If someone from your family or you suffering from adjustment disorder, consult an expert for help if the following symptoms persist: bed wetting (in children), depression, mood swings, nightmares, personality changes, and sleeplessness. Talk to your spouse, employer, or doctor about the situation and seek counseling. It is estimated that 37 percent of job-related moves fail because the family does not form new relationships or set down permanent roots in the new location, or because of other family-related circumstances. In many of these cases, the employees quit their jobs, and many of these families return to their previous location. Moving again may be the right thing to do in difficult situations.

Find creative ways to notify long-distance friends of your move. If you move as frequently as I do, you will eventually have friends all over the country. Each time you move, these friends will want to know all the details. There are many commercial cards readily available that you can purchase to announce your move. But if you are creative, like my daughter, you can design your own moving announcement on the computer and even send it via e-mail.

Alternatively, I have used our family's yearly Christmas newsletter to inform friends of our latest move. I even include a humorous poem, such as "The Twelve Days of Christmas, Arizona Style," to make the letter more amusing. Sometimes I make up the wording; other times someone else has written the words for that state and I use that. Any of these techniques are practical ways to notify your friends of your move and to be entertaining at the same time.

In the ideal world, you would start preparing for a move three months in advance. But if you are working on a lighter schedule (us often happens), you can still follow one of the most crucial steps: getting organized.

I know firsthand how important organizations can be to a move. When we first moved in to my new home, I started adding long tiles of papers as each tax season passed (boxes and boxes of papers were accumulated during this process), and when our two children were born. Before we knew it, we had a mess on our hands. After my family's 2nd move, I realized that I didn't even know what was in most of those boxes anymore. That was when I knew it was time to get organized.

One of the hardest parts about getting organized is deciding where to begin. Since paperwork seems to be the first thing that overtakes our desks and counter-tops, let's start by making files lo contain the clutter. Then we can move on to losing out papers that we no longer need and organizing the rest of our household items.

Getting organized either comes naturally, or it can be an ongoing experience. Either way, when you planning your next move you need to get organized and make sure that you know where everything goes. It is very important and if you let it go as I did, you will be spending more time searching for things and leave more important aspects of your move without necessary attention.