Secrets Of A Successful Organizer

"An examination of strategies for effective organizing"--

Mom’s Choice Awards Gold Award Recipient Professional organizer Barbara Reich offers a life-changing program—focused on decluttering and streamlining your home—that helps families live simpler, less chaotic lives: “Everyone should Barbarafy,” raves The New York Times. Mothers can feel like life is one never-ending loop. Just when one problem or responsibility is overcome, another one trips us up. But help is on the way: Barbara Reich has all the strategies for staying ahead of the curve—and she’s wrapped them up into four easy steps that can be applied to any organizing project: purge, design, organize, and maintain. The keys to Barbara’s success are simplicity and consistency. Room by room, she goes through the most problematic areas in the home—from the tornado-struck play area to the packed basement or storage unit—and approaches organizing in manageable bites. In addition to cleaning and organizing tips, she talks about how to avoid social overload, preaching the power of “No”—for example, when your child wants to attend six birthday parties in one weekend. As the mother of thirteen-year-old twins, Barbara offers insight into the lives of crazed moms as only a mother could. Combining the humor of a sympathetic friend and the no-nonsense advice of a true type-A personality, Reich offers clever, appealing solutions that are genuinely achievable for everyone.

An organizing manifesto for the twenty-first century, Playbook for Progressives is a must-have for the activist’s tool kit. This comprehensive guide articulates pragmatically what is required in the often mystifying and rarely explained on-the-ground practice of organizing. Here, Eric Mann distills lessons he learned from over forty years as an organizer, as well as from other organizers within the civil rights, labor, LGBT, economic justice, and environmental movements.

Designed as a personalized planner, this book takes entrepreneurs through the process of market research and risk assessment. "The Organizer" helps business owners keep track of vendor names, payment terms, and delivery dates of everything purchased. Spiral bound and separated by tabs. Lies flat and can hold business cards, receipts, and documents. Illustrations throughout. Charts, tables, and worksheets.

Disorganization in your small business costs money. Because time is money, every moment you spend looking for missing information, redoing lost work, and coping with interruptions takes you away from more lucrative activities. Armed with the 57 organizing secrets in this book, you can save time, grow your profits, reduce your stress, and increase your productivity. Discover how to save your sanity by joining the clean desk club. You'll learn to eliminate the tiny fragments of paper and mountains of sticky notes that threaten your productivity and create a streamlined information-capturing system and organize files so they work the way you do. Other secrets show you how you can prioritize key tasks and delegate efficiently, manage your time, set up boundaries, and prepare for the unexpected. Get practical advice and creative ideas that will help you organize your space, time, thoughts and business systems, so you can focus on what you do best.