How to Get Organized Without Resorting to Arson: A Step-By-Step Guide to Clearing Your Desk Without Panic or the Use of Open Flame

At last! Here are the tried and true, fun and funny, shocking and surprising inside secrets for organizing yourself, your office, your desk, and even your life!

Find out how to streamline your work area using the little-known methods of Liz Franklin, the world's first funny professional organizer with over 23 years experience. She has helped clients achieve stunning results through her "anti-arson" methods. Follow Liz's easy advice and you'll break free from the old organizing rules that didn't work anyway.

Here are some of the juicy topics you'll find inside this amusing yet highly effective new book:

* What's your Organizing Style? (See Chapter 1)
* How does a three smell? Yes, a three! (See Chapter 2)
* How can your furniture solve most of your disorganization problems? (See Chapter 5)
* What are the nine essential organizing supplies? (See Chapter 6)
* What's wrong with most To-Do lists? (See Chapter 11)
* How can you simplify your projects? (See Chapter 12)
* How can you stay organized without ever having to use discipline? (See Chapter 14)
* What should you always throw out the door? (See Chapter 17)
* What are the Magic Questions that, once you learn them, will keep you organized forever more?

(See Chapter 18)

You'll find all the answers—and more—inside this step-by-step guide to getting organized—without panic or the use of open flame!

You'll also discover—

* How to access your "Inner Organizer"
* How to organize once and for all—instead of doing it over and over again
* Simple tips you can use immediately
* How to analyze your coworkers’ and boss’s working style
* The answer to the eternal question, "How do I get my spouse organized?"
* How to break free from traditional organizing rules that didn't work anyway
* How to save money and make money through improved efficiency

Liz Franklin started her first business at the age of 15. A capitalist even during the hippie era, she designed and sold her own jewelry. At the ripe old age of 19, she decided that being a business secretary was the key to a glorious future. After telling her bosses how they could run their businesses better, she was heartily invited to join the ranks of the self-unemployed. Never daunted, she turned her back on free government cash to forge a new career as a business writer.

As people watched her work and observed her breathtaking sense of organization, some of them begin asking her for help. Being the daughter of a rocket scientist and a Virgo, Liz is a natural organizer. You can often find her in better restaurants, carefully placing the silverware at exact right angles and alphabetizing all the floral arrangements.

In 1978 Liz founded The Franklin Organization (now Franklinizer), to root out and cure the underlying causes of disorganization. It worked: the problems did not occur again. (Liz has often observed that standard "time management" and organizing recommendations simply do not work—a dilemma she attributes to methods that address only the symptoms, and not the causes, of disorganization.)

The better she got at organizing, the more money her clients made. As she reassured them they were not crazy and that there was a motive behind what others saw as their madness, she realized they were also becoming incredibly relaxed and prosperous.

Today Liz works with individuals and businesses, reducing the workloads, streamlining their workflow, and increasing their income. One of her clients realized a 700% increase in 8 months. Another went from a personal income of $24,000 a year to $176,000 a year in one year. A third made an extra $200,000 on one business deal due to improved organization.

Liz wrote How to Get Organized Without Resorting to Arson to counter the traditional organizing books that insist on boring stuff like discipline, standardization and regulation—stuff we all know doesn’t work.