Organization is the systematizing of a specific space. It’s a coherent way of ordering items so they are easily found and utilized for their intended purposes. More often than not, I find clients who don’t have a sense of how and where to systematize their things and so they end up in a host of […]

As human beings, we are masters of hiding things, deceiving ourselves that we can make things “disappear”–out of sight, out of mind–so we don’t have to look at it. Well, this strategy only lasts for so long until the places where we’ve been hiding things is overflowing and we can’t stuff anything else in there. […]

I am growing less surprised when I see what clients find important and in need of keeping: back issues of magazines, cloth bags from designer shoes (not used for their original intention), credit card and bank statements, plastic and paper bags, greeting cards from year’s past, toys of their children, and many items inherited from […]

With the holidays passed and the New Year upon us, we have the chance to make a difference in our lives by clearing the clutter that has bogged us down from moving forward and manifesting our goals and dreams. Yes, clutter psychologically, mentally, emotionally and physically hinders our progress, our productivity and creativity. If order […]

American society is a culture with Too Much Stuff. With the advent of the Big Box store such as Costco, Walmart, Kmart, Target and others, we find foreign made items for cheap and because it’s cheap and we can easily throw it away when it’s done, we feel okay about buying it. It may make […]

In my line of work the most common emotion I encounter in new clients is overwhelm–the feeling they are overrun and overtaken by their things and they don’t know how to deal with or address. My job is to assuage their fears by reducing the scary image of a mountain of stuff to bite-sized piles […]

Magazines. Magazines. So colorful and engaging with their pretty pictures and interesting articles. We love certain ones and then subscribe to them. The issues arrive and start piling up in baskets, on the floor, in the bathroom, living room, kitchen, the garage. They don’t stop coming and we feel guilty to throw them out if […]

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 […]