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The Life Organizer: A Woman's Guide to a Mindful Year [Hardcover]

Jennifer Louden
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)

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Book Description

January 10, 2007
Meeting with clients, hauling the kids to soccer, supervising the kitchen remodel — women today juggle so many commitments that many don’t find time to focus on their own dreams. First created for her own needs, Jennifer Louden’s Life Organizer is a datebook for the soul that helps women create the life they want. Divided into four sections, the first part defines “inner organizing” and explains how to use the book. Next, Louden defines “time monsters,” “minimum requirements,” “shadow comforts,” and other pertinent concepts. Fifty-two two-page spreads, one for each week of the year, include prompts for goal-setting and soul exploration. Stories accompanying each section show how other women have used the organizer to make a time for inner play and for finding the soul’s purpose. Most of all, the book helps women hold themselves gently accountable, giving them ideas to explore their inner needs and a place to record the progress they’ve made.

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Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

"This wonderful book is a tribute to the sacred and very practical aspects of time management. If you want a more soulful, clear life, follow Jennifer Louden's advice."
-- Judith Orloff, MD, author of Positive Energy

"You are not holding in your hands a book. Instead, imagine a set of sacred nesting dolls that you open, one by one, each delighting you more than the last. As you get to the precious one in the center, you find your own heart. It whispers, `welcome home.'"
-- Dawna Markova, author of I Will Not Die an Unlived Life and cocreator of Random Acts of Kindness

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: New World Library (January 10, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1577315545
  • ISBN-13: 978-1577315544
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 7.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jennifer Louden is the best-selling author of The Woman's Comfort Book, The Couple's Comfort Book, The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book, The Woman's Retreat Book, and Comfort Secrets for Busy Women. She is both a personal coach and social commentator, who has taken the concept of "comfort" and self-care, and made these essential concepts irresistible and essential to women around the world. Jennifer is a cultural visionary, harnessing her extraordinary ability to recognize women's comfort as both a fundamental need and an innate desire.

As women's roles and voices have evolved, so has Jennifer's mission, transforming from a well-read self-help author to a cultural leader and life guide, inspiring women to develop their own recipe for emotional, physical, spiritual and work-life balance. With Jennifer's prompting, women are encouraged to find their personal truths, to explore and unearth their purposes in life, purposes that resonate most authentically with their innate wisdom, creating the truest comfort of all.

Jennifer's books have been translated into nine languages and have been bestsellers in both Germany and the U.S, reaching hundreds of thousands of women. Jennifer has taught her lively workshops and delivered her humorous and motivational keynotes across the U.S., Canada, and Europe at hospitals, women's health centers, corporations, and universities. She has created and led innovative women's retreats since 1992, from the Omega retreat center to the wilds of Canada to corporate retreats. She is also a certified coach, and graduated from Newfield Network's program.

Jennifer has been featured in major publications and regularly shares her voice with an enthusiastic national audience. Her media appearances have included the Oprah Show, Later Today, as well as MS-NBC, CNN, and Fit TV. Articles about her work have appeared in Glamour, Shape, People, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Self, New Woman, Ladies Home Journal, Yoga Journal, Health, InStyle, and Parents, as well as many local papers.

Jennifer's name has become synonymous with comfort and the multi-minding woman. Recognizing the genuineness of Jennifer's vision and the depth at which people have bonded with her message, major forward-thinking companies - from Proctor & Gamble to Martha Stewart's Omnimedia - have seen the value of utilizing Jennifer as spokesperson, editor, or purveyor of truth, and always as an embodiment of authenticity.

Customer Reviews

Then I ordered The Life Organizer, being a great fan of Jennifer's work. M. E. Sumner-Wichmann  |  11 reviewers made a similar statement
It's entertaining, useful, practical, fun, and beautiful. Lois Lain  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
I'm going to buy two or three more right now and pass them on to friends as well. Pamela D. Blair  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
135 of 139 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Miracle Waiting To Happen February 20, 2007
Format:Hardcover
For years, twenty-six to be exact, I have longed to return to the life of my heart's desire, theatre. Instead, I cared for aging parents, moved to the country to raise our daughter and tried to substitute other creative endeavours for my lost love. As my daughter nears college age, this desire began looming again, creating no end of frustration and self-bashing for wanting something that was impossible.

Then I ordered The Life Organizer, being a great fan of Jennifer's work. I took some time for myself and began reading the first chapter and when I reached the line "Desire is the flow of life we yearn to swim in, the urge to be one with Spirit, and the way to stay in touch with this flow is through knowing what we want without insisting that we get it", my world blew apart.

It was like a huge weight falling off my shoulders. I felt free at last to let my desire flow, to stop blocking it with shoulds and impossibilities. Within days, my whole life had turned around. Now, instead of sitting here, falling into depression when my daughter leaves for university, my husband and I will be moving temporarily so that I can get my MFA in costume design. Everything fell into place, from finding the perfect place to apply, to renewing my old theatre contacts and finding more than enough recommendations to accompany my application.

Now, I will be using this delightful book week to week, to help me stay in touch with who I really am, while still carrying on as a member of this wonderful family with whom I am so fortunate to share my life.

