Throw out your spouse?!?! Most traditional organizing books say, "If you haven't used it in six months, throw it out." Liz Franklin, comedy organizer, begs to differ: "That could be your spouse!" At last! Here are the tried and t

Franklin, who bills herself as a Cubicle Anthropologist, offers good news for all pack rats, finally letting them off that old drudgery-and-discipline hook. "What if your disorganization could be blamed entirely on your furniture?", writes Franklin, veteran Office Organizer. She then goes on to explain how with easy to follow, step-by-step amusing guides. This book will bring a huge sigh of relief and a big smile to those who want to regain control over their paper messes without dieting, depression, or discipline.

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Throw out your spouse?!?!

"I'm astonished! I read this book and discovered $7,000 lying under lost papers. Once you follow Liz's fun but wise advice, you open the doors for money to come to you faster than you can say, "Read this book now!" says Joe Vitale, author of "Spiritual Marketing"

Throw out your spouse?!?!

Most traditional organizing books say, "If you haven't used it in six months, throw it out." Liz Franklin, comedy organizer, begs to differ: "That could be your spouse!"

At last! Here are the tried and true, fun and funny, shocking and surprising inside secrets for organizing yourself, your office, your desk, and even your life!

Just in time for national "Get Organized Week" (October 6-12, 2002), veteran Office Organizer Franklin announces her second book, How to Get Organized Without Resorting to Arson: A Step-by-Step Guide to Clearing Your Desk Without Panic or the Use of Open Flame (if italics are a no-no, feel free to take them out). With a preface by Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle, its a treasure trove of fun and funny writing, with wacky language such as, "Im going to later that" (I refuse to do it now.) Franklin even changes the curse of procrastination to, "purposeful postponement."

Franklin, who bills herself as a Cubicle Anthropologist, offers good news for all pack rats, finally letting them off that old drudgery-and-discipline hook. "What if your disorganization could be blamed entirely on your furniture?", writes Franklin, veteran
Office Organizer. She then goes on to explain how with easy to follow, step-by-step amusing guides.

This book will bring a huge sigh of relief and a big smile to those who want to regain control over their paper messes without dieting, depression, or discipline.

The 304 page book with the bright yellow cover is bound to jump off the shelves at $19.95. It has easy-to-follow, step-by-step guides, over 40 how-to illustrations, perfect binding, and an index. Available through Clara K.N. Fyer Books,
2532 Santa Clara Ave. Suite 406, Alameda, CA 94501

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For an advance copy, please send a request by snail mail on your company letterhead to:
Liz Franklin c/o Clara K.N. Fyer Books,
2532 Santa Clara Ave. Suite 406
Alameda, CA 94501
Phone: TOLL FREE (877) 274-0844
Email: liz@franklinizer.com
Fax: (510) 814-8003

Be sure to mention How to Get Organized Without Resorting to Arson,
ISBN 0-9719495-6-5

About the author, Liz Franklin:
Liz Franklin owned her first business at the age of 15, was internationally published at 25, and has been an Office Organizer, public speaker, and business and comedy author since1979 (you do the math!) She has amused thousands of audiences all over the nation while teaching fun and funny methods of real life organizing.

SIX TIPS FROM How to Get Organized Without Resorting to Arson:

1. Everybody has an Organizing Style. It's made up of two parts: the way you put things down, and the way you pick them up again, or "access" them. If you access first by looking for them, you are a Visual; if you find things by reaching for them without looking, you are a Spatial. If you find things according to when you used them last, you are a Chronological. You'll need to set up your office according to how you go looking for things.
2. Most traditional organizing books say, "If you haven't used it in six months, throw it out." Liz Franklin, comedy organizer, begs to differ: "That could be your spouse!" Instead, keep everything you want to keep. The secret to keeping it organized is to understand it's value, then label it according to when you will want to see it again. Example: Instead of labeling something, "Holiday Decorations", label it, "Open in November".

3. Let filing marinate. Most filing doesn't have to be done immediately, so separate your filing into two kinds: If you will be sorry when you can't find it immediately, file it immediately. The rest can marinate and be filed on a Saturday or when you can talk some victim uh, helper into filing it for you.

4. When people talk about getting organized, they can mean very different things. Do you need a bookkeeper? A cleaning person? Someone to file? Financial planning? An entire system change? When you hire an organizer, be clear about the result you're looking for. After all, you don't want to discover you've hired a full-time bookkeeper at $50 an hour when you really needed a cleaning person at $10 an hour or vice versa.

5. Sort your stuff first to see how much you have, then evaluate the size of the containers you'll need, and then (and only then!) buy the right size containers. When you try to cram today's volumes of paper into those little, old-fashioned in-and-out trays, you might think you're making them look less intimidating, but you're fooling no one. It still looks just like an intimidating amount of stuff crammed into little containers.

6. Forget "handle paper once". There's no harm in handling a piece of paper three or four or even more times. The only paper you can handle once is Kleenex! (OK now, I'm going to ignore that other thought you just had.)

More on the book's content:
Here are some of the juicy topics you'll find inside this amusing yet highly effective new book: