Joy at Work

 Shirley J.                Adult Non-Fiction                       Marie Kondoing your workspace and digital media

Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein     256 pages

Marie Kondo tells how to stop feeling drained by all the weight of the crap pile up on your desk at work, in your file cabinet languishing for years and all the electronic trappings of old emails, etc. on your p.c.  Marie Kondo takes you through getting rid of all the piles of clutter bogging you down physically and mentally as you come in to a mass of chaos begging to be organized and your mind crying to get out from under the sea if detritus washing you out to sea in its undertow.   Marie Kondo is all for getting rid of every piece of paper though she grudgingly admits there are some things one has to keep though if there is anyway to get around it Marie Kondo is for it and tries to come up with work arounds and tips to get all the endless emails, papers, useless tasks and time wasting meetings that do nothing but clog ones mind like the physical stuff clogs one's space.   She calls them the hazards of working that drain the joy from work, undermine our well being and limit our chances of career progress because what use is having piles of unorganized information at your fingertips if you can't fine what you need when you need it?   Better to shed it all than be lost in pandemonium.   She and Rice University Business Professor, Scott Sonenshein offer strategies to eliminate clutter and create a space for work that matters.   She uses her Kon-Mari method to overcome the workplace madness to create a positive, tidy desk and mind!   This book is part of a 3 book series that promises if you properly simplify your home and your work life once you will never have to do it again!   I recommend this series to middle-schoolers on up - it is never to soon to learn the proper Kon-Marie method of tidying your world!