Jump Start Your Day

Your first activities in the morning influence how successful and productive your day will be. Do two things as soon as you get started with your activities. 1. First thing in the morning, accomplish one important project. Plan that project the day before so you will...

Letting Go

At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept, and you don’t need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens–that...

Ease of Return and Retrieval

Do you find it hard to find your items after you put them away? Can you find what you need when you need it? Storage of some items are essential but the key is easy retrieval…and the ability to put it back easily! Here are some great tips from The Organizing...

Two Ways to Find Neatness

They tell us that if we want to lose weight we need to do two things – eat less and exercise more. Consistently doing these two, even if it is a little at a time will eventually get us down to the weight we want to be. Keeping a neat house is the same way. Mess...

Commitment

This is a great quote from on of my clients that I work with on a regular basis.  Organizing is a commitment to yourself and you have to make that first step for the order in your life to come into your world.  I hope that you enjoy this quote as much as I did: Until...

Fill In The Missing Word “NOW”

You fill in the word that fits. The same word goes into all blanks. “I’ll send this card to my bereaved friend ________” (Now where did it go?) “I’ll put the folded clothes up ___________” (When did they get so scattered?)...

Thoughts on Dejunking

Let us imagine that you have decided to dejunk an area. As you go about making decisions you find these unproductive words recurring in your thinking, urging you to keep the very things that are cluttering up your life. MIGHT – As in “I might need that...

Deep Rooted Organizational Issues

I love looking at the different blogs and posts that come my way. Sometimes there is just some information that jumps right out at me for whatever reason. It could be because of a client I am working with or something that I am dealing with personally. Whatever the...

Those 4 Letter Words

We should bring things into our houses only because we planned for them and because we need them. Sometimes, though, we act impulsively (and therefore contribute to our struggle to create an organized, beautiful home!) because of these alluring four-letter words:...

Habits

Put forth one little extra ounce of effort. To stop short of finishing what you should do repeatedly will lead to repeated clutter. Don’t do that to yourself. When you feel like stopping short, don’t. Go just a little further and finish each job. -The...