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Very Pleased

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I have been so excited about Regina Leeds books. The first one I read was "The Zen of Organizing". After reading her first book, I had to find her other books. She is sensational.

BTW, I believe her newest book, "One YEar to an Organized Life," is the best of all and really motivates one to be on the mark and ready to go toward an organized life.

I am really going to be refined in this new organized life by the end of this year!!!

Susan L. Curtin

Preachy

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I bought this book because I am always looking for hints to help me help my ADHD husband become more organized. This book was more about Regina Leeds than about organizing. And she characterized those with ADD/ADHD as "lazy" which demonstrated her enormous ignorance. I tossed it into the recycling bin.

Too much tofu, not enough meat

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Yes, I need to organize my office - but I also need to organize my books, my closet, the pantry shelves, and the cat's toys. I am cognizant of the deep psychological implications of constant clutter, but I would prefer to get my space organized before I meditate on that aspect of the disarray. And I totally agree with the reviewer's comment about overpriced dinner parties. Let's get real! No `housewives, corporate execs and business people' I know would fritter that amount of money on dinner, nor do I consider movie stars or producers to be realistic role models for organized living.

For me, this book neither confronted nor eased the painful step-by-creaking step journey of sifting your precious possessions, only to come to the realization that what you have been keeping is not a `memento' but an anchor to your past and a hindrance to your progress. Far from her desire to bridge the gap between Thomas Moore and Suze Orman, she made the environment more confusing. This book is neither `Zen' nor `die-hard' organizing; it's more like `Reality TV'.

Although some people doubt the authenticity of Feng Shui, it has been an essential planning tool in the Far East for thousands of years - chicanery cannot survive that long! A fundamental precept is that one must be organized, uncluttered, to succeed in life. A FAR better anti-clutter book is 'Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life' by Karen Rauch Carter. It does lack an index, but her ideas are much more concrete and, no, you do not have to paint your front door purple.

For an introspective, esoteric view of clutter, read 'Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui' or `Creating Sacred Space With Feng Shui', both by Karen Kingston. Although it is not an instruction book on organization, `Sacred Space' by Denise Linn also confronts on the deep-seated malaise of clutter.

Just an Okay Organizing Book

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I expected more from this book. I was looking for some great organizing tips, but there was nothing new in this book that I haven't read elsewhere before. Many of the tips (and the zen philosophy on being organized) could be found for free on the internet. If you're new to organizing or not very organized at all, this book may help you. If you're pretty organized to start with, you won't find anything special.

Great, but need to adapt to your situation

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The author notes that most of her clients have assistants and/or housekeepers. I have neither, but am my own in both cases. I did find the book inspirational, though not a read from cover to cover. I'm flipping through several organizational/clutter buster books at one time.