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One Year to an Organized Work Life: From Your Desk to Your Deadlines, the Week-by-Week Guide to Eliminating Office Stress for Good Kindle Edition

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For many of us, the workplace is our second home...and it's just as messy. But who would you be if you felt totally in control of your schedule, your workload, and your career? One Year to an Organized Work Life is a unique week-by-week, month-by-month system to streamline your workspace, take the anxiety out of your job, and have more time for what you love.

Using her unique -- Zen organizing -- approach, professional organizer Regina Leeds shows readers the simple steps to get more done in less time -- from clearing your desk and organizing your files to dealing with email and making meetings efficient. Regina helps you tackle the sources of stress, disorganization, and time management difficulties so that over time, life becomes easier, not overwhelming.

Whether you're looking to advance your career, balance your work and family, or just deal with the daily deluge of paperwork, One Year to an Organized Work Life will help you spend less time at the office and go home happy.

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In the natural follow-up to her bestselling "Zen organizing" primer One Year to an Organized Life, Leeds presents a comprehensive guide to office efficiency. Like its predecessor, this volume is a kind of self-help boot camp, complete with month-by-month and week-by-week guides, with themes ("January: Start Fresh," "March: Stop Paper Pileups"), habits ("Make your bed," "Be grateful," "Say no") and clearly-defined weekly exercises, including tips for dealing with everyday tasks like checking email and booking business travel. Leeds also makes them most of a helpful (if familiar) three-step "Magic Formula" for approaching clutter of any kind: "1. Eliminate 2. Categorize 3. Organize." Some readers may balk at her low-tech solutions: her section on calendar-keeping focuses almost exclusively on the pen-and-paper variety, and she suggests a highly detailed filing system for paper. Still, highly motivated readers should find plenty of smart, straightforward and rewarding ways to eliminate chaos from their work lives.
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Shape, 12/08
“Use this guide to organize your office—and mind.”

Tucson Citizen, 1/8/09
“This guide provides the structure and the time frame to achieve the impossible: organization.”

Publishers Weekly (web exclusive), 2/2/09
“Readers should find plenty of smart, straightforward and rewarding ways to eliminate chaos from their work lives.”

Unclutterer.com, 3/24/09
“A practical resource for those in need of a complete organizational overhaul and for others who could use improvement in a few problematic areas.”

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00820TW9A
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Lifelong Books; 1st edition (December 2, 2008)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 2, 2008
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 639 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages

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- #1,364 in Workplace Behavior
- #1,387 in Business Encyclopedias

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Regina's career as a professional organizer spans over three decades and 10 published books. Her New York Times best seller 'One Year to an Organized Life' has just been updated and is the basis for her Zen Organizing Tribe membership group. More than a how-to manual on getting organized, the book now introduces a Mindful Lifestyle. Please visit her website to learn more: www.reginaleeds.com

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working girl

Good integration of theory and practice

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2014

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There are many things to love about this book. It is relatively short and concise, and well organized itself! Ms. Leeds is good at summarizing big ideas and getting to the heart of how to put them into action. I liked that this book focuses mainly on actions, and simple ones at that. As far as the "action orientation" goes, Ms. Leeds breaks down what you need to do into small, easily managable tasks and gives them to you a little bit at a time, which is going to be key in your ability to implement them. And I liked that this is an integrated program, meaning Ms. Leeds recognizes that there isn't some fortress between our personal lives and our professional ones, and between our minds and bodies, so she integrates them very well, without straying too much from the work domain that this book addresses. Ms. Leeds has developed a concise strategy for implementing organizing concepts for the reader to follow in a way that will make them actual life habits instead of just brain fodder. That's really what I need most in an organzing book, is for someone to develop a program that will work for me that I can follow, rather than having to take the time to think and plan it all out myself. On the other hand, it is perfectly easy to pick and choose from this book and use what works for you and discard the rest. In fact, Ms. Leeds has also integrated that kind of flexibility into the book as well, suggesting several alternative ways of doing the program. And you can pick it up at any point, you don't have to wait until January to start, and you don't have to be in a particular month of the year to use the tips for a particular week or month, they work together but also work separately. Bottom line is you get a lot of bang for your buck with this little book.

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Life transforming book!

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2012

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Regina inspired me to make some big changes in my life -- I became a vegetarian and started practicing yoga -- and I now have more energy,zest for life and confidence. My stress level is at an all-time low, even though I still have the same job, financial challenges, family circumstances, etc. Thank you, Regina, for your wisdom and compassion!

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By On By

Good for lists of what to keep in your office, bag, car... Bad for how to organize digital files and email.

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2015

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This is a just ok book about organizing one's office and work-related spaces and tasks.
I found the content to be spotty - the strength was in the chapters about physically organizing objects. Unfortunately the author doesn't seem to have as much expertise with organizing digital content (files, emails, contacts), or with software for various purposes, thus the chapters that touch on those subjects are very weak, half-hearted attempts to include the topics. Example: regarding email she gives a few very general and obvious sorting tips (like make folders), and then just advises that the reader look for other experts to consult for specifics (I don't mean that she references specific experts - I mean she tells you to go google up you own experts!) I would have preferred that those chapters either be omitted entirely or that the author would have enlisted a co-author to help with more in-depth, worthwhile content.

The chapters that provide guidelines for filing papers, what to keep in one's work bag, and how to organize and de-clutter an office were all helpful - though in those chapters she's so very, very specific about precisely what types of labels and folders to purchase that I couldn't help but wonder if certain office supply companies may have paid for those mentions. I found the general organizational strategies helpful but I didn't want to run out and buy a pile of new office supplies (that seems counter-intuitive to the goal of reducing clutter!) so I adapted her systems to what I had on hand and it worked out fine despite not having extra-capacity box-bottom folders, special long label tabs for my hanging folders, or the particular brand of vinyl folders she says I should be carrying around in my bag.

Most get-organized-in-a-year books by this author and others start off the year with one or more chapters mostly about getting off to a fresh start: organizing your mind, sleep habits, keeping a journal, etc. This may work for some people but I always get impatient with that type of content because I'm ready to get to the actual organizing of "stuff". So I skimmed through January and skipped right ahead to February. If I ever write an organization book it's going to start with a big messy project - because January is when people are fired up with new energy to carry out their resolutions to get organized! All that journaling and sleeping might be more welcome to me around October.

There were a lot of diversions into anecdotes about the author's life and her clients. The self-promotion of her personal organizing business did become grating, and some of the stories just seemed like space filler - not particularly instructive stories that one could use as examples to follow. I'm not sure why authors feel such a need to provide a lot of stories to assure you of their expertise when you've already bought the book. I'd rather have more organizing tips and fewer stories.

At the end of the year I was somewhat better organized, and somewhat tired of this book, so I promptly de-cluttered my office by getting rid of it.

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Rory K. Young

A good read for organizational assistance.

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2018

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Great ideas, thank you! A good book for helping organize this part of your life.

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A. M. Wagner

Clear, covers all the excuses! And funny

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2009

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Thank you for this book. To begin a program of real reform, you have to work from the ground up, include all the boring nuts and bolts parts. Whoever complains about the importance Leeds places on a calendar, I'll send my mother to you to babysit for a week. She's a perfect example of the NON-rational human reason for Leeds's insistence on "tried and true" methods.

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Christine

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2013

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Got this because the author really hit home with the 8 minute organizer
this takes it to a new level and breaks it down more
good plan and book arrived in waterproof packaging and in great shape

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Angie Marczak

Love all of Regina's Books

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2015

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Love all of Regina's Books!! Must reads! I am a very very unorganized pack rat and so glad I found these books! I recommend checking out all of her books!

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