Donna Goldberg pretty much launched the field of student organizing, and her 2005 book The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond is the first title I recommend for parents and teachers of middle and high school students. That said, there’s much in this volume that speaks to the needs of the university community, especially graduate students and faculty. Continue reading
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Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In keeps generating media coverage, much of it critical, and much of it predicted in her text. I was surprised, however, by how much level-headed and pithy commentary around time-management Sandberg included. Continue reading
All Your Worth
It’s annoying when a system meant to make your life flow more smoothly eats up more time than it frees up. I find most financial advice books to be irritating that way. Write down every penny I spend, REALLY??? That’s why I cheered when Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi’s 2005 book All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan recommended “Count the Dollars, Not the Pennies.”
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Have you abandoned a New Year’s resolution? Still want to make lasting change amid the “whirlwind” of daily responsibilities? Consider the research-based method promoted in The Four Disciplines of Execution: Achieving your Wildly Important Goals. Continue reading
Organizing from the Inside Out
An organizing classic! Julie Morgenstern’s Organizing from the Inside Out discusses the following basic principles to create a functional arrangement for anything: Continue reading