The books and websites below are great sources of inspiration and ideas.
BOOKS
Goal Setting and Time Management
Tracy, Brian:
* Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time. Practical, easy, and powerful techniques. Short, fun book.
* Goals! How to Get Everything You Want – Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible. I believe it’s the best of all time management books.
* 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success. Very powerful visualization exercise on goal-setting (p.31)
* Fiore, Neil, The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play. If procrastination or self-recriminations are behaviors you struggle with, this would be the book to study.
Sherman, Doug, and William Hendricks. How to Balance Competing Time Demands. On retaining a spiritual life in a busy world.
Emotional Well-being
* Bailey, Joseph V. The Serenity Principle: Finding Inner Peace in Recovery
* Ellison, Sharon. Don’t Be So Defensive! Taking the War Out of Our Words. Help for overcoming some of the causes of procrastination.
* Nelsen, Jane. Serenity: Simple Steps for Recovering Peace of Mind, Real Happiness, and Great Relations
* Rubin, Gretchen. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
* Achor, Shawn. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work
SHARED HOUSING QUESTIONNAIRE - resource for helping to determine potential roommate compatibility
INTERNET RESOURCES
Good sites for organizing; many offer free e-zines and/or articles:
* creativehomemaking.com/organizing/clutter_control.shtml
* flylady.net/ - great e-zine
* getorganizednow.com/ - lots of articles and excellent e-zine
* Lifehacker.com – organizing is a frequent topic on this useful site. Many links to other sites on the topic.
* realsimple.com – e-zine, RSS feed, many good articles
* zenhabits.net/ - inspiring, covers more topics than just organizing and has lots of archived articles
* catalogchoice.org and/or 41pounds.org; these resources will let you opt out selectively