Product Description

What’s the favorite four-letter word of people who are less than fully organized? “Help!” So many technological, social, and economic changes affect your life that you need organization just to keep up, let alone advance. Many people have two jobs – one at the office and one taking care of things at home. If you have a family, you may count that as a third job. Caring for elderly relatives or have community commitments? You can count off four, five, and keep right on going.

No matter what life stage you’re in, getting organized can make every day better and help you achieve your long-term goals. Organizing For Dummies is for anyone who wants to

• Polish his or her professional reputation
• Experience less stress
• Increase productivity
• Build better relationships
• Maximize personal time

Organization isn’t inherited. With the human genome decoded, the evidence is clear: DNA strings dedicated to putting things into place and managing your time like a pro are nonexistent. Instead, organization is a learned skill set. Organizing For Dummies helps you gain that skill with topics such as:

• Understanding how clutter costs you in time, money, and health
• Training your mind to be organized and developing a plan
• Cleaning house, room by room, from basement to attic (including the garage)
• Creating functional space for efficiency and storage
• Time-management strategies for home, office, and tavel
• Scheduling, delegating, and multitasking
• Making time for your family
• Managing your health – physical and financial
• Finding time for love
• Organizing and cashing in on a great garage sale

Getting organized is about unstuffing your life, clearing out the dead weight in places from your closet to your calendar to your computer, and then installing systems that keep the good stuff in its place. Organizing is a liberating and enlightening experience that can enhance your effectiveness and lessen your stress every day – and it’s all yours simply for saying “No” to clutter.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29830 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-22
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover
Praise for Organizing For Dummies "This book is a wealth of valuable information, written in clear common-sense language. I wish I could have had this book years ago!" — Scott Baumruck, Executive Vice President, COO, Paper Industry Management Association "Organizing For Dummies covers it all…. This book will save you time, money, and many headaches." — Lillian Vernon, Founder and Chief Executive Officer — Lillian Vernon Corporation

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Clean up your act, get more done, and have more time for fun! Are you having trouble staying on top of everything at work? Is your home messier than you'd like? If so, this friendly guide can help. Packed with proven organizing systems and techniques, it shows you step-by-step how to get a grip on your job, put your home in order, and have more time for yourself and your family.

Discover how to: Get into an organized mindset Use organizing tools and systems Unclutter your home Take advantage of storage spaces Get organized at work Harness time-management techniques

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About the Author
Eileen Roth, founder of Everything in Its Place??, is a renowned organizing expert who's appeared on Oprah?? and the Today show. Elizabeth Miles is an author specializing in peak performance.

Customer Reviews

Organization will make life easier...
In my early single days, living in a one room apartment, organization was never a problem: everything had its place, and cleaning turned out to be a daily affair - one room at a time. (one area at a time.) However, once married with children, the task at remaining organized can be difficult as one has other people to contend with...time has passed and living alone can be an advantage: no one else's messes to deal with and one can organize selfishly, as YOU only know where the washing powder is kept. This wonderful little book provides basics for the disorganized individual, and if the tenets are applied, may find life a little easier.

To quote a cliche, it is in the details; less "stuff", material posessions that has a tendency to accumalate until one day you discover your garage resembles the city dump!

What is necessary and what is not?

"No, I can't throw my red, fire engine hat away, it has sentimental value."

Even though it has been laying dormant under a pile of old carpet in the garage and hasn't been seen in three decades...

I've met a few "hoarders" in my time, and the "junk" just gets bigger and bigger...the owner smothering under a pile of trash.

One feels better if one's material surroundings are few and in order...organized, because it free's up the mind and suddenly life becomes a bit smoother.

This book's basic message is "keep it simple".

Clutter is a reflection of the state of one's mind and attitude to life in general. I've always believed this because 9 times out of 10, a messy person or disorganized person, more that likely, reflects in their general behaviour, their direct environment.

Organization for Dummies is a text for people who've had enough, and desire a clean, organized personal and working environment (work is another area) and know that their lives will be better, less stressed, less chaotic.
than before.

A book to consider.

Organizing For Dummies
I thought the whole approach very common sense ... though my reason for reading it might make one wonder if I had any common sense ... at least now things are organized. If you need (or even just think you need) some help getting organized, I would heartily reccomend it.

Organized Information on Organizing
The great layout of this book will have you organizing your home in no time. Imagine an organization system that's also functional!