Get Organized This Year With These 8 Great Books
Looking to get organized this year and don’t know where to start? These 8 great books will help get you started on the path of organization. As someone who specializes in books, sharing new and popular books has always been a favorite of mine.
The new year always is kind of a letdown for me. I am just coming off retail holiday season, and I am tired & cranky. My house is a mess because I have let it go for so long because I am too tired from work. Right now, if it was possible, I would head to my favorite Sandals resort and just relax and read for most of the day.
Are you ready to get organized this year? Let’s get started on this list of 8 great books to start you down your path.
Get Rid Of The Mess by Jenna Ford
You CAN break free from the clutter and the burden, stress, and overwhelm that comes with it!Even if you feel like you’re constantly drowning in clutter,the right guidance can help you declutter your home and finally get rid of the stuff you don’t need.
With an empathetic yet get-it-done approach, author Jenna Ford guides you through specific home decluttering strategies and how-to’s based on powerful behavior-changing principles, empowering you to triumph over your mess. Easy-to-follow exercises, will help you unlock insights about you and your clutter, putting you on the path to less clutter, less stress, more time, more well-being, and more of a chance to live the life you were meant to live.
You’ll learn strategies to:
- Get motivated to start and finish decluttering your home
- Create and execute a personal decluttering plan based on your unique situation, including sample schedules and checklists, tips on how to break your project into manageable tasks, and tips for organizing your home.
- Overcome your decluttering obstacles, such as emotional attachment to your stuff, fear of letting go, perfectionism, and the unrelenting feelings of “what if I need it later?” by tapping into tools rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy principles.
- Engage your family or roommates in the process.
- Achieve long-term, sustainable success by tapping into lifestyle modifications and techniques such as time blocking and habit stacking.
Get Rid of the Mess is not another temporary fix to decluttering. It will help you:
- Get to the root of your clutter issues and your mess
- Shift your mindset to get you into action
- Change your behavior so you get rid of your mess now and maintain a neater home
- Uncover the time and space you need to thrive and focus on what matters most
Say goodbye to chaos and make room for joy, purpose, and fulfillment. Your journey to a clutter-less life starts here.
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Organizing Solutions For People With ADHD Susan C. Pinsky
Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 3rd Edition offers cutting-edge strategies for anyone who wants to improve their physical space, time management, and peace of mind.
This revised and updated version also includes helpful assessments of the latest digital tools for organization and new research on the ADHD brain.About 4.4% of the adult population—over 13 million Americans—have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD.) Yet four out of every five are not even aware of it, and how it can affect their professional and personal lives if not managed well. Written by professional organizer Susan Pinsky, Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 3rd Edition outlines a practical life management approach that emphasizes easy maintenance techniques and maximum efficiency, catering to the specific needs of the ADHD population.
Divided into two easy-to-read sections, the first covering this life-changing new method and the second showing how to implement it in each part of the home, Susan’s practical solutions address the most common organizing dilemmas among her ADHD clientele, while also drawing on her own personal experience as the mother of a child with ADHD.
The projects section, organized by the type of room or task, consists of practical organizing solutions for people living with ADHD:
- At work: prioritizing, time management, and organizing documents
- At home: paying bills on time, decluttering your house, scheduling and keeping appointments
- With kids: driving them to various activities, grocery shopping and meals, laundry, babysitters, organizing drawers and closets
- At leisure: organizing time for your social life, gym, and various other hobbies and activities
Color photographs are featured throughout, as well as sidebars and testimonials from adults with ADHD, providing numerous organizational tips, such as the importance of dividing time into minutes or moments, task completion, how to avoid procrastination, asking for help, and minimizing unnecessary stuff.
Get your life in order with this witty and sympathetic guide to organization.
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Personal Tip: I added this title because while it is focused on people with ADHD, many of the tips are good for any of us!
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How To Get Organized And Manage Your Time For Success by M.J. Sage
Ready to optimize your life to create successful habits? Then this book is for you!
Our world is full of distractions. It’s easy to get stuck in the daily grind and neglect the choices that set us up for a healthier, happier path.
Creating the right habits for you doesn’t have to be complicated.
You can achieve balance by making room for the attitudes and behaviors that give you a sense of peace and pride in your daily life.
