Change in newsletter pub date
If you were looking forward to receiving my monthly newsletter tomorrow, I have to break it to you: I’ve decided to change the publication date to the 15th of each month.
Filed under: Organizing Resources || Tagged with: newsletter
When good things happen to great clients
I mentioned last week that I was leaving for Hawaii to help a client get settled in there. We’re working hard, having some fun, and accomplishing a lot.
I’ve been working with this client since September 2006 and she serves as a fabulous example of the benefits of getting organized.
Filed under: Organizing Living || Tagged with: balance · decluttering · empowerment · order · organized · priorities
Historical clutter
When I was cleaning out my email inbox, I came across a link to a New York Times article called The Ghosts of Clinton Street. My husband had sent it to me last fall. I don’t know why I didn’t click on the link back then, but I’m glad I did last week.
Filed under: Organizing Sharing || Tagged with: clutter · new york times
Looking for a good novel?
The Department of Lost and Found, by Allison Winn Scotch, is out in paperback this week. I (virtually) know Allison from a freelance-writers web forum participate in, Freelance Success, and read this book when it was out in hardcover.
Filed under: Sharing Living || Tagged with: books
Aloha!
I’m the luckiest organizer. I worked with a wonderful client here in St. Louis for eighteen months. Last month she moved to Hawaii. Last week, her family’s stuff, which was shipped by boat, arrived. This week, I’m going there to help her set up household. I leave early (and I mean early) tomorrow morning.
Filed under: Organizing Living || Tagged with: travel
Check out these great organizing blogs
When I was at the NAPO conference in Reno earlier this month, I was invited to a meeting of professional organizers who blog about organizing. What a great group of people and a fantastic opportunty to put faces with names (and blogs), as well as learn about some blogs I was less familiar with.
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Update on my email taming
Just a few days ago, I wrote a blog post about taming my email box. I vowed to use the trusted-three method, which I read about on Lifehacker, to empty my email inbox. I said I’d try it out and report back.
Filed under: Organizing Resources || Tagged with: decluttering · email
We had an earthquake!
St. Louis isn’t exactly known for its earthquakes, though we’re near a major fault and back in the early 90s there was an unfulfilled earthquake prediction that got everyone thinking about disaster preparedness.
This morning about 4:30 a.m., my husband and I were awakened by the sound of the windows in our 100-year-old home rattling. It was bizarre. We speculated on the cause. I thought a high gust of wind. He suggested it was an earthquake, which I dismissed out of hand.
Filed under: Living || Tagged with: disaster preparedness · earthquake · judith kolberg
Taming the email inbox
I have to admit that I’m a bit of an email packrat. It seems fairly harmless to me, as long as my hard drive is large enough, and somehow having the history of many of my email interactions gives me comfort.
Filed under: Organizing Resources || Tagged with: decluttering · email
Super-cool designer notebooks
Raise your hand if you’re an office-supply junkie. You can’t see me, but I’ve waving my hand in the air. I love office supplies. I can (and do) spend hours in Office Depot and Office Max. I especially love beautiful journals and spiral-bound notebooks. I love the feel of quality paper against my pen. I love the look of gorgeous colors and lines that are just the right distance apart.
Filed under: Organizing Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: journal writing · notebooks · organizing products
How do you spell procrastination?
In my life right now, the answer to that question is T-A-X-E-S. I have to hang my head in shame and admit that my taxes aren’t done. But I’m quite sure they will be by the end of the day.
Filed under: Living Organizing || Tagged with: geralin thomas · procrastination · taxes
Back to reality
After a glorious time at the NAPO conference in Reno (best part: interacting with fabulous organizers, worst part: staying in a hotel and casino full of smoke!), I’m home. I arrived home about midnight on Saturday night.
Filed under: Organizing Living || Tagged with: napo · productivity · time management
Organizing nirvana
Checking in for a quick moment to say how wonderfully fortunate I feel to be at the national NAPO conference here in Reno. I just heard the most wonderful keynote address from Peter Walsh, who totally rocks.
Filed under: Organizing Sharing || Tagged with: education · empowerment · friendship · geralin thomas · napo · peter walsh
I'm off to learn something
I leave today for Reno, Nevada, to attend the national conference of my professional organization, the National Association of Professional Organizers