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| Organizing for Your Brain Type: Finding Your Own Solution to Managing Time, Paper, and Stuff | 
 enlarge | Author: Lanna Nakone
Creator: Arlene Taylor
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 341874
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0312339771
Dewey Decimal Number: 640
EAN: 9780312339777
ASIN: 0312339771
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
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Get---and stay---organized!Let your natural inclinations guide you toward gaining control of your environment and learn to live life on your own terms. Drawing on the science of brain function and her experience as a professional organizer, Lanna Nakone offers tailored and specific advice that will actually work to help you tame your desk, unclutter your closet, manage your time, and save your sanity.Take the Brain Style quiz to determine which of the four parts of the brain you rely on the most to process information, and which organizing style complements your brain function. If you rely on the*Posterior left section of your brain, you're a Maintaining Style. You develop and follow routines well and adhere to traditional organizing methods. *Frontal right section of your brain, you're an Innovating Style. Artistically creative, you have a unique stacking system that no one else understands. *Posterior right section of your brain, you're a Harmonizing Style. Valuing interconnectedness with your family or coworkers, you need to be organized enough to keep your environment peaceful. *Frontal left section of your brain, you're a Prioritizing Style. Adept at analyzing data, you prefer to delegate organizing. Chapters specific to each type offer practical tips and strategies for implementing an organizing system, maintaining your system, and coexisting with different brain styles.Insightful and understanding, Organizing for Your Brain Type turns the task of managing your life into an enjoyable experience.
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Helpful October 16, 2008
It helped me think a bit "outside the box" in regards to organizing with my spouse in mind. I had many "Aha!" moments.
 The only place to start August 5, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Like so many people, I have read plenty of organizing books. I try to implement the recommended systems, but, if I even get the system in place, I can't sustain an uncluttered environment.
In Lanna Nakone's book, I learned that traditional systems of organizing only work for people who are already natural organizers. Only by understanding the way your own brain works, can you begin to implement organizational systems that will last for you. Read this book first, then you can sift through other organizers' advice and select what will ultimately work for you.
Raleigh area residents can find free support using Ms. Nakone's system at http://declutter.meetup.com/107.
Useful and Practical Information, Fun to Read February 20, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am very busy, so I do not have a lot of spare time to read. I liked how this book was concise and practical, and yet still fun to read. It is organized well so that I could quickly get the information I needed to help get myself organized, and then go back later and read about other types.
I especially liked the section which showed how people with other brain types viewed people with my type; it was uncanny!
I liked it enough to order two more copies for friends.
Organizing for your brain type February 19, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
One of the best organizing books for a chronically messy person! Actually, I'm not messy...I just do things differently. Easy to understand, easy to follow.
 Different slant on the Organizing problem comes up short February 8, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I found the ideas in the beginning of this book to be interesting -- and obvious. Of course everyone is not the same and needs different organizing techniques. It is a nice idea to have different ways of organizing in one book, geared towards the different ways people think.
However -- the quiz to figure out what "type" you are had some flaws. The answers are exaggerated to make it easy to select "your" answer, but some of the questions are things that aren't relevant (to me), and some of the answers didn't fit me at all. Once one type became clear, I found I fit around half of the qualities for that type.
Given the point that we are not all one type, I would have expected more information on how each person may have more than one style. This was not addressed at all.
While this books has some new ideas, I found most of them fell in the category "You are different, you don't have to do things like ." There are different suggestions for each Style, but I found them too general.
In addition, there is a "sensory" quiz, to let you know if you are a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic person. I found this interesting as well, but did not get conclusive results on the quiz. The suggestions for the sensory preference within each style were, again, interesting.
All in all, I will use some of the ideas that I read in this book, in particular, some of the ideas behind why my "style" likes and dislikes certain things. I will mix that in to all of the other information I have read about organization and hopefully continue to develop something effective for me. I would not recommend purchasing this book, though, at least not without a dry run at the library. In addition to feeling it was incomplete, the writing style was sometimes irritating, with stories that weren't always on topic. I also think the author is of the "Harmonizing Style", as the way she wrote that chapter is markedly different from the others. Although she says each style is just the way certain people do things, no one style is better than any other, the treatment of Priorizing Style people isn't as kind in the end chapter about working with different styles.
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