If you want to bring more order to your life and expand your potential, you need to learn How To Get Organized And Manage Your Time For Success .
Organizing your life will allow you to efficiently make room for the successful habits you want to introduce.
Take control over your time by investing it to benefit yourself, not just meet your needs.
Inside this book, you’ll discover everything you need to know about:
- how to create successful habits to work smarter, not harder
- optimizing your life for daily efficiency in time and managing tasks
- creating space for what you want to spend your time on
- how to develop these habits into sustainable, long-term behaviors
…plus all the tips and tricks to get you started on your path to success today!
You can have freedom and success! No longer will you be held back by a cluttered life.
Learn how to take back your own time with How To Get Organized And Manage Your Time For Success !
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The Happy Minimalist by Marc Reklau
Become happier, more relaxed, and more focused with less stuff
Do you feel overwhelmed and exhausted?
Do you want to feel more happiness?
Do you want to ban anxiety and stress from your life?
Do you have too much stuff you haven’t used for a long time?
In his latest book, Marc Reklau shows you how to adapt a minimalist lifestyle with simple and practical exercises. What starts with decluttering your home and giving away some clothes will lead to better decision-making, more clarity, more time, better relationships, and ultimately a life full of joy.
In this book, you will learn…
- How to use Minimalism to improve all areas in your life
- How to simplify and enhance every single one of these areas.
- How to use Minimalism in your unique situation
- How to find YOUR style of Minimalism
- How to tack back control of your life and claim your freedom
- How simplifying your life will lead to more happiness.
- How to distinguish the unnecessary from the truly important
- How to eliminate unimportant things to concentrate on the important things like health, relationships, and personal growth.
And a lot more.
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Simplify Your Life: Get Organized and Stay That Way by Marcia Ramsland
Is it really possible to simplify your life? The answer is a resounding “yes,” if you know the necessary steps to unclutter your life and lifestyle. Get the inside scoop from professional organizer Marcia Ramsland and begin to solve your life management issues like a pro. With fast-paced, step-by-step instructions, Marcia walks you through refreshing new ways to manage your daily schedule, your life at home and at work, and special seasons of your life such as parenting, the holidays, and transitions.
Simplify Your Life reveals do-able tips and practical systems using Marcia’s trademark “PuSH” Sequence?an acronym for Project, you (the key component), System, Habit?which not only gets you organized but help you stay that way. Tips include how to:
- Create the illusion of a clean home in just minutes each day
- Predict a pending time crunch . . . and sail through it
- Dissolve any paper pile by answering three key questions
- Power through projects you never get around to
- Learn how to put things back together when everything falls apart
Offering practical solutions designed to change your life immediately, this simplified style of living gives you and your loved ones more time to do the things you really enjoy starting today.
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Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won’t Have To by Melanie Cullen
Everything you need to get organized
Do your loved ones know where to find your insurance policies, passwords, title to your car, real estate deeds, health care directive, or even your will?
If you’re like a lot of people, you keep important information—from automated bill-pay details to passwords to the location of important documents—in your head or stashed in the odd desk drawer. Unfortunately, this disorganization will cause hassles for those who someday take care of you or your estate.
Get It Together is a guide and resource to help you gather your records and prepare important documents. With it, you create an organizer for you and a road map for your survivors. It provides a complete framework to help you and others keep track of:
- secured places and passwords
- employment and business records
- bank, brokerage, and retirement accounts
- personal property and real estate records
- dependent children, pets, and livestock
- insurance policies
- tax records
- estate planning documents
- funeral arrangements
- letters to loved ones
The workbook is comprehensive, yet straightforward. In the first half, you’ll find the pages to create your personal planner. In the second half, you’ll find step-by-step instructions and helpful resources to guide your completion of each section. Examples of these sections are: How Durable Powers of Attorney for Finances Work; Types of Memorial Services; Choosing Your Executor or Successor Trustee; Avoiding Probate for Bank and Brokerage Accounts; and Leaving Your Vehicles to Others.
You will also find direction for:
- safely storing your completed planner
- maintaining your planner over time, and
- talking with loved ones about accessing your planner when the time comes.
Your purchase includes downloadable forms to make your planner. If you like, you can download Get It Together’s electronic files to create your planner. After saving the files to your computer, you will complete, print, and assemble the sections to create your personal planner. Later, when you want to update a section, you can simply modify the file on your computer.
