Resources to help you simplify and improve your quality of life.
The Slippery Slope and You
Do you know about the idea of the slippery slope? Considering the slippery slope from an objective perspective, it can ...
Bursts of Organizing
Not everyone loves the process of organizing – rather planning bursts of organizing to tackle this or that room to ...
Consciously Incompetent?
The four stages of learning lay out what we all go through as we try to learn something new – ...
Making the Most of a Storage Unit
There might be times in your life when you need to use a storage unit (either for short- or long-term ...
Time to Make Progress?
You might be inspired to focus on making changes – organizing and systems – yet, your motivation is only one ...
Beauty and Function
We can get preoccupied with how things look and downplay the importance of function. How are things functioning for you? ...
Ch- ch-cha-changes
Likely we all know that changes are bound to happen – we can’t side step them – and whatever the ...
Organizing from Another Culture
A month overseas gave me a glimpse into differences between the offerings – often an overwhelming number of choices while ...
Goals, SMART Criteria, and You
As the requisite time of year for considering how we want things to be different in the New Year, I ...
Planning with Fractals in Mind – Review, Sort of
I promote we all find our own way, adjusting things for how we function. And I read a free e-book ...
Interpreting
When we find ourselves facing the same challenge over and over again, what we tell ourselves can have a tremendous ...
Temptations of Purchasing
We’re surrounded by opportunities and temptations for spending our money – the effects of marketing and our individuality ...
Giving Thanks
Giving thanks on more than just this one day each year can benefit your life and likely improve the world! ...
Follow-up on the Arc Notebook
Revisiting the Arc Notebook – to add another strength I forgot to talk about in the initial review and to ...
Our Feelings & Our Organizing
Our minds might be our best asset for creating the systems, yet it’s important to not underestimate the impact our ...
What Do You Identify With?
As we look around – at the world, other people, and ourselves we use words to put things into context ...
Our Minds & Our Organizing
Your mind is your best asset in all organizing endeavors – it’s what will help you find the systems that ...
Variations in Traditional Products
Stores cannot carry inventory on all the products that exist, which means it can be challenging to know what is ...
More Scheduling Options
Without easy, pat answers to the scheduling challenges we might face – it becomes important to understand the options and ...
Organizing Digital Photos – Simply
Digital photos can quickly become overwhelming in their quantity – which makes it that much more important to create and ...
Reasons We Lose Things
Among all the possible reasons that we misplace things, our emotional state of mind can have a tremendous impact. Consider ...
Review – Containers
Despite the popular perception that containers are necessary for being organized, it’s not the answer for everyone, let alone our ...
Going Shopping – In Your Home
Simply because you might have all these “extra” things does not mean you have to get rid of them – ...
Organizing Photos
Getting photographs organized can be just as time consuming as getting papers under control – yet with these wonderful memories ...
3 Common Scheduling Recommendations
When our schedules – the foundation of our days – are faltering or even just need a little tweaking, there ...
Review: Ampad Shot Note
A combination of physical paper and an app, to bridge the gap between paper and digital, is a tool in ...
Get the Help You Need
Although we’re all different – from how we feel about having someone come help us to how overwhelmed we feel ...
Technology – Digital Pictures
Technology offers us so many benefits that we might not consider the costs equally – and when it comes to ...
Ready to Make a Change?
There’s more than knowing about the stages of readiness that impact our ability to enact the changes we want – ...
Take Control of Your Schedule
Most of the time schedules comfort me, giving me the outline of my commitments – and if we think about ...
More Brief Overviews of Organizing Products
From my recent realization that I can share products without focusing on only one that I’ve used, here’s 5 more ...
Misplacing Things?
Everyone, no matter how organized they might be, misplaces things. Yet no one enjoys being unable to find what he ...
Limiting Your Collection Places – Including Technologically
Choices abound for containing our stuff – for both the physical and the digital stuff. Being deliberate about the tools ...
Herding Papers into the Filing Cabinet
It’s all too easy to allow papers to surround you – they’re constantly coming into our lives whether we want ...
