Children’s rooms are often magnets for clutter from assorted clothes, toys, books, papers, stuffed animals, games, equipment and way, way too many pieces of things–tiny pieces from Barbie dolls, games, Legos and more. It can drive a parent crazy trying to keep track of it all. Thankfully, with the patience and persistence of an organizer, […]

Thomas Troward the 19th C. British judge and metaphysician declared that order is the first law of the universe. Without order there is chaos, there is disruption, there is no sense to life and its many things and how they fit together. With order, we have a rhyme and reason for how the planets revolve […]

At the end of each year, we have the opportunity to take stock of where we’ve been, what we’ve accomplished and where we want to go next. We also have a chance to look at what we have. By assessing in this way, we see what worked, what didn’t and what needs changing. So often […]

When the holidays hit, we can find ourselves perhaps in overwhelm with too much stuff to do in addition to the busyness of our everyday lives. With our regular work schedules, family obligations, meetings, exercise, etc, we pile on holiday parties, shopping, decorating and more. It can feel rather daunting. The truth of the matter […]

I’ve heard it said that “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”and there is great wisdom and truth in that saying. When we don’t know what our plans are, where we are headed, where we are going, we may very well doom ourselves to plans gone awry whether that’s in business, in creating […]

Our lives are filled with paths upon which we travel, literally and metaphorically. The path from childhood to adulthood; the path through various education levels; the path of marriage and creating a family; the path of healing from a serious illness; the path through a work career just to name a few. Our paths, sometimes […]

Most of us don’t suffer from the problem of being too organized. We often struggle with managing papers, maintaining our desks so we can find what we need, keeping a check on closets, garages and shared space so we can use it and live in it. Too often we find ourselves battling with unmade decisions […]

Yes, it’s that time of year again with falling leaves, cooling weather and the return of the jam-packed holiday season. So many things to do and so little time. Oy! Having our spaces organized facilitates a much smoother and easier time when the holidays bear down upon us. Having a cleared garage, all the decorations […]

Oh, the American car. We use it to drive to and from work, to shop, to transport our kids and our things, to drop things off, to pick things up as well as we eat in our cars, we do business from our cars, we sleep in our cars, put on makeup, shave, brush our […]

“Wash your dishes” sounds like something our mother would tell us, though it’s something I told a friend of mine who said he hadn’t washed his dishes in 3 months! Now there’s gotta be something growing on them by now, right? He announced he had left his dishes for this extended period in the sink […]