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Mary Lynne Murray's Suggested Reading

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Taming the Paper Tiger at Home
By Barbara Hemphill
Barbara has been called “America’s favorite organizer”, and for good reason. The organizing principles in her book are sound and make sense; they are the basis for the revolutionary Paper Tiger Software. Read this book and know what to keep, where to find it, and how to find it. Keep an eye out for the light-hearted cartoons.


Taming the Paper Tiger at Work
By Barbara Hemphill
I first met Barbara in 2002 when she trained me as a Paper Tiger Authorized Consultant, after which I devoured this book. Once again, Barbara does not disappoint with a book of fluff. It’s full of practical methods for keeping the paper tiger caged (I mean filed).


Making Peace with the Things in Your Life: Why Your Papers, Books, Clothes, and Other Possissions Keep Overwhelming You and What to Do About Them
By Cindy Glovinsky
A practicing psychotherapist and organizing consultant, Cindy Glovinsky challenges the way you think about THINGS. Through exercises she helps you discover how THINGS come into your life, and provides solutions to what can be an unhealthy relationship with material things. Whether you're drowning in clutter or just want a fresh approach, this book helps you deal with the overwhelm of THINGS.


The Organizing SourceBook
By Kathy Waddill
Written by my friend and colleague, Kathy Waddill identifies 'nine strategies of reasonably organized people'. Rather than viewing the piles of paper as the problem, the book looks at the source to help solve organizing dilemmas.


ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
By Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau, Foreword by Sam Goldstein
Professional Organizer Judith Kolberg has teamed up with psychologist and ADD expert Kathleen Nadeau to help adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. The book covers three main areas of disorganization faced by ADDers: things, paper, and time. Full of concrete tips and strategies, readers will find the tools they need to get their life back!


Conquering Chronic Disorganization
By Judith Kohlberg
If you've tried every other organizing book, this one will be different. The author presents unconventional approaches to help you take back your life. Telling the stories of real people from Kohlberg's practice, it's a speedy read of only 120 pages. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who has suffered the pain of chronic disorganization.


Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
By Karen Kingston
Known as the feng shui expert, Kingston guides you through the liberating task of clutter clearing in her short, easy to read book. Also available as an audiobook.


Organizing for the Creative Person: How to Find the Organizing Style That Works for You
By Dorothy Lehmkuhl & Dolores Cotter Lamping

Looks at organizing based on studies that show creativity resides in the right side of the brain, where there is no concept of time, structure or detail or analytical ability. Offers practical techniques to find the organizing style that works for you. A client says this book saved her marriage!


Organizing from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Home, Your Office, and Your Life
By Julie Morgenstern
Teaches you how to work with your personality instead of against it. Parts I & II are particularly helpful. Empowers you to get organized and stay organized. Also available as an audiobook.


Time Management from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule -- and Your Life
By Julie Morgenstern
"A schedule is a limited space into which you must fit a certain number of tasks." Morganstern takes the same principles for space organization found in her first book, and applies them to time organization. Also available as an audiobook.


Organizing from the Inside Out For Teens
By Julie Morgenstern, Jessi Morgenstern-Colon
Morgenstern has teamed up with her daughter to focus on organizing issues of teens. Something tells me more moms will read this book than teens! Plenty of insight into working with a teen to organize his/her bedroom, backpack, and time.


Messie No More: Practical Steps to Put The Messie Lifestyle Behind You
By Sandra Felton
Based on the premise that the secret to change lies in the way we think about messiness and neatness, this book is full of practical steps to put the messie lifestyle behind you.


Not For Packrats Only: How to Clean up, Clean out and de-Junk Your Life Forever
By Don Aslett & Craig Lagory (Editor)
Aslett has written this book for clutter addicts, with compelling reasons to dejunk, and how to get rid of it. Full of humorous stories and insights of real life junkers, this book can move you to action.


It's About Time: The 6 Styles of Procrastination and how to Overcome Them
By Linda Sapadin & Jack Maguire

Describes six styles of procrastinators--perfectionist, dreamer, worrier, defier, crisis-maker, over-doer, and how they can be overcome through more effective ways of thinking, speaking and acting.

Love It or Lose It: Living Clutter Free Forever
By Barbara Hemphill, Maggie Bedrosian
Barbara and Maggie share real stories of real people who were "caught in the clutter trap." Providing a simple five step campaign against clutter, they show readers how to love it or lose it.

The Choose Around

By Marilyn Brown & her daughters

If you are dealing with a deceased loved one's lifetime of possessions, you will appreciate this short but thought provoking book. It explains one family's method for dividing possessions with a starting point for people in similar situations to begin discussing alternatives. Order this book from Spirit Hill Three, 2929 Ross Drive, Q-60, Fort Collins, CO 80526. The cost is $10.00 plus $3.00 shipping.