Edit Your Life cover art

Edit Your Life

A Handbook for Living with Intention in a Messy World

Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Edit Your Life

By: Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
Narrated by: Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

An inspiring guide to focusing on what matters most in life—and hitting delete on what doesn’t.

Life is noisier, messier, and more complicated than ever. In our quest to keep up, we can lose sight of what we care about most, and instead try to do it all—with mixed results.
In this beautiful call to examine and edit our lives, writer Elisabeth Sharp McKetta shares eight simple ways to cut through the clutter, drama, and overwhelm of modern life to live with more intention and joy. Inspired by her own experiments with reprioritizing, tiny house living, and finding the right balance of work and family time, Edit Your Life brings together personal narrative and practical takeaway, with inspiring results.
Whether you’re pivoting, downsizing, relocating, or just ready to have more time and energy for the people and activities you love most, this engaging and practical guide will bring you on a journey of exploration and reflection—and point you toward the life you truly want to live.
Cleaning & Organizing House & Home Personal Development Personal Success Decluttering

Listeners also enjoyed...

Make Space for Happiness cover art
How Did I Get So Busy? cover art
From Mom to Me Again cover art
Mind your Minimalism & The Art of Hygge & Unlock The Key to Health And Mindfulness in Daily Life & Learn to Declutter, Organize, And Simplify Your Life cover art
Loving My Actual Life cover art
The Possibility Mom: How to be a Great Mom and Pursue Your Dreams at the Same Time cover art
Tiny Humans, Big Lessons cover art
Minimalist Moms cover art
If Mama Ain't Happy cover art
Stretched Too Thin cover art
Everyday MAGIC cover art
Managing the Motherload cover art
Manage Your Time to Reduce Your Stress cover art
Unstuffed cover art
Take Back Your Time cover art
You Can Have It All, Just Not at the Same Damn Time cover art

Critic reviews

“Living intentionally in our messy world requires work. Fortunately, in this inspiring and practical guide, Elisabeth shows us how to edit out what doesn’t matter—so we have more time for what does.”
—Laura Vanderkam, author of Tranquility by Tuesday

“Edit Your Life is a practical and philosophical guide to editing as a life practice, and a bighearted call to live a happier, more deliberate life.”
—Kim Cross, author of What Stands in a Storm

“A book of distilled wisdom and a life-transforming guide inviting readers to personalize what an ‘edited’ life means to them and what they need to let go.”
—Elizabeth Filippouli, editor of From Women to the World: Letters for a New Century

Praise for Previous Works by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

“Elisabeth McKetta is a wonderful storyteller who takes us generously into her life, which always seems initially off-balance, full of falls, disappointments, and reversals, and yet, in the end, joyous.”
—Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

“Captivating and evocative and original.”
—Grace Dane Mazur, author of The Garden Party

“Elisabeth Sharp McKetta examines the work of becoming oneself through the battle between the longing for travel and the desire for home.”
—Kyoko Mori, author of The Dream of Water and Shizuko’s Daughter

“For some years now, I have been reading and appreciating Elisabeth Sharp McKetta’s exceptional Poetry for Strangers project. With generosity, inclusiveness, and openness to the wonders of nature and the human spirit, McKetta reaches out to those strangers, encountered by chance, inviting them to participate in an art form that non-writers so often consider alien territory. She is a bridge-builder of the most original kind.”
—Lydia Davis, author of Can’t and Won’t and Essays One
No reviews yet