Not everyone will have such explosive results, but I cannot recommend this book highly enough. As with all of Jennifer's work, it is truly a creation of the heart.
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89 of 91 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Like No Other February 28, 2007
Format:Hardcover
This very unusual book is not linear and takes some getting used to, but it's a powerful tool. Jennifer Louden has put a lot of years into studying what women need to do to sustain and nurture their own best selves. This book invites women to create a Life Plan, and shows intriguing examples of plans created by other women. This book can be used in so many ways: pick it up at random and you'll find a pithy quote you can ruminate on for hours. Try some of the more formal exercises, such as following the guidelines week by week. The Life Organizer isn't about making your closets neater: it's about penetrating more deeply into who you are every day, embracing what that is, and taking yourself to whatever is the next level for YOU. Jennifer, you just keep getting better!
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158 of 168 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Life Preserver for Exhausted Women February 26, 2007
Format:Hardcover
"I had to create a new way of dealing with the overwhelm after trying to squash my life into organizing systems that didn't fit and didn't help." - Jennifer Louden

I'm used to reading books cover to cover, so The Life Organizer by Jennifer Louden threw me for a loop. Decidedly non-utilitarian, I found the book disconnected and disorienting--at first. I set it aside in mild frustration.

But amid the dozens of books, audios, DVDs and decks strewn about my house waiting to be read/heard/viewed/reviewed, The Life Organizer kept calling out to me. I just HAD to pick it up...more than once.

Apparently, I didn't take the author seriously when she wrote:

"This is not a typical self-help book--it's not meant to be read cover to cover. It's not offering you advice and it doesn't contain a single idea about how to make yourself better than or different from how you already are. Rather, it's an interactive guidebook, a collection of possibilities to inspire you in creating your way of participating with life and with your gifts."

Ahhhhh...something different. An approach from the right brain--a place of intuition and heart-centered, body-honoring knowing, instead of the usual left-brain "do this or else" analytical approach.

Louden acknowledges that living from the inside out may feel like "we're making it up as we go along"--and this is perfectly normal. In fact, her method of life organizing is "fluid and flexible improvisation"--it is "always evolving and is unique to you."

So I delved right in to the Life Organizer--randomly and frequently--and wouldn't you know it...I found exactly what I was looking for every time! It was uncanny how I stumbled on relevant anecdotes, observations, or questions for contemplation.
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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book and psychic anchor June 27, 2007
Format:Hardcover
At a low point in my life, I am groping for ways to anchor myself. Books on decluttering, novels detailing spiritual odyssey, and poems have all intrigued, and been at least partially helpful. Just not on point, exactly. Louden's book distills and clarifies profound questions I didn't previously know I had. I find I mark something on virtually every page, as my instincts cry, "Yes, exactly"--or, "Think more about this; it matters." This book is both beautiful and nonlinear (yet not chaotic or cluttered--qualities unnerving to anyone with incipient ADD tencences! Visually as well as linguistically, it's a serene book). If you are not exactly depressed but moping/groping through midlife ennui, I heartily recommend it. Oh, by the way, I virtually never write book reviews, but this time it felt mandatory.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars good so far
this is probably going to be one of the better ones i have ordered. the only problem is i have to wait a whole nother week to read it again.
Published 3 months ago by Ashley Rene Clark
5.0 out of 5 stars What a gem!
Once again Jennifer Louden tapped me back into my heart's desires. I LOVE her books! This treasure chest of a book gently guided me through the clutter and noise inside and... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Rachel Egan
2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I thought
When I ordered this book, I thought it was going to be more of a guided journal. It's not. It probably has a lot of good information and stories, but that's not what I was... Read more
Published 17 months ago by K. D. Lambert
3.0 out of 5 stars One More Thing to Add to Your To Do List
In this addition to the author's list of other titles, such as the Women's Comfort Book, and Comfort Secrets for Busy Women, I noticed a slightly different format with pastel... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Dreamfisher
1.0 out of 5 stars Different perspective now that I have God in my life
I bought this book a couple of years ago because I was feeling an emptiness in my life and believed that figuring out what I wanted out of life would be the answer. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Amy
5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous Book
I adore this book. Jennifer's gentle wisdom is gorgeously written and presented. The whole book is worth it just to have learned the phrase "self-mercy. Read more
Published on January 7, 2011 by Natalia Erehnah
5.0 out of 5 stars Wondearful Book
This is not the first Jennifer Louden book I have read over the years. As always she finds ways to connect with us all.
Published on May 15, 2010 by Lori J. Crouch
1.0 out of 5 stars Dissatisified
This book should be titled something else! It is not what I expected it to be. I returned it immediately after looking through it. I am very dissatisified with this purchase. Read more
Published on March 12, 2010 by dee
2.0 out of 5 stars Not too spunky
It's a good book and a great concept, but not very spunky for a young 20 something. cute though.
Published on February 10, 2010 by R. T. alpers
4.0 out of 5 stars check it out
I opted for a used book and I have no regrets....with the exception of two scribbles on pages 1 and 2 it appeared brand new and I thought it was a great deal for the price. Read more
Published on April 25, 2009 by caterpillar
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