Review: NeatDesk Scanner
With the vast improvements in scanning papers with writing on them, the character recognition, we can create digital versions of ...
Are You Ready?
There is an outline for the stages we all move through in the process of making changes – whether that’s ...
To-Do’s – Technology and Traditional
With so many to-do list options it’s hard to find the specific approach that works for you – as an ...
Listen to Understand
It’s quite common for people to jump in with the “solution” to this or that struggle (most obvious when they ...
Your Tasks have Needs
Each task on our to-do list has more needs than simply to be done – it requires some level of ...
Brief Overview of Some Organizing Products
Here are some products that were at the NAPO conference expo. Just because I don’t plan on creating a review ...
Paper Pyramid
As with all aspects of organizing – there’s a pyramid effect – including when tackling papers. The most common struggle ...
My Top Paid App Picks (plus one free app)
Free apps are wonderful, though sometimes it’s important to spend your money in wise ways to get the features that ...
4 Products from the NAPO Conference 2013
Another year at the NAPO conference, where I get to play with new products and come home with tools to ...
Review: Hanging Folders
It can be hard to discover and know how many options there are for traditional filing – since even with ...
The Pyramid Effect of Getting Organized
One of the most frustrating things about trying to get organized is how there can be many things you need ...
My Top Free App Picks
With the tremendous number of apps available – figuring out which ones can assist you in your life can be ...
Embrace the Duality
Sometimes it’s easy to see the big picture of an experience; other times it’s hard to escape labeling it. Every ...
Review: Accordion Folders
Everyone’s seen and knows about accordion folders. It’s easy to take them for granted, they’ve been around “forever” – yet ...
Ready to Escape the Pain
Ever heard of the idea that when the pain of staying the same is greater than the fear of the ...
The Experience – That’s What Matters
Containers, electronics, and gadgets, oh my! These tools are to be used to maximize living our life – to have ...
Productive Spending
I’ll admit it – I can have a hard time spending money, it often feels frivolous, yet there’s a “good” ...
Review: Tickler File
The tickler file is meant to tickle your memory with the things that need your attention. It can be quite ...
Tasks – Big Picture View
I’ve been known to rail against goals in the traditional sense, yet here is a goal that I live by ...
Technology Tools – To Get or Not to Get
Technology tools abound in our society yet does that mean we need to get them? It might. Or it might ...
Productivity
In a world where there seems to be a never ending list of more things we need to do, it ...
Hoarder? More Likely Challenging Disorganization.
Sometimes it sounds like hoarders are all around us. And not to say they’re not a larger group that we ...
Review: Arc Notebook System from Staples
After receiving an Arc notebook at the 2012 NAPO conference, I finally understood what made this system more unique. I ...
Defining Hoarding
With the proliferation of media attention on hoarding, the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders) has said it ...
13 Posts in Honor of the Beginning of 2013
As the years go by and I keep blogging, they add up (I have about 170 posts so far) so ...
Consider Setting Resolutions – or Not
The New Year is upon us once again – are you setting New Year’s resolutions? Here’s a reminder of the ...
Review: 3M Command Strips
3M Command products offer a diverse selection of products – damage-free hanging with strips, hooks, and clips. See what I ...
Reorganizing and Remembering
It’s easy to forget where and how you reorganized this piece or that, yet there are steps you can take ...
Checking Tasks Off Your To-Do List
Our to-do lists are essentially never ending, yet we want to make progress and be productive – to get those ...
Calendar Considerations
As the New Year approaches, it could be time to think about your calendar system- how does it work and ...
Thanksgiving Thoughts
Holidays bring to my mind the importance of setting limits, of deciding on our priorities – there’s a time for ...
Organizing Jewelry
Organizing jewelry can be challenging – so many pieces and making decisions – here’s a way to approach it to ...
Feeling Stressed and Overwhelmed?
I’ve talked before about the practical steps of moving through overwhelm within the organizing context; here’s a deeper exploration of ...
