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Show Now is the time Slf to get organized FULL SPEED AHEAD W W Essentially she tells you how to pinpoint the things in your life that are causing the greatest amount of stress and anxiety. Once you know that, you know where to start. This could be a step to the new you, someone who is ready and able to take better charge of her life and her world, no matter how organized or By CHERIE HUBER Shadow Mountain, an imprint of Deseret Book Company, published in 1988 a book by Deniece Schofield called "Springing the Time Trap- Time Management for Today's Busy Homemaker." The book itself can be read in a day or so. Implementing all the ideas from the book could take years. But it will also be saving the reader years of frustration at the same time, so it's time well spent. "Springing the Time Trap" not only motivates the reader to set goals, it explains how to set goals that are specific and realistic. Schofield suggests that you ask yourself all the who, what, why, where, and when questions about your goals so they really mean something. Here's something at last that can change a short-lived resolution resolu-tion into a long term goal. , Another chapter that any woman with children in school, and a mail box, and a recipe collection that is threatening to engulf the house will find useful is "The Solutions to Paper Pollution." Read the chapter now and you'll still have time to get organized before Christmas. The most valuable chapter of the book, however, is the last chapter, "How to Get Started." Schofield's sympathetic way of writing that makes you feel she is sitting there talking to you just makes you want to get organized. This chapter tells you how to motivate yourself to actually ac-tually take the big step. how disorganized the present moment mo-ment may be. Schofield has also written "Escape from the Kitchen," "Confessions of a Happily Organized Family" and "Confessions of an Organized Housewife." A second great book on organization organiza-tion is "How to Get Organized When You Don't Have the Time" . by Stephanie Culp. She presents a ; simple five-step approach to becoming organized. The book is designed for people who don't have time to read a book about getting organized in the first place. The first half of the book sets out her five-step plan and includes a quiz that helps you determine your organization I.Q. and pinpoint your problem areas. Once you have that information, you need read only the sections of the second part of the book that are problem areas. One area included in the book that the modem woman win appreciate appre-ciate is how to organize and keep up with a car, both from the standpoint of the clutter it can collect and the paperwork necessary to keep it on the road. |
