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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Organize your Life Party and a Giveaway!!!!

Organize your LIFE

Hello everyone!  I am sooooo excited about this post!  I have been waiting to share this with you for a long time now!  I have been wanting to host an organizing party for months now and I am finally going to do it!!!!

Back in September, when my husband and I took a weekend getaway to Florida,  I found my new favorite organizing book!  Because we were without kids, we were able to spend some quality time at the bookstore looking for books to get.  Ha, yes..that is fun for me, lol!  I love going to the bookstore, getting a coffee and flipping through the books WITHOUT the kids!

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Anyway,  I found a book called Organize Now! by Jennifer Ford Berry. 

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I looked through a lot of books!!

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What caught my attention to this book was the fact that she gives a week-by-week guide to organize your life!

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Meet Jennifer…

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Jennifer Ford Berry is a organizational expert, entrepreneur, speaker and author. Jennifer is the author of the best selling book Organize Now! which is now sold world wide. She has also written numerous articles and e-books including Weekly Organizing Tips.

Jennifer is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. She is also the co-owner of Mothertime Marketplace, a semi-annual event geared toward children and moms, that is currently held four times per year in Western New York.

Currently, Jennifer resides in Western New York with her husband and two children. She is available for book signings, discussion groups and speaking engagements.

Credentials:
- Professional Organizer for 8+ years
- Owner of Organize This Life!
- Author of Organize Now! and Weekly Organizing Tips
- Speaker/ Motivator
- Event organizer and planner
- Virtual organizer
- Individual coaching and goal setting
- Creator, organizer and owner of Mothertime Marketplace
- 15 years of sales/marketing experience
- Faithful Organizers Member
- Editor in Chief of Western New York Mom.com
-Online Organizing Member

I really LOVED her table of contents!  She tells me exactly what to do and in order!!!  Everyone can use this, right?

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I also LOVE how she includes organizing your mind, schedules and priorities and not just parts of your home!

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I think you NEED to organize yourself before you can try to organize everything around you!

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Did I mention, I LOVE starting with organizing your mind?  So important!!! :)

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For each week, she includes a checklist of goals and tips to make the week simple and manageable!

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I LOVE this book~!

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Jennifer also has some great tips on how to cut clutter!  We can all use that, can’t we?

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She even includes cute little inspirational quotes to keep us motivated along the way! :)

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I also love reading the little side notes!

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This book offers practical, action-oriented advice that teaches you how to organize any part of your life in less than one week. Long-term goals help keep the clutter away for the months and years to follow so you can maintain the order you create. You’ll find help with everything from time management and mental clutter to paperwork, pets, purses, toys, rooms and life events such as moving, pregnancy and celebrating the holidays.
Quick, easy-to-follow checklists let you spend more time organizing and less time reading—a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle! Countless tips help make organizing faster, easier and more effective. Special “Live Green” tips show you how to help the environment, and in many cases your wallet, by rethinking, recycling, reducing, and reusing as you organize.

Alright, on the the PARTY!!!

YES, I am starting a WEEKLY link-up party and it is based on this book!

I am going to be following this book, week-by-week and blogging about it!

I encourage and challenge you to do the same and link up each week. :)

Together we will ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE!!!!

The party we be every Thursday!  Each week,  I will give you the goals and tips of the week and show you what I did that week.  Then you can link up your post about the weekly challenge and we can all learn from each other and get organized!!!

On to the giveaway!

I teamed up with Jennifer and she has graciously agreed to giveaway her book, Organize Now!, to someone who wants to follow along!

If you want to buy now, just click the link below and order your own copy today!  I seriously love the book and bought it with my own money.  I did not get paid to write this but if you buy from my link below, I will get a slight percentage.  Thanks! :)

If you want to join me and ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE, simply grab my button and link up your blog to get organized and for a chance to win your own, Organize Now!, book!

Organize your life

I will be picking the winner next week so come join in the organizing fun!!! :)

This is going to be fun!

Join the organizing fun HERE!!!!

****TO ENTER TO WIN, GRAB MY BUTTON AND ENTER YOUR BLOG LINK****

Get ready and come back Thursday because that is the beginning of week 1: Organize your Mind! 

hint.hint: there might be another giveaway!!!

Bonnie

31 comments:

  1. love all the organizing talk! Very excited about this (yes, I'm weird like that).

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  2. Hi Bonnie,
    I love to organize, count me in on this lovely giveaway and stop by to enter my giveaway of a yr subscription to Taste of Home magazine.
    xoxo

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  3. Ah rats, I follow a zillion blogs but I don't have one of my own, so I cannot enter :( Looks like an AWESOME book!

