Being Messy Doesn't Make You a Bad Person

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	• Organizing from the Right Side of the Brain: A Creative Approach to Getting Organized Lee Silber St. Martin's Griffin, 2004 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Being Messy Doesn't Make You a Bad Person

Most organizing books can't help implying that clutter and all-around personal messiness is a sign of moral weakness or a character defect. So no matter how well-intentioned the reader is when they start the book, they can't help feeling that there's something wrong with them for needing help organizing themselves in the first place. What's refreshing about this book is that Silber suggests the opposite--that right-brained messy people are more creative, fun and engaged than the uptight left-brained people who usually make them feel so completely inadequate. It's a relief not to be judged and found morally wanting simply for being messy.

Silber's a good-natured writer who comes up with a lot of ingenious ideas for creative people to keep their lives from going out of control; he suggests using lots of post-it notes, putting things on bulletin boards or hanging them on hooks (over the door hooks are the best, in my experience). A lot of his ideas would be great for kids--maybe he could write a book just for them. They would appreciate his sense of humor and nonjudgmental attitude.

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Very Helpful !

This is a really helpful book for people who are not naturally the "stack your magazines neatly on the coffee table" - type. I have been getting better at organizing over the years and now that I am homeschooling my kids I really need to lead by example. I feel the author really understands the pitfalls of traditional organizing books and sets out to give practical solutions to right-brained, creative people who don't want to be swallowed by their clutter. Buy it ! You'll be glad you did.

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Practical, but comes across as Impudent

If you don't believe me that this book is overly impudent, just look up the definition of impudence and compare it with the book.

impudence - the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties syn: cheekiness, insolence, impertinence, crust, freshness, gall

Don't get me wrong, I think this book goes a long ways at helping disorganized people get along with themselves, but the person who wrote this book apparently has a lot of gall, and a hard time getting along with some of the people he mentions in his book, including most left-brainers, because he impertinantly talks down to all of these people, and the reader in general, like he knows how to organize and you don't know anything.

Why on earth does he have to use so many cheeky expressions, mostly in parenthesis, all over the book? A few of them were funny, but the level he takes it to is sheer impudence. And why can't he include the left-brained tips for those that don't lack every last bit of discipline, without claiming that left-brainers are retarded and boring??

Sure, it's creative, some of the things he has to say, but the author is so totally full of himself and his organized chaos that I can't even begin to finish the book without thinking about how many hundreds of times I'm going to cringe reading it.

I am a mainly center-brained person, slightly left-brain based, but very ambivalent in my own ways, and very disorganized. So I could use some organization, whether it comes from the left or the right hemispheres, or preferably, both. But some of the things that this author says about left-brainers and right-brainers are just stereotypical, wrong, and plain impudent or bordering on improper.

I don't mean to be impudent myself, but I can only take this book in very small doses. I guess it's my right-brain shouting out that this guy doesn't own me and I'm never going to follow anything he writes, while the left brain laughs at the rebellion, and the apparent disgrace of my whole apartment, seeing that I won't even be able to finish cleaning it up even if I do finish this poor fob's book. How IRONIC!!! The book is causing me to get worse, not better!

But maybe that's just me.

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No Cookie Cutter Answers to Organzing!

There is no cookie cutter answers to organizing - its creating a system that works for YOU! Thats what I tell my clients - there is no right way or wrong way, but there is certainly a right brain way and a left brain way! I finally have a book that answered MY Needs as a "Right Brained" Professional Organizer! so while I like order of certain things, there is also that side of me as a decorator and a home stager, that welcomes the chaos in my creative processes. My style is organizing for REAL PEOPLE. Lee Silber has a style of writing that speaks to real people also like me - like we are having a conversation - it makes me smile because he is so real. There were many "Ah-HA" moments in reading it - Thank you for writing this book!

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Controlled Chaos Is The Goal

It's been four years since this book came out and over that time the fan mail I've received for writing it has been amazing. The most common comment from readers is appreciation that the book works with their natural style of organizing--the piling of paper, saving things just in case, Olympic multi-tasking--rather than fighting against it. The goal isn't neat and orderly so much as it is functional. Everything doesn't have to be put away or thrown away to be organized. If you can find what you need when you need it, you are organized. This book does offer hundreds of organizing ideas, the difference is they are right-brained. I'd like to thank readers for making this book a success and to tell those of you reading this there is a book out there that "gets it", and this is it.

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Almost all the organizing books on the market today target the "left-brainer" - people who are generally disciplined, neat, and analytical. But for those who are more creative and spontaneous rather than logical and detail-oriented, help is on the way! In this book, Silber turns traditional organizing advice on its head and offers unique solutions that complement the unorthodox lifestyle of the creative "right-brainer."

For example:
* Discover how right-brainers can be organized in a left-brain world
* Overcome obstacles that stand in the way of being more organized
* Pile, don't file - put paper in its place the right-brained way
* Learn how being a "pack rat" can be a good thing

This creative new approach to getting it together is perfect for those who can't relate to boring traditional organizing techniques!

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