Ramona Creel
BSW, MA
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Organizing And Simplifying Your Life Expert
Ramona Creel Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- organizing at home or work, simplifying your life, finding your own path to freedom and success
- Best Sellers
- Ten Easy Ways To Organize Your Home
- Career Focus
- Writer; Business Owner; Professional Organizer; Simplicity Coach; Business Trainer
- Affiliation
- RamonaCreel.com; NAPO; POC; PPA; Powercore; original founder of OnlineOrganizing
Ramona Creel is Professional Organizer, NAPO Golden Circle Member, and the original founder ofr OnlineOrganizing. A former Social Worker, she has always enjoyed helping people find the resources and solutions they need to improve their lives. Ramona now travels the country as a full-time RVer, sharing her story of simplicity with everyone she meets. She leads byrnexample -- having worked for more than 10 years as a Professional Organizer, and having radically downsized and simplified her own life as a full-time RVer. Ramona now considers herself a "Renaissance Woman" -- bringing all of her passions together into one satisfying career. As both a virtual and traveling organizer, she can create a customized organizing plan for your home or office, put on arnworkshop, or educate you through one of her popular teleseminars. Asrna simplicity coach, Ramona provides a proven program for making every area of your life a little bit easier -- perfect for those who want to make the time and space to focus on their true priorities. As ar Professional Photographer, Ramona captures powerful images of places and people as she travels. And as a freelance writer and blogger, she shares organizing techniques, social commentary, travel tips, and film reviews with others. You can see all these sides of Ramona --read her articles, browse through her photographs, and even hire her to help get your life in order -- at http://www.RamonaCreel.com.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
"Who Wants To Get Organized?" Blog
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"Your Weekly Simplicity Reality Check" Blog
http://ramonacreel.com/BlogIndex.asp?Category=8
"Living In A Tin Can" Full-Timing Blog
http://ramonacreel.com/BlogIndex.asp?Category=56
"Life Among The Breeders" Child-Free Blog
http://ramonacreel.com/BlogIndex.asp?Category=48
"In My Fascist State" Blog
http://ramonacreel.com/BlogIndex.asp?Category=5
"We Came, We Saw, We Took Pictures" Travel Blog
http://ramonacreel.com/BlogIndex.asp?Category=2
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Basic Organizing Principles
So you've decided to get organized, but you just don't know where to begin. Here are four basic organizing principles that will help you regain control over your schedule, your environment, and your life: 1) Clear Out the Clutter We suffer from overload in our society -- too much stuff, too many obligations, too much information... Clearing out the clutter means getting rid of ANYTHING that is extraneous and unnecessary. Clutter takes up either TIME, SPACE, ENERGY, or MONEY without providing you any benefit.
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Where Do I Start?
Cleaning out your junk can be incredibly freeing -- but where do you start? There's so much to do!! Here are a few rules of thumb to follow when you begin cleaning out -- either at home or at the office: FIND YOUR PAIN Begin working in the area that is the biggest thorn in your side -- the part of your home or office that causes you the greatest pain.
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Your Personal Policies And Procedures
Imagine a store that doesn't bother putting together any policies or procedures. No one has ever decided what their business hours will be, so the customers don't know when the shop will be open -- it could be 10-2 one day and 6-6 another day. No one has decided what the store will sell, so customers don't know if they will get flowers or salami when they walk in the front door. And the owner has never bothered to set a policy about the type of payment the store accepts, so a customer who paid with a credit card on Monday might be told "cash only" on Tuesday.
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Make Those Resolutions Stick
Setting goals is the easy part -- but sticking with them over the long run can be a major challenge! Some people think that motivation requires will-power and dedication. Actually, staying motivated is all about setting up an environment that is conducive to you accomplishing your goals. Here are ten “tricks” for giving your goals staying power past January 31st: BREAK YOUR GOALS DOWN Do you know why 90% of us don’t keep our New Year’s resolutions? Because our goals are too big and too vague.
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Reducing The Piles
At work, at home, no matter who you are or what you do -- we are all bombarded with paper. And, it’s stressful! I think that we have developed a new fear in our society -- PAPERPHOBIA -- the fear of having to deal with that stack that’s been sitting there for a week. So what do you do to regain control over your environment and your sanity?
