Archive for the 'Clutter' Category
Posted by Lisa on 01 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Clutter, DECIDE, Decision Making, Organizing & Holidays, Organizing Books
Looking for a holiday gift that subtracts from, instead of adds to, clutter? Check out my e-book, DECIDE to be Organized: An Empowering Process for Change. Often, people complain that gifts given for the holidays, although well-intentioned, just add to their clutter. E-books make gift-giving easy, as they can be sent to anyone on your gift list by [...]
Tags: DECIDE e-book, DECIDE to be Organized, gift giving, Organizing & Holidays, Organizing Books
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Posted by Lisa on 29 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Clutter, Organized Home, Organizing & Marriage
“The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.” ~ Robert C. Dodds I’ve worked with many couples as a professional organizer over the last 7 years. Many of them are married, some are domestic partners, others just roommates, etc. My background as a trained mediator often comes in handy during [...]
Tags: Organizing & Marriage
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Posted by Lisa on 18 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Chronic Disorganization, Clutter, Collyer Brothers, Hoarding, National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization, NSGCD, Organized Home
Whether you are a hoarder, have hoarding tendencies, or are just cluttered, I recommend you watch an episode of the new show, Hoarders, on A&E. New episodes air on Monday evenings at 10 p.m., while repeat episodes air on weekend afternoons. Each episode features two separate hoarders, and gives them assistance via a professional organizer or a therapist that specializes in hoarding. [...]
Tags: Chronic Disorganization, Collyer Brothers, Hoarders, Hoarding, NSGCD
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Posted by Lisa on 04 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Closets, Clutter, Organized Home
The entryway. Depending on your home, it can be an entire mud room with lots of space, a formal foyer at the front of your house, a breezeway from the garage, or a portion of a hall in a small apartment. Regardless of where it is, or its size, if it is organized, your homecoming [...]
Tags: Entryway, Mud room
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Posted by Lisa on 23 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Clutter, Feng Shui, Organizing Books
People always ask me for book recommendations on how to get and stay organized. I am in the process of drafting my first e-book, DECIDE to be Organized: An Empowering Process of Change, to be released next month. In the meantime, here are several fantastic books to help you on your organizing journey. Organizing From the Inside [...]
Tags: Feng Shui, Organizing Books
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Posted by Lisa on 13 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Clutter, Junk Mail, Organized Home, Organized Office, Paper Management
A large percentage of my clients face paper clutter challenges. Despite visions of a paperless society when the computer was invented, we are still inundated with paper at home and at work. One of the biggest culprits is “junk mail” — those credit card solicitations, catalogs, circulars, and the like that you don’t want or [...]
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Posted by Lisa on 11 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Clutter, Paper Management, RAFTS
Paper. It should be a benign part of our lives. It means no harm, really. But somehow, when it piles up and has a paper party with its friends, it becomes dreaded clutter! What to do? Grab a RAFT and sail to an organized shore! (Okay, technically, it should be RAFTS, plural, but that just [...]
Tags: Clutter, Paper, RAFTS
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Posted by Lisa on 10 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Clutter, DECIDE, Group Coaching, Organized Home, Organized Office, Teleclasses
Are you ready to make positive changes in your life, home and work environments, and need help with organizing and time management projects? Then it is time for DECIDE™! Many people say they want to get better organized, but in order to act upon that wish, you must deeply examine your motives for wanting to do [...]
Tags: DECIDE, Group Coaching
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Posted by Lisa on 28 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: Categorize, Clutter, Memory Box, Organized Home, Organizing & Parents
A Memory Box is a container in which each family member can store his or her most treasured possessions. The size should be big enough to fit the prized possessions, but small enough to grab and carry out of the house, in case of an emergency. The actual container can be a no-nonsense functional type, like a plastic bin, or it can be a lovely decorated stylish box, bin, or basket. My personal Memory Box is an old trunk that has handles on the side to carry it in the event of an emergency evacuation.
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Posted by Lisa on 11 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: Clutter, DECIDE, Decision Making, Dedicate, Discover, Harry Potter, Implement
In Half-Blood Prince, the sixth-year students at Hogwarts are taking lessons in apparition. Apparition is a magical form of teleportation, through which a witch or wizard can disappear (“disapparate”) from one location and reappear (“apparate”) in another. During the lessons, the instructor outlines the 3 D’s of apparition: Destination, Determination, Deliberation. When I read the 3 D’s of apparition, I couldn’t help but think that there is a strong parallel to the principles of organizing. Let me demonstrate.
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