How Did You Find That ?: Four Habits From Chaos To Control

FIVE STARS FROM REVIEWERS

"...truly perceptive about how and why we become disorganized. If you just follow her advice and execute her exercises, you'll find yourself thinking less about mundane cleaning and more about how you live."

They told you to get organized. They told you a lot of things, but no one showed you how to do it.

Getting organized is a skill that can be learned, and it's easier than you think.

How Did You Find That? Four Habits From Chaos To Control shows you how to easily manage the clutter in your life by breaking it down into four simple habits: Seeing, Grouping, Containing, and Storing. Work through the habits and exercises in the book to rewire the way you think about clutter and disorganization, and gain the tools for making lasting changes in your life.

1. Seeing

2. Grouping

3. Containing

4. Storing

THE BACKSTORY

How did you find that? That's what my neighbor I asked a few years ago when she needed my help reviving a crashed computer. I told her I'd be over in a few minutes but needed to grab a diagnostic disk (okay, so it was more than a few years ago). When I arrived at her door a few minutes later as promised my neighbor was shocked - wide eyes, gaping mouth shocked. She pointed to the disk in my hand and said, "How Did You Find That?"

What did she mean, How did I find that? At first her confusion didn't register with me. I didn't know her well and had never been in her home. Then I walked through the front door and understood. She was living in chaos. There were piles everywhere. Clean or dirty, it was hard to tell. The bed was not made, and her laundry was heaped on the mattress. She could not find a thing she owned in her own small apartment. At the time I don't think I was able to give her an answer that she could use. But her question stayed with me. The answer to her question, How Did You Find That? is in this book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carrie Kane is not a professional organizer. She is an often overwhelmed writer who has spent her life seeking to understand how organized people think.