The Get Yourself Organized Project by Kathi Lipp (Book Review)

Title: The Get Yourself Organized Project: 21 Steps to Less Mess and Stress
Author: Kathi Lipp
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers


About the book: Would you rather enjoy life than color-code your sock drawer?


Most organization books are written by organized people.  That's like buying a diet book from someone who's never weighed more than a hundred pounds.  If you want real-life solutions from someone who's lived in your mismatched shoes, this is the book for you.


You will discover:

• simple and manageable long-term solutions for organizing any room in your home (and keeping it that way)
• step-by-step direction to reduce your paper piles
• a realistic way to de-stress your overcrowded schedule
• strategies for efficient shopping, meal preparation, cleaning, and more

With Kathi's encouraging voice and easy-to-follow advice, The Get Yourself Organized Project is the girlfriends' guide you've been looking for.

My thoughts: This is my kind of organizational book.  She is realistic and takes things in small chunks.  Rather than organizing to her expectations, she guides you to actually think about how you live in your rooms, shows you what you should be looking for, and then has you organize in a way that fits your own life.  

In my experience, most organizational books focuses on the physical things in your life with a few focusing on your time.  In The Get Yourself Organized Project there are sections that deal with your home, your family, and your personal life.  She doesn't just want you to have a tidy home, she wants your entire life to be to the point where you can actually enjoy that tidy home.  

I have slowly began implementing some of her ideas on organizing and am planning on getting our bedroom in order this weekend, and have enlisted my dear husband to help out. 

I have also done a very small organizing project and organized my purse for National Clean Out Your Purse day!  You can see my post about that here and read about how you can win some of Kathi's books if you clean out your purse before Friday, May 18th.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention some of Kathi's other great books that I have had the opportunity to review. You can read my reviews of The Marriage Project and The What's for Dinner? Solution.

~I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author in exchange for my unbiased review.~

The Get Yourself Organized Project

Publisher/Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers, May 2012

ISBN: 978-0-7369-4385-7

224 pages

National Clean Out Your Purse Day is here!

Okay - let's be honest - how often do you actually clean out your purse?  I would have to say that I only clean it out after I get so much paper in it that it falls out when I am searching for my keys or my wallet. And what is even worse -- when I decide to change purses, I generally take out what I need and throw the purse I am no longer using in the closet with all the trash still in it!

So, in preparation for this day, I decided to start with the purses in my closet!  I pulled them all down and  my son helped me empty them all out into a shoebox.  I then managed to weed the purses and donated about six to goodwill.  Of course, everything is still in that shoebox - I haven't gotten far enough to actually put it all away!

This morning I "dumped" my purse out on the floor and started going through it

After removing a couple of tablets of paper, a lot of receipts and about 5 pens, it was much lighter!  I changed my purse out about a month ago, so it wasn't near as bad as it could have been!

  Probably the weirdest thing I found in my purse was an orange hourglass - I have no idea where it came from!

So now it is your turn!  Go dump those purses and see what you find.  Once you have completed your "dump" - go let Kathi Lipp know on her blog - If you like her author page on Facebook, you will also receive her free download “30 Ways to Save 30 Minutes in the Next 30 Days” to kick start your way to a more organized you!

You might want to pick up a copy of her book The Get Yourself Organized Project while you are at it!

Finally, an organizational book for women who have given up trying to be Martha Stewart but still desire some semblance of order in their lives.

Most organizational books are written by and for people who are naturally structured and orderly. For the woman who is more ADD than type A, the advice sounds terrific but seldom works. These women are looking for help that takes into account their free-spirited outlook while providing tips and tricks they can easily follow to live a more organized life.

Kathi Lipp, author of The Husband Project and other “project” books, is just the author to address this need. In her inimitable style, she offers

·        easy and effective ways women can restore peace to their everyday lives

·        simple and manageable long-term solutions for organizing any room in one’s home (and keeping it that way)

·        a realistic way to de-stress a busy schedule

·        strategies for efficient shopping, meal preparation, cleaning, and more

Full of helpful tips and abundant good humor, The Get Yourself Organized Project is for those who want to spend their time living and enjoying life rather than organizing their sock drawer.