Darla DeMorrow - Organizing Your Home with SORT and SUCCEED

SORT and SUCCEED at Home Organizing

A simple five step plan tocure clutter before it starts, stop feeling overwhelmed, save moneyand simplify your life

Darla DeMorrow,CPO

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Blue Tudor Books

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Copyright 2018 DarlaDeMorrow

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ISBN 978-0-9833723-2-5(print)

ISBN 978-0-9833723-3-2(ebook)

Library of Congress controlnumber:2018900100

Printed in the United States ofAmerica

Information in this book is presentedfor informational purposes, and is not intended to constituteprofessional, legal, financial or other advice. The material mayinclude information, products or services by third parties. Theauthor and publisher do not assume responsibility or liability forany third party material or opinions. Information is providedwithout warranty, and readers are advised to do their own duediligence.

This book is not like any otherorganizing book youve ever read. Thats a big claim, but here aresome big differences so you know what to expect.

This is a step-by-step system thatdoesnt just apply to physical clutter, although the physicalclutter in your life is probably why you picked up this book. TheSORT and Succeed system applies to everything in your lifeincluding papers, digital information, time management and evenmoney.

This isnt just a collection of tips.Im going to guide you through a step-by-step system with laserfocus, detailed steps and hopefully more than a fewchuckles.

Youll feel like you havea professional organizer there with you. You should be able to gotackle an organizing project on your own with this system about anhour from now. But if you decide you would rather work togetherwith an empathetic, skilled guide so you can get results evenfaster, check out the National Association of Productivity andOrganizing Professionals ( https://NAPO.net ) for your localprofessional organizer in the USA. Professional organizers like meare located in every state and across the world. There are similarprofessional associations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, theUK as well.

Its realistic. You might have readother guides and thought, Well that works for the author, but itwont work for me, my house or the part of the country where Ilive. Ive worked with homeless families, millionaires,celebrities and lots of folks in between. Guess what? Organizingchallengesand their solutionsare surprisingly similar at allsocio-economic levels, no matter what the size of the house, condoor apartment. You CAN make changes. My hope is that youwill.

This book also contains somescientific study results to explain what you already knowintuitively about organizing. Struggles with organizing are real,and they are brain-based. You can stop feeling like disorganizationis a personal moral failing. Its not just you that struggles withorganization. Sometimes its an uphill battle against nature. Withthe help of scientific findings, you can understand a little of whyits easy for you to organize other peoples stuff and why itshard to organize your own.

This book, and the organizing systemyoull start using right away, helps you make room for angels. If aperson or opportunity shows up unannounced at your doorstep, youllbe confident that you can invite them in without fear orembarrassment. Sometimes angels are people we know, and sometimesthey are strangers or new friends. Wouldnt it be a shame to turnaway an angel accidentally just because of your clutter? Organizingis only worth doing if something amazing is going to come of it,and amazing comes from relationships, not things.

With the help of this bookand the SORT and Succeed system, you can get the stuff out of the way soyou can be with the people you want to be with, without irritation,guilt or tears.

Also, its short. You wanted results,right? Youll be ready to SORT and Succeed in about an hour fromnow. This book is designed to be read in about one hour, start tofinish, but you dont have to read it all in onesitting.

It will be easy to refer back to whenyou are in the middle of your organizing projects.

And there are some free downloadsnoted throughout the book that you can use as cheat sheets for eachand every organizing project. So settle in with your favoritebeverage, set the timer for an hour, and start planning what yournew life will be like when you are more organized.

Get organized and stay organized bylearning this system, learning to stop unnecessary stuff fromcoming into your life and learning to let go of perfectionism andminimalism ideas that arent for you.

Who is cheering you on? I am! Imwriting this book with YOU in mind. In the last decade-plus, myteam and I have worked with so many amazing people who have beenable to succeed with their own life goals because of the successthey have had with organizing. In the best cases, we work ourselvesout of a job. Even when that doesnt quite happen, people reportbeing much less stressed, more in control, much more productive andusually better off financially. These next stories are about just ahandful of real people who were able to SORT andSucceed.

-After a nearly 30-year career as anexecutive assistant, R. had recently retired and was reallybattling the clutter in her home. She had always promised herselfthat she would get organized after retirement, but two years later,she was more overwhelmed than ever. She wasnt doing what wasreally important to her, which was connecting with her friends,family and people in her church. She was flustered with the thoughtof her adult sons returning for a visit because the guest room wasnowhere ready for a guest. She could barely see the dining roomtable. She had put off starting to get organized for years, but shemade amazing progress in just hours when we started workingtogether because we worked through a logical five-step system. Sheused our system to work her way through all of the rooms on herfirst floor, and she used the same approach to go through the sameprocess again and again in other spaces in her home. Success in hercase meant finding and finally giving away the gifts and greetingcards that had built up as clutter in her home, but were meant tobring happiness to her friends.

-J. is a small business owner whocalled us after years of struggling with disorganization. He is avery accomplished and compassionate person, but he also has ADHD.He was drowning in business receipts and unfiled tax returns goingback several years. Getting started was a big roadblock. There werealways so many interesting and exciting things that he wanted to doinstead. He allowed us to organize his receipts by years, whichmeant that he could finally meet with his accountant and filetaxes. Not only was he able to reduce and release mounds ofpaperwork, but he was able to finally reset his business to use anelectronic accounting system. That meant that he could stopworrying about losing paper receipts and paying bills late. Hiswife was thrilled to get the guest room bed back for guests, of allthings. He will tell you that hell always be scattered, so hecontinues to meet with me monthly, but instead of being completelyoverwhelmed, it only takes about an hour each month tosystematically deal with his business bills, mail, filing, computerbackups and accounting check-in.