Thinking about Money
Money is extremely personal – how you spend it, save it – how you think and feel about it – ...
Envisioning Your Space
What home looks and feels like to each of us is different. Yet, this is part of what we need ...
Follow-up on the Workforce Shelving Units
Shelving generally leaves me ambivalent, yet these have mostly stood the test of time – as I reevaluate these units ...
Cycles of Time
There’s an inherent cyclical nature to every day and we can embrace that as we create and work on our ...
Making Progress?
Our feelings can interfere with our making the progress we want. There are things we can do and more importantly ...
Accountability – Nasty or Nice?
Too often “accountability” is used in a negative way yet it’s a powerful tool when used in constructive ways ...
Follow-up on the Unikeep View Case Binders
Binders are sometimes wonderful tools for being organized, and these impress me more than most. Here I evaluate the binders ...
Maintenance – Everything Needs It
It’s occurred to me that virtually everything needs maintenance – yet not everything is easy for us to attend to, ...
Those Random Items
My confession – I have a file called “Etcetera” for those papers that don’t fit elsewhere. We all have the ...
Paper Retention
Papers are always coming in – there’s no end – despite the thoughts of a paperless society. Figuring out what ...
Safety – consider your beauty products
We’ve probably all heard about how medications need to be disposed of after their expiration date; fewer people know that ...
Revisiting the Past
Visiting an old friend and sharing it with all of you – do you really love the things you surround ...
Donating Process
Clutter accumulates almost automatically – that’s where creating systems for helping it flow out of your space becomes important and ...
Organizing – a process not an end point
Organizing is never truly finished – as things will always keep coming into your space and rather is a process ...
Review: Ziploc Brand Flexible Totes
These sturdy rectangular storage containers are good at what they’re designed for as long as you are mindful of one ...
Treasures from Others
We all have treasures from people we love – from gifts, sharing, and inheritance. These can cause some of the ...
Consider Changing Your Routine
Our lack of routine can be just as much a routine as adamantly sticking to your plan – yet however ...
So Little Space
From badly designed spaces to simply physically small spaces – there are challenges to make the most of what you ...
Review: 1Password
Whatever tool we use, ideally it will help us simplify our lives so we can focus on what matters – ...
Anthropomorphizing Your Belongings
Relationships happen with things as well as people, though we might disregard this aspect. If we think about how we ...
Information Collecting
We all collect something. Often collecting information can be more problematic – there are 2 kinds these days, the physical ...
Book Review: Making Peace with the Things in Your Life
A great foundation to tackle the organizational challenges you face – it takes work and a willingness to look inside ...
The Balance – of life, stuff, everything
This symbol is an example of perspective. The black and white are two extremes on a spectrum; tied together as ...
The Container Store
When you receive great customer service, it can make your day. Then when you realize that it’s been more than ...
Racing – Time & Energy
Do you ever get so filled with energy? And find yourself accomplishing lots of things in a small amount of ...
Your Needs and Values
You are so much more than your job, your health, and your struggles. If we don’t align our life to ...
Clearance and Discount Items – Really a Value?
My frugality has gotten in my way, attempting to save money has lead me to clearance items and the discovery ...
ClosetMaid Cubeicals – Especially the Mini
Given my love of cubbies, it’s not surprising that I have tried out ClosetMaid’s cubeical systems. There are some features ...
Keeping Your Car Organized
Getting your car organized and then keeping it organized can feel like a lot of work, especially if you have ...
Under the Bed Storage
Storing things under a bed can be a great option for some people, though it’s important to consider what kinds ...
5 Products from the NAPO Conference 2012
NAPO conference is a great place to learn – both more thoughts on organizing and related skills as well as ...
Filertek Dry Erase Hanging File Tabs
Standard plastic hanging file tabs are common, yet here’s an alternative – and definitely worth considering. I found many wonderful ...
Define Your Time
Time is fascinating yet the better we “handle” this limited commodity, the more effective we feel. Here’s one way to ...
Organizing Art & Craft Supplies
There is a plethora of ways to organize craft supplies (or really any things that have a large number of ...
