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According to Internet studies, the average person can lose up to two hours each day as a result of disorganization. People spend a lot of their time looking for receipts, shoes, keys – you name it. According to author and professional organizer Lisa Giesler, if you are losing time at home because of disorganization, these habits can carry over in your career and other areas of your life. The answer? Giesler's new book My Life is a Mess: Organizing 101.

In Gielser's new "how to" book, you'll find easy to read chapters and tips that stop and make you think. Her chapter on "How Much is Clutter Costing You?" puts a pen and paper to disorganization and helps you evaluate the time and money associated with a cluttered lifestyle.

The book also features handy worksheets to help you not only get started in the process but help you understand why your world may be disorganized. And most importantly, how to fix it if it is! "People often find clutter overwhelming," said Giesler. "If a person tends to save things that they might need, then clutter will start to accumulate. Those piles continue to grow until you can longer find the item you might have needed in the first place."

Giesler is the owner of A Time and Place for Everything, LLC where she helps people organize their homes and offices. She believes that a properly organized life increases productivity at work and home, reduces stress, and results in more time to enjoy family and hobbies. In addition to her career as a professional organizer and author, Giesler is a popular speaker and uses her humorous style to entertain and encourage individuals who need assistance with organizational and time management skills.

For more information about My Life is a Mess: Organizing 101 or Lisa Giesler, visit www.atimeandplace4.com or order her book at Amazon.com.

Missing Max
The Story

Max, Jane and Kyle Madison's eight-month-old baby boy, is kidnapped on Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans while in the care of his teenage half-sister, Melanie. Six months later, the family is in deep trouble. Melanie feels responsible and riddled with guilt. Jane, a lawyer, is obsessed with finding Max to the exclusion of her career and almost everything else in her life. Her passion is now directed to her work as a volunteer at Child Search, an organization dedicated to finding missing children. Kyle, also a lawyer, has shut down emotionally in his grief. He accuses Jane of neglecting her family in her zeal to find other people's children and moves into the spare bedroom saying he isn't sure their marriage is worth saving.

Meanwhile, Jane is warned that she is in danger of losing her job if she doesn't shape up at work. Struggling to cope, she's further stressed by the failure of the police to make any progress on finding Max. Time and again her hopes are raised and then dashed when a child fitting Max's description is found, but it's never Max. As she struggles to cope, Melanie shocks both Jane and Kyle with a plan to make everything right by getting pregnant to replace the baby. Reeling with shock and anger, Jane thinks her life can't get any worse, but it does. Strange things begin to happen. Someone is determined to torture Jane with tantalizing hints that Max is alive.

Jane is a person without faith. She is angry at God for taking her baby. As the horrific events in her life escalate, she rejects the peace and acceptance to be found in faith.

Will her marriage survive? Will life ever be normal again? Will she open her heart to God? What will happen regarding Melanie's pregnancy? Will Jane and Kyle flush out the person who kidnapped their child? Will Max be found?

To find out, order your copy of Missing Max available at Amazon, Barnes & Nobel or Borders.