ClutterFree Revolution: Simplify Your Stuff, Organize Your Life & Save the World
$14.97
by Evan Michael Zislis
NEW EXPANDED EDITION! More than just a book about tidying up, this is a tough-love pep talk for American families. It is the quintessential pocket guide for clearing out, getting organized, and thriving with less stuff and more life. In the pages of ClutterFree Revolution, we meet Hope, a forty-something mom who fantasizes about living a more intentional life with less clutter (both literal and figurative). Through her inspiring transformation, we discover how a simple three-step process has the power to shift our paradigm around our things, and deliver a more rewarding life with far-reaching impacts beyond our own homes and families. ClutterFree Revolution is not just another how-to-organize book, it is a conscious consumer's manifesto - an invitation to a life-transforming paradigm designed to remind us what matters most, and that is: who we love, what we do, how, and why we live - because everything else is just stuff. ClutterFree Revolution delivers the simple strategies to simplify your stuff, organize your life & (yes) save the world. "ClutterFree Revolution does more than demystify the complexity of our stuff - it guides us through an honest conversation about what matters most." -- Dr. Melva Green, psychiatrist on the hit TV series, Hoarders (NEW foreword) "ClutterFree Revolution nails it! Evan inspires a new generation of conscious consumers. A must read for every household in America." -- Casey Sheahan, former President & CEO of Patagonia, Inc. "A must read for every household in America." -- Casey Sheahan
former President & CEO, Patagonia, Inc. " ClutterFree Revolution guides us through an honest conversation about what matters most." -- Dr. Melva Green
psychiatrist & host of the TV series Hoarders " ClutterFree Revolution delivers with heart." -- Xorin Balbes
founder of the world-renowned design firm, TempleHome "Elegant. Apply its sage-like and practical wisdom, and watch your life soar on the wings of new possibility." -- Rod Stryker
American yoga master & bestselling author of The Four Desires We consider ourselves reasonably informed, responsible, intelligent, independent-thinkers - right? We tout our nuanced understanding of what's good for our emotional well-being, our health, our relationships, our children, our schools, our businesses, our economy, our environment, our country, our planet. We talk casually about these things the way we talk about the weather and our favorite sports teams. But there is a subversive influence omnipresent in our everyday lives that has a deceptive hold on us. It shapes our behavior in a way that undermines what we know to be true. As citizens of a modern world, we have been deceitfully enrolled in a paradigm that encourages three ubiquitous evils. These things have become so pervasive, we take for granted how closely they influence our values and control our behavior. Like water to the fish, we have forgotten what we're swimming in - or that we're even swimming at all; and like fish, we go about our day-to-day floating with the flow. From time to time we sense something is amiss, but find it too difficult to identify - too close to navigate away from. Of course, I'm talking about consumerism. The three evils I speak of are what I call, 1) the cheap, 2) the toxic and 3) the too much. We're saturated in it. Like multi-generations of engorged geese, we have been force fed by a relentless corporatocracy consumed by profits. To get our attention, they inventively created what I call the big lie, a string of subliminal myths designed to reinforce a global consumer-base towards feelings of inadequacy and power. And we bought it - hook, line and sinker. Most of the stuff we buy is made cheaply, largely from toxic materials, and shrink-wrapped in plastic with the message that we're not good enough until we have the 'newest model.' As we get fat on junk food, gas guzzlers, gadgets, and yoga pants - bloated by the toxic stuff in everything around us, a small handful of con-artists got rich. Very, very rich. With all the Crossfit and yoga we do, we've not yet demanded a commonsense system of health care that treats wellness, no matter the cost. We're funding prisons faster than we're funding schools. We have no idea where our food comes from, or what known-carcinogenic chemicals went into making them. We've stopped caring about who makes our stuff - or what conditions they had to endure for their meager slave wages. Conscious consumerism is a movement to revolutionize what we buy, why we buy it and from whom. It inspires a curiosity about the origins of the goods we consume, and a commitment to ensuring those purchases support sustainable life. The result of this movement is not just good for us individually as consumers and collectively as members of the human race, it's also good for business and supports macro-ecosystems and economies on a global scale. How do we become conscious consumers? First, we must simplify. We must look inward and discover
former President & CEO, Patagonia, Inc. " ClutterFree Revolution guides us through an honest conversation about what matters most." -- Dr. Melva Green
psychiatrist & host of the TV series Hoarders " ClutterFree Revolution delivers with heart." -- Xorin Balbes
founder of the world-renowned design firm, TempleHome "Elegant. Apply its sage-like and practical wisdom, and watch your life soar on the wings of new possibility." -- Rod Stryker
American yoga master & bestselling author of The Four Desires We consider ourselves reasonably informed, responsible, intelligent, independent-thinkers - right? We tout our nuanced understanding of what's good for our emotional well-being, our health, our relationships, our children, our schools, our businesses, our economy, our environment, our country, our planet. We talk casually about these things the way we talk about the weather and our favorite sports teams. But there is a subversive influence omnipresent in our everyday lives that has a deceptive hold on us. It shapes our behavior in a way that undermines what we know to be true. As citizens of a modern world, we have been deceitfully enrolled in a paradigm that encourages three ubiquitous evils. These things have become so pervasive, we take for granted how closely they influence our values and control our behavior. Like water to the fish, we have forgotten what we're swimming in - or that we're even swimming at all; and like fish, we go about our day-to-day floating with the flow. From time to time we sense something is amiss, but find it too difficult to identify - too close to navigate away from. Of course, I'm talking about consumerism. The three evils I speak of are what I call, 1) the cheap, 2) the toxic and 3) the too much. We're saturated in it. Like multi-generations of engorged geese, we have been force fed by a relentless corporatocracy consumed by profits. To get our attention, they inventively created what I call the big lie, a string of subliminal myths designed to reinforce a global consumer-base towards feelings of inadequacy and power. And we bought it - hook, line and sinker. Most of the stuff we buy is made cheaply, largely from toxic materials, and shrink-wrapped in plastic with the message that we're not good enough until we have the 'newest model.' As we get fat on junk food, gas guzzlers, gadgets, and yoga pants - bloated by the toxic stuff in everything around us, a small handful of con-artists got rich. Very, very rich. With all the Crossfit and yoga we do, we've not yet demanded a commonsense system of health care that treats wellness, no matter the cost. We're funding prisons faster than we're funding schools. We have no idea where our food comes from, or what known-carcinogenic chemicals went into making them. We've stopped caring about who makes our stuff - or what conditions they had to endure for their meager slave wages. Conscious consumerism is a movement to revolutionize what we buy, why we buy it and from whom. It inspires a curiosity about the origins of the goods we consume, and a commitment to ensuring those purchases support sustainable life. The result of this movement is not just good for us individually as consumers and collectively as members of the human race, it's also good for business and supports macro-ecosystems and economies on a global scale. How do we become conscious consumers? First, we must simplify. We must look inward and discover