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Organizing For Dummies

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Organizing For Dummies by Elizabeth Miles and Eileen Roth is a comprehensive guide to bringing order into your home and life. It offers practical tips and strategies for decluttering, managing your time effectively, and creating organised systems that enhance productivity and reduce stress. This book is perfect for anyone seeking manageable ways to tackle chaos and maintain a neat, orderly environment in the home and beyond.
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A guide to creating order from the chaos of everyday life, including clearing up specific "clutter zones" within the home and office.

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Organise your office, your home, your life!

What’s the favourite four-letter word of people who are less than fully organised? “Help!” So many technological, social, and economic changes affect your life that you need organisation 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 having community commitments? You can count off four, five, and keep right on going.

No matter what life stage you’re in, getting organised 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
  • Maximise personal time

Organisation 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, organisation 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 organised 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 travel
  • Scheduling, delegating, and multitasking
  • Making time for your family
  • Managing your health – physical and financial
  • Finding time for love
  • Organising and cashing in on a great garage sale

Getting organised 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. Organising 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780764553004

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 November 2000

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 658g

Pages: 416

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.

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