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This workbook provides a complete system for structuring and organizing your information and documents into a records binder. For your ease, a companion Binder & Tab Set is also available. To purchase, search in “All Departments” for “get it together binder and tab set.”
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Get Organized, Stay Organized by Christine Shuck
Is your world stuffed with clutter? Discover a simple method to get organized and take back your life!
Overwhelmed by the constant pile of stuff that’s turned your every day into total chaos? Do you dream of getting organized but you have no idea where to start? Author and decluttering coach Christine D. Shuck has over a decade of experience working with clients to accomplish their organizational goals. Now she’ll teach you her step-by-step method to go from mess to success.
Get Organized, Stay Organized is your essential guide to re-ordering your life. Inside, you’ll learn how to break your tasks down to manageable chunks to clean up the chaos and keep it tidy for good. By going room-by-room, Shuck’s perfectly organized guidebook provides the process you need to get the properly-placed life you deserve.
In Get Organized, Stay Organized, you’ll discover:
- Guided actions to help you attack your clutter and create a home you’ll be proud of
- The true source of chaos and how to let it go and ease your mind
- How to break down large jobs into manageable tasks to make cleaning stress-free
- Strategies for tackling every room in your house to spread harmony throughout your space
- Case studies to guide you through your own process, and much, much more!
Get Organized, Stay Organized is the perfect tool to take your clutter down to zero. If you like easy-to-understand instructions, down-to-earth writing, and inspirational advice, then you’ll love Christine D. Shuck’s life-altering book.
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Plan and Organize Your Life by Beatrice Naujalyte
#1 New Release in Crafts, Hobbies & Home; Organizational Learning; Time Management; and Business Project Management
Learn about how to get more out of life, reach your personal goals, develop good habits, and create meaningful work from YouTube, podcast, and Instagram star Beatrice Naujalyte.
Start planning for success. Plan and Organize Your Life is a comprehensive and interactive “planning bible,” packed with proven advice on how to organize your life, create new habits, and how to work your way towards true self-improvement and personal growth.
Achieve your personal goals. In Plan and Organize Your Life, author Beatrice Naujalyte introduces us to the four pillars of an intentional life: planning, organization, productivity, and routines. With simple tools, such as a day planner, you’ll be able to master effective note taking and utilize minimalism in your workspace and homelife.
Design a system that works for you. This book is the ultimate guide to developing a planning system to effectively execute your personal goals daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. Whether you have professional, personal, or creative planning to do, this book helps you accomplish your personal goals, big or small, by creating new habits and setting realistic goals.
Perfect for everyday use, Plan and Organize Your Life is packed with:
- Tips and prompts on organization for your everyday success
- Time and task management tools to help you reach personal goals
- Productivity tips for personal growth and forming good habits
If you enjoyed books like Beautifully Organized at Work, Habits, or The Lazy Genius Way, you’ll love Plan and Organize Your Life.
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Don’t forget, now that you are ready to get yourself organized, you also need to stay fueled. Here are a few recipes to enjoy while reading these books.
Recipes To Enjoy While Reading These Great Titles
- I know that pumpkin season is over, but you really can’t beat enjoying a homemade pumpkin spice latte while reading a book.
- And if you are able to do some reading on a Sunday morning, why not have a Sunday brunch Long Island iced tea. Serve it with this Mexican fiesta breakfast casserole, and you will add a little pizazz to your day.
- Looking for a healthier option? Why not make a pitcher of orange blueberry infused water to enjoy with your new books!
- Or if you are trying to save some money after buying these books, but love the taste of Starbucks, try this copycat Starbucks pink drink recipe you can make at home.
- I do a lot of reading on vacation, so I try to bring the island tastes home and this recipe for an easy tequila sunrise is perfect to enjoy while you are curled up with a good book!
- Enjoying a book during lunch? Why not have these delicious easy ham and cheese sliders to make things simple.
Here are a few more useful posts to help you get organized this year. I know that you will find them informative and helpful.
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- Organize Your Finances For A New Year
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- Complete Guide To Getting Organized In The New Year
I hope you find that these books will help you to get organized this year. Be sure to leave a comment and let me know if you picked up any of these titles!
