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Here are just a few of the hundreds of organizing tips and ideas you'll find on our site, in our free Idea-Pak and our free e-zine: • tips to help you save an hour or more each day •  ideas to help you to declutter and gain more space •  easy things you can do to be productive, without working harder •  storage ideas for your home or office •  tips for productively growing your business •  organizing ideas for your kitchen, family room, basement, closets,  bedrooms, bathrooms and garage •  ways to help you find more time •  keys for simplifying your life •  how getting organized affects your success •  get organized in harmony with your personality style •  organizing tips to help you eliminate stress •  ways to get your children and your spouse into the organizing game •  eliminate the growing paper mountains on your desk •  Optimize your productivity with better time management the infamous organizational myth •  frugal ideas for getting organized on a budget •  optimizing and streamline small spaces for maximum efficiency •  organizing tips for slaying the paper beast •  secrets for eliminating clutter once and for all •  organizing ideas to help you set and achieve your goals •  simplify--choose and use the best calendar •  get organized and find anything you need within 10 seconds or less •  how Feng Shui can help you achieve harmony and peace of mind •  how people coined as messies can be organized •  saying goodbye to your Packrat syndrome •  terrific tools for peak organization •  organizing ideas to multiply productivity through effective delegation •  organizing ideas to help you set sensible priorities •  ways to cut your cleaning time in half •  how to make your filing system so efficient, you'll never lose a sheet of paper again •  organizing ideas, tips and techniques for SOHO (Small Office- Home Office) •  how to organize your computer and e-mail •  ensuring your holidays are merry, organized, and chaos-free . . . and much, much more! Click Here for Contact Information Copyright 1998 - 2010 Effective Business Systems Get Organized Now!™ 611 Arlington Way Watertown, WI 53094 All information on each page of this Web site, including our discussion forum, and all information in our newsletters and e-mail correspondence, is protected by copyright laws. Reprint is strictly forbidden, unless stated otherwise on individual pages. Anyone posting copyrighted material or correspondence, without permission from the owner of this Web site, will be liable for damages. For reprint permission, please contact the owner of this Web site.   1. Checklists - Challenges NEW September   Organizing Checklist  Turn over a new leaf this fall and get yourself super organized. Start today with our new September Organizing Checklist. Just do one task a day, and you’ll be well on your way to an organized life! Go! One Month Back: Last month's checklist, in case you're behind: August, 2010 Checklist NEW Weekly Organizing Challenge Each week, we’ll give you an organizing challenge. Can you achieve it? Of course you can! Check out this week's challenge and email us to let us know how you did. (Just updated for the Week of August 29th) Go!    2. Our Blog Personal comments, tips and thoughts about getting and staying organized in today's hectic world by Maria Gracia, one of the web's leading organizing experts. NEW! Just updated! 08/24 15 Minutes Earlier Per Day 08/16 Don’t Forget to Use the Rewards You’ve Earned 08/12 Busy, busy, busy! 08/04  Weeding Out My Computer 07/27 Utterly Amazing Organizing Statistics Go! 3. Featured Articles 1 -  Your Most Important Appointment 2 - Organizing Tips for the Summer 3 - 3 Simple Filing Guidelines 4 - 3 Smart Scheduling Secrets 5 - 4 D’s of Effective Paper Management Click here to access all of these great articles!   4. Quick Tip Same old, same old? Feel like you’re getting into a rut, doing the same things the same way, day in and day out? Go!   5. Reader Tip Are you bored with your chores? This reader has 3 ideas that help make  chores more fun and exciting. Go! Get your favorite organizing tip published in our newsletter! Want to submit a Reader Tip? Your organizing idea may appear in an upcoming newsletter. Go!    6. Professional Organizers Make money organizing! Always wanted to start your own business? How about being a professional organizer? It's fun and it's profitable. Go!  Every Professional Organizer needs this guide!  Discover the secrets of starting, managing and growing your own professional organizing business. Let the Ultimate Guide for Professional Organizers be your starting place. Go!  7. Featured Recipe Try making a yummy, new recipe today. This week's featured Reader Recipe is Garden Chowder, posted by ShowMeMo. Go! Find a New Recipe!  You're sure to find some culinary treats to whip up and we invite you to post some of your own favorites! Go!    8. E-Courses/Slides Where do I start?  One of the most common questions I get on the subject of getting organized is, 'Where do I start?' If you just dive in without taking some time to plan, there's a good chance that you're going to get  overwhelmed, and the job is not going to get done. Here are the 5 simple secrets for getting organized.  