Organize Your Life: Free Yourself from Clutter and Find More Personal Time
In this it's all about me age, Eisenberg and Kelly (creators of Organize Yourself! 2005) have triggered the universal hot button: how to find more personal time for you, your circle of loved ones, and your interests and passions. No area of life is held sacred here; the organizers poke into work, home, family, and vacation routines with advice that often sounds suspiciously like business solutions. Outsourcing, for one; throughout almost every chapter, they advise hiring professionals for whatever looms large—and might consume valuable time, from teaching kids how to drive to retaining household help. Common sense rules; the theme of consolidation, for instance, appears within to-do lists, master address lists, universal remotes, even labeling. Some of their organizational wisdom is original: clear clutter quickly by working the room as if it were a clock's face; begin subdividing files when one grows to three-fourths of an inch thick; and invite one birthday-party guest for every year of your child's life (plus one). Presented are five different sidebars (quick starts, sanity savers, time savers, time boosters, mini vacations), all providing useful hints. Jacobs, Barbara