My Notes on Organizing Craft Supplies
My personal notes on organizing my craft supplies, which I reference in the entry, "Organizing Art & Craft Supplies." ...
Cultivate Curiosity
Getting curious about yourself can help lead you to answers to solve your own struggles – especially if you can ...
Delaying Gratification
The Stanford marshmallow experiment fascinates me – the idea of delaying gratification, imposing some self-control – to get what we ...
Laundry Tools – Sorters, Baskets, and Bags, oh my
As with so much with organizing, there are tons of choices available to you and what works best depends on ...
Using Your Time Wisely
Our to-do lists are never-ending, and racing around trying to do it all doesn’t serve anyone well. Figure out which ...
Collections, When to Stop
It’s inevitable that we collect things, whether it’s the standard things we need in life or it’s specific décor. Yet ...
Hate Doing Laundry? – An Alternative Solution
Weekly or even daily laundry duty is often a solution for many families, while for others it’s the wrong approach ...
Office Max Portable Folding Cart
A portable folding cart can be a critical tool if you need to carry around a large number of items ...
Efficiency can be Fun
Are our lives more full than they were a century ago? Here’s a fun anecdotal book about a family of ...
Useful & Beautiful
There’s a quote by William Morris that I find inspiring, both for the guidelines on what’s important to keep and ...
Overwhelmed?
Beginning an organizing task can be quite daunting. It might be the hardest step. Most people experience the feeling of ...
What Type Are You?
We're all quite unique individuals and need to find systems that work for us specifically. By identifying our strengths and ...
Goals, Already?
If you are one of those people who focus on setting goals at the beginning of the year (and even ...
Using Your Planner
After doing reviews of some physical planners, here are some things to consider when choosing a new planner for yourself ...
Purging – Part of the Whole Process
Even I focus too much on “purging,” the necessity of getting rid of things to make space for what you ...
Have a Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂
Just some quotes for the holiday, not a time to worry about organizing or time management ...
Taylor Planner
With so many different planners on the market, here is one that you might not have heard of with some ...
You’re Organized, Right?
I'm often asked how organized I am at home, and although that answer varies, I use these simple steps to ...
Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen is a classic book on how to manage your ...
Negativity – Nip it in the Bud Now
Hearing negative, critical comments from others puts a serious burr in my saddle – especially when it’s not something I ...
Planner Pad Organizers
There are many paper organizers for sale; this is one of the better ones available. Find out why I think ...
Another Answer About Professional Organizers
Ever wonder why professional organizers, or even other small businesses, charge what they do? Here are some of the answers ...
Gifts – Giving and Receiving
Don’t get stuck in a rut – consider what gifts you give those you love – whether for Christmas or ...
To Go Paperless or Not
As with all decisions, whether you go more paperless it needs to make sense and work for you. Simply because ...
Over the Door Clothes Hanger
Over the door tools are a great space saving option often, here’s one of those, though we need to consider ...
Decide on the Next Action
To-do lists can be a critical way for us to make sure we don’t forget what we need to do ...
Book Review: Buried in Treasures
Three big names write books on hoarding – all psychologists searching to understand and help people with compulsive acquiring, saving, ...
Hard to Believe – My 100th Blog
My 100th post, it’s hard to believe, and here’s a recap of my favorite 6 posts – the ones that ...
Figure Out the Zones
Break all your activities into zones – from the ones we all share: sleeping, getting dressed, eating, etc to the ...
Workforce Shelving Units
Utility shelving can be important although uninspiring; these are some great ones. Their pros outweigh the cons and see pictures ...
NCRW Huh, What’s That?
A primary idea in coaching is that everyone is NCRW – naturally creative, resourceful, and whole – and that means ...
Review: Organizing from the Inside Out
Might be the best organizing book I’ve read – Julie Morgenstern’s Organizing from the Inside Out – since it is ...
The Cost of an Item
An odd phenomena has been occurring for me – I’ve found a reluctance to bring more things home, at least ...
