Good Housekeeping breaks down your decluttering to-do list into smaller zones so you can tidy up and whip your home into shape. Whether you’re looking to take on every room in the house or focus on trouble spots (like your linen closet and that junk drawer!), this step-by-step action plan will help you decide what to keep and what to let go, as well as give you neat ideas for putting every space and every room in order…and to keep them that way. With 5-minute tidy-up projects or a 28-day declutter challenge and beautiful photographs throughout, you’ll unlock the secrets to an organized home. Inside you’ll find how to: Divide your organizing projects into zones to make them manageable; Clear out your closets; Dejunk the junk drawer-for good!; Maximize space in the fridge, freezer and pantry; Free up overstuffed nooks and crannies; Boost bathroom storage. With inspiring yet practical advice from the home experts at Good Housekeeping, you’ll create order in your home and transform your life.”

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“With clarity and humor, bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. And for most of us, a rigid, one-size-fits-all solution doesn’t work. In this easy-to-read but hard-to-put-down book, Gretchen Rubin suggests more than 150 short, concrete clutter-clearing ideas so each reader can choose the ones that resonate most. The fact is, when we tailor our approach to suit our own particular challenges and habits, we’re far more likely to be able to create the order that will make our lives happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. In the context of a happy life, a messy desk or crowded coat closet is a trivial problem–yet Gretchen Rubin has found that getting control of our stuff makes us feel more in control of our lives. By getting rid of things we don’t use, don’t need, or don’t love, as well as things that don’t work, don’t fit, or don’t suit, we free our mind (and our shelves) for what we truly value. In this trim book filled with insights, strategies, and sometimes surprising tips, Gretchen tackles the key challenges of creating outer order, by explaining how to “Make Choices,” “Create Order,” “Know Yourself–and Others,” “Cultivate Helpful Habits,” and, of course, “Add Beauty.” At home, at work, and in life, when we get our possessions under control we feel both calmer and more energetic. With a sense of fun, and also a clear idea of what’s realistic for most people, Gretchen Rubin suggests dozens of manageable steps for creating a more serene, orderly environment–one that helps us to create the lives we yearn for.”

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“Are you constantly striving to keep up with life’s busy expectations? It’s easy to feel consumed with the desire to “succeed” and “acquire” and miss the simple opportunities waiting for you to slow down: a walk in the forest, sharing laughter with family, a personal moment of gratitude…Slow provides practical advice and fascinating insights into: messiness to mindfulness, decluttering to de-owning, asking why to asking where to now? Slow is an invitation to live, not just to exist.”

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“From the hit A&E show Hoarders, psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio shows readers how to take control of their stuff and de-clutter their lives. The once little-known condition of hoarding has become a household phrase– in part due to the popularity of the Emmy Award-winning television show Hoarders, which has captivated audiences with its stark and heartbreaking look at the people who suffer from this paralyzing condition. Our fascination with hoarding stems, according to Dr. Robin Zasio, from the fact that we all fall somewhere on the hoarding continuum. From compulsive shoppers to hobbyists and collectors to ordinary, run-of-the-mill pack rats– to some degree or another, we all hoard. Dr. Zasio shares behind-the-scenes stories from the show, including some of the most serious cases of hoarding that she’s encountered– and explains how we can learn from these extreme examples. She also shares psychological and practical advice for de-cluttering and organizing, including how to tame the emotional pull of acquiring additional things, make order out of chaos by getting a handle on clutter, and create an organizational system that reduces stress and anxiety.”

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