1. Psychic Debris, Crowded Closets: The Relationship Between the Stuff in Your Head and What's Under Your Bed (Dr. Regina Lark)
Is a cluttered closet a manifestation of a cluttered mind? Psychic Debris, Crowded Closets is about understanding the relationship between the stuff in our head and what's under our bed. This book is a workbook, a journal, and a reflection of your desire to learn more about your connection to clutter and its impact on body, mind, and spirit. Open your heart and head, and your closets and cupboards, then consider these alternate ways out of the mess. Psychic Debris, Crowded Closets creates the foundation to help you understand your relationship between the stuff in your head and what's under your bed.
2. The ICD Guide to Challenging Disorganization: For Professional Organizers (Edited by Kate Varness)
The ICD Guide to Challenging Disorganization: For Professional Organizers is a ground-breaking book in the field of organization. It is the first to comprehensively examine chronic disorganization in the context of physical and mental health conditions. Published by the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD) - the premier resource on chronic disorganization - this book presents a collection of educational materials by experienced professional organizers and related professionals on the subjects of AD/HD, Depression and Anxiety, Compulsive Buying and Hoarding, Asperger's, Downsizing, Relocating Seniors, Grief, Learning Disabilities, Physical Challenges, Traumatic Brain Injury, Learning Styles, Goal Setting, Time Management and much more. After reading this book, you will be able to: identify conditions that may occur alongside disorganization; learn strategies for helping clients with these conditions to get organized; understand what a professional organizer's role is and is not; recognize situations in which one's personal safety is at risk; explore additional services to add to one's organizing business; and prepare for ICD credentialing. This book is must-have guide for any professional organizer working with clients who struggle with challenging disorganization.
3. Getting Organized in the Era of Endless: What to Do When Information, Interruption, Work and Stuff are Endless But Time is Not (Judith Kolberg)
We live in the Era of Endless, confronted by infinite information, incessant interruptions, constant distractions, unending work, and boundless stuff. All this endlessness butts up against the one thing that remains intractably finite - time. In this book you will find new, simple, and effective organizing strategies and solutions appropriate for the Era of Endless. Manage the excesses and downside of endless information, interruption, work, and stuff! And reclaim your time!
4. Organizing for your Brain Type: Finding Your Own Solution to Managing Time, Paper, and Stuff (Lanna Nakone)
Get---and stay---organized!
Let your natural inclinations guide you toward gaining control of your environment and learn to live life on your own terms. Drawing on the science of brain function and her experience as a professional organizer, Lanna Nakone offers tailored and specific advice that will actually work to help you tame your desk, un-clutter your closet, manage your time, and save your sanity.
Take the Brain Style quiz to determine which of the four parts of the brain you rely on the most to process information, and which organizing style complements your brain function. If you rely on the:
*Posterior left section of your brain, you're a Maintaining Style. You develop and follow routines well and adhere to traditional organizing methods.
*Frontal right section of your brain, you're an Innovating Style. Artistically creative, you have a unique stacking system that no one else understands.
*Posterior right section of your brain, you're a Harmonizing Style. Valuing interconnectedness with your family or coworkers, you need to be organized enough to keep your environment peaceful.
*Frontal left section of your brain, you're a Prioritizing Style. Adept at analyzing data, you prefer to delegate organizing.
Chapters specific to each type offer practical tips and strategies for implementing an organizing system, maintaining your system, and coexisting with different brain styles. Insightful and understanding, Organizing for Your Brain Type turns the task of managing your life into an enjoyable experience.
5. Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life (Sari Solden)
Every year, millions of withdrawn little girls and chronically overwhelmed women go undiagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder because they don't fit the stereotypical profile: they re not fast-talking, hyperactive, or inattentive, and they are not male. Sari Solden s groundbreaking study reveals that ADD affects just as many women as men, and that the resulting depression, disorganization, anxiety, and underachievement are also symptoms of ADD. Newly revised and updated to reflect the latest clinical research, the book explores treatment and counseling options, and uses real-life case histories to examine the special challenges women with ADD and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) face, such as the shame of not fulfilling societal expectations. Included is a brand new chapter on friendship for women with ADHD. Three empowering steps restructuring one's life, renegotiating relationships, and redefining self-image help women take control of their lives and enjoy success on their own terms.
