The Complete Guide to Getting and Staying Organized: *Manage Your Time *Eliminate Clutter and Experience Order *Keep Your Family First [Paperback]

Karen Ehman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2008

The key to good organization is not a one–size–fits–all method. It is a unique plan that considers personality type, lifestyle, income level, and family schedule. Author and speaker, Karen Ehman believes that with her simple step by step process moms can recognize their own personal style of managing their households successfully and develop a unique plan that gives them the freedom to:

• manage their time wisely
• de–clutter and organize their homes
• plan menus, shop more efficiently, and become more comfortable and creative in the kitchen
• get children involved in pursuing an ordered life and home
• avoid the trap of overcommitment
• use practical tools to assist in organization

Getting and staying organized means more time for the important things in family life—concentrating on cultivating a close, personal relationship with the Creator, drawing His word into every aspect of living, and ultimately tying their children’s heartstrings to God.

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About the Author

Karen Ehman is a sought after speaker who is a member of the Proverbs 31 Ministries Speaker Team. She also speaks, writes, and participates in the drama team for Hearts at Home. Karen has appeared on national television and radio programs and is the author of A Life That Says Welcome. Karen, her husband, Todd, and their three children live in Michigan.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (January 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736920749
• ISBN-13: 978-0736920742
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #359,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Karen Ehman has been described as profoundly practical, engagingly funny and downright real. Her passion is to provide women, wives and mothers with creative tools and doable ideas to help them both simplify life and glorify God. She the Director of the Proverbs 31 Ministries national speaking team and is a contributor to Focus on the Family's magazine Thriving Family.

She is a featured speaker for Hearts at Home conferences for moms and is the author of four womens books including A Life That Says Welcome: Simple Ways to Open Your Heart and Home to Others and The Complete Guide to Getting and Staying Organized. She is also the project creator of the Hearts at Home Just for Moms Planner an organizational tool designed specifically for the purpose of helping mothers organize their personal and family lives.

She has been a guest on national television and radio programs including The 700 Club, At Home Live, Engaging Women, The Harvest Show, Moody Midday Connection and Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family. She is a graduate of Spring Arbor University with a B.A. in Social Science and has been married for 24 years to her college sweetheart Todd. She is the mother of three sometimes quarrelsome, but mostly charming children: Mackenzie 20, Mitchell 16 and Spencer 13.

Before motherhood, Karen was a teacher and high school coach who actually had hobbies. Now she spends her days running carpool, parked in the football bleachers or baseball stadium or stealing away to a coffee shop to write or to work on a new speaking message. Though hopelessly craft-challenged with pitiful, partially finished scrapbooks, she enjoys baking and cooking and has won several blue ribbon rosettes at various county fairs for her cookies, cakes, pies and breads.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Complete Guide to Getting and Staying Organized, May 2, 2011

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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Getting and Staying Organized: *Manage Your Time *Eliminate Clutter and Experience Order *Keep Your Family First (Paperback)

This was a fantastic book with many new-not the usual and typical-ideas for taking care of your family and home. I loved the fact that it was written by a young mom who is in the midst of that chaotic time of life. I bought this for my daughter who has 3 children but read it first and was excited and challenged by the author's new approach on getting organized and getting your priorities straight.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book...great resource, May 7, 2009

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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Getting and Staying Organized: *Manage Your Time *Eliminate Clutter and Experience Order *Keep Your Family First (Paperback)

This book is great. It's not an all-inclusive guide, but certainly was a wonderful springboard for my organization project. Ehman gives great references to other books that have helped her and they have been great for me as well. I love that she is very practical in consideration to cost as well. The book is like an accumulation of what she has learned through her experiences as a home organizer...what works, what doesn't, good ideas, things to avoid, etc. She has a very positive approach that is much appreciated. I was thrilled to have picked up a copy and reference it often.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How did I ever live without it., February 6, 2011

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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Getting and Staying Organized: *Manage Your Time *Eliminate Clutter and Experience Order *Keep Your Family First (Paperback)

This book helps you unclutter practically all phases of your life. Thats what makes it so wonderful.

She takes you through room by room and show you how to unclutter it. She shows you how to put your

filing system together. You name it she can unclutter and organize it.

How did I manage to live without this book?

Yes I do recommend this book to everyone.