YES I CAN ORGANIZE in 7 Simple Steps

By Rebecca Kohan

Your home is and should be your sanctuary – an empty space of possibilities where you start and end each day. It is a daily reminder and affirmation of your individuality, who you are, how you view yourself, and how you view your world.
By nurturing and respecting the spaces within your home, you are nurturing and respecting yourself and the people you share your life with. So starting today, let your home bring out your best!
This organizing book (one of a series) will help you recognize the effects of clutter, and learn how to concur it in the public spaces (living room, family room, dining room, kitchen) within your home. Learning how to organize the right way can support you in focusing on and achieving your most treasured goals, while creating inner peace and serenity for you and your family.

Here are some of the many things this book can offer you:

-Easy to read and understand
-Simple, straightforward and effective information
-Keyword references at the beginning of each paragraph
-Understanding clutter, what it is and its consequences
-How clutter accumulates
-How clutter affects your state of being
-Benefits of an organized home
-Evaluating and defining how disorganization has impacted your life
-Why disorganization occurs
-What’s holding you back from getting organized
-How to motivate myself to organize
-How to overcome and concur clutter
-How to take back control of your home
-How to organize the right way
-How to set organization goals and deadlines
-Steps to having an effective action plan
-Step-by-step instructions for organizing each of the spaces listed
-How to declutter, one step at a time
-How to effectively sort your items
-How to create functional spaces that reflect your true being
-Understanding the purpose of the room
-Understanding the emotional connection attached to each room
-Useful insider tips and design ideas
-Organizing templates to understand your needs
-Organizing templates to set goals
-Organizing templates for creating organizational systems
-How to deal with incoming mail
-How to be in control of your bills
-How to create effective filing systems
-How to maintain organization
-How to stay organized
-How to communicate effectively with partner (and children)
-How to interact with teens that resist
-Garage safety tips
-Inspirational life messages that will empower you to take action

Learn how to organize the following spaces in your home: Family Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Master Bedroom, Bedroom Closets and Dressers, Kids Bedrooms and Closets, Teens Room and Closet, Bathrooms, Home Office, Incoming Mail, Paying Bills, Filing, Laundry Room, Linen Closet, Garage, Basement and Attic, Old Photographs, Digital Photographs, and Memorabilia.

Yes, You Can Organize!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rebecca Kohan
• Release date: Jun 2, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458108470

Rebecca Kohan

As far back as she can remember, Rebecca Kohan would set out to change a room to make it functional and soothing to the soul. After obtaining her Bachelors Degree in Interior Design, Rebecca has worked with residential and commercial clients, creating floor plans and designs that met their needs. Subsequently, Rebecca combined her design background with her organizing expertise to create not only great layouts, but functional spaces all throughout.In addition to this, for over 20 years, Rebecca has been directly involved with personal development seminars in Los Angeles. Not only have these seminars helped Rebecca grow on a personal level, but they have also helped her better understand the impact the little things in life have on our well-being and happiness. As a leader, she believes that we each hold the key to our happiness and success in every area of life.Rebecca further connects the impact our home and office environments have on our success and happiness. As a result, she created a series organizing books, each focusing on a different area. of importance Using her professional knowledge, she provides her readers with insider facts and tips on how to organize and maintain their living spaces to create the home and/or office environments they would look forward to coming to each and every day - ultimately leading them to greater happiness, success and inner peace.

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YES I CAN

ORGANIZE

An Empowering Guide to Home Organization

By Rebecca Kohan

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Author’s Message

Introduction

Chapter 1: UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATION

Benefits of Organization

Fundamentals of Organization

Chapter 2: STEPS TO ORGANIZATION

1. Assessment

- Questionnaire

2. Action Plan

3. Organizing Goals

4. Decluttering (D-Rules)

- Less Is More Theory

5. Organizing Plan

6. Maintaining Organization

Where To Start

Chapter 3: PUBLIC SPACES

Living Room

Dining Room

Kitchen

Chapter 4: PERSONAL SPACES

Master Bedroom

Bedroom Closet/Dresser

Kids Bedroom & Closet

Teens Room & Closet

Teens That Resist

Bathroom

Chapter 5: FINANCE AREA

Home Office

- Incoming Mail

- Paying Bills

- Filing

Chapter 6: STORAGE AREAS

Laundry Room

Linen Closet

BONUS Chapter

Old Photographs

Digital Photographs

Memorabilia

How to Communicate Effectively with Partner (and children)

About the Author

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AUTHOR’S MESSAGE

Every day starts and ends with the place you call home. Your home is an extension of yourself, and it should bring out your BEST. At the end of a long day, it should provide you with the space to renew and energize your thoughts and emotions.

Look at your home as it as an empty space of possibilities where you focus on and write your life - a daily reminder and affirmation of your individuality, who you are, how you view yourself, and how you view your world. If you nurture and respect it, in reality, you are nurturing and respecting yourself and the people you share your life with.

Starting today, organize your home … your life … and your mind, and open up new possibilities for your future.

Ask yourself,

"Does my home bring out my best?"

"Does it reflect who I truly am?"

"Do the items found in my home bring me joy or do they bring me down with negative energy?"

"What does it take to let go of all that brings me down, to start fresh and focus only on allowing that which brings me happiness and joy in my life?"

By writing this book, my goal is to help you realize how organizing and recreating your home to reflect your true being can create inner peace and serenity. By letting go of physical things that stand in your way, you will be getting one step closer to achieving personal power and transforming your life.

As a mother of three and a businesswoman, I know how valuable time is and how organization can support you in achieving your most treasured goals. Like any other goal in life, you have to first envision the end result before you can actually start.

I acknowledge you for taking this step to improve the quality of your life and creating a more rewarding home environment for yourself and your family.

~ Rebecca Kohan

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."

~Mahatma Gandhi~

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INTRODUCTION

MODERN-DAY HOME

In the modern-day home, organization has become one of the biggest problems. Although the size of the average home has grown dramatically in the last 30 years, keeping things organized and clutter-free has become a great challenge for many families, especially the ones living in apartment homes. Having lived both in a house and an apartment, I have personally faced these challenges on a daily basis. In this book, I will focus solely on how to overcome your organization issues in your apartment.

WHAT IS CLUTTER?

Before taking any action, you must first understand what clutter is. Here are some examples of Clutter (see if any of them relate to you):

- Object you don’t love

- Object you don’t use

- Object/gift that has no sentimental value to you

- Broken things

- Things you may one day use

- Old clothing and toys

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