advice on how to customize the lists to suit your house, your family, and your lifestyle Answering the one key question you need to get organized and live happily with just the stuff you love, Keep This, Toss That is the one organizing book you must have.tools and utensils that can do double duty.Featuring dozens of illustrated Keep/Toss Checklists, the book shows you exactly what you need-and what you can safely toss, regret-free (even if you’re a sentimentalist or saver)-in every room of your house, for each hobby or activity, and even online. Keep This, Toss That answers all of these questions and much more. Learn to say no to those things that will rob you of your precious time and infringe upon your agency to choose to live in exactness to God's plan of happiness and exaltation.Quick answers to the one key question everyone needs to answer in order to get organized and save their time, money, space, and sanity: “Should I keep or toss this?”Īre you afraid to open your kitchen cabinet because you know food storage containers are going to come pouring out like an erupting volcano? Do you spend hours searching for the email you need? Will you regret it tomorrow if you give away all your old concert T-shirts? And how many tote bags will you really use? With an uncluttered life, he continued, "you will not be so busy doing terrestrial things that you do not have time to do those things which are celestial. I exhort you to go to the tree of life where you will find the pure love of God." Constant study of them is the act of holding to the rod of iron. The next question would be, `Do I study the scriptures?' I solemnly testify to you that the holy scriptures are the word of God. "One of these questions would surely be, `Do I have time for prayer?' I mean sincere, honest, from the depths of the contrite spirit and a broken heart prayer. He said that one needs to ask some serious and soul-searching questions. A father must not let any activity, no matter how interesting or important it may seem, keep him from giving of himself in the one-on-one service and close, constant care of each member of the family."Įlder Bradford explained that young people need to learn that "none of the exciting, entertaining and fun things" are worth it if they take them off the path that will lead them back to their Heavenly Father. "A mother should never allow herself to become so involved with extras that she finds herself neglecting her divine role. "Next only to our devotion to God, the family comes first," he emphasized. It should separate need from greed."Īt the top of a list of basics must be the family. These should give you some ideas on what you could be doing to simplify and unclutter things from your life. Over the years, I’ve taken a conscious effort to keep things simple. It must be the product of inspiration and prayerful judgment between the things we really need and the things we just want. When you unclutter, you are still cleaning, but you focus on removing unwanted things permanently from your life. This list must follow the gospel pattern and contain the elements needed for our sanctification and perfection. "To do this we need to develop a list of basics, a list of those things that are indispensable to our mortal welfare and happiness and our eternal salvation. To unclutter one's life, Elder Bradford admonished, much has to be discarded. "We give our lives to that which we give our time," Elder Bradford explained. They are more subtle and just seem to evolve, taking control of lives. Some are obvious, such as material things, "the stuff we collect." Other things that clutter lives and use up time are not as obvious as the material. "It is a life in which the things you have surrounded yourself with, and allow to use your time, are controlling you, and negatively influencing your happiness and eternal progress."He said that lives can be cluttered by many things. "A cluttered life is a life that you do not have control of," Elder Bradford said Saturday afternoon. Unclutter your lives, counseled Elder William R. Unclutter Your Life: Transforming Your Physical, Mental, And Emotional Show full title By Katherine Gibson 4 / 5 ( 11 ratings ) About this ebook Are you ready to move into a bright clutter-free future From noise pollution to financial messes and stressful relationships, clutter affects ALL aspects of our lives-not just our physical spaces.
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