Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

Gretchen Rubin, the best-selling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project, shares one of her most important discoveries about happiness: for most people, external order promotes interior peace. She offers us the structure and order that can lead to happier, healthier, more productive, and creative lives in a new book filled with over a hundred specific ideas.

A jumbled workstation or overstuffed coat closet may seem like insignificant issues in the grand scheme of things, but Gretchen Rubin has discovered that organizing our belongings increases our sense of overall control over our lives. We make room in our minds and on our shelves for the things we genuinely value by getting rid of items we don't use, don't need, don't love, and items that don't fit or function.

Gretchen addresses the main obstacles to establishing exterior order in this short book that is jam-packed with ideas, tactics, and occasionally unexpected advice. She explains how to "Make Choices," "Create Order," "Know Yourself–and Others," "Cultivate Helpful Habits," and, of course, "Add Beauty."

We feel both calmer and more energized when we have control over our belongings. Gretchen offers dozens of doable strategies for establishing a more calm, organized space that enables us to design the lives we desire. She does it with a sense of humor and a keen understanding of what's practical for the majority of people.