The Spirit of Getting Organized: 12 Skills to Find Meaning and Power in Your Stuff

by Pamela Kristan

On one level, The Spirit of Getting Organized is about sorting papers and using file folders. But, there's more to life than a neat office. After years in the field of professional organizing, Pamela Kristan realized that organizing was a doorway, an opportunity to find personal power and meaning. Organizing is an intimate encounter with life's everyday details that has the power to engage us profoundly with our soul, with our world, and with the farthest reaching, grandest patterns of Nature. Rather than pulling us away from spiritual work with mundane chores, organizing can draw us into the cosmos. Including pages for recording observations and exercise results, as well as a vast section of resources for developing order both internally and externally, The Spirit of Getting Organized can transform a dreadful chore like cleaning out your closet into an opportunity for an intimate encounter with your true self.

Genres: Self Help

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Truth be told, I never finished this book, but that was only because I don't have any need to get organized at this time. I picked up the book because I like her work and wanted to know what she had to say. Kristan has wonderful insights into how we view and relate to our "stuff."

[Janice]

http://www.pamelakristan.com
took time management workshop with her at simmons college, 2005

[Pamela · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked it. Some great insights for me. Especially the parts on acknowledging.

[Nikki Morse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Repetitive, but has some useful frames and suggestions!

[Olga Hebert · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an okay book...along the lines of The Life Changing Joy of Tidying Up with a bigger dash of realistic methodology.