Okay, so I would like to share with you some of the book recommendations and video recommendations that we have on the topic of organizing and minimalism and self care. When you're going through and you're trying to find inspiration because you love reading, we really recommend a few authors. For instance, when we first started to find out about the industry of professional organizing, Julie Morgenstern was one of the best authors and one of the most well known authors on the topic in the United States. The reason being that she was a person who self proclaimed called herself a disorganized person, but when she had her daughter, she was forced into getting organized. And since then she has grown quite a large enterprise in the US and teaches and shares a lot of really great information. So organizing from the inside out is a great book by Julie Morgenstern.

There are also other authors like Peter Walsh, and also Gail Stuckey. She is a leading researcher out of Boston University on the topic of hoarding tendencies. So you can learn a lot from some of her content that she has written with Randy frost. There's a book called stuff. It's about acquiring and and collecting things. So all of those kinds of things even though you might not consider yourself to be someone with hoarding tendencies, learning more about that topic really helps us kind of dive into why do we keep things just for the sake of keeping things or why do we collect things as humans, there's a lot of psychology behind that.

And in terms of the treatments for people with hoarding tendencies, there isn't a lot moving forward, but there is cognitive behavioral therapy and they talk a lot about that in their books. If you're looking for just more kind of light and easy reads, there are things like Marie Kondo, who is the life changing Magic of Tidying Up or spark joy. So she has really fast, easy reads, and she goes through her own process and kind of talks about that and in spark joy. It comes with a lot of different cartoons. So you might enjoy reading that content. For those of you who don't like reading and Reading to be a little bit overwhelming.

We do recommend TED Talks, we actually wrote a blog very early on in our career about the four best TED talks that existed about stuff and about letting go of stuff. So we're going to share that resource with you below. There's four really great talks that we think it's a great way to spark a conversation with someone. And it's also a great way to kind of reflect on the inside and look at, you know, how difficult it can be. Even around the world. There's the talk from South Africa, talk from Canada, talk from the US.

So it's not just something that exists probably where you are, it's around the world. There's also a TED education video that we're going to include, and that's why we keep things that we don't necessarily need. And that's a really short video. So all of this content is really digestible and easy to watch, and especially if you only have a short amount of time. And then the last thing we want to talk about is a couple of documentaries. The first one being minimalism, a documentary about the important things.

This was a documentary We brought to our local theater here in Waterloo, Ontario, when it was released in 2016. It's an excellent film for bringing up a conversation about consumerism, about how we buy things about how we're marketed to, and about how living in today's society when there's an abundance of things, how you can carve out and create a lifestyle that you love. So whether you have a three story house or you live in a tiny house, it really touches on a lot of different things there. And there are a few other documentaries that will include the link to but we just want to give you other resources so that you know, your education doesn't have to stop here. If you're somebody who's a self directed learner, you can go out and you can find this kind of content and it can be very, very helpful.

We also have our own book, a recipe for an extraordinary life. But again, it talks about what there's one chapter specifically about stuff about decluttering about getting organized, but there are six other parts to our book. So we try and look at life from a holistic perspective. So it That's a recipe for an extraordinary life. We encourage you to use your library system if you have one close to you. They're always willing to bring more books into their catalogue if you can request them.

And it's a lot easier to pass those things along as opposed to storing a larger and larger library as you keep reading. So I hope you enjoyed these resources. If you have some that we didn't mention or share in this video, we'd be really happy to have your recommendations, something that helped you in your journey and we'll see you in the next video.