Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Anyone who wants to improve daily work flow and lessen the stress created by clutter—cluttered schedules, cluttered desks, cluttered spaces, and cluttered minds.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Destination: Organization recognizes that reaching your organizing goals is a journey, not a one-time event, as you develop processes to cope with daily demands that constantly change. This book is simply laid out, with options to match your individual style, and gives you the tools to organize every aspect of your life. Whether you are hoping to clear stacks from your desk, add more productive hours to your days, lower daily stress, or plan a vacation with the extra time you will have, you can achieve it with this book as your guide.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I am the owner of Key Organization Systems, Inc. and have spent years speaking, training, consulting, and coaching on time management and effective work flow, helping companies and individuals create systems for handling both their business and personal lives. NBC Nightly News recently interviewed me as their productivity expert for a feature on vacation deprivation in the U.S. to find out why we are so busy we cannot even take off all of the days we earn.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: Because everyone has different strengths and learning styles, this book has been designed to use in a variety of ways, allowing you to choose the method that works best for you.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: In our society, where everyone is struggling with too much to do and too little time, we end up multitasking non-stop. Even though you may feel that you are good at it, studies are demonstrating that you are more productive when you can focus on one thing at a time. However the bigger issue is that researchers have discovered that constant multitasking is actually causing short-term memory damage. We have to find ways to limit our need to work in this mode. Becoming more organized can help us focus and prioritize, which is one of the ways we can accomplish this.

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Women are particularly drawn to this book, especially women with an interest in spirituality. The principles readily complement the wisdom found in practices that run the gamut from Zen Buddhism to the Law of Attraction. It is also an excellent book for people with Attention Deficit Disorder, and for professional organizers.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Being organized is a spiritual process. After all, chaos is conquered as much by awareness, gratitude, and grounding as by a well-labeled filing system.

Organizing can also be fun.

Unlike any other organizing book on the market, The Spiritual Art of Being Organized feeds our hunger for simplicity and connection with equal dollops of humor, poetry, inspiration, personal stories, and practical advice. Structured around 12 basic organizing principles – practical and spiritual – that summarize every organizing tip we’ve ever heard, this book teaches the “why” instead of just the “how” of organizing, teaching us how to easily organize anything, anywhere, anytime.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I am a pioneer in simplicity-based organizing, and am the founder and moderator of the Simple and Sustainable Organizers Yahoo! group. I have taught numerous workshops on simplicity-based organizing (which incorporates the spiritual principles discussed in the book), as well as spoken at churches and bookstores on the topic of the spiritual aspects of organizing.

And, the 12 Basic Principles that provide the foundation for the book are my copyrighted material.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: Most organizing books tell you how to organize various aspects of your life. This book provides the underlying principles that are common to any and all organizing tasks. Also, this book incorporates poetry, humor, and spirituality in a way that no other organizing book does. No other book on organizing has Wendell Berry, Tikkun Olam, Edward Abbey, and Groucho Marx in their index!

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: This book changes lives. Because of its spirituality, its quotes and poetry — as well as the “voice” in which it’s written — it reaches people who otherwise are alienated by books on organizing. If you go to the publisher’s web site (www.wintersdaughterpress.com) and click on the Letter from a Reader, you will see an amazing testimonial of how this book gave hope (and practical tools) to a woman recently diagnosed with cancer.