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Praise for Regina Leeds One Year to an Organized Life

Making your New Years resolutions? If your goal is to
finally clear the clutter, One Year to an Organized Life
will break the task down week by week.
Parade

This 12-month guide offers the chronically messy
a genuine sense of serenity.
USA Today

Not only shows us the importance of organization,
[but] takes us week-by-week through the chaos of our lives
and tells us how to get it together, from schedules to
scrapbooks to celebrating holidays.
Minneapolis Star Tribune

If this week-by-week guide to getting yourself organized
wont do the trick, give up.
Newsday

This easy-to-use domicile detox program will help you
tackle every inch of your life.
Womens Health

The perfect book for anyone wanting to find important
papers instantly or have a navigable closet. Full of useful
information for everyone, from the person who needs simply
to clean a messy desk to the person requiring a whole new
approach to life; highly recommended.
Library Journal

ALSO BY REGINA LEEDS

The Zen of Organizing: Creating Order and Peace
in Your Home, Career, and Life
Sharing a Place without Losing Your Space:
A Couples Guide to Blending Homes, Lives, and Clutter
The Complete Idiots Guide to Decluttering
One Year to an Organized Life

This book is dedicated to all the kind men who
have graced my life, starting with my father, Nat.
Special thanks, however, must be extended to
Arno Frankel, Ariel Joseph Towne, and Joseph Walsh.
Their love and support contributed greatly
to the process of writing this book.
I am forever in their debt.

A journey of a thousand miles
must begin with a single step.

LAO-TZU

Introduction

Im late, Im late. For a very important date!

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

AND THUS WHITE RABBIT PERFECTLY described the plight of the modern worker. Do you feel like him at times: always running here and there, never at ease, stomach in knots, frequently late? Youre going to be late for your own funeral! Ever had a coworker, family member, or friend toss that one at you?

But someday, you think, this will be different. Ill be on time for appointments and with reports. Ill get enough sleep and eat three squares a day. Everyone will be so impressed with my efficiencymy sparkling office and clear desk. Why? Because Im going to get organized! Yes, you are. Today, in fact. Now begins the year-long adventure to change your work experience for the better. But my goal for you is deeper. I want to see you uncover and embrace your true passion in life. Joseph Campbell said it best: Follow your bliss and dont be afraid, and doors will open where you didnt know they were going to be.

I see you working in a peaceful, well-organized space that serves you rather than ensnares you. I envision your files, projects, and all communications being the best quality they can be. I imagine you having a happier home life as your work days begin and end. After all, home and work are flip sides of the same coin: your life experience.

Am I living in Wonderland? Absolutely not! I know that life will throw you some curveballs. Some days you will inevitably get behind because of a tight deadline or a flu you cant shake. Positive things may also throw you off your game, from planning a wedding to the birth of a child. But just as you look around and think, My office looks just like it did before I got organized! you will have a moment of clarity. Under all that chaos is a system waiting for you to restore order.

Still not convinced that I know you and your situation? Lets see if I can guess some of the issues youre facing:

You come to work with good intentions. Sometimes you even have the rudiments of a plan for your day in place. And then the phone rings, a colleague stops by, or you read your e-mail, voice mail, or snail mail. Suddenly you find yourself pulled in a hundred directions. At days end your to-do list is a wish list.

You never have enough time to complete projects. Deadlines come upon you like rogue waves. Youre forever wondering how your colleagues (seemingly!) stay on top of their workload while youre paddling to keep up.

The piles of papers on your desk hold valuable treasures. At least thats what you assume. One day you plan to do the equivalent of an archeological dig and get everything into folders. Until then you make duplicate and triplicate copies or printouts of everything in the futile hope that there is strength in numbers.

You go to social functions but your real date is your BlackBerry. Youre known as an inseparable pair.

Your children complain that they never see you. Even when you are physically present, your mind takes you a million miles away, worrying about this assignment or that meeting. You know youre providing for their future but feel like you spend too much time at the office.

How did I do? If you identified with one or two of the preceding, you have the right book in your hands. Right about now, you may be feeling a bit guilty or inadequate. Thats the knee-jerk response when the topic of organizationor lack thereofcomes up. Lets make a deal, shall we? Guilt and shame and any other negative emotion have no place in the world of Zen organizing, the system of organizing I have developed over the past twenty years. Getting organized is a skill, not a talent were born with. End of story. In my eyes you are a hero because you are doing the work to effect positive change in your life and career.

DEFINING ZEN ORGANIZING

Having grown up with an extremely organized mom, I had never seen piles of newspapers and magazines, closets teeming with clothes, or a pantry in disarray until I started working with clients. My mother didnt invent the slogan, Theres a place for everything and everything should be in its place, but she said it daily like a sacred mantra. She lived it and she made me live it. My mom trained me to be an organizer, but we didnt know that at the time.

From the first day I started working as a professional organizer, I noticed something that happened with clients. After every project was completed, obviously the home or office looked different, but there was something more. I finally noticed that the area felt different. I often wondered how I would describe this to people.

There are words for energy such as chi, but none were in common use in 1988. I feared no one would understand what I was talking about. One day a friend turned to me and said casually, Oh you mean, its Zen-like? The lights went on and I screamed, Yes! Thats exactly what its like. That day Zen organizing was born and I have been the Zen organizer ever since.

The average Westerner associates the word Zen with peace and calm. You dont have to become a Zen meditation practitioner to embrace this approach. You neednt be a yogi and twist your body into impressive positions. You dont have to live and work in a minimalist setting. The only requirement is your willingness to change.

If you dont like what you see around you now in your work space, dont fret. You created it, and you can therefore change it. Your physical environment is a manifestation of your inner world of thoughts and feelings. This year you will examine that world so that will you not only work in an organized environment but also experience less stress, greater ease, and, dare I say it, have more fun at your job!

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