INTERVIEW WITH MARCIA RAMSLAND

By Rita Prochazka

Intro: Marcia is a busy entrepreneur with a husband, 3 married children, and 9 grandchildren who actively shares her 40 years of organizing experience with a heart to truly help others. With Marcia’s permission, we are pleased to provide you with a glimpse into who Marcia is and her gift of organization. It is a gift that has transformed people, homes, and businesses for the better.

Marcia, would you tell our readers a little of your story?

Late one afternoon after another ordinary but frustrating day, I was cooking spaghetti and becoming increasingly annoyed with each stir of the tomato sauce.

My preschool daughters, Christy and Lisa, were slowly emptying the dishes out of the dishwasher and cluttering up the counters while my six-month-old son, Mark, hovered around my ankles. I was trying hard to be productive and get things done, but it seemed that everything I had done lately – even preparing a simple meal – was being sabotaged. I felt as if I had no accomplishments to show for the past three hours (or the past three days for that matter).

Soon I realized that the spaghetti noodles weren’t the only things about to boil over in my crowded kitchen. The pressure inside of me had be mounting all day. As I furiously chopped the onions to make up for lost time, I suddenly exploded, “My life is worth more than this!”

Christy and Lisa stopped and looked at me, unable to comprehend my outburst. Mark stopped crawling around. I gasped at the words that had erupted from my mouth as I pulled the boiling spaghetti noodles off the stove.

My life is worth more than this? I slowly pondered what I had just said. Did I mean my life was worth more than raising children? Surely not. Did I mean I was above cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds, cleaning up messes, going grocery shopping, and constantly being interupted?

Well, not exactly, but being on call around the clock was getting old real fast.

“Don’t worry,” I said as I calmed the little ones. “Everything’s going to be okay.” Reassuring the children failed to reassure me, however. That’s when I realized that I was waking up every morning feeling exhausted, and frustration was becoming a regular part of my everyday life.

That was not a life – running myself ragged from morning till night feeling as if I had accomplished very little by day’s end. Every time I looked around and saw cluttered counters, mail piling up, bills to be paid, letters to be answered, laundry baskets full of clothes to be folded, I felt like screaming, “Why can’t I get anything done?”

On that memorable evening in my kitchen, I realized that more disarray would indeed be heading my way…unless someone in my family could get it all together. And judging by the ages of everyone in the kitchen, I realized that it had to be me. That was the moment I decided to change. Over the next several weeks, I earnestly prayed for help to get organized. I read all I could find on the subject, only to find everything was written by logical, right-brained men for the workplaces. This wasn’t the world I was living in.

After much research and many dead ends, I ended up creating systems that worked. In my excitement, I started teaching organizing principles back in 1985. I also discovered I was part of an emerging group of entrepreneurs called professional organizers – people who create practical solutions for complicated situations.

I began teaching seminars, appearing on radio and television shows, and sharing tips in national magazines. After working with clients for all those years in professional settings from Rochester, New York, to San Diego, California, I felt led to share my organizing message with those who need job skills just as much: busy women wanting to simplify their complicated lives.

My message is about living life well. And if you’ve ever wondered, “Can my life get any better than this?” the answer is a resounding, “Yes!”

My motto is, “Living an organized lifestyle is Easy, Simple, and Productive once you learn how.” What you accomplish every day affects many other people, as many as 200 or more people in your lifetime. So, get organized and make every day count.

Rita here, “Thank you Marcia, for allowing us to feature your story and share how God has uniquely gifted you to help women all over the world. Our God is a God of order and we appreciate your gift to help women become organized in all facets of life, leaving time for things that matter in God’s kingdom.”

Marcia Ramsland and her resources can be reached through her website at: www.organizingpro.com

Bio: Marcia Ransland is well known as the “Organizing Pro & Coach” and an active Online Marketer and Speaker with over 92,000 Facebook Followers and 7,000 weekly email subscribers, and 25 Online Organizing courses on every topic a woman would need.

Marcia is a nationally recognized media guest appearing on Woman’s Day and Real Simple magazines, Martha Stewart radio, and the Wall Street Journal. Hundreds of clients and audiences over four decades agree with her belief that anyone can become more organized and productive – even YOU!

Marcia is a Best-Selling author of her “Simplify Your Life” book series that has sold over 100,000 copies. She changes lives with her 12 monthly Online Organizing Workshops and 25 Organizing courses including personal Coaching in the areas of Time, Home Organizing, and Paper Organizing. She invites you, my reader, to her free resources on her website www.organizingpro.com/free