Organizing from the Inside Out for Teens

by Julie Morgenstern

Book Overview

From Organizing from the Inside Out for Teens:

Jessi Says

What's My Payoff?
My bedroom is my home base and keeping it organized is a must. If my room isn't in solid condition, it's difficult to keep the rest of my life on track. Here are some other reasons that motivate me to keep my room organized:
- My room is the only space on the entire planet that is solely mine.
- My organized room allows me...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805064702
• ISBN13: 9780805064704
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Revolutionary

i bought this book on a whim becusae i knew i needed serious help. I used to have an insanely messy room, but this book was incredible! it is really easy to read and actually explains how to get organized in a way that suits you. its so inspiring and has great stories that make you feel that your not the only disorganized teen in the world. after reading this i completly oprganized my room and everyone was shocked that they could see my floor again! I also have an insanley busy shecudle and this book really hjelped me figure out how to organize my time! it was really a fabulous book and the only thing that ever helped me prganize my life-much more effective then my mother nagging me!

Best Reading Ever

I like this book because it helps teenagers like me, to be organized. It teaches you how to organized your life better. It tells you how we can balance our time with friends, school work and fix your own space. If you are organized, you could find things faster and you could spend more time with your friends and family. I really recommend this book to all those teenagers and adults that are disorganized; they should really read this book. I am sure that by reading this book, the possibility of been an organized person is one hundred percent.

Abracadabra!

I'm 13 years old, and a former mess addict. People would tell me that it looked like a tornado had just passed through, and they were right- you couldn't see the floor and the mess was literally a foot high. It was so disgusting, and I could never invite my friends over because there was actually a stench to my room and no place to hang out in. I'd been trying to clean my room for the longest time but nothing seemed to work- I wasn't motivated enough and I just couldn't figure it out. Things never seemed to be in the right place and even if something worked initially, after a while the system grew old and I couldn't keep it up anymore. I tried all kinds of books and systems and was even considering hypnotherapy (!!!), but none of them seemed to last or even appeal to me, until I found this book. I read the organizational part straight through and I got so inspired to organize that I just started cleaning the minute I finished reading the first part to the book (the second is time management). I finished in three days and have been able to keep it spick and span clean ever since (over three months). If there was ever a magical cure, this is it. I think the magic to this book is that the systems aren't limiting- it's written as a guideline so you know where to get started and how to do it. This enables you to incorporate your personality and lifestyle so that you can actually keep up with the system that you yourself design. The time management part is excellent too- it really helps you cut down on wasted time. It is written in the same manner as the organizational part, as a guideline so you can tailor it to suit yourself. This may be more directed to teens than adults because teens, like me, live mostly outside, in school, and in their bedrooms, and worry about different aspects of life than adults. While adults may deal with bills and their kid's important papers and that kind of complicated mish-mash, we're dealing with homework and social lives and our own kind of complicated mish-mash. Since we're living in separate worlds with separate concerns, I think it's only right that we have separate systems. I'm not saying that adults wouldn't appreciate this book- it gives lots of great ideas, but I think that the organizational and time management problems being dealt with in this book are directed more to a teen's world than an adults.

Buy it for your teen - and use it for yourself

I have two teenagers living in my house. Their rooms are impassable, and half of their waking hours seem to be spent trying to find things. Now that I've bought this book, highly recommended to me by a Former Teenage Mess Addict, I have a glimmer of hope that calm will descend where chaos once reigned. We're working on it together, and in the process I'm finding ways to make my own life flow more smoothly.Highest recommendation, so far. Tune in next month for an update!

I never thought of it like that!!!!

This book is extremely helpful. My room is always such a mess and I can't find anything, I always forget assignments or appointments, and this book just put it very clearly about the steps I needed to take! It's really a very good purchase for people, teens, who think they're are disorganized!