Organize Your Home in a Year or Less!

Your Complete Guide to Keep Your House Under Control and Get Organized with Powerful Room by Room Organization Hacks...Exercises (Happy Decluttered Life, Book 4)

By: Kai M. Jordan, K.M Nour

Narrated by: Sheila McLey

Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Learn how to keep your house under control, bring any home out of its mess, master the magic of organization, and enjoy being at home now with 12 practical exercises!

Are you sick and tired of your messy home, disorganized rooms, and things away from its place?

Have you tried countless other organization solutions but nothing seems to work?

Do you finally want to say goodbye to mess, overpacked kitchen cabinets, kids toys everywhere, and discover something that actually works for you?

If so, then this book is for you.

You see, living a worry-free life with a beautiful organized home doesn’t have to be complicated.

Even if you’ve tried other solutions that didn’t work.

The truth is, it’s much simpler than you think.

Amazon best-selling author Kai M. Jordan provides you with a step-by-step blueprint to organize your home and life without overwhelming yourself with complicated approaches and strategies.

In Organize Your Home in a Year or Less!, you’ll discover:

• The biggest mistake people make when organizing their homes that prevents them from enjoying a peaceful life in an organized home, and how to understand decluttering vs organizing.
• The five ways to live your dream life with an organized home with 12 practical exercises to apply throughout the year
• The four things you should know about the difference between decluttering and organizing
• Secrets to a happier, healthier and organized life without sacrificing all your time and mental energy to achieve it
• What Benjamin Franklin said about organizing!
• The best yearly plan with 12 exercises crafted carefully for you using scientifically proven strategies to help you on your journey to organize your home.
• Practical strategies, solutions, tips and tricks to organize your kitchen, living area, bathroom, kids room, garage, attic, bedroom, closet, sentimental items
• And so much more!

©2022 Kai M. Jordan (P)2022 Kai M. Jordan

Great tips and advice

I’m still on the declutterring phase of improving my home, but this audiobook gave me great insights to start thinking about what’s ahead. I’ve read other books by this author before and like her approach, activities and tips.

I think it would be useful to have a PDF handout to help complete the activities at the end of each chapter. I loved Kai’s approach to take one area of your home per month and having a chapter focused on each area.

I will definitely come back an re listen to this audiobook once I’m ready to organize my decluttered home.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

What I neeed to get started and make a new habit!

This book walked me through the process, which was the help I needed to get started. Room by room, time savers, thought processes,. It's helped me stay on task to take care of each room and tips and hints for each space we organize( as well as making sure you declutter first). It helped me organize and reduce stress change my mindset, and create good habits, stop procrastination. Decisions, Discipline, and determination.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Awesome help to get house in order!

This audio book is something i think everyone should have. Its very helpful in getting your life and home in order. This book is so awesome. The voice isn't boring like some other voices! The book gives you so many educational methods to help get your home in order! I will be listening to this very often!!

Well-Structured Guidance on Organizing Your Home

It seems as though I not only read fiction out of order, but I also tend to do the same for nonfiction! Therefore, this is the first book I've listened to in this series, even though there are three preceding it! However, I have to say listening to this book has me looking forward to starting with the first book. As the title says, this book is all about organizing your home. The author makes it very clear from the start that you organize as your next step after decluttering. The earlier books in the series are about decluttering your physical space, mind, and digital life. While I haven't yet, unfortunately, begun the necessary decluttering in my physical space, this book gave me a better appreciation of that process knowing what the next logical step would be. The author certainly knows her stuff. She has a super straightforward approach to organizing different spaces within the home. The book is chock-full of hints and techniques. She seems to understand how the minds of people who tend to be cluttery and somewhat disorganized are. She comes across as compassionate and someone who really does want to help you organize your decluttered home so you and others who may live there can enjoy it and the rest of your life better. This book is meant to be tackled one month at a time, with a chapter dedicated to each month, so that you focus on different aspects of your mindset and home without trying to do everything all at once. That's a great way to structure a book like this and the activity itself. I know the thought of organizing my place after I declutter is a bit intimidating, but it feels less so after listening to this audiobook. The only thing I didn't like was the narrator; it just wasn't right to my ear for the topic. When I get to the organizing stage of my house improvement project, I will return to this audiobook and follow its steps and advice to help me organize my newly decluttered space. If you are at either the decluttering or organization stage, this book may be helpful in several ways, including inspiring you to get it done.

I liked this book.

I found this book to be chock-full of useful ideas. At first, I was irritated by the narrator's voice but then realized she sounded exactly like my home economics teacher, and I listened without it bothering me. The best chapter for me was about procrastination, a lifelong hazard to my progress in life. I listen to that chapter 3 times. I liked this book, not too much over analyzing. Lots of basic information for organizing your living space.

I have mixed feelings about the book.

~Disclaimer: I received a free audiobook copy of this book. I did purchase the kindle book to read along with.~

I have mixed feelings about the book.

People who have a more Type A personality and enjoy detailed, structured approaches may find this book more beneficial than others. The book includes tools like Emotional Quotient Wheels, writing exercises, and color-coded chore lists, which may feel overwhelming for those looking for simple organizing advice.

Moreover, the book's references to other texts seemed to pad the already short page count, such as listing bad habits identified in Reader's Digest Canada (January 2022) for about two pages.

A few of her strategies for organizing bear a striking resemblance to Marie Kondo's, such as her suggestion for organizing socks, which is nearly identical. Although I am not denying that these ideas may have originated from her, it's apparent that she has done thorough research on this topic, as evidenced by her numerous references. Thus, I can't help but ponder how many of these pointers could have been obtained from other better sources.

Furthermore, I noticed a few formatting/editing errors in the Kindle version of the book. For instance, on page 39, there was a random line break between Sorting and Hat. On page 45, the subtitles had inconsistent spacing, with some being single-spaced and others double-spaced. On page 49, all organizing styles were underlined except for the second one. On page 130, the subtitles in the list abruptly switch from being underlined to not being underlined. There are likely errors I didn’t catch as well. These mistakes make me think that the book series is more of a cash grab than a quality resource.

On the positive side, the narrator does a decent job of presenting the material. Overall, while the book offers useful organizing tips, it may not be the best fit for everyone due to its detailed approach and editing issues.

Quotes:
“We will never have the time to complete every task we need at home, socially, at school or work. This means that we will be in a perpetual state of procrastination if we don't change our mindset and decide to take control of what is within our reach in our lives.” (Pg. 41)

“One of the most under-utilized spaces in our homes is the front door itself! You can hang some organizers on the door to create a permanent home for the items required at your entrance. Using the back of your entry is a life-changing tip because it keeps any counter and floor space near the door clear and makes you feel ready for the day because you can grab whatever you need.”(Pg. 55)