cover image Order from Chaos: A Six-Step Plan for Organizing Yourself, Your Office, and Your Life

Order from Chaos: A Six-Step Plan for Organizing Yourself, Your Office, and Your Life

Liz Davenport. Three Rivers Press (CA), $12 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-609-80777-4

Three Rivers presents two related self-help titles in December. In Order from Chaos: A 6-Step Plan for Organizing Yourself, Your Office, and Your Life, Liz Davenport offers specific practical suggestions to those who feel overwhelmed by physical and mental clutter. Davenport, owner of an organizing business with the same name as the book, teaches readers how to distinguish trash from necessities, organize their desktops (a Desktop File, an In Box, a To Read box, a To File box), keep their planners manageable and many more time- and mental health-saving devices. Dec.)