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In Behind the Clutter, lifestyle coach, business consultant, and professional organizer June Saruwatari takes readers on an intimate journey through her own "stuff" to reveal the secrets of how she tackled her own clutter to achieve her success as an entrepreneur and consultant to top CEOs and celebrities. This is not your typical "how-to" book from an "expert"- instead, June confides in the reader as a "best friend," vulnerably sharing the internal thoughts, belief systems, and attitudes that are the true cause of her external clutter. Through her personal stories and simple exercises, June applies her unique metric of "truth, love, meaning, and purpose" to all the stuff of her life, modeling for readers how to connect the dots between their internal and external clutter; master the spaces of their body, mind, spirit, and heart; reveal the masterpiece of their own identity behind the clutter; and create a life they love.
List of contents
Preface
Stuff Test
Introduction
Part One. The Foundation
Me & My Stuff
You &Your Stuff
Truth.Love.Meaning.Purpose.
Truth
Love
Meaning
Purpose
Part Two. The Journey
Shift Mindset
Shift Stuff
Shift Perspective
Everyday Rituals, Tools & Strategies
Let Go. Create Space
Move Forward. A New Way
Move Forward. The Best Journey
Conclusion
About June
About the author
June Saruwatari is a lifestyle, business, & relationship coach, productivity & organizing consultant, inspirational speaker, and founder of The Organizing Maniac. For nearly twenty years, her transformational approach of TruthLoveMeaningPurpose has helped hundreds of people declutter their minds, hearts, spaces, and stuff to create lives and businesses they love! The co-host of TLC¿s first season of Home Made Simple, June has appeared on The Nate Berkus Show and has contributed to publications such as Woman¿s Day, 31 Words to Create an Organized Life, and Practically Posh.
Summary
You are already a masterpiece
Have you ever wanted to know the secret to creating a life you love? How do you discern what’s really standing in your way of becoming all you were born to be? In Behind the Clutter, June Saruwatari opens her home and her heart to reveal the transformative decluttering approach that has kept her in demand as a lifestyle, business & relationship coach, and professional organizer to investment bankers, attorneys, judges, artists, politicians, writers, rabbis, university professors, doctors, mothers, children, Hollywood producers, and celebrities. The key to your best life is to master the spaces of your body, mind, soul, and heart, and let go of the clutter within and without.
In this part spiritual memoir, part self-help book, June vulnerably and relentlessly examines her own internal and external “stuff” through her unique fourfold lens of TruthLoveMeaningPurpose:
• TRUTH: What is the truth of my current situation?
• LOVE: Do I absolutely love this?
• MEANING: What is the meaning of this for me?
• PURPOSE: What purpose does this serve in my life?
With fearlessness, vulnerability, and childlike enthusiasm, June digs deep to uncover the thoughts, feelings, memories, and beliefs that lay behind the clutter – and shares effective strategies to identify both internal and external clutter, let it go, and create space for miracles. As you go behind the clutter with June as your guide, you’ll discover that you are your own best expert at designing your life, learn to apply your own TruthLoveMeaningPurpose to all the “stuff” of life, and uncover the masterpiece of yourself that’s been there all along.