Cocoon Grid-It
A nifty product, discovered at the NAPO 2011 conference – and finally a great product for men who want to ...
Guidelines for a Happy Home
Remember the sayings like “If you take it out, put it away” – these ideas are important in the part ...
Styles of Procrastination
I look at the book, It’s About Time: The 6 styles of procrastination and how to overcome them by Dr ...
Find Your Motivation
If you’ve tried getting and staying organized before, you might have missed a step – find the personal and positive ...
Preventing Slips, Trips, and Falls
With the National Safety Month’s week 4 topic (2011), preventing slips, trips, and falls – I thought I’d apply this ...
Reusable Bag Organizer & Bags
Do you use reusable bags? Do they clutter up your space? Or slide around your car while you’re en route? ...
Getting Things to Their Home
Are there piles of things that have a “home” yet don’t seem to make it back there? There are two ...
Google Docs
Google Docs is a good way to work with word processing on the cloud – simplifying the editing and formatting ...
Organizing Your Kitchen
A kitchen can be the heart of your home, or it might not, but it’s the place for preparing food, ...
Pendaflex I-Organize Storage Binder
After seeing this and its accessories at the 2010 NAPO conference, I was surprised to get one in the mail ...
Use Your Time Intentionally
An odd synchronicity with “intention” in my life and learning (NAPO conference) and how it relates to how we spend ...
Bookmarking Websites
If you’ve been using a computer for any length of time, you probably save websites to your computer. Although this ...
Let Your Passion Lead You
Sometimes we have a moment, a sort of epiphany, when we realize that we’re buying things or have collected things ...
PlanetSafe Planners
Not as well known as they probably should be, this great, environmental product supports not just your calendar needs, but ...
Look Out – Papers Incoming
We're constantly bombarded with papers, and when you attend a conference it just gets magnified, never mind how overwhelming all ...
Note Taking for Virtually Everything
Digital note-taking, from literally typing up some notes, to clipping parts of webpages, to pictures, ad nauseam – then make ...
Evaluating System Breakdowns
Life is always changing, and part of that means that our organizational systems will need to change. The most obvious ...
It’s Coming – Tax Day
Papers are one of the hardest things to deal with, and tax time brings this to the forefront. It’s never ...
Ziploc Big Bags
As with any organizational product, it's important that it meets your needs. Generally, I find myself disinclined towards bags for ...
Work Smarter, Not Harder
Like the sleep cycles we all have, we have cycles of energy. We need to maximize our energy without neglecting ...
Simplifying Electronic Back Ups
Losing electronic data can be a horrifying experience and unless you’re backing everything up each time you change something, you ...
Set Times for Handling E-Mail
An embarrassing thing happened to me, I’d responded to an e-mail in my mind and forgot that I never physically ...
Unikeep View Case Binders
Binders are sometimes wonderful tools for being organized, and these impress me more than most. Here I evaluate the pros ...
We Must Always Change
Change can be appreciated when it’s for the better and hated when it looks like it’s for the worst, yet ...
Drop Files You Use – Here
A superb file sharing service – Dropbox – and it’s unique in many ways. A must have for people using ...
Keeping Things Close to Where You Use Them is Not Always the Right Answer
You need to consider a couple of other factors before deciding to keep things close to where you use them ...
The InPlace System Organization Kit and Post It Note Wallet from Peter Walsh
I begin the monthly blog on reviewing organizational products with Peter Walsh’s [In]Place system for organizing paperwork. Find out what ...
Contagious Clutter
Have you ever noticed that once a single pile appears, more and more piles seem to accumulate? It’s common, yet ...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud
As we embark into cloud computing, here is my first exploration of it, where I discovered Google calendar ...
Schedule Your Resolutions
As the traditional time for setting resolutions for the New Year, make sure to keep your list short and most ...
One of My Favorite Things – Containers
Containers and other organizing tools are wonderful things – there’s no denying that. Nevertheless we need to make sure we ...
Making Time Means Setting Priorities
If you know what your priorities are and can schedule time to focus on them, you’ll discover that you have ...
