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Summary: When you've tried all the rest, get this book!
Review: A truly unique and helpful book. She has some wonderfully creative ideas for organizing the hopeless, and I'm looking forward to trying them out. I've read dozens of organizing books, and this one has completely fresh ideas.
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Summary: Truly Helpful
Review: A truly unique and helpful book. She has some wonderfully creative ideas for organizing the hopeless, and I'm looking forward to trying them out. I've read dozens of organizing books, and this one has completely fresh ideas.
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Summary: Disorganized and Frustrated? You MUST buy this book.
Review: I have purchased dozens of self-help books on clutter, disorganization, cleaning, and organizing. Unfortunately, I can not find most of them...because of the ongoing difficulty I have with "stuff." This book was meant for people like me, people with good intentions of "someday" having everything in its place so we don't spend an hour trying to find a past due bill, a late library book or coming across an invitation to a party held yesterday. Incredible frustrating is how I would describe my dilemma with "stuff." One bedroom is totally filled with overflow from other rooms in the house (my current method of "cleaning"). It holds(self-improvement)books, clothes, papers, bills, pictures, (self-improvement)tapes, boxes, files, baskets, cabinets, the list goes on and on. This book, unlike ALL the other ones I have purchased in the past, finally helped me visualize solutions - NOT conventional solutions but ideas which are helping me solve the chaos and confusion which reins in my home (and sometimes office). Read this book several times, try and re-try some of the suggestions, there is no one-solution-fixes-all recipe. But finally, finally, I have come across a book that spoke directly to me about these frustrating issues in my life that I thought were unique to me. I didn't get into this mess overnight and I know I won't clean it up overnight, but I now have more hope and light at the end of the clutter tunnel.
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Summary: Disorganized and Frustrated? You MUST buy this book.
Review: I have purchased dozens of self-help books on clutter, disorganization, cleaning, and organizing. Unfortunately, I can not find most of them...because of the ongoing difficulty I have with "stuff." This book was meant for people like me, people with good intentions of "someday" having everything in its place so we don't spend an hour trying to find a past due bill, a late library book or coming across an invitation to a party held yesterday. Incredible frustrating is how I would describe my dilemma with "stuff." One bedroom is totally filled with overflow from other rooms in the house (my current method of "cleaning"). It holds(self-improvement)books, clothes, papers, bills, pictures, (self-improvement)tapes, boxes, files, baskets, cabinets, the list goes on and on. This book, unlike ALL the other ones I have purchased in the past, finally helped me visualize solutions - NOT conventional solutions but ideas which are helping me solve the chaos and confusion which reins in my home (and sometimes office). Read this book several times, try and re-try some of the suggestions, there is no one-solution-fixes-all recipe. But finally, finally, I have come across a book that spoke directly to me about these frustrating issues in my life that I thought were unique to me. I didn't get into this mess overnight and I know I won't clean it up overnight, but I now have more hope and light at the end of the clutter tunnel.
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Summary: great book, but it got lost in my mess!
Review: I thought this was a wonderful book. Unfortunately, you really need a coach to get with the program - my copy is now mired in the mess of my bookcase and papers.If you really need this book, then do yourself a favor and hire a professional organizer for a couple of sessions to get you going.
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Summary: great book, but it got lost in my mess!
Review: I thought this was a wonderful book. Unfortunately, you really need a coach to get with the program - my copy is now mired in the mess of my bookcase and papers. If you really need this book, then do yourself a favor and hire a professional organizer for a couple of sessions to get you going.
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Summary: If you've tried everything else, try this book.
Review: I've been chronically disorganized for my whole life. Clutter just seems to perpetuate like a cloud of dust everywhere I go. I've tried filing systems, organizational tools, but nothing worked. Until now. After reading this book, which describes several case studies of chronically disorganized people, I discovered how to live with my chronic disorganization. I implemented a couple of novel ideas, and already crystals of organization are forming in my life, for the first time. Particularly helpful to me was the section on time management: Datebooks never worked for me. I now use the "Panel System" described in this book, which is so far, so good. I also liked the 'Paper Police', how manage out-of-control collections of things, alternate filing systems, and how to attack severely disorganized areas in different ways. The chronic aspect to this book is comforting as it describes me so well. So often organization efforts dwindle and die. Since filing daily is impossible for me, I now have several cubbies on the wall into which I throw papers and receipts (my version of the 'vertical filing' discussed in the book). If you just cannot keep your home or office organized, much to the frustration of yourself and others, this book may have insight that will help you. It sure helped me!
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Summary: An Extraordinary Gift to the Neatness-Challenged Community!
Review: Judith Kolberg has discovered effective systems and tools for handling the things - mail, papers, knick-knacks, books and all the other stuff - that clutters the lives of people who don't naturally organize with standard A-Z, left-to-right solutions. The book isn't written specifically for people with ADD. And ADDers don't really have the exclusive rights to disorganization, it just seems that way sometimes. As one of "those people" and an ADD coach, finding a source of new approaches that deal with the issue without being condescending and with wonderful humor is amazingly refreshing. People who aren't fortunate enough to have an actual diagnosis with a three-letter acronym to blame their sloppiness on will love it too.
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Summary: An Extraordinary Gift to the Neatness-Challenged Community!
Review: Judith Kolberg has discovered effective systems and tools for handling the things - mail, papers, knick-knacks, books and all the other stuff - that clutters the lives of people who don't naturally organize with standard A-Z, left-to-right solutions. The book isn't written specifically for people with ADD. And ADDers don't really have the exclusive rights to disorganization, it just seems that way sometimes. As one of "those people" and an ADD coach, finding a source of new approaches that deal with the issue without being condescending and with wonderful humor is amazingly refreshing. People who aren't fortunate enough to have an actual diagnosis with a three-letter acronym to blame their sloppiness on will love it too.
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Summary: Clever, Charming and Very Inspiring
Review: Judith Kolberg's approach to helping people conquer chronic disorganization is so clever, charming and inspiring you can't help but take action. The metaphors she creates for her clients and the stories she tells of real people's solutions to disorganization are incredibly motivating. There are many good ideas you can easily adopt. Believe it or not, you can't put this book down once you start reading it.
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