The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Organized


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Easy, accessible, and to the point, this guide gets you up to speed quickly on the essential strategies and techniques you need to sort your stuff, manage your messes, and get your schedule in shape.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organizing Your Life, 5th Edition


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The popular guide that makes organizing a breeze. In today's fast-paced, complex society, it's crucial to find ways to increase productivity, simplify, and stay sane. The fifth edition of this highly successful guide emphasizes how organization helps people survive tough times, assists them with life's challenges, and can lead to a happier, more peaceful life. New in this edition are: green organizing; getting things done in the electronic age; and loads of new products that help people organize. - Offers up-to-date information, a reading appendix, and new resources - Fifth edition with an expanded focus on simple living, a popular topic even before the recession, plus green organizing and organizing in the electronic age - Timeless themes of saving money and reducing stress - Download a sample chapter




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organizing Your Life


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When stuff rules a person's life, it's Georgene Lockwood to the rescue. Her revised handbook shows how to organize paperwork, food, clothing, and shelter systems and how to win the money wars.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Losing 20 Pounds in 2 Months Fast-Track


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The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Losing 20 Pounds in 2 Months Fast-Track provides meal plans and exercises designed to take off 20 pounds in 2 months or 10 pounds in 1 month. It is a short, simple, step-by-step diet with meal plans and packed with useful tips to make it easy and healthy. Written by a gym owner and trainer, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Losing 20 Pounds in 2 Months Fast-Track offers everything you need to lose weight fast.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Diabetes Fast-Track


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The rapid emergence of Type 2 diabetes has become one of the most urgent health issues facing not only Americans, but people around the globe. For those suffering from diabetes, managing the disease is a delicate and often confusing balancing act that is highly unpredictable and can be, at times, life-threatening. Effective diabetes management requires not only daily effort, but knowledge in order to control side effects. However, armed with that essential knowledge, diabetes sufferers can lead normal and healthy lives, with minimal issues. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Managing Diabetes Fast-Track gives you critical yet practical insight to help manage the disease and minimize the risks. You will learn how to manage daily diet choices, as well long-term dietary habits so the illness doesn't progress. You will also learn the simple lifestyle changes that can make a huge difference and take your health from suffering to thriving. Helpful advice for managing medications and keeping diabetes in check when diet and exercise aren't enough is included so you are armed with the tools and practical guidance they need to lead a normal, healthy life.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading


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Presents strategies and techniques designed to increase reading speed, and improve comprehension and retention of a variety of reading materials.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done


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The secret to getting more checks on that to–do–list . . . As companies and workers are being pressured to do more for less, new ways of becoming more time-productive are essential. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Getting Things Done gives readers the tools they need to increase personal productivity in the workplace, including how to visualize short- and long-term goals, tear down the walls of procrastination, manage energy instead of time, streamline work space, run productive meetings, work effectively with others, and more. • Over the past 10 years, American productivity has risen 46% while hours worked have remained flat (Bureau of Labor Statistics) • Books on personal productivity sell very well • Author’s related book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Managing Your Time, is phenomenally successful • Author is a nationally recognized speaker




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Parliamentary Procedure Fast-Track


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Parliamentary procedure, as outlined in that famous reference Robert’s Rules of Order, as well as several other procedural rulebooks, is the system that keeps public meetings moving along while allowing everyone to have their fair input. Unfortunately, Robert’s is a complex and intimidating reference that new and casual meeting leaders and participants can find overwhelming. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Parliamentary Procedure Fast-Track lets readers bypass the arcane language, sort out the complicated system of motions, and get to what they really want to do—preside over and participate in smoothly run meetings. In this slim volume, readers get: - A quick guide to the different sets of parliamentary procedure and which is most appropriate for the organization. - Advice on setting and managing an agenda. - The essence of what readers need to know about the most common types of motions. - Rules for debates and voting. - Forming and working on effective committees. - Troubleshooting for meetings gone awry. - Quick guidance for writing and submitting minutes.




Cut the Clutter


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"Previously published as Houseworks"--Cover.




Houseworks


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Conquer the clutter, clean your house and give yourself more time for the good things in life-with this new edition Drowning in clutter, but don't know where to begin? Feeling overwhelmed by a home that's out of control? Help is on hand from the creator of the popular home-management website, OrganizedHome.com. With wit, humor and style, Cynthia Townley Ewer goes about solving the many obstacles of running an orderly home. From how to combat, and stay on top of, the clutter tide, to the most effective tools for, and methods of, cleaning. Plus, pick up tips on the specifics of running an organized home from sections such as food, clothing, surfaces and systems, room to live, and paper handling. Whether you want to know how to tame 'the great white' (fridge, not shark!), or add rhythm to your clothes closet, Cynthia will inform you, entertain you, and very possibly save your sanity along the way.