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Control Your Childrens Clutter!!


Ever feel overwhelmed by all the papers, notices, artwork, and other items your kids bring home from school? Don?t be a pack rat!! We?ll show you how to ?Trap the R-A-T? (RETAIN, ACT, THROW)

Declutter Your Home in 11 Easy Steps


Feeling overwhelmed at the thought of organizing your home? Start on a smaller scale instead and it will be a whole lot easier.

After the Clutter: 5 Steps to a New Daily Routine


I've noticed that in the two years since the major de-cluttering of my apartment, clutter has been creeping back in.

Making Space - Letting Go of Clutter


To make room for new things to come into you life, you have to create space for such things. If your environment or life is packed with things you no longer need or that no longer serve you, then you are holding yourself back. There?s no room for new opportunities, new relationships or new ideas to enter. Yesterday I had a conversation with a client about this very topic. I congratulated the client on cleaning out items associated with her previous career from her home office to make room for all the new ventures she is exploring. I was reminded of what I went through when I decided to switch careers. When I first became a coach, I was hesitant to toss or give away all the business materials I had accumulated as a financial professional. I kept thinking, ?What if I need these items again?? I finally realized that my indecisiveness, (about giving up the security that these materials provided - thinking I could always go back to my former career), was holding me back. After this realization I immediately tackled my office and cleared out 9 trash bags of old business files. Guess what happened? The next day I had a new client!

Thinking Outside the Box


Much of my time as a Professional Organizer is spent helping people to put things into containers and boxes. But, success in this business requires as much thinking ?outside the box? as it does about putting things into containers. I was reminded of this recently, while consulting with clients who own a large, well-appointed suburban home. Two of the issues that the clients presented were the lack of closet space on the main floor, and the constant clutter on a small, built-in desk. Limited closet space resulted in coats? being deposited in the front entry. Shoes were removed inside the garage and dropped on the floor, by the other door into the house. The homeowners were tired of tripping on shoes. And the last thing they wanted (guests) to see was a wall of coats hanging in the foyer. So, the challenge was clear: This active family needed more closet space.

Digging out of Paper Clutter - part 1


Digging out from under stacks of paper might seem like a daunting and insurmountable task. Let?s face it, paper can be intimidating and overwhelming. It comes relentlessly and without warning, and it never stops coming - bills, insurance policies, faxes, to-do lists, invoices, tax information, user manuals, receipts, itineraries...Add in the magazines, brochures, drafts, booklets, letters, drafts, etc., and it?s easy to see how paper molehills become paper mountains. And here?s the worst part - somewhere in this ever-growing mound of chaos lies your business - important phone numbers, bills that have to be paid, clients that need attention, receivables that need collecting?

Digging out of Paper Clutter - part 2


We previously noted that papers must be sorted before they can be properly filed. Continuing from our last article, your sort has left you with two piles - ?to file? and ?to throw away/recycle.? You?ve tossed the garbage/recycling, so now you have a stack of papers to file. Let?s finish the sort, and create a basic filing system. Keep in mind three things:

Everything Fits Together Perfectly!


Here's a little lesson I experienced while packing boxes for my move to Victoria, BC.

Addiction to Clutter


Clutter is a big problem for many people. At a lecture that I gave, I asked for a show of hands regarding how many people had problems with clutter and disorganization. I was surprised to find that at least half the people raised their hands.

Spring Makeovers: Organizing Tips for the Home and a Virtual Makeover for You


Winter is starting to retreat, and hints of Spring are everywhere. Time to clear away the clutter and get you and your house in order. The benefits of a clean and organized home will translate into a calm, collected state psychologically. Although I'm not a Feng Shui expert, I do believe in the flow of energy within a home. When energy is blocked in a room, you don't want to spend time there. At the very least, it feels good to have minimal clutter and a bright living space.

Success at Work : Techniques : A Cluttered Desk


I followed my boss to a co-worker's cubicle where my boss requested a certain document from the co-worker. The actual surface of the co-workers desk was not visible because it was covered with a cluttered pile of papers, catalogs, booklets, and other paraphernalia. I was prepared to see my co-worker embarass himself by not being able to locate the requested document in that messy pile.

Feeling Overwhelmed and Unorganized? - How to Use Index Cards to Organize Your Life


Feeling Overwhelmed and Unorganized? - How to Use Index Cards to Organize Your Life

Declutter for Sucess


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely..." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spruce Your Environment, Spruce Your Spirit


After a long winter, this is the time of year to spruce up your environment with a good Spring Cleaning. It?s amazing what doing this can do for one?s state of mind.

Calendars and Personality Type


I recently conducted a survey to look at the relationship between an individual?s personality type and his or her organizing and time management style, and noticed that the majority of participants said they have a calendar system that works for them. As there are so many time management systems available, both paper-based and electronic, I thought it would be interesting to find out which calendar systems are most popular with each personality type, and asked my ezine subscribers and visitors to my website to describe their time management system, what they like and dislike about it, and their personality type according to the Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorŪ (MBTIŪ). The MBTI measures your preferences in four areas:

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