Stop Inadvertent Multitasking
We’ve all accidentally started multi-tasking, digging into the dreaded junk drawer, and dread dealing with the various items, and often ...
Make It Fun
Life is filled with tasks that we need to do, those things we even dread and procrastinate doing. One of ...
Only Handle It Once
The largely touted organizing and time management principle of “Only Handle It Once” (O.H.I.O) is easily taken too literally and ...
Find Your Curiosity
If we can discover within ourselves a genuine curiosity about why the other person does such and which, we’re then ...
Evaluate While In the Moment
Life is complicated enough without our many tasks adding to the demands on our time and energy. “Simplify, simplify” as ...
Seasons of Decorations
Halloween is the beginning of three months of heavy decoration time with Thanksgiving and then Christmas following and decorations can ...
Tweaking Systems for Yourself
As many people promote their solutions, it frequently falls into two categories: the direct outlining of a “do it this ...
Following Through
On the anniversary of my 52nd blog, I parallel writing this weekly blog to the process of setting up new ...
Judge Not, Even Yourself
The classic idea of “judge not, lest ye be judged” is often easier said than done. Something else crystallized that ...
Being Organized is Not Necessarily being Clean and Vice Versa
Cleaning is not one of my strengths, in fact I dislike it, yet working through a couple of steps, I ...
No ONE Right Approach
Just like there is no one product that will solve everyone’s organizational challenges — the systems you set up for ...
Those Deep Cabinet Shelves
There are many features of houses that are supposed to provide additional storage, and that deep shelving is one of ...
Prepared for an Emergency
No one wants to be faced with an emergency situation, yet if we prepare ourselves, it will minimize the chaos ...
Be a Human Being Not a Human Doing
We are often concerned with how productive we are; yet without balancing all our needs, we wear ourselves out. Then ...
Organizing the Closet – Clothes, Jackets, and Accessories Oh My
Ready to tackle organizing your closet, the bedroom or hall closet? Here is how I recommend digging in and getting ...
Take Time to Plan
Taking time to plan is often neglected, too frequently for those “small” things in life, yet making the time for ...
Passing Up the Good Deals, or Not
Many of us are drawn to the temptation of the “good” deal. Thrift stores and yard sales offer the lowest ...
Consider What Your Time is Worth
Time is limited. How we spend our time is just as important as how we spend our money. One way ...
But It’s Free…
It is tempting and easy to automatically accept those free offerings. Although not all of us face this temptation, if ...
Diving Into a Small Organizing Project
Too often we inadvertently sabotage our organizing efforts, making it actually more difficult and frustrating than it needs to be ...
Where to Start with Organizing the Entire Home
Want your whole home more organized? It only happens one step at a time and where you start can make ...
Overwhelmed by E-Mail No More
E-mail overflowing does not demand our attention the way our mailbox would, yet still impacts our feeling overwhelmed and cannot ...
Help, My Partner is a Slob
Sharing a home with someone can be challenging, the different approaches or apparent lack of, can be daunting. There is ...
Creating a Digital Filing Cabinet with a Scanner
Organizational tools of all shapes and sizes can tempt us with their ability to make our lives easier and more ...
Everyone Should Read … Crucial Conversations
Who cannot use more skills at having successful conversations, no matter how difficult? Useful for anyone and everyone. Crucial Conversations: ...
Tame Your Tupperware
Tupperware has a tendency to overflow or simply become jumbled, see a picture of my Tupperware drawer and make time ...
Tackling One Room
You can reclaim your home, one room at a time, no matter the clutter or the size. Here are two ...
Habits from Our Past
We are shaped in various ways by our past. If it benefits the way we do things, great. If it ...
Preparing to Purge
Before you actually do anything physical to tackle your belongings, you need to consider laying the right groundwork so that ...
Ask Yourself These Questions during Organizing
Regardless of how you feel about purging your things, here are 8 questions to help you make decisions about what ...
Professional Organizer – 4 Questions Answered
My personal take on four questions about the profession of organizing and how to choose one to work with, as ...
