With the New Year comes new responsibilities and new possibilities. Without direction and order, we can find ourselves mired in 2010 without the clear path and direction we need to move forward. If we have a pile of things we have left from the previous year, we can find ourselves challenged to take action and […]
Working with a professional organizer requires being coachable–the ability to receive instruction and guidance from another. When we aren’t coachable, our minds shut out any support or help. We remain solidified in our position and can’t hear what another has to teach us. This can happen in school between a student and teacher, at the […]
With most Americans unable to park either one or both cars in the garage and with most garages overstuffed and overburdened, it has become one of our main areas of unmanageability. We have dumped whatever we don’t want to look at or deal with as well as years of accumulating stuff we’ve never purged. […]
Organizing is best achieved when you have a specific outcome and goal in mind. Do you want to clear a closet so you can close the door on it? Do you want to organize the garage to park 2 cars in it again? Do you want to see your desktop and easily locate papers and […]
Everything in life has a life flow, or chi, that is an indestructible source of energy that powers the solar system, the tides, weather patterns and way your life unfolds. This energy source must be valued and respected. When we ignore it or try to resist it, we find ourselves in conflict with ourselves, co-workers, […]
Most often when I work with clients, I ask them where they’d like to begin, thinking they have a clear idea of where to start. Yet this is often not the case. They are often enveloped in a cloud of overwhelm and have no idea as how or where to begin. If they did, they […]
Whether we like it or not, organizing is not a static event. We don’t clean up a space, put everything where it belongs and think that it’s done. Organizing, like our homes and offices, is a fluid and moving process. Things come into and go out of these areas on a consistent basis. Just as […]
Clutter drains. Clutter zaps our energy. Clutter and disorder cause us to feel weighted and heavy. They cast a pall over our minds and bodies as we feel exhausted looking at what stands before us. When I work with new clients, I ask them where they’d like to begin and they often have no idea. […]
Furniture placement in a room is key to how a room looks, feels and functions. Too Often we place pieces in an incorrect relationship to other pieces or to the room as a whole. It can give the room either a cramped and overcrowded feel or it can make a space feel disconnected and not […]
Parties and events are an integral part of our lives, celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and other important milestones. Yet along with parties, comes the inevitable fallout of plates, cups, linens, party decor and clean up. Creating an organized clean up plan makes the aftermath much more manageable. For BBQs and parties at home and outdoors, […]