If you have more things than you know what to do with, or feel like you spend an inordinate amount of time rearranging too many things in your space, I highly recommend feng shui expert Karen Kingston’s book: Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui.

I feel the title is a bit misleading because she focuses on clearing your space in preparation of Feng Shui. Feng Shui is an ancient practical art for optimizing the energy flow of a space. I feel it helps with intention and really gets your space to support you in your endeavors. This book, however is about clearing your space before you make Feng Shui changes. Since Feng Shui can increase your intentions in areas, if you have clutter in an area that you want to focus on, say your professional life, or relationships, then Feng Shui will magnify the chaos. Not good!

She explains that everything in your space influences you on an energetic level. Something will either give or drain your energy. An item may do both, but very rarely will the item have zero effect on you. I especially like her book because she offers so many insights into why people collect too much stuff that you can’t help be inspired to start purging!