I love books and I love to read as obviously do many other people. Although electronic books may be gaining in popularity, most books are still physical. If you gather books at any rate close to mine, eventually you need to go through them to both organize and get rid of unwanted and unneeded books.

Organizing your home can feel like a real hassle, especially if you have a lot of stuff. Whether you genuinely need all the things you own -- and you simply need a lot -- or you're a hoarder and need barely a third of it, the first thing you need to do before you organize anything is sort through all your belongings. Make sure you have lots of garbage bags and boxes handy -- you're going to need them.

If your world seems to be full of clutter and chaos and you desperately want to have a more organised life and living space then you need to get your family involved too. However much you decide that things have to be different and you try to do it on your own, if you share your space with others then you have to get them contributing too if you want to stay calm. On the other hand they have the right, if that's what they want, to live in continuing disorganisation.

It's likely that someone popped the question this season. No, not the "will you marry me?" question, but the "what is your resolution?" one. Finding more time to work out, losing those last five pounds, spending more quality time with the kids all top the list, but one of the most popular New Year's resolutions is to get more organized.

You need to develop the mindset for change. If you have been leading a cluttered disorganised life for ages then the first thing to change is your mind. Perhaps this will be helped by thinking about where all this lack of organisation is heading for you. Have you lost vital documents for example? When you are organised you will know precisely where to find everything.