It IS less at half.ebay.com, though! LOL. I believe in the Half model – it's always worked.

Anyway, the professional organizer thing: Do it. Seriously. You think organizing papers or whatever will just be grunt work, but the grunt work is really only 25% of the challenge. The rest is having original thoughts on how to process things; an outsider does that best. Debbie Lillard, my organizer and now a friend of mine, helped me toss business suits that I would never wear again, taught me how to arrange a linen closet, and gave me ideas for other areas of my house. If you find a good organizer like Debbie, she'll work with you and your systems. For example, she didn't make me take some prescription medicines out of the band-aid basket because she respected my categorization of them as “medical supplies.”

You should try it. Another way to do it on the cheap is to have a friend help you and then you help the friend. Taking the emotional and irrational aspects out of the filtering process is truly the majority of battle.

-PC

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I think you're right, this book is outreach, not for regular readers of his blog. I've checked out the site Zen Habits to gather that Leo probably offers the same wisdom in his posts. Convenient to have it all in one short book, though, and it is the kind of book you reference sometimes. For example, when you fall out of a habit, I can see how re-reading the parts on habits and getting them started again would be helpful. Almost like a prayer book, I guess.

Borrowing from the library is my biggest habit, so I don't own the book. I really only buy writing or fiction books at this point, and my purchasing of those has fallen drastically due to space, actually. Books are taking over my house.

I suppose I'm saying that the book is worth a borrow from the library even if you are a regular reader of the blog.

-PC

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Also, the concept of hiring someone to get one's s**t together… I'll check it out, as my s**t is as it would be after shortly having hit the fan. Though it's been like this for a while.

It IS less at half.ebay.com, though! LOL. I believe in the Half model – it's always worked.

Anyway, the professional organizer thing: Do it. Seriously. You think organizing papers or whatever will just be grunt work, but the grunt work is really only 25% of the challenge. The rest is having original thoughts on how to process things; an outsider does that best. Debbie Lillard, my organizer and now a friend of mine, helped me toss business suits that I would never wear again, taught me how to arrange a linen closet, and gave me ideas for other areas of my house. If you find a good organizer like Debbie, she'll work with you and your systems. For example, she didn't make me take some prescription medicines out of the band-aid basket because she respected my categorization of them as “medical supplies.”

You should try it. Another way to do it on the cheap is to have a friend help you and then you help the friend. Taking the emotional and irrational aspects out of the filtering process is truly the majority of battle.

-PC

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