When we are faced with a mound of paper, mail, a cluttered desk, a kitchen table piled with books, letters, clothes and assorted things, we find our minds fog over and we can’t think clearly. We may find we are alone in a sea of  stuff that we try to push aside each day and […]

Paper is a nuisance, though it sometimes holds important information, and it can clutter our work and living spaces beyond measure. Paper comes in the forms of bills, legal documents, letters, cards, subscriptions, notices, parking tickets, catalogs and more. Sorting through it and keeping up on it can feel like a full time job. Many […]

Everyone’s space matters, whether it’s a studio apartment, a spacious glassed-in office, a multi-room mansion or a cozy bungalow. Having a space to call your own is important and making that space function to its utmost is imperative. Having too many clothes, a non working kitchen table, oveflowing closets, an unusable garage, a desk piled […]

Getting started in organizing or any new endeavor, can feel daunting and overwhelming. We may find ourselves suddenly feeling tired, bored, needing to to check our email or getting hungry. Getting clients focused and on task keeps them moving forward. My job is to access their needs and to address their clutter head on. Because […]

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 […]

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 […]