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Vancouver Self-Starter, Organizing Expert Explains How She Launched Successful Business
Small Business Digest Canada - February 2009
Business consultants have been telling potential entrepreneurs to start a business based upon a skill, interest or ability they’re passionate about.
Combining a market’s needs or wants with a individual’s passion can often lead to a successful enterprise.
For instance: technology has streamlined the work and communication processes, but people’s lives are more cluttered than ever. Rowena List’s small business declutters them.
GETTING YOUR TEEN ORGANIZED (Rowena’s Client)
By Michelle McQuigge
The Canadian Press – January 2009
Every Saturday morning, Chloae Drummond devotes a few hours to an activity most of her peers strive to avoid — cleaning her room.
Sorting laundry and straightening papers may not seem like an ideal break from the high school courses, dance classes and extracurricular activities that fill her weekdays, but the 15-year-old believes this routine is crucial if she hopes to successfully maintain her hectic schedule.
Kick the Chaos
Savvy Mom Online Magazine – September 2007
Even for us adults, September evokes that old ‘back to school’ feeling. It’s just that the pink plastic Barbie lunchbox of yesteryear is now replaced with an adult zeal for self-improvement.
This is the season our weight will get back in control. Our homes will be shinier. Our dinners will be healthier and our kids will be polite and neat. Right? So where do we get started?
Take Control of Clutter
By Wanda Chow
Newsleader – January 2007
Personal organizers may be a different breed, but the decluttering advice they offer can resonate with just about everyone who has struggled with having too much stuff.
South Burnaby’s Rowena List, 44, has worked as a professional organizer, under the company name Getting It Together, for five years. But even as a child she was an ardent organizer. She remembers going to visit an equally organized girlfriend’s home and they, along with the friend’s mom, would organize the medicine cabinet together – for fun.
How to Get S**t Together (At Work)
BC Business Magazine – October 2006
The truth is most of us could use a little help in the organization department. How else to explain the growing popularity of TV shows like How Clean is Your House and Clean Sweep, and the increasing numbers of professional organizers in the yellow pages? Here’s what the pros have to say about how to get your work life in order.
Helping You To Get Your Act Together
Minding Your Own Business
The Province Newspaper – September 2006
Excerpt
What’s unique about your business?
Not only can we organize your home, office, wardrobe and kitchen but we can also provide you with the services of a total makeover and branding of yourself and your business.
What is your biggest success?
Being featured in The Vancouver Sun, Breakfast TV and The Vancouver View magazine.
What is your biggest challenge?
Getting people to part with things they no longer love, use or need. Giving our clients faith in themselves and in our work.
Creative Closets – Getting It Together the Right Way
The Vancouver View Q & A – March 2006
Q. I consider myself a fairly organized person, but when it comes to my closet I cannot maintain the organization. I find myself standing in front of my closet for what seems like forever trying to figure out what I should wear. I have summer clothes, clothes that I think I might fit into some day and clothes that I might love, but cannot find at the moment.
Holiday Stress
By Rebecca Osler
The Vancouver Sun – December 2005
Warning: The following sentence may cause shortness of breath, irrational spending sprees and potentially lethal rush baking. Please inhale deeply before continuing.
There are only 10 days to go until Christmas!
Now, if you are a model super-being a la Martha Stewart Living magazine, then you are without fail sinking into an overstuffed easy chair next to a crackling fire, cheeks flushed with homemade rum and eggnog (yes, we know you distilled the rum yourself), revelling in tranquility and congratulating yourself for getting everything wrapped up so heroically early.
But if you’re remotely human, chances are that instead of decking the halls, at this point you’re feeling more apt to deck that slowpoke ahead of you in the Wal-Mart checkout line, your mother-in-law or smug old St. Nick himself.
It’s sad, but true: holiday folly leaves many of us feeling less than jolly. But it needn’t be quite so hard on the nerves.
Here are some tips to ease holiday distress. Read More.