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  4. You got my attention...not to mention that the author is from Western NY! Just ordered the book on my Kindle...I'll be ready to follow you while I read the book too!!! Great idea!!!!!! Tracy LaFountain from Western, NY

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  5. Yay! I can't wait! I have been doing this on my own this month, but that book looks *fantastic*. I will definitely have to check it out. Can't wait to follow along!

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  6. This is one giveaway I could sure use! After helping out my son's family and letting them live with us for almost a year so he could finish college and they could get in their own home..and also my husband and I fostering a baby..it's been a crazy, unorganized year! Now that I am getting my home back..I feel very unorganized. I have been purging and cleaning but working full time is taking it's toll. I feel out of sorts! I took advantage of some snow days off work and packed up things the kids have left behind so I could send it to their house instead of mine! ha. Thanks for a chance to win!
    Beth

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  7. Great way to get some organizing motivation!
    =]
    Just Better Together

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  8. LOVE a great organizing book! :) Thanks for sharing your review and chance to win.

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  9. I have this book, but it will be so much fun to go through it with other people:)

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  10. That book looks amazing! My hubby and I love escaping to the bookstore without the kids, too! I can't wait. Will you be giving us a heads up as to what the challenge is or annoucing it on Thursday?

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  11. Sounds great - would love to join in where I can.

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  12. Wahoo.... *me crossing my fingers:)

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  13. Oh such fun! A book giveaway is the best ever. I love having a long time to browse in a bookstore. Luckily my daughter loves it too. At 10 years of age she said, "Mommy, feel this book, doesn't it feel good in your hands?" Ah, I knew I was rasing a reader and writer. It makes bookstore shopping fun.

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  14. This sounds super...
    Are you still having TWICE OWNED TUESDAY?
    If so, I wanted to add you to my links for my post coming up at 5.
    xo bj

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  15. Oh my gosh this is just TOO Funny! I JUSt bought this book. =) I'll have to join you now. ;) I have to get it out of the box it came in (along with the three other books I bought) but I guess that's how organizing my life should start right? LOL!

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  16. Sounds absolutely PERFECT for me right now!!!!

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  17. Oh this sounds really cool. Can't wait to get started. Of course I LOVE books too, so if I don't win, I may have to try and find this at the library, and of not, then I will buy it.

    Thanks for another way to get us all organized.!!!

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  18. I love this idea!!! Hoping my local library will have it if I don't win! I can't even afford $10.00 :(
    Good luck everyone!!!!

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  19. This book sounds like something I could really use. I recently quit my job and I'm decluttering and reorganizing my home and trying to clear my mind at the same time. I love the ideas of how to clear the mind - this is one area that I'm struggling with..

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  20. Thanks for sharing about this book. Looking forward to the party!

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  21. Just the right kick in the pants I need. After my knee injury last April...things have gotten a bit out of control around here. I had surgery in November and am healing nicely. I am ready to get started but am overwhelmed at times and don't know where to begin. Thanks for sharing! Blessings <3 Paula

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  22. This sounds like exactly what I need. I don't have the book, but I will do what I can.

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  23. I ahve been trying to organize my house for a few weeks now and am loving a cleaner look after all the Christmas decorations came down. I love that I need to organize my MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you will enter me in the give away! Sounds like a book I NEED!!!!!!!!!! XO, Pinky

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  24. I just found your blog from Women Living Well! I have been working on decluttering and organizing my home for weeks now, and am loving it! It is so freeing! However, I have a ways to go...so I'm on board!! I would love to have a guide like this book! Thanks!

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  25. bummer I don't have a blog either, so I can't win a book. But it does look like an interesting book I might have to buy it.

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  26. Decluttering and organizing everything from my home to my life and my mind are high on the list this year. I am such a procrastinator, so I will do my best at following along. I love, love, love going to the bookstore, too! That is a dangerous place for me to be, especially with a little extra money in the pocketbook! Would love to have this book, it looks like a winner!

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  27. Would love to enter in the contest but have no idea how to grab and link. It sounds like at least 30 minutes of work - time I don't have tonight! Oh well. Good luck to everyone else :)

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  28. Hi Bonnie - I think Im a bit late, but better late than never. Here's my link up:

    http://cherishedandsuccessful.com/women/organised-homemaker/666-my-dailies.html

    Great work, and love your blog!

    Sara.

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  29. i am so excited to read this! i really enjoy your blog!! Thanks!

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