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Teaching People How To Use Your Time
I can't tell you how often I hear my friends, colleagues, and clients complain about how other people just don't respect their time. But the only reason that folks take advantage of you, expect too much from you, or don't respect your personal free time is that you have ALLOWED them to behave that way in the past.
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Letting Go Of Your Excuses
At this point, you have probably run across some belongings that don’t exactly serve a practical purpose in your life. Some items simply cannot be judged according to their function alone. Certain objects, such as artwork or collectibles, are kept because they are aesthetically pleasing. Others are treasured for their sentimental value. However, there is another set of criteria that you may find easier to apply in these situations. IS IT BEAUTIFUL, USEFUL, OR LOVED? Artist William Morrison developed the most effective way to determine if an item truly serves a purpose.
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Top Ten Motivators
Setting goals is the easy part -- but sticking with them over the long run can be a major challenge! Some people think that motivation requires will-power and dedication. Actually, staying motivated is all about setting up an environment that is conducive to you accomplishing your goals. Here are ten “tricks” for giving your goals staying power past January 31st: BREAK YOUR GOALS DOWN Do you know why 90% of us don’t keep our New Year’s resolutions? Because our goals are too big and too vague.
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Needs Versus Wants
How often do the words "I need" come out of your mouth, as it relates to your business? When you run your own company, it's easy to think that the only way to succeed is to be moving forward with your expenses -- the newest technology, a broader circle of professionals providing you services, involvement in more and more costly marketing efforts, etc. And it's particularly difficult to resist the urge when you know you can generally take a tax DEDUCTION for any business expenses.
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Keep, Get Rid Of, Or Not Sure?
Cleaning out can seem overwhelming -- especially if it's been a while since you've done it! But there is a very simple process you can follow that will A) help you sort and separate your belongings into manageable piles, and B) keep you from completely tearing up your house while you are cleaning out! When you begin clearing area, you should have three large boxes close at hand.
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Ending The Morning Madness
Back-to-school time – what does that mean to you? For some people, it’s shopping for school supplies, gearing up for PTA meetings, and artwork taped to the refrigerator. For others, it’s the beginning of a constant struggle to get everyone up, ready, and out of the house on time. Morning should be an enjoyable time for you and your kids – not a battle of the wills or a race against the clock.
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7 Tips For Defusing Holiday Stress
KNOW THYSELF The first key to creating a peaceful holiday season is identifying those holiday traditions that you ENJOY and those that you don’t. When you spend your precious time and energy on activities that you don’t find rewarding, you are destined to become FRUSTRATED and cranky. So go ahead and be honest with yourself before the season even starts. Make a list of every possible holiday “obligation” that you can think of.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Ramona Creel
- The key to true happiness and freedom in life is letting go of expectations -- absolutely have goals and dreams, but don't be so deeply invested in the outcome that you make yourself miserable if things don't work out the way you want.
- You're never the same person from day to day, so it's crazy to think that the goals and lifestyle (and even possessions) you have now will still fit you even 6 months or a year or 10 years down the road. There is absolutely nothing wrong with changing horses in mid-stream -- the most important life skill you can develop is being able to recognize when your life no longer "fits" and being willing to go for something different.
- You can have absolutely anything that you desire in life, you just have to ask yourself how badly you want it and what you're willing to give up to get it. Just don't complain that your life isn't the way you had pictured if you're not willing to do the work and make the sacrifices to get there.
- Don't be afraid to go against the current -- if you are living your life according to everyone else's rules, it's quite likely that you will end up feeling unhappy or unfulfilled in some way. You need to be true to yourself -- even if people treat you like you're crazy or weird. Let your successes and your failures be your OWN -- not someone else's.
Contacting Ramona Creel
How to get started
A great way to get a taste of what Ramona is all about is to read her articles here at SelfGrowth.com -- and her blogs on simplifying your life, "your weekly reality check" and the freedom of travel at OnlineOrganizing.com. Ramona is currently working on several books as well -- her website http://www.RamonaCreel.com is filled with her writings, simplicity tips, photography, and tales of her travel adventures.
Other highlights
Ramona is also the creator of the OnlineOrganizing Academy Professional Organizer Training Program at http://www.onlineorganizing.com/BecomeAnOrganizer.asp?content=C11EnrollInTraining -- where she teaches new organizers how to get started and succeed in business. If you have questions about how to get organized, how to simplify your life, or how to become an organizer, give her a holler and she'll be happy to help!