Organize Yourself! [Paperback]

Ronni Eisenberg (Author), Kate Kelly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 10, 1997

The best-selling guide is now updated to provide even more help in our increasingly frenzied lives! The world today is more fastpaced than ever. Our lives are so busy that it seems impossible to get everything done, no matter how hard we try. Organize Yourself! is here to provide relief. This indispensable guide reveals a professional organizer's proven techniques for streamlining your daily life and provides fast, effective relief for common clutter, procrastination, and every other organizational ailment. Along with new ideas on how to make the best use of the computer, fax machine, e-mail, and voice mail, Organize Yourself! teaches you how to:

• save time and space
• handle paperwork quickly and efficiently
• keep clear financial records
• dispose of junk mail regularly
• pay bills on time
• keep an effective calendar
• plan events painlessly
• solve problems unique to working parents and much more!

At home or in the office, Organize Yourself! will put you on top of your workload and in control of your life. Visit us online at http://www.mcp.com/mgr

Editorial Reviews

Review

A professional organizer's proven techniques for streamlining lives and reducing clutter packs a book which hopefully will be consulted by the terminally disorganized. Here are easy techniques covering all the usual areas of organizing paperwork and paying bills - plus some modern dilemmas such as handling e-mail and voice mail messages. -- Midwest Book Review

From the Back Cover

The proven way to get organized once and for all!

No more procrastination—it's time for organization! If you're frustrated by your daily schedule, by the clutter in your house or office, or by the fact that you just can't seem to get everything done, this book offers the relief you've been waiting for.

With over half a million copies sold to date, Organize Yourself! has become the bible for overwhelmed people everywhere. Revealing a professional organizer's proven techniques, this highly anticipated new edition features the latest tips on using e-mail, PDAs, and other modern organizational tools. From preparing for a move to planning a vacation, from keeping an effective calendar to preserving your personal time, Organize Yourself! gives you simple strategies for streamlining your daily life that work. You'll discover how to:

• Save time and space
• Handle paperwork quickly and efficiently
• Make the best use of your computer, fax, e-mail, and voicemail
• Handle household matters, from laundry to grocery shopping
• Keep clear financial records and pay bills on time
• Get out the door on time, every time
• Dispose of junk mail regularly
• Plan events painlessly
• Solve problems unique to working parents
• And much more!

At home, in the office, or on the go, Organize Yourself! puts you on top of your workload—and in control of your life. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; New and Revised Edition edition (March 10, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028615077
• ISBN-13: 978-0028615073
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,364,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile buy, November 5, 1997

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V. Moore "charito" (Philadelphia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This book was quite helpful. It covered a variety of topics and the filing system was most helpful. Although this book is a bit dry and does make u thing the author is a bit anal retentive-nevertheless her techniques work and are worth trying. Especially if u are disorganized this book can truly make the difference.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can turn any Oscar Madison into Felix Unger, August 20, 1998

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This book will truly motivate people who are disorganized and always looking for things. The author offers a lot of helpful advice. The sections on Getting Control of Your Time; Paperwork and Household Matters were extremely helpful. It even has advice on how to organize someone else.

29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Earth Didn't Move, January 29, 2007

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I wanted to give this book 2 stars, but that seemed mean. It's okay. Nothing earth-shattering, not much I hadn't either thought of doing or had done. Much of it seems common sense, such as if you don't bake often, store bakeware on the bottom of other pans or up on high shelves where you don't need to get to it often. This book might serve as a nice primer to the uniniatiated, but I imagine that most seasonsed wives and mothers have thought of this stuff. Of course sometimes we get so busy, we forget what we know. :) Finding time to do it now that's another story. (Look at Proscrastination: Why you do it and what to do about it.) I wasn't blown away by this book. Perhaps because so much comes down to common sense. At least to my obsessive compulsive little self. Had I seen this in the bookstore, I would have seen that I didn't need it. However, it sounded good online and I was looking for help and trying to find it in a book. This might make a great fun shower gift or for recent grad. A nice book to have as reference, I guess. Stuff you could figure out for yourself, but all in a concise place. Then, of course, I guess there are "real [slobs]" out there to whom this stuff really isn't second nature. Yep, I just thought of one, and I am going to send this as a gift. Bet you know one, too. So buy it and if you don't end up needing it, send it to them, with a note explaining that it is helping you organize, including your books, and you're passing on the ones you're finished with. :)