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“A goal properly set is halfway reached.” -Zig Ziglar One of the things I hear most from people is that they never seem to be able to get things done on their To Do list, or the things they said [...]

I have never heard anyone say to me after working to get organized that being organized wasn’t worth it.  No one has ever said that the work they put in didn’t yield results beyond [...]

Do people really stay organized after you leave? Oh do I hear that question a lot.  Not often do I hear it from potential or actual clients. Although the people that ask are probably curious if [...]

Paperwork, of any kind, can be messy. Figuring it out can feel daunting.  I don’t know many people who would disagree with me.  I love to dig into disorder and make sense of it all, and [...]

There is a ton of information out there about how to live a certain way, how to be healthy, how to lose weight, how to be happy.  There are so many articles written telling you to “do [...]

As a professional organizer for the past 17 years, I have come to expect to hear certain words and phrases from clients as we start the purging process and the work of lightening their load.  [...]

There are a few words and phrases I am just not too fond of: should do miscellaneous someday And of course, my least favorite, later. As in “I’ll do it later”. I am not really sure when uttering [...]

I like to think of myself as an uncomplicated person. That should not be read that I don’t have layers — or complications in life.  It is more to say that I always try to find that [...]

I have heard people jokingly say that sanity is so overrated.  That to feel sane means you are too tight, not relaxed enough. That you perhaps put too much effort on things running… [...]

Minimal gets a bad wrap!  Well, to be honest, the word does sound at little scary.  But the meaning of minimal is nothing more than owning what you love, use and need. Nothing too scary about [...]