For some of us, organizing presents a challenging prospect. Too many things, not sure how to begin, where to put things, how to sort, the list goes on. So what happens for many, is that the piles sit and grow while we try to contain them in bags, boxes, suitcases, drawers, cupboards and the garage. […]

Confusion, loss of time, decreased productivity, and embarrassment and shame are signs of disorganized living and work environments. Functioning with greater ease and flow are paramount to having the lives we desire as well as the environments in which we function. When clutter and disorder rule these spaces, we lose inspiration, effectiveness, focus and joy. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Organize Shmorganize, right? Some people think organizing is a waste of time, not worth the expense, too hard to deal with and takes too long to accomplish. Let me share 5 points of why I think organizing is valuable. Point 1: Get out of Overwhelm. When I work with clients, overwhelm and panic are the […]

Beginning anything new–a return to school, a new job or starting a new business, a relationship, building a home–can feel exciting and scary, overwhelming and enticing. It requires planning, research, awareness, focus, direction, commitment, tenacity, support and the willingness to get from where you are to where you want to go. It’s the same with […]

With all of the things we own, we need a place to put them. Many clients that I work with don’t have a good sense of how to use their closet, garage and other storage spaces effectively. There often is a lot of wasted space, things piled atop each other, things randomly sorted together, excess […]

Organizing your closet can seem like a daunting task especially if you have struggled with it and it’s vexed you for some time. You can’t see what you have. Items live on the floor. There is no rhyme or reason to what you have and you don’t know all that you DO have. You spend […]