Book Review: Organize As You Go
1 Shauna says:
Thanks to Marie Ricks, I got to review her Organize As You Go book! I am an organize freak and always excited to learn and try new things. This book is very helpful and full of great information. The “Organize for the Holidays” section was one of my favorite with the holidays around the corner. When I got to the section talking about “Slow Life Down”… I knew this part really was written for me. I love all the tips and lists in the book. I was also impressed that it even has an “Organized for Traveling and Moving” section.
Thank you so very much Marie for this wonderful book!
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2Savvy Mom Saves says:
This book is FABULOUS! I loved how this book was easy to read. Some organizing books are so involved that it is hard to follow their train of thought or figure out their complex systems. I always love new ideas for how to keep my house organized so I loved reviewing this book. Organize as You Go is broken up into seven different sections. Marie Ricks gave organizational advice for every day use, holiday use, at home, during travel or moving, as well as suggestions to stay organized for the future.
I loved how Marie made organizing seem simple! I will use her book as a reference guide for organizing my chaos.
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3Marie Ricks is The Real Thing, a professional organizer. I met her at a book signing, and as always, I learned so much from spending two hours sitting beside another author.She’s outgoing, a wonderful trait for an author. She’d approach people by saying, “Hi, my name is Marie and I’ve written a book on how to be organized. And after you get organized, you’ll want to read Janet’s novel!”
Obviously, Marie is more than an author. She is a wife, mother, teacher, radio talk show host, web designer, self-publisher, motivational speaker, organizer . . . and a wonderful person.Some of us are born organized. I suspect Marie was. I know her aunt well, and she, also, is very organized. So was Marie’s grandmother. I think it runs in the family.
However, some of us are organizationally impaired. That would be me. However, I think everyone struggles with organization at one time or another, and Marie has easy-to-implement systems for all of it: household organization, mission and travel, schoolwork, finances, paperwork, meals . . . you name it.
At her website are some great free downloadable forms. For example, do YOU know where to find all of your favorite websites, usernames, and passwords? I do now, because Marie has a convenient print-out form you can download for free, and now I can find all of that information in one place.
Marie’s book, Organize As You Go, Successful Skills for Busy Lifestyles, is based on the author’s simple premise that “It takes a lot of work to be organized, but it takes a lot more work to be disorganized!” Chapter headings include: Organized Every Day, An Organized Home, Organization Challenges, Organization for Parents and Children, Organized for Big Events and Holidays, Organized for Traveling and Moving, and Organized for the Future. At the end of the book is a twenty-year plan. Wow! I’m not quite there yet (thank you very much, I’m still on chapter one) but it’s a marvelous idea to put your life goals in writing.
Of course organization affects all areas of your life; it’s not just about improving your efficiency at home and work. It affects the very fiber of personal, family, and spiritual life. That concept is at the heart of this book. We don’t organize just to establish a neat, orderly, low-stress life; organization will help us to find more joy and satisfaction in all aspects of life, too.
I can’t recommend Marie, her books and products and her website, or her personal influence, highly enough.
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