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In all the organizing jobs I have done over the past 17 years, there has never been one where clutter isn’t present.  And there has never been one where removing that clutter hasn’t [...]

I am a huge fan of meditating. Of slowing down the brain for even 10 minutes a day so it gets a much needed break. When I meditate my goal is to quiet things. It is to pause what is going a mile [...]

Got clutter? These days, who doesn’t? And I say that with love. But I think the reality is that most of us have things in our homes and offices for which we can honestly say we have no use [...]

Truth be told, my advice on clearing clutter starts with a question. This question is the first step in the process. It is a question I ask of my clients, and of myself, when I am getting ready [...]

A few years ago, I wrote about my goal to address the hidden clutter taking up space in my office. Oh the freedom I felt after doing a great big purge, getting rid of what I didn’t need or [...]

Clutter — you can’t live happily with it [in my opinion].  You can live quite well without it.  And most of us know this – intellectually. We just have a hard time actually developing the [...]

I just just read a great, short email by one of my favorite bloggers Clair Diaz-Ortiz. If I am being honest, which I always am, I don’t even really remember how I found her or when I [...]

I don’t spend a lot of time blogging to promote my services, per say. People in the marketing world are always suggesting that I do so. And I suppose this blog is as good a time to give it [...]

I have been a professional organizer for 17 years and in that time I have seen my fair share of clutter. I’ve seen some people struggle with letting it go, and seen others have an easier [...]

{Inside: Why ‘just in case’ is a dead-end phrase, and the 3 things to do to avoid uttering it.} As a professional organizer for the past 20+ years, I have come to expect to hear [...]