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    Organize Your Home The Toyota Way
    Organize Your Home The Toyota Way
    Organize Your Home The Toyota Way
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    Organize Your Home The Toyota Way

    By Tim Pate

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    Clutter, clutter everywhere!  This book will give you proven principles and methods to based on The Toyota Production System to organize yourself and save money while you are doing it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTim Pate
    Release dateFeb 5, 2016
    ISBN9781524277611
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    Organize Your Home The Toyota Way - Tim Pate

    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1 - The Fish Can't See Water

    Chapter 2 - The Toyota Connection

    Chapter 3 -The Starting Place - 5S

    Chapter 4 - Weed It Out!  - The Pareto Principle

    Chapter 5 - Factory Kitchen?

    Chapter 6 -Grocery Shopping Like A Factory Manager

    Chapter 7 - The 7 Wastes, Muda Everywhere !

    Chapter 8 - How Much Stuff Do I Really Need?

    Chapter 9 - I can see clearly now ..... The junk is gone.  - The Visual Home

    Chapter 10 - Yes, the Kids Can Do It Too

    Chapter 11 - How To Keep It Up

    Chapter 12 - WIIFM?

    Continuous Improvement Glossary of Terms

    Chapter 1

    The Fish Can't See Water

    The Japanese have an expression that Fish can't see water.  In the US it is often said You can't see the forest for the trees.  That is often the case in our homes.  We often get so acclimated or overcome by disorganization that we either don't see the problem or don't know where to start to deal with it. 

    Sometimes we can't actually distinguish between the individual items of clutter and the sheer mass of our possessions.  Or more to the point we are paralyzed by the sheer magnitude of the task of organizing and can’t see that all we have to do is pick out one item here and one item there until we can begin to see the progress we are making.  By enlisting the help of other fresh eyes to help us see through this forest and some time proven methods of organization and cleaning can make this process much easier to accomplish.

    This paralysis is mostly caused by one or more of the following issues...

    Emotional Attachment - When things have been acquired over a lifetime, either personally or given to us by loved one, emotional attachments are often forged. Once all these items have piled up it is easy to think we are attached equally to everything and not realize that among the bulk (the forest) there are things (individual trees) that are of less importance to us than others. We therefore can’t bring ourselves to thin out the excess trees to allow the light to illuminate the remaining ones so they can thrive, which is better for the health of the whole forest.  And in reality isn't a well groomed landscape more appealing that a scrubby forest?

    Worth - We often waste our money obtaining items that we ultimately don’t get the true value out of. As a result we tend to find them difficult to get rid of without feeling we need to redeem some of that wasted cash. Many times this is a real stumbling block for people when it comes to organizing. We also kid ourselves that all the items in our possession are of value because we might need them someday or they might increase in value given more time.

    Laziness - Have you ever heard the excuse of I really need to declutter but I am just too busy, only to later discover that the person spends hours consumed by their pastime and not so much their duties.  Think about the time spent watching reruns.  That is

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