Great Book - CLEAR YOUR CLUTTER

LOVING this book at the moment, got the bug about how Feng Shui works so well alongside decluttering and organising, and there is a great easy to follow section on this in this book. Easy reading that really makes sense - a great place to start!

I particularly liked the extract below - it is talking about making priorities for yourself, and why that is so crucial. When starting to get organised it is imperitive to start by looking at the bigger picture, otherwise you get bogged down by the day to day bits and can start to feel like you are losing your way quickly. See what you think - I hope it gets you thinking as much as it did me!:-

" Is the Jar Full? - favourite anecdotes that is said to have come from a talk about priorities given by Vice Admiral H. Johnson, who was the Director General of the Indian Coast Guard in the late 1980s. To vividly illustrate his talk, he brought with him a transparent glass jar and proceeded to fill it with small rocks. Having done this, he asked his audience "is the jar full?", "yes of course" they replied, since it was clear not another rock could be fitted in it. He then took a handful of tiny pebbles and threw them into the jar filling the gaps between the rocks, again he asked is the jar full - "Now it is" they agreed. Then he produced a bag of sand and tipped it into the jar - is the jar full now? - finally he agreed with the group that it was full - and explained how the jar was a mataphor for life. If you fill it with sand first (the small details) it leaves no room for the pebbles (bigger issues)..... and rocks (priorities in life). Life only works if you establish your priorities first and fit everything else around them"  taken from page 181 of Clear your Clutter from Karen Kingston