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| One Year to an Organized Life: From Your Closets to Your Finances, the Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Completely Organized for Good | 
| Author: Regina Leeds
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (19 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4033
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 1600940560
Dewey Decimal Number: 640
EAN: 9781600940569
ASIN: 1600940560
Publication Date: December 31, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Get Organized Step by Step June 1, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a home and garden author myself, I love Regina's new book and I've read them all! (It didn't make the New York Times Bestseller List for nothing!) Her friendly tone, combined with her "real world humor" and room by room how-to tips will help the overwhelmed and organizationally challenged person break their challenges down into realistic organizing projects. A great organizing tool!
 Covers way too much territory to explain a simple concept April 29, 2008
49 out of 58 found this review helpful
On page 24, Regina Leeds says just about everything that needs to be said on the subject: "Everything you do needs to be scheduled". This happens to be the same message David Allen delivers much more effectively in his "Getting Things Done".
Of course, saying it is a lot easier than doing it, which is why people like Leeds and Allen can count on their books selling year after year.
Leeds takes the approach of teaching you how to organize your life over the course of a year, with new projects every month. For me, the approach simply doesn't work. Too much territory is covered. For example, I'm not going to be moving into a new home, so that chapter - and the month's project - is wasted on me.
Also, Leeds is a bit too "New Age" for my personal taste. Tidbits like an "affirmation" for the month strike me as treacly. August, for instance, tells you: "I am guided with ease to my new home. I embrace the life waiting for me. I also bless and thank my current home. I release it to the new occupants. I am thankful for all the participants in this transition."
Regina Leeds has quite a following, apparently, but I don't think I'll be joining it.
Jerry
 Good idea, not so great execution April 20, 2008
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
This book has a great premise, breaking down a specific organizational task over the course of a month, and has you writing a journal while you do this. So why only 2 stars?
Too much info about the author. We continually hear about her own experiences, her high-end clients, etc.
Too much focusing on the past in the journal exercises. The more you dwell on the past, the harder it is to make the future better.
She calls herself the Zen Organizer, but there is a lot of New Age content in the book also. Would rather have had more organizational tips.
She has an entire month dealing just with Thanksgiving. Really. If she'd combined it with Christmas and New Year's, as "holiday planning", it would have been plenty.
The chapter on moving was pretty good, but should have been written with lists instead of all the good information being buried in paragraphs (and this was also a problem in other chapters).
Overall, I would rate the book 2.5 stars. Good premise, and several good organizing tips, but it gets bogged down in places. Check it out from your library first--you might prefer her approach to that of FlyLady.
An organized life lends to more time, less aggravation, better health and more March 3, 2008
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
An organized life lends to more time, less aggravation, better health and more - and professional organizer Regina Leeds here provides a set of guidelines to help even the most disorganized reader gain control over time management. These are organized in a series of weekly and monthly plans to streamline everyday life challenges, from making a home space more efficient to organizing travel, business and finances. Consumer collections will find it invaluable.
Start organizing your life inside and out! February 10, 2008
44 out of 47 found this review helpful
I read this in during a time of my life that felt most disorganized, chaotic, and out of control. My mom gave me this book, and I thought it would just be about physically organizing my home, but instead, it's actually about organizing yourself mentally and emotionally then physically.
The author takes you on a step by step process of imagining and reflecting on why you are the way you are--why you are always late or why you impulse buy or why you can't seem to find your keys. Through reflection, you are able to organize yourself internally and then begin the challenging but completely doable process of clearing and organizing your living space.
It also has a helpful section about moving, which happens to be a timely project for me (my husband and I are moving cross-country in a few months).
I plan on giving this to all my friends!
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