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Happy New Year! What better time is there for taking stock and getting organized? I read a wonderful book over the winter break that made coming back from vacation and facing my mountainous piles of paper and stuff a bit more tolerable. “Pretty Neat: The Buttoned-Up Way to Get Organized and Let Go of Perfection” by organizational experts Alicia Rockmore and Sarah Welch offers anecdotes and candid advice from experts and real people alike on tackling organizational overload.

Entertaining and helpful, “Pretty Neat” covers all facets of clutter-control, from tried-and-true tips for conquering to-do lists and wrangling family schedules, to ideas on excavating inboxes, eliminating excuses, and delegating housework. The book also urges readers to stop holding themselves to impossibly high standards, and focus instead on defining their own, realistic organizational goals.

Some suggestions for developing your own meaning of organized:

Identify Your Problem Areas – What works well for you? What needs just a small tune-up? What needs a complete overhaul?
For each of the areas you listed under the Needs a Tune-Up or Needs an Overhaul, try to articulate what you think being organized should look like in a perfect world. This will help you understand the underlying causes of your organizational stress.

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