Go! Don’t get bit by the clutterbug! It starts off as small as a sticky note. Soon, it's a pile of stuff. Then, just when you least expect it, you discover that the clutterbug is running amuck, all over your home and office. If you don't watch out, you'll get bit. Swat that clutterbug now, and take back control! This course consists of 7 lessons and will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Go!   9. Inspiration Where do you gain strength, courage and confidence? Read our featured inspirational quotes that reveal the answer and more. Go!   10. Organizing Clinic What did I get done today? I work from home most days and have my very young kids at home with me a lot--they are in school but not full-time yet. I feel like so much of my day is lost and wasted and at the end of my day, I am asking myself "what did I get done today?" Go! Ask an organizing question: Want to submit an organizing question to our clinic? Go!    11. Fan Club You've enhanced my life!  I can't tell you enough how the organizing concepts in your book Finally Organized, Finally Free for the Home have enhanced my life, both personally and with my home business. Thanks! -- Jody Kirby, Advanced Sales Director- Pampered Chef Your filing system is worth every penny!  I wanted to thank you for putting together My Oh-So- Organized Filing System. It is such a simple idea, but worth every penny. I put your system to work immediately, and you should see my filing drawer--it's beautiful! I could not have achieved the level of success without your completely thought out system. It's wonderful. Everything is filed away and neat and organized. I can find anything. I showed my husband and he was so impressed, he was telling the neighbors! Excellent product. I highly recommend it! --Jennifer Thoden Drapery Sewing Supplies Read more comments from customers who love our products! Go!      12. Free Stuff Free Get Organized Now! Idea- Pak Are you tired of clutter, the piles of paper and never having time to get things done? Whatever you're looking for to help you get organized, you're going to find it in our free Get Organized Now!™ Idea-Pak. Go! Free Get Organized Now! Weekly Newsletter  Join the thousands of readers who are enjoying our organizing ezine, and all the goodies it includes. We publish every Sunday! Go!   13. Discussion Forum How do you organize your books? A reader asks, ‘How do you organize your books? By author? By subject? By size? Do you keep books you have already read?’ Go! Organizing questions or ideas Would you like to ask an organizing question? Or perhaps you have a great organizing tip or idea to share. Join the conversation, or start one up, in our Discussion Forum. It's an easy and fun way to converse about organizing with people all over the world!   14. Web Poll   15. Our Store Browse lots of organizing goodies in our Get Organized Now!™ Store! Be Finally Organized, Finally Free AT HOME  You'll fall in LOVE with your newly organized life! Learn everything you need to know to organize every room in your home and every aspect in your life--all with teeny- tiny tips that you can apply immediately and easily! Go! You can be Finally Organized, Finally Free AT the OFFICE Is your office at work or home a bit out of sorts? Clear the clutter, increase your productivity, get control of your paper piles--get it all organized today. Go! WOW! A beautiful, no- thinking- required filing system that's ready for you to use and enjoy today! My Oh-So-Organized Filing System -- You won't believe how organized your papers are going to be. You'll have a filing label for every category you can imagine, ready to peel and stick on your file folders. It's basically an awesome home filing system in a box! Go! It’s never too early to get organized for Christmas 2010! From now on, make your holiday seasons, organized and stress-free. It’s easier than you think. Plus, find out how you can get a FREE copy of Maria's latest e- book, 101 Holiday Tips and Ideas. Go! What could be easier than the Easy Organizer?!  Are you looking for the perfect organizer that can help you keep track of your schedule, birthdays, to do's, home inventory, groceries, and more? There's nothing easier and more complete, than the Easy Organizer! Go! Hooray! A system for helping you organizing your incoming and paid bills! Do you want to pay your bills on time, and have an organized place to put your statements afterwards? Here's a great solution. Go!   16. Other Goodies Wouldn't it be nice to be debt free? The great news is, you won't have to pinch pennies, get a second job or cut back your spending in any way. Go! Banish Clutter Once and For All!  A reformed pack rat tells you how to get rid of clutter painlessly, quickly and beautifully! Go!  17. Organize Your Business FREE Marketing Idea-Kit!  Own your own business? Thinking of starting a business? Visit our Give to Get Marketing Web site and get your free marketing idea- kit. Make up to 50% commissions  selling our organizing books and products:  Our affiliate program is easy, fun, and you could do it from the comfort of your home! Go! Give us a link and we'll give you one back:  Interested in our link exchange program? Go!   18. Media Interview Maria Gracia  for local, national or international media (Web site, e-zine, print, radio or television).  Her expert organizing advice has been shared with Woman's Day, Country Living, First for Women, Woman's World, BH&G, Real Simple, Fox 6 News WITI-TV Milwaukee, KNEV Radio: The New Mix 95.5 Morning Show, 11 Alive News WXIA-TV Atlanta--just to name a few. She is available for interviews, or can provide pre-written articles. Helpful Links