Life Events that NEED a Professional Organiser!!!!

So often we hear about what it is a Professional Organiser can do, what you can achieve with the assistance of a Professional Organiser and why you should hire a Professional Organiser. Yet there can still be confusion about just WHO could hire a Professional Organiser.
So to help clear up the confusion I have compiled a list of the life events that will be immensely simpler and easier with the assistance of a professional organiser. So if you or someone you know are experiencing any of the following, then a Professional Organiser will help you get it sorted:

• Having a baby
• Getting Married
• Moving House
• Retiring
• Doing your taxes
• Relocating
• Setting up a business
• Merging two households
• Having visitors
• Clearing a Deceased Estate
• Kids starting school or college
• Returning to the workforce
• Working from home
• Volunteering at a club
• Downsizing
• Upsizing
• Planning a party
• Rooms being used for the wrong purpose.
• Overflowing closets
• Employing new staff
• Renovating
• Selling your home
• When you get a Promotion or change of work (Thanks AnnMaree Ozanne from counting the Beans in Christchurch)

Any of the above are situations we can find ourselves overwhelmed by. Imagine having it sorted and simplified in a fun, productive and stressfree manner. It is possible, get a Professional organiser on board and feel the difference.
Please feel free to add any other Life Events that may be simplified with the help of a Professional Organiser.

So what does a Professional organiser do?

Today I discovered, thanks to twitter, a great website that lets the inner "Speilberg" or "Cameron" out. So I experimented with it and answered the common question.
What does a Professional Organiser do?? For a fun and cute explanation CLICK HERE
This is the first in "The Professional" a small series that will dispel some of the myths of organising and also give an explanation for some commonly used excuses we all use to stay disorganised.

NEW YEAR, NEW LOOK, NEW OPPORTUNITIES

Welcome to 2010, this is the year where life will change and things will never be the same, in a wonderful way.
The Organising Guru has (almost) been in hiding, working on an amazing project that will become an Internationally Recognised brand within 5 years. That brand is:

TOTALLY ORGANISED GET-TOGETHERS - Live, Laugh & Learn

If you have not seen the new us, here is your chance CHECK US OUT.
So "what's in it for me?" I hear you ask....Heaps.

* We have developed for you a range of products that will simplify your life 
* We have sourced other products that fit the company mission and vision.
* You have the chance to start your own business, if you wish (NZ Only at the moment, but working on expansion)
* It is all about "Live, laugh and learn" the Totally Organised way
* Products are avaialble for purchase at get-togethers.
* You learn to use the products you purchase

This is a whole new concept aimed at taking organising to the masses through educational and fun get-togethers. You asked for getting organised to be simpler and more accessible, Totally Organised is delivering that to you starting NOW.

So here are the opportunities for you:

* Host a get-together and earn great products and rewards, have fun with your family and friends and start the year learning how to be more organised.

* Start your own business in 2010 as one of the 1st ever Totally Organised Independent Consultants. This is an amazing opportunity for you to be in on the Ground level of what will become one of New Zealands fasted growing companies. The rewards are going to be AMAZING

If you are not in New Zealand, but interested in the opportunities then contact us today, as we have expansion plans underway and are planning to be "live" in Australia in April 2010 then the US and Canada to follow. So if you are interested, we are interested.

MAKE 2010 YOUR YEAR TO LIVE, LAUGH AND LEARN THE TOTALLY ORGANISED WAY

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Comfort Zone Be Gone!

It is amazing how often we are afraid to step out of our comfort zone. This is a task we should attend to daily. I found myself doing it twice today, and I am sure I had chest pain as a result, LOL.

First, I took some time out to learn about something I have always avoided. 

I spent the early hours of today at a seminar run by the fabulous Jennifer Moreton & Alexandra Dalzell of ABN-AMRO Craigs here in Christchurch. It was a seminar about finance, shares, bonds, fixed interest etc. All those things that usually make my eyes glaze over. However these two made it digestible even at 8am in the morning. I left there understanding allot more and feeling less afraid of opening the finance pages of the paper. I really went out of my comfort zone here, as I usually avoid "money" stuff like the plague.

This takes me to the second event. That was presenting a Business Plan to my fantastic husband. He is a CEO of a large company so knows his stuff and as much as I love being married to him, talking finance with view to getting finance for a new project with him really is not high on my list of comfortable activities.  I made it with the need for only one tissue, to wipe a stray stress tear. Oh and yes my eyes got that glazed over feeling when Excel spreadsheets, profit & loss, Cash-flow and projections where being talked about. 

 I even left after working on things a little more understanding some of the finer points of these financial terms that I have thus far managed to be ignorant about. 

 This new project is way bigger and potentially more lucrative than anything I have done before and requires finance to get it rolling, so I have spent today getting out of my financial comfort zone and learning some great things.

You know what it really is not as scary as I thought.

My challenge to you is to spend a little time today learning about something you have managed to avoid or have been afraid of for a long time. 

I thank my many Maths teachers over the years who never saw fit to pass me once for my fear of numbers, maths and spreadsheets. 

However I thank Jennie, Alex, DH and Kathy for making life a little simpler for me today.

Onwards and upwards, Tally ho!!

Global Organizer Relaunch

This is one for my fellow Professional organizers out there. Regardless of how long you have been in the industry,

Global Organisers" is the place for you to network.

This is network that was dreamed up after the NAPO Conference in Reno in 2008, however due to using a not

so flash platform it did not grow the wings I had hoped for. However, now I have discovered www.ning.com. 

I have created "Global Organizers" using a platform that allow the members to grow the network.

So now the easy bit. Join today, start sharing your news, ideas, events, training and information. 

This is no-holds-barred social network for Professional Organizers throughout the globe.

You are welcome to share things that you feel wold benefit fellow professional organizer. 

All I ask is that you don't spam fellow members and that you respect the thoughts and ideas of fellow members.

Simple as that.

So join up today:

GLOBAL ORGANIZERS - The place for Organisers to meet gloablly

The end of an era!

Today marks the day that I pass the Baton of AAPO to a new President. I have served on the committee of AAPO since it was just a concept. It was a privilege to work with Lisa Baldwin, Lisa Rowley, Lissanne Oliver and Amanda Sarden on the Founding Committee of the Australasian Association of Professional organisers. Since we took on members in February 2006 I have served as Executive Secretary and then 2 terms as President. It has been an exciting time of growth and learning for me. Now I take on the role of Immediate Past President, and hope to develop a Professional Develpment program that will benefit all AAPO members.

So today is really a day I can relax, maybe, as the role has been ably accepted by Angela Esnouf, who has been my fabulous VP for the past 2 terms. Good luck Angela with everything that you experience in the next 12 months. I know you will rock.

As they say, when one door closes another door opens. So I have as of today stepped into the shoes of "President" National Speakers Association NZ Christchurch Chapter. Some may say out of the frying pan into the fire, LOL. Not me I am excited by the challenge.

One of my passions is to see people develop, learn, grown and succeed in their own passions. So having been AAPO President and becoming NSANZ Christchurch President puts me in the place that makes me feel like I am giving a little back.

I want to take this opportunity to say Thank you to all the friends and colleagues I have the honor of knowing from these experience. I am looking forward to continuing to work along side you all in making a difference, one day at a time.