ON THE SAME PAGE: How to make your life easier

Business is up and it's time to clean up, but all closets and drawers are full! Have you ever been overwhelmed by every little thing?

The Simplify Your Life Week takes place every year in the first week of August. Life can just mean different things to different people. Whether your focus is on physical or health articles, there are many titles available to you at the Manistee County Library.

• "Five Good Minutes for Your Body: 100 Mindfulness Exercises to Help You Accept Your Body and Feel at Home" by Jeffrey Brantley offers suggestions on how to recharge our batteries and function better in our daily lives.

• "Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation" and "Mindfulness Master: Transforming Mind and Body" are instructional DVD courses that incorporate scientific research based on ancient and modern techniques to reduce stress and increase happiness in our lives.

• Young adults may find "Mindfulness for Concerned Teens: Quick and Easy Strategies for Letting Go of Fear, Worry, and Stress" by Jeffrey Bernstein helpful. This book focuses on topics important to teens and provides skills that will help readers live in the moment.

• Mindful Day by Deborah Hopkinson and My Magic Breath: Finding Calm through Mindful Breathing by Nick Ortner introduce this concept to young children.

• Dishing Up the Sale: Simple Recipes for All Seasons in Your Garden by Andrea Bemis focuses on cooking with many ingredients grown in your garden or found at your local farmers market. His philosophy is to eat as close to the earth as possible.

• Jim Voltz's Simple Meals on the Porch, featured in our Michigan Authors Program several years ago, offers simple, nutritious recipes that families will enjoy. Drink recommendations and original works of art by Frankfurt artist Chris Patterson are included.

• Brooks Palmer develops a program for removing trash from a house in the book "Clutter Clutter: Letting Go of What Holds You Back". By offering advice on where to start and continue to the end, you won't get overcrowded forever.

• "The Life-Changing Magic of Storage: The Japanese Art of Clutter and Organization" and "Spark Joy: An Illustrated Masterclass on the Art of Organization and Order" by Marie Kondo are instructions for self-help that are structured by category rather than space work your home and your life. The result is only the elements that add pleasure and functionality.

• "The Sweet Art of Swedish Cleaning to Death: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Messy Life" by Margareta Magnusson urges readers to clean up their belongings as quickly as possible and enjoy the memories the process brings with it . .

• "Get rid of your life! : Eliminate the Habit of Clutter and Completely Organize Your Life Forever "by Andrew J. Mellen explores the causes of clutter and offers methods for clearing clutter and introducing organization into your life.

• "The Martha Stewart Organization: The Handbook for Putting Your Life, Your Home and Your Routines in Order" contains hundreds of tips and DIY projects to help bring order out of chaos.

• Joe Provey's "Easy Closets: Affordable Storage Solutions For All" provides homeowners storage solutions with easy-to-understand closet system instructions. Using text and photos, the author shows how components are selected and installed.

• "Simply Clean: The Proven Way to Keep Your Home Organized, Clean and Beautiful in Just 10 Minutes a Day" by Becky Rapinchuk breaks cleaning down into smaller, more manageable steps so you can find the time easily.

• "The Complete Cleaning Book: Tips and Techniques for Your Home" by Toni Hammersley takes a seasonal approach to organization and cleaning. You will find a wide variety of homemade cleaning products and cleaning lists included.

• "Simple Matters: Live With Less, End With More" by Erin Boyle argues that a small, simple life is better for the planet and our health.

• Lloyd Kahn's "Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter: Scaling Back in the 21st Century" is a photographic essay about the development of smaller houses and living with less.

Use these and more titles to make improvements and make your life easier. For opening hours for the Manistee County Library, visit our website manisteelibrary.org.

Kim Jankowiak and Becca Brown of Manistee County Library are writing the recurring article on the same page, which includes available library titles on a changing subject. Jankowiak is the reference librarian and Brown is the library's traffic manager.

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