How Did You Find That ?: Four Habits From Chaos To Control

FIVE STARS FROM REVIEWERS

"...truly perceptive about how and why we become disorganized. If you just follow her advice and execute her exercises, you'll find yourself thinking less about mundane cleaning and more about how you live."

THEY TOLD YOU TO GET ORGANIZED

They told you to clean your room. They told you a lot of things, but they never showed you how to do it. Getting organized is a job that's easier said than done, and can feel like an impossible task when your brain is in six different places at once.

There is a way, and it's easier than you think.

You can learn how to be organized with four simple habits:

1. Seeing

2. Grouping

3. Containing

4. Storing

Take your time and ease into the How Did You Find That method, which helps you focus your mind as it breaks the overwhelming task of organizing into simple steps. As you ease into the method, it will feel like a spiritual practice that you can turn to whenever life becomes overwhelming, and you don't know where to begin.

The Backstory

How did you find that? That's what my neighbor asked a few years ago when she needed my help reviving a crashed computer. I told her I'd be over in a few minutes but needed to grab a diagnostic disk (okay, so it was more than a few years ago). When I arrived at her door a few minutes later as promised my neighbor was shocked - wide eyes, gaping mouth shocked. She pointed to the disk in my hand and said, "How Did You Find That?"

At first her confusion didn't register with me. What did she mean, how did I find that? Then I entered her home and understood. She was living in chaos. There were piles everywhere. Clean or dirty, it was hard to tell. There were shopping bags filled with clothes in a corner, piles of papers and unopened mail. The bed was not made, and her laundry was heaped on the mattress. She could not find a thing she owned in her own small apartment, and she needed help.

The answer to her question, How Did You Find That? is in this book.

Who is Carrie Kane

Carrie Kane loves to share simple, elegant solutions for life's everyday challenges. She writes about rethinking overwhelming tasks so we can get a better handle on life.