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Loading... Organizing from the Inside Outby Julie Morgenstern
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  carterchristian1 | Jul 27, 2009 |  Written by a formerly disorganized woman who got fed up with disorganization after her daughter was born, this book incorporates logical principles that can be easily adapted to your own situation. The author's idea of "defining your zones," for example, allows you to keep all the items needed for an activity in one place, even if that's not the usual place for those items. In other words, do what works for you. This book has plenty of ideas for fixing what doesn't work. Michelene1 | Mar 28, 2009 | If I had only one organizing book, this would be it. (  ) aelfwynn27 | Feb 3, 2009 | Julie Morgenstern helped me tame piles of paperwork and organize our house. In our modern life it seems like we have way to much stuff to manage. This book suggests simple but practices tools and techniques to organize things. I am particularly fond of her "Kindergarten" principle... everything should have a place to be put away right by where where they will be used. Reading this book also helped me appreciate how my tendency to want to organize things "exactly" can lead me to get nothing done... between to lump a few things together. I haevn't read it, but here later book about purging things would go well with this book. (  ) verber | Sep 5, 2008 | If you want to get organized, this is the book. You can make a career out of organizing after reading this. It's a very straight forward book that details exactly how to get organized. ( ) 89vine | Jul 12, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0805056491, Paperback)It's about time! Julie Morgenstern has written an organizing book that covers a new way of looking at the task of organizing effectively without labeling or blaming the person behind the lack of organization. Rather, she says, people who don't organize just never learned how to organize, through no fault of their own--after all, it's not a skill that's taught in school. That said, she gets down to work helping you figure out an organizing system that will really work for you, not a system based on cookie-cutter filing concepts or special storage units.Morgenstern's "from the inside out" system begins by laying out the possible reasons for a failure of organization: technical errors (like having a complex organizing system that breaks down), external realities (like not enough space for your belongings), and psychological obstacles (like fear of failure--or success). Then, her Analyze and Strategize steps help create a plan of action based on your needs and goals, and the brief chapter called "Attack: Getting the Job Done" offers basic ideas for making space. The largest section of the book, "Applying What You've Learned," addresses the specifics of organizing workspaces, home offices, living spaces, and storage areas. Each section has a "How Long Will It Take?" box that gives a realistic time estimate, and Morgenstern's "Julie's No-Brainer Toss List" for each area gives the permission and encouragement that most of us have been waiting for to get rid of things we'll never use again. The section at the end, "Tackling Time and Technology," is worth its weight in DayTimers and PalmPilots. Whatever your organizing issues are, you're not a hopeless case, and you don't need special equipment--just a little understanding of the problem and a willingness to plan before diving in. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I bought this as a guide, thinking that it would not only help organize my possessions, but organize my life.
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