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Show Wondering what to do this weekend? Get organized "Springing the Time Trap" not only motivates the reader to set goals, it explains how to set goals that are specific and realistic. Mrs. Schofield suggests that you ask yourself all the who, what, why, where and when questions about your goals to they really mean something. Here's something some-thing at last that can change a short-lived resolution into a long-term long-term goal. Another chapter any woman with children in school, a mail box, and a recipe collection that is threatening to engulf the house will find useful is "The Solutions to Paper Pollution." Read the chapter now and you'U still have time to get organized before Christmas. The most valuable chapter of the book, however, is the last chapter, "How to Get Started." Mrs. Schofield's sympathetic way of writing that makes you feel she is sitting there talking to you just makes you want to get organized. orga-nized. This chapter tells you how to motivate yourself to actually take the big step. Essentially she tells you how to pinpoint the things in your life that are causing the greatest amount of stress and anxiety. Once you know that, you know where to start. Just think, Mr. Deer Hunter could come home to a new you, someone who is ready and able to take better charge of her life and her world, no matter how organized or how disorganized the present moment may be. Deniece Schofield has also written "Escape from the Kitchen," Kitch-en," "Confessions of a Happily Organized Family" and "Confessions "Confes-sions of an Organized Housewife." House-wife." Another great book on organization organi-zation is "How to Get Organized When You Don't Have the Time" by Stephanie Culp. She presents a simple five-step approach to becoming be-coming organized. The book is designed for people who don't have time to read a book about getting organized in the first place. The first half of the book sets out her five-step plan and includes in-cludes a quiz that helps you determine deter-mine your organization I.Q. and pinpoint your problem areas. Once you have that information, you need read only the sections of the second part of the book that are problem areas. One area included in the book that the modern woman will appreciate is how to organize and keep up with a car, both from the standpoint of the clutter it can collect col-lect and the paperwork necessary to keep it on the road. Even if you're going along on the hunt you may just want to pack one of these books with you. They could change your life. DENIECE SCHOFIELD The deer hunters have finally pulled out of the driveway and you breathe a sigh of relief. You can relax, read a good romance and generally let the time slip away. Wait a minute! This may be the very moment you've dreamed of, a time to get organized. Shadow Mountain, an imprint of Deseret Book Company has come out this year with a book by Deniece Schofield called "Springing the Time Trap Time Management for Today's Busy Homemaker." The book itself can be read in a day or so. Implementing all the ideas from the book could take years. But it will also be saving the reader years of frustration at the same time, so it's time well spent. |