I Love My Home-Based Business

Hey There! I’m Melody.

I am an outdoorsy, jean wearing fool. I do enjoy jazzing up my jeans with a fun top & heels or slipping into a nice feeling pair of slacks, but jeans are my downfall.

I also love digging in the dirt and walking barefoot in the grass.

I gather my energy from planting flowers, mowing the grass, power washing anything, or sleeping the day away.  I’m generally a happy, optimistic person.  I love hanging out at home and traveling to visit with friends and family.

My Story.  How I became an Organizer.

My Daughters Love to Have Fun

As I worked a full-time “real” job, tried to keep up with my home, and maintain a healthy relationship with my husband, two daughters, huge family, and social life, I became super overwhelmed.

Add to that, I began resenting the fact that I had to “request” a day off to attend my children’s school functions or family events.  Put it all together and I was not an entirely happy camper.  It was time for a change.

My organizing journey began when I read ONE question from a business book.  The doors blew wide open and I walked through.

Wanna know what the question was?

What is one thing that you have done FOR FREE for family, friends, and in the workplace that you enjoyed doing even if it was not required of you?

My answer:

Lend them a helping hand when they were feeling down, unmotivated, or overwhelmed.

I would empty their closets, sort their piles, find a home for their things… You guessed it – organize them. I had no idea how disorganization was affecting their quality of life.  I only knew that helping them change their space just felt like the right thing to do.

The truth is, I knew that a spacious, appealing home felt good, but I had never researched how to get organized or studied the “why” behind it.

I became my first official client. I learned, applied, and tested out many different techniques.  I dug deep into my life and space.  I made large and small changes.

My results were absolutely stunning!  I felt like a different person.  And I’m talking about the emotional results.  The visual results are just a bonus.

I KNEW if I felt this way, then there must be millions of others that would love to feel this way, too.  Don’t you think so too?  I gave my two weeks notice, rearranged my finances, and flew to Chicago to attend and participate in my first organizing conference.  (It was my first time flying too!  All by myself.  S.C.A.R.Y., yet exciting.)

Over the years I learned that getting organized doesn’t have to be so darn complicated.   In fact, it’s simpler than you may think.

Once you get clear on how you want your home to look and feel, have clarity on the lifestyle you want, and have a smidgen of hope, then making decisions on what to let go of and what to keep becomes sooooo much easier.

Family Fun!

Personally, after freeing myself from “things”, I became more carefree, less anxious, and much friendlier. (Not that I was a biatch or anything, but I was having a hard time keeping up with all our stuff, not to mention life.)

The best benefits I continue to receive are clarity, confidence, calmness, less time cleaning and more time & motivation to do the things I want to do in my life.

Getting organized and staying that way gets easier and easier.  Don’t doubt what you are capable of.

Visit my blog and watch for any videos I post, or sign up for my Organizing Tips & Advice.  I send out small actionable tips that are easy to complete in no time at all.  There’s no telling what I’ll talk about, but I promise to keep it real. ;-)

There’s an official bio below.  AND more “stuff” to prove my expertise and commitment to you!

Media/Press

SWLA Women's Commission Annual Conference

Melody Granger of Grand Lake, Louisiana is a Professional Organizer who teaches and guides women (and men!) how to get organized by transferring organizing skills, organizing processes, and decision making skills.  Since 2003, Melody has been in the business of eliminating clutter and simplifying spaces.

Melody is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers and is a Golden Circle Member.  She holds an Associate Degree in the Science of Medical Assisting and has obtained credits for numerous other university classes.  She trademarked her Get It Done!™ services and created the How to Organize Your Home Paperwork online virtual guide.

Melody lives in Grand Lake, LA with her husband, Mike, and their two children where she personally provides on-site organizing services, coaches women by phone, blogs, tweets, facebooks, emails, and writes about organizing different areas in your home, your life, and your mind.

Stonecroft Women's Event

Melody has been a speaker at many community and private events, including, but not limited to the SWLA Chamber of Commerce, Lake Charles Memorial Hospital, Glad Tidings “Get It Together”

Conference, and the Family Foundation of Louisiana, motivating and inspiring others to get organized. She has been a McNeese University Kids College instructor, teaching and motivating children on how to organize their favorite things.

Melody has been featured, quoted, resourced, or interviewed by KPLC Ask the Expert, FOX 29 News, the American Press Newspaper, Cumulus and Gap Broadcasting Radio Stations, Savvy & Sage Magazine, Lagniappe Magazine, Ezine Articles, & other Entrepreneurial websites.

I LOVE writing.

You will find published articles around the web and in magazines.  Contact me if you would like something published for your audience.

Featured or Interviewed In Media (Partial List):

  • Savvy & Sage Magazine – “Inheriting Your History” Article Published, North Louisiana
  • Lagniappe Magazine – “Back to School” Article Published, Lake Charles
  • EzEzine Online – Expert Author Article Contributor, Online
  • American Press Newspaper – Featured, Resource, Quoted
  • Talk Radio with Dale Mann
  • Gap Broadcasting Radio Stations
  • Fox 29 TV
  • KPLC-TV “Ask the Expert”

Speaking Engagements With (Partial List):

  • SWLA Chamber of Commerce Luncheon Event – Lake Charles, Lousisana; “Organizing Styles & Tips”
  • Lake Charles Memorial Hospital – Women’s Gauthier Campus, “Pack It & Stack It”
  • MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) DeRidder, Louisiana, “Mothers Get Organized”
  • CUPS – Lake Charles and Surrounding Area Credit Union Affiliates, “Having Energy to Keep up with Family & Career”
  • Family Foundation of SWLA – Lake Charles, La, “Making Your Office & Time…WORK”
  • Ad and Press Council – Lake Charles, La, “Individual Business Office Organizing Myths”
  • Cameron Parish Libraries – Open to the Public, Grand Lake, Hackberry, Johnson Bayou, “What Is Clutter?”
  • Calcasieu Parish Library – Open to the Public, “What Is Clutter?”
  • Glad Tidings Church “Get It Together” Women’s Conference, Workshop

    • Grand Lake Girl Scouts

    Grand Lake Girl Scouts – Decorated Clutter Bags, Filled and Returned Bags, Donations Made to CARC

    Kids Leisure Learning at McNeese State University – Organizing Fun! Create Clutter Bags, Learn Different Ways to Hang & Fold Clothes, Created Small File System and Labels, Discussed the Positive & Negative Effects of Being On Time/Late, Decorated Timers, and More!

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