Now What? A Simple Organizing Guide provides straightforward practical organizing tips to help you create organizing strategies that work for you. This guide is an excellent resource filled with choices to help you be successful in your organizing journey. The wealth of information in this book will allow you to seek out those solutions that make sense to your personality, your situation, and your goals. Some of the topics covered in this user friendly guide are: how to set up a home, how to create and maintain a budget, how to manage paperwork, how to develop beneficial daily routines, the benefits of scheduling personal time, planning ahead, and setting boundaries. There is something for everyone in this well-crafted guide – no matter what your age or your experience!

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What professionals and parents have said about this work…

Diane Quintana’s Now What? – A Simple Organizing Guide, which is filled with straight forward organizing tips and resources, is a must read for anyone that’s going through a life transition. Her realistic approach encourages readers to work towards “functional” instead of “picture-perfect” organization. Diane guides you on your journey, as a calm, supportive advisor, sharing practical lists, personal experiences, and stories you’ll relate to about organizing physical things, money, time and self.

—Linda Samuels, CPO-CD®
Professional Organizer, Blogger, & Author of The Other Side of Organized

“Now What?” should be subtitled, “How to be a Grownup” and it’s chock-full of the kinds of practical advice nobody bothers teaching anymore but everyone needs to know. Diane Quintana walks the reader through all of the essentials of managing a robust, respectable life. Whether she’s mapping out the intricate details of planning a move, creating an organized, live able home, preventing disasters in time and budget management, or offering sage wisdom on navigating etiquette, Quintana’s wise counsel is specific, actionable, and creative. The upbeat tone of the book doesn’t patronize the reader or mistake inexperience for lack of intelligence, and the resource lists are encyclopedic. This is the perfect gift for a new high school or college graduate, precocious teenager or any adult who hasn’t quite gotten the hang of the grownup world.

—Julie Bestry, Certified Professional Organizer®
Best Results Organizing

Who has not had a life transition? Even the most organized person can be overwhelmed by all of the decisions needed to be made during a life transition. Now What? Is an amazingly detailed resource guide with an incredible amount of valuable information. Diane has created a simple to follow step by step book, which can take a person by the hand through several transitions. Now What? will take the fear out of that process, and will make the transition much more enjoyable.

—Cris Sgrott-Wheedleton, CPO®, CPO-CD®
Certified Professional Organizer
Certified Professional Organizer in Chronic Disorganization