This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guy's quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

You'd think being the Get It Done guy and all that I would really value cleaning. I'd have the neatest, most organized house in the world.

Well, I do. If by neat, you mean messy, and by organized, you mean stuff is all over the place.

Earlier this year, however, Shmoupi delivered an ultimatum.

This year is the year of learning how to organize the room.

The very thought was terrifying.

Fortunately, right about the time we made that decision,

I stumbled across a rather remarkable book that claims to be how to organize your closet and your stuff.

But it's really about how to organize your life.

It's called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo.

Marie Kondo is a professional organizer from Japan.

As she goes to great lengths to emphasize, she is not obsessive about tidying up.

She's just like any other person who at the age of five would go over to their neighbor's house

and declutter and then come home and tidy up her siblings' bedrooms, just like you or me.

Her book is intriguing. Much of her advice is counterintuitive, but she says over and over,

follow her organization system to the letter and your life will be transformed. Being transformed sounds really

cool, almost as cool as being Batman. So Shmoopee and I decided to read the book and try it.

As she cleans, she talks to her possessions. She thanks them for being in her life.

She even runs her hands over each and every object.

It's all very consent-based.

We resolve to give her unusual method a try.

Now, even though it took me 16 years of therapy to stop talking to inanimate objects,

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