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Manufacturer: Keep It Simple Now, LLC
Author: Patricia Diesel
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Publisher: Keep It Simple Now, LLC
Label: Keep It Simple Now, LLC
Number Of Pages: 208 Features:
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A quick and easy read for professional organizing tips and coaching through your clutter. Topics cover home and office, holidays and vacations, and even the student. Cached date: AWS Called=true You may also be interested in these products:
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You'll learn many useful organizing tips 2008-03-28 I once was so disorganized that I couldn't find for three years an application to enter a magazine's "Most Disorganized Office" contest . . . fortunately, things have gotten better, but I still fall into bad habits from time to time . . . it seems that I'm not unique in this, either.
According to Patricia Diesel, author of A SIMPLE GUIDE TO AN ORGANIZED LIFE:
* [citing the National Association of Professional Organizer] One hour a week is spent on finding documents and 23 percent of adults say they pay their bills late because they lose them.
If you'd been there and/or done that, then you should read Diesel's informative book . . . it will give you many useful ideas that you can immediately put to use to deal with the various organizing problems you typically face any given day . . . for example:
* Items needed for the next day, such as keys, purse, brief case, backpack, should be placed, ready to take, at the door where you leave. To provide additional peace of mind, try putting things in the car the night before.
I also liked this one that seems so simple, yet for some reason fail to do as often as I should:
* If your piles are simply tasks that need to be done, why not try the 15-20 minute rule. Each day, dedicate 15-20 minutes to a pile and start paying some of those bills. Order those items that you wanted to purchase from the catalogs. Go through your magazines and only tear out the articles that you know you will follow up on. Maybe take the full 20 minutes to catch up on the reading you need for that upcoming project.
If I get one concept that I can apply from every book that I read, I consider myself ahead of the game . . . A SIMPLE GUIDE gave me many so many that I only regret space prevents me from sharing more with you other than this final one:
* The use of a timer can help you set limits for completing tasks and frame your time in a more manageable way. Choose your tasks for the day. For example, make phone calls for 30 minutes, file papers for one hour, and work on a project for 45 minutes. Set the timer for the allotted time. When the timer goes off, move onto the next task.
best organizing book 2008-02-29 I love this book because it helped me to understand how to stop the persistent piles of papers and items that kept appearing on my kitchen table and counters. The "Getting Started" section at the beginning gives the basics from the Professional Organizer point of view. The terms used in organizing are defined simply in this section. The body of the book is broken up into easy to read sections that let me flip to the area that I want to concentrate on without having to read a whole book in order. It is as if I had spent years clipping all the best articles on how to organize my time, my papers, my garage, my business, and my closets. But instead of a box of clippings to sort through, it is all in this tidy, sanity saving book. I always know where my copy is because I use it so much.
I would recommend this book to anybody who has ever been frustrated looking for an important document or is tired of having a pile of mail where the dinner plates should be.