6. Organizing from the Right Side of the Brain: A Creative Approach to Getting Organized (Lee Silber)
Almost all the organizing books on the market today target the "left-brainer" - people who are generally disciplined, neat, and analytical. But for those who are more creative and spontaneous rather than logical and detail-oriented, help is on the way! In this book, Silber turns traditional organizing advice on its head and offers unique solutions that complement the unorthodox lifestyle of the creative "right-brainer."
For example:
* Discover how right-brainers can be organized in a left-brain world
* Overcome obstacles that stand in the way of being more organized
* Pile, don't file - put paper in its place the right-brained way
* Learn how being a "pack rat" can be a good thing
This creative new approach to getting it together is perfect for those who can't relate to boring traditional organizing techniques!
7. 365+1 Ways to Succeed with ADHD: A Whole Year's Worth of Valuable Tips and Strategies From The World's Best ADHD Coaches and Experts
Featuring Dr. Regina Lark CPO
365+1 MORE Bite-Sized Tips and Strategies to Help You Succeed with ADHD! We did it again! After the huge success of the first 365 Ways to Succeed book, once again we asked over 80 ADHD experts and professionals from around the world and from a variety of life experiences to answer the question, "What is the most valuable tip or strategy that you know of for succeeding with ADHD?" The amazing responses are included in these pages! Whether you are an adult, parent, teenager or child with ADHD or an educator, coach or physician of someone with ADHD, the tips, strategies, resources and encouragement within these pages are the answers you've been looking for!
8. The Caregiver's Path To Compassionate Decision Making: Making Choices For Those Who Can't (Viki Kind)
Winner of the 2011 Caregiver Friendly Award --Today's Caregiver magazine
Wouldn't it be a relief to know you are making the right decisions and doing right by the person in your care? Whether you have a loved one who can't make his or her own decisions or you are a healthcare professional, you know how difficult--even heartbreaking--it can be to make decisions for others. Feeling confident that you're made the right decision would be a welcome relief from the worry and guilt you may be feeling.
The Caregiver's Path to Compassionate Decision Making offers tools and techniques that will limit your frustration and fears and help you make informed, respectful decisions. Extremely practical, yet also heartfelt, the book offers:
* Four adaptable tools that make decision making a simple, step-by-step process
* Guidelines to help you determine if your loved one or patient can make decisions, who should make the decisions, and how to make better decisions
* Questions to use in almost any medical or quality-of-life situation that will help you gather all of the information you need
*Techniques for improving communication between patients, families and caregivers
9. Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding (David F. Tolin, Randy O. Frost, and Gail Steketee)
Buried in Treasures outlines a scientifically-based and effective program for helping compulsive hoarders dig their way out of the clutter and chaos of their homes.
Discover the reasons for your problems with acquiring, saving, and hoarding, and learn new ways of thinking about your possessions so you can accurately identify those things you really need and those you can do without. Learn to recognize the "bad guys" that maintain your hoarding behavior and meet the "good guys" who will motivate you and put you on the path to change.
Features of this book include:
* Self-assessments to determine the severity of the problem
* Tips and tools for organizing your possessions and filing your paperwork
* Strategies for changing unhelpful beliefs about your possessions
10.It's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys (Marilyn Paul)
Overbooking? Running late? Feeling overwhelmed by clutter and to-dos? Management consultant Dr. Marilyn Paul guides you on a path to personal change that will bring true relief from the pain and stress of disorganization. Unlike other books on getting organized, It's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys offers a clear seven-step path to personal development that is comprehensive in nature.
Drawing from her own experience as a chronically disorganized person, Paul adds warmth, insight, humor, and hope to this manual for change and self-discovery. She introduces the notion of becoming "organized enough" to live a far more rewarding life and make the difference that is most important to you.
