
My favorite organizing books
By Judith Dold, Professional Organizer and Owner of Twilight Organizing

Here are some of my favorite organizing books. Head over to https://www.twilightorganizing.com/additional-resources.html for titles not currently available on https://bookshop.org/.

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
Margareta Magnusson
$19.98 $18.38An easy read that might give you new motivation to organize your home.

Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding
David Tolin, Gail Steketee, et al.
$25.95 $23.87A wonderful book that provides great tactics to those struggling with hoarding disorder and to their families. National Buried in Treasures support groups are based off of the information in this book.

Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring
Tamara L. Hartl and Michael A. Tompkins
$20.95 $19.27

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
$27.00 $24.84Building off of The Power of Habit, James Clear provides wonderful tips to help us create and sustain habits. Habit formation is a big part of clearing out clutter and keeping it at bay.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
$18.00 $16.56Habit formation is critical to sustained organization. This is an interesting read that provides simple tactics to work on habit formation.

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey
$18.00 $16.56

Add-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life: Strategies That Work from an Acclaimed Professional Organizer and a Renowned Add Clinician
Kathleen Nadeau and Judith Kolberg
$32.95 $30.31

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth about Extraordinary Results
Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
$24.95 $22.95Organizing can be a complex job. Distractions arise as we try to make progress: we are reminded of unfinished business, repairs that need to be done, etc. Gary Keller gives some very realistic advice on why the overall goal might seem far away, even with major effort.

The High Performance Planner
Brendon Burchard
$29.99 $27.59Scraps of paper scattered around the home don't well serve our organizing goals. Planners do a better job and this one will help you keep your goals in focus.
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