How to Organize (Just About) Everything: More Than 500 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything from Organizing Your Closets to Planning a Wedding to Creating a Flawless Filing System
by Peter Walsh
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Author: Peter WalshEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-12-28
ISBN: 0743254945
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Free Press
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Book Review: Excellent organizing and overhauling strategies in list format
Summary: 5 Stars
Peter Walsh has done a masterful job at presenting good approaches to overhauling chaotic, disorganized situations. He has about 500 separate lists for different conditions, places, problems and issues. Along with Tom McNulty's "Houskeeping for Men" (Three Rivers Press) and "How To Get More Done In Less Time" by Leon Cooper (probably out of print), these provide the sequenced tasks and analyses for installing orderly, organized systems that should work for you (for physical spaces, time and finances), and not disrupt your systems.
Like all systems, you may want to personalize these by ordering them differently, leaving some steps out, or adding to them. I would add to sorting stage in the "take it all out" of a cluttered location, a box or container for shredding confidential or private papers.
I would very much like Peter Walsh and his publisher to make his lists available online and able to be rearranged for an individual's personal use.
I observe that a great housekeeper and a good secretary or personal assistant go a long way in installing and maintaining organizing. A good accountant and/or tax lawyer likewise are important members of your life's team.
I give this book a strong "buy".
7/20/2007, 7:45 p.m. PDT: I stand by my review posted quite sometime ago. It accurately describes Mr. Walsh's book. Perhaps, readers of this review do not care for lists. Organizing one's personal effects, structuring one's activities and establishing strategies in one's life call for analytic ability and management skills. No book can deliver these skills.
I observe that it is nearly impossible to describe verbally what is essentially a spatial mental capacity. The best way to acquire the required skills and techniques is to WATCH a skilled organizer work his or her magic. This is unless you hire a good housekeeper, personal assistant, manager, or executive (secretary).
The two other books I mentioned when I first wrote this review remain favorites of mine on getting to clean, tidy and livable.
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Professional organizer Peter Walsh presents this witty and enormously practical guide to getting it -- and keeping it -- all together. With more than 500 easy-to-follow how-to instructions, How to Organize (Just About) Everything is packed with shrewd advice and insider tips to make your home, your workplace -- indeed, every imaginable aspect of your life -- run more smoothly. Step-by-step solutions help even the most organizationally challenged take on:Kids
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