How to Get Organized Without Resorting to Arson: A Step-By-Step Guide to Clearing Your Desk Without Panic or the Use of Open Flame
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.61 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0971949565 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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-- Barbara Sloane, The Montclarion, January 17, 2003Franklin’s book is full of laughs and useful information for organizing office space. -- Jennifer Baldwin, ANG Newspapers, December 31, 2002I loved your book! I am definitely a cross dominate! Good luck with it--it's a gem! -- Pat Stirnkorb, The Fairfield Echo, February 6, 2003The Fairfield Echo. (Franklin) sprinkles her advice with amusing asides, turning what could otherwise be a dull subject into an entertaining read
Follow Liz's easy advice and you'll break free from the old organizing rules that didn't work anyway. She has helped clients achieve stunning results through her "anti-arson" methods. Here are some of the juicy topics you'll find inside this amusing yet highly effective new book: * What's your Organizing Style? (See Chapter 1) * How does a three smell? Yes, a three! (See Chapter 2) * How can your furniture solve most of your disorganization problems? (See Chapter 5) * What are the nine essential organizing supplies? (See Chapter 6) * What's wrong with most To-Do lists? (See Chapter 11) * How can you simplify your projects? (Se
You can often find her in better restaurants, carefully placing the silverware at exact right angles and alphabetizing all the floral arrangements. After telling her bosses how they could run their businesses better, she was heartily invited to join the ranks of the self-unemployed. It worked: the problems did not oc
"great tips and tools based on how YOUR individual brain works" according to Megan. This book has a casual self-published feel, for sure, but as a disorganized ADDer, I liked a lot of the suggestions.Particularly new and interesting for me was the idea of dividing readers into groups based on whether you think about items and tasks in your life spatially (where you are when you use/do them, where they are in space), visually (what the area around you looks like when you use/last used an object, what your work area looks like) or chronologically (when you used or will use an object, when you will do a task).Since I'm spati. Dated, But Solid Organizing Book - Especially for Those with ADD/ADHD The book offers a framework for individuals to build a personalized organizational system. After determining which organizational type you are and which productivity type you are, the book lays out a step-by-step process for building a system that works for you and you alone. Over time, the author gives you tips for fine tuning your system until it is running smoothly.I found the tips and ideas very useful, though the book was clearly written before the advent of smartphones and many of the web-based luxuries we have today (e.g. Evernote, . I'd give a 2nd edition 5 stars sfgirlee Though painfully outdated, I found this book very helpful. The focus on the flow of paper, physical inboxes (that hold real paper on a desk), post-its and filing in actual cabinets required a lot of creativity to translate the core ideas to the modern world. For example, learning my access type is Visual and that "out of sight, out of mind" is a primary driver of disorganization for Visuals explained why everything being "hidden" somewhere on my computer/tablet/phone is challenging but offered no suggestions on how to help myself in the ag