Organizing from the inside out

I need to read these type self-help books every five years to remind me of what is missing from my reading life the other four years. Ack. Absolutely nothing is missing. Here are some of her tips to help you get organized:

Plan
Attack
Keep it up

Ok, and then there's:
Sort
Purge
Find homes for stuff
Put in containers
Maintain the clean

This book could be boiled down to one powerpoint slide. But then, of course, we'd be missing the interspersed tales of clutter control that her "clients" experienced. Wow, "Charlotte W." needed some file folders to get her organization system working? (This is incredible stuff.) "Maria M." ran out of storage space, so she placed some items in off-site storage and promptly forgot about them. (Pass the Valium, please) Avoid this book and all others of its ilk unless you are completely buried under mountains of paper and have no idea about how to trash the things you don't need.

Advice that I live by: If you haven't used it in a year, toss it out.