About this title: Who would you be if you felt at peace and had more time and money? An organized life enables you to have more freedom, less aggravation, better health, and to get more done. For nearly twenty years, Regina Leeds-named Best Organizer by Los Angeles magazine-has helped even the messiest turn their lives around. Anyone can get organized-shell prove it to you! One Year to an Organized Life is a unique week-by-week approach that you can begin at any time of year. Regina helps you break down tasks and build routines over time so that life becomes simple, not overwhelming. * Master time ...
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Your search:Books»One Year to an Organized Life: From Your Closets to Your Finances, the Week by Week Guide to Getting Completely Organized for Good(21 available copies)
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Da Capo Pr
Date Published: 2007-12-31
ISBN-13:9781600940569ISBN:1600940560
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"Another in my occasional series of organizing books. I liked it...sort of. Her perky Zenlite schtick got tedious after a while. This is firmly aimed at women with houses and families; being a single apartment dweller, an awful lot was not applicable to me. Nothing groundbreaking, and she's awfully into journalling, but she is friendly and encouraging enough that I tackled a couple of boxes that have been unsorted for over a year. Not bad but not my thing."
"What I learned from this book is that organizing can be done - baby step by baby step, one day at a time. The author gives realistic time frames for doing certain things and has lots of good ideas for organizing nearly everything the kitchen to the holidays. I'd like to own this book."
"Week-by-week detailed steps for organizing your life
Regina Leeds starts with your mother's philosophy: There's a place for everything. She provides all the details you need week-by-week and month-by-month to help you stop searching for keys and remote controls, and quit wondering when your dental appointment is. With her help, you can change from time-wasting time mode to "just do it" mode. The weekly organizational activities on her agenda range from one hour to a full day, though she rarely asks you to tie up an entire day. Leeds knows many people have busy schedules and an overwhelming amount of work to do in organizing their lives. getAbstract finds that her orderly approach might help you transform your life or, at least, your closet."
"The idea behind Regina Leeds' book is that you break down each area of your house month by month and devote the entire month to reorganizing it. At the end of the year, voila, your life is completely organized. Since I only had the book for two weeks from the library, that wasn't going to work -- so I read the whole thing and took the tips I needed...and I think I can accomplish a lot of what Leeds writes about in much less than a year.
Her method of thinking about organizing is a good one, and is by far the most helpful aspect of the book for me. The idea of breaking your cleaning/organinzing down room by room and section by section is extremely helpful in making the chaos seem less overwhelming. Using this book, I easily came up with plans to tackle the disorder in my kitchen, bathrooms, home office, and living room. But I can work on them an hour at the time rather than devoting an entire day/weekend/week to the chaos.
I found quite a bit of the book impractical. Leeds asks each reader to keep a journal throughout their year of organizing, in which to write down feelings, answer questions, etc. to help determine WHY they have become so disorganized in the first place. A journal, seriously? Clearly I don't have time to keep my house organized...so do I really have time to keep a journal about why I don't have time to keep my house organized?
Overall, this has been a good resource to get me motivated to organize and to help me realize the problem isn't as big as I thought...but I'm glad I checked it out from the library instead of buying it."
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