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Declutter Your Mind in a Year or Less! Audiobook By Kai M. Jordan cover art

A Guide to Mental Clarity

Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
4 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-26-24

"Declutter Your Mind in a Year or Less" by Kai M. Jordan is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to simplify their mental space and live a more focused and fulfilling life. Structured as a year-long program, offering readers practical strategies to identify, manage, and ultimately reduce mental clutter.

Content Overview:
The concept of mental clutter is tackled in manageable sections, each focusing on different aspects of our lives that contribute to an overloaded mind. Spread out with exercises over the course of a year it covers everyday worries and to-do lists to deep-seated fears and anxieties, the author explores how these elements can cloud our judgment and prevent us from living fully in the present.
The book is divided into six chapters, each focusing in on some ideas and then providing exercises on how to get started. This structure is particularly effective, as it allows readers to tackle their mental clutter in a systematic and progressive manner.
Digging into the chapters you will find yourself getting a view into the thoughts, values, what's really important, relationships and living in the present moment. Topics learned from earlier chapters return with a connection to other aspects in a natural way.
There is a bit of decluttering your physical space and tips if you didn't read the previous book. Showing how thoughts, physical space, and just being too busy lead us to that overwhelmed brain.

Strengths:
One of the strongest aspects of "Declutter Your Mind in a Year or Less" is its practicality. With exercises and actionable steps you can start using right away. The exercises at the end of the chapter help bring what was learned in the chapter to your life and apply it daily.
The tone is encouraging, and you'll find yourself rereading a chapter while practicing the exercises.

Challenges:
"But, a whole year?" I hear myself asking, and understanding after finishing the book. The changes will take time and it's been years to get where we need help. Expect a slow and 'stead wins the race' approach that our busy world makes acclimates you to wanting immediate results. This may be frustrating if you want a 'quick fix'.
Some topics and exercises feel like repeats of earlier work, but do have value in tackling again with new perspective and learnings since you started.

Conclusion:
Overall, "Declutter Your Mind in a Year or Less" is a valuable resource for anyone looking to cleaning up that mind space with some easy to follow steps and encouragement. Committing to the advice and exercises may take a while, but emotional well being and clarity will require more than just have a clean and organized home.

I'll leave you with my favorite quote from the book.
"I live my life by one phrase; 'there is no better feeling than simply being you.'"

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Decluttering Your Life in A Year or Less!: 3 Books in 1 Audiobook By Kai M. Jordan cover art

Good collection of advice for organizing home and

Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
4 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-07-24

Doesn't clean your house for you, but does offer good advice on getting your home and digital life sorted. The book tackles what steps to take and includes advice on getting to the root of why all the clutter came into your life to help you keep it clean and organized beyond taking the steps to cleanup.

Each chapter covers the next step and includes an Exercise, a writing prompt, to help think about how the advice will apply to your life. It's not a list of tasks, but setting up the end result and helping us get there.

The advice isn't anything groundbreaking or new, but does sound like a good friend sharing all they learned this year about getting rid of the unnecessary, cleaning up, spending less time staring at the phone and keeping it that way.

Overall it's a good listen to cover the basics and give you a roadmap of what stops you need to complete to get there.


I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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