Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life

By: Paul Hammerness MD, Margaret Moore

Narrated by: Victor Bevine, Lola Holiday, Therese Plummer

Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's Summary

The key to a less hectic, less stressful life is not in simply organizing your desk, but organizing your mind. Dr. Paul Hammerness, a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, describes the latest neuroscience research on the brain's extraordinary built-in system of organization. Margaret Moore, an executive wellness coach and codirector of the Institute of Coaching, translates the science into solutions.

This remarkable team shows you how to use the innate organizational power of your brain to make your life less stressful, and more productive and rewarding. You'll learn how to:

• Regain control of your frenzy
• Embrace effective uni-tasking (because multitasking doesn't work)
• Fluidly shift from one task to another
• Use your creativity to connect the dots

This groundbreaking guide is complete with stories of people who have learned to stop feeling powerless against multiplying distractions and start organizing their lives by organizing their minds.

©2011 Margaret Moore, Paul Hammerness (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Disappointing

Admittedly I read a lot in this field, so finding much that is new and useful might be tougher for me. I do wish that the appendices were available as a PDF with the download.

Wonderful

What made the experience of listening to Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life the most enjoyable?

A great book for those wanting to get more organized, or help children with organizational skills.

Great resource just not for audio

This is a book full of suggestions, steps and strategy, but I'm having a very hard time "visualizing" resources that I can see. I should have gone with a Kindle version or actual book. I feel like I wasted my money with this one.

Interesting and useful

This book is useful in helping you to understand why you feel distracted and overwhelmed and some steps you can take to feel more in control of your life. I like the high-level perspective, both conceptually and related to what it means to be organized. In some areas,I would have liked more in-depth coaching tips,but overall, I have found this book very useful. I feel I have improved already and will definitely reread.

Good Information...

but there were parts that dragged on a bit...or it could be my ADD. Either way I think it was helpful

not great

OK book. had some pieces, but so much of the coaching is so broad and non specific/ simple things I already do it added no value.
Dr. Hammerness has some interesting info, but again I didn't gain any practical real life education from it. starting with "you can be organized, but your desk call look like the glutes on Jaba the Hutt" isn't a way to sell your ideas. thanks for the time, I guess...?

Great book for covid time

It looks at your emotional state for organizing rather than your physical surrounding. Something we all need in these turbulent times

Nothing of value

I suffered through four chapters. Word after word telling the listener what they will tell you without ever actually telling you anything of value.
Here’s what you get in the first four chapters:
1. Put your keys in the same place all the time so you don’t lose them.
2. Control your emotions.
I couldn’t take it anymore and stopped listening. No evidence it would get better.

represent your time

From what I have learnt after reading books on organising and practising organising my space and life for a few years now, the important thing to know is -- represent your time on paper. once you list out every single un-represented action, it will become clear to you why you spend so much time doing busy work and getting nothing done.

Lots of filler

There are several good points made but it took nine chapters to describe what they could have done in two chapters lots of boring filler.
The authors need to read a book about getting to the point.