Carpe Diem – Now
There is nothing more important that quality of life, your own and the ones that you love. Whatever your struggles, ...
Passing on the Skills to Your Children
Teaching your children the skills and value of creating habits can appear to have little impact, yet consider how you ...
Considering Your Possessions by Time as well as Space
Possessions are unavoidable, space is a concrete limitation, but considering things in terms of time can prompt a fresh view ...
Work to Be In the Moment – Every Moment
Being mindful of your present actions will save you time and energy, increasing your productivity, and allowing you to spend ...
Closet System Decisions
If you are considering getting a closet system, consider these 6 questions before making a decision ...
Life is Blossoming Again, Time to Clear the Dust
Spring has arrived. Some tips to help you in the process of spring-cleaning: let gravity help, start at the top ...
Somehow, Someway Not Making the Progress You Planned?
Being less than perfect just makes you human, don’t let shame or guilt override your efforts at setting up routines ...
An Organizing Mission for You: Make a List of Things That Inspire You
It can be hard to think of things that motivate and inspire you when you are in the midst of ...
True Purchasing Power
Consider these three criteria before buying something: know whether it fits, where it will go, and if it is needed ...
Organizer Problem or Personal Problem?
Date planners are designed to help you manage your time, though do not always work, so where does the break ...
Organizing Papers, Ugh! Even More So… Part 2
Continuing with the process of organizing paperwork, long-term papers need a system so you can find them without difficulty ...
Organizing Papers, Ugh! Part 1
Starting the process of organizing paperwork, begin looking at the short-term papers that come into your home and find a ...
Do You Have a Collection or Does a Collection Have You?
There are things that we each hold dear to our hearts, some to the point that it becomes a collection ...
Don’t Get Stuck in Your Filing System
Thinking outside the box can be challenging, though when you find something not working, it is time to start looking ...
Purging School Papers and Why Saying Hoarding Should be a Crime
Delving into a collection of school paperwork dating back more than 20 years, with 2 videos of the process ...
Coping with Feeling Overwhelmed
Striving to develop some resiliency can help you cope with those times you are feeling overwhelmed ...
Revamping the Dumping Grounds in Your Home & Other Lost Rooms Part 2
When re-doing a room, there are many factors to consider as well as ways to make the process smoother: with ...
Change Your Resolution for the New Year
Tomorrow night we will celebrate by ringing in the New Year. It is typically a time for us to look ...
Appreciate Your Gifts This Christmas… But Don’t Let Them Become Clutter
My husband was teasing me the other day, come Christmas morning I am very methodical. I open a gift, look ...
Expressing Our Love at Christmas
My absolute most favorite memory of Christmas comes from my childhood with my mom. She would make tons of cookies ...
Revamping the Dumping Grounds in Your Home & Other Lost Rooms
Do you have any rooms or parts of rooms that have become dumping grounds? You know what I’m talking about ...
To-Do for Room Re-Vamp
This is my to do list for revamping a room ...
Loving What You Own
When was the last time you looked around your home with a critical eye? Do you truly love and value ...
The Perfect Holiday… That Wasn’t Perfect
Thanksgiving is the holiday most overwhelmed with volunteers – and it is a time when we think about what we ...
The Ever Elusive Time Part II
Last week I talked about setting the timer to find a distinct measure of how you are spending your time ...
The Ever Elusive Time Part I
Time is this amorphous entity. On one end of the spectrum there never seems to be enough time and on ...
Love Doing? Or Love Having Done?
I heard a story of Ray Bradbury giving a lecture. He starts with asking the audience how many of them ...
I Don’t Wanna!
I was thinking the other day about how there are certain things that I just repeatedly procrastinate doing. When clients ...
More Chores. Just Less Frequent.
Routines are something I advocate. Life is simpler when we have some in place to keep things running smoothly and ...
Chores. Ugh.
Let’s face it, nobody likes chores. The word evokes not-so-fond memories of childhood, with your parents as taskmasters, keeping you ...
