Professional organizer Marie Ricks comes to the rescue of every "home manager" with 52 projects to conquer clutter and create a house of order. This practical guide breaks down your biggest problem areas into achievable, bite-size projects that take no more than 20 to 50 minutes to complete. Learn how to create a home office without adding another room to your house, tackle problem pantries, store seasonal clothing, organize your family photos, and set up the laundry room to handle laundry more efficiently. Being well organized creates peace of mind and leaves more time for the things your really want to do. Project: Organization makes it easy with projects that will help you take control of your life.
Marie has been sharing home and professional organization skills for more than 20 years now. She began teaching in 1986 at the local community education center where she developed an eight-week, sixteen-topic course including personal organization, time management, food preparation, office and storage organization, budgeting, training children and employees to work, and purchasing skills.
Her classes have proven popular both in California and Utah, where she now lives. She frequently teaches organization principles at professional and community gatherings. She also does personal consultations where she has seen a lot of unkempt offices, cluttered closets, and stacks of untidy paperwork, all of which is very exciting for her to organize.
Marie is a presenter at professional and educational venues all over the United States and has published a HOUSE OF ORDER HANDBOOK that contains chapters on many facets of organization plus numerous worksheets to make running a home or small business easier at all levels.
PROJECT ORGANIZATION, QUICK & EASY WAYS TO ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE and ORGANIZE AS YOU GO address personal, home, and family organization skills.
ORGANIZED FOR A MISSION, A GUIDE FOR PARENTS AND MISSIONARIES speaks to the needs of young L.D.S. missionaries and their parents.
BE SUCCESSFUL IN SCHOOL - A STUDENT'S GUIDE FOR JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOL helps young people find answers to academic success.
She has also prepared additional printed materials to help home managers and professionals get more organized, whatever their needs may be. She has made good use of her personal library that now totals over 300 personal, family, home, and business organization books as she shares valuable and workable ideas in her classes, presentations, and writing.
Marie also writes for various venues, and appears as a featured guest on both TV and radio. She has been a radio show host and is the owner of HOUSE OF ORDER, a company dedicated to helping men and women everywhere find greater organization skills, both in their personal and professional lives. She shares a weekly organization newsletter for interested parties. Sign up on her informative and useful web page, www.houseoforder.com.
Marie also has interests in many other areas. She loves to scrap quilt, make pressed-flower greeting cards for friends and family, and write personal histories.
She is happily married to Jim Ricks and together they are the parents of five sons. Tom is a Math Education professor at Louisiana State University, David is attending medical school at Ohio State University, Brian is a computer science doctoral candidate at Brigham Young University (and a new husband to Jennifer), and Tyler is pursuing a degree in animation. (Evan, their youngest, passed away as a young child from leukemia.)
Marie and her husband live in Highland, Utah where she and her husband grow a vegetable and fruit garden as their summer hobby and share wood-working projects together on colder days.
