I've just started reading a new organizing book that I really like so far. It's called The Organizing Sourcebook by Kathy Waddill. I won a signed copy as part of the grand door prize package (lucky me!) at the WDC-NAPO Professional Organizers Conference in March and just got around to reading it. I guess I've been too busy until now--that's a good thing! :) In the very beginning of the book Kathy relates how her assumptions about why people are "disorganized" evolved and changed as she met with more and more people in her early years as a professional organizer. As she worked with people she began to see that the "mess" the client was complaining about wasn't usually the real problem. (I agree!) She began to realize that there was almost always some life change or more than one change that a client was going through such as a move, birth, death, divorce etc. that was causing their normal systems to breakdown resulting in "disorganization". After quite a few different situations in my year and a half of organizing, this belief really resonates with me. I can't wait to read the rest and learn more about her "9 strategies for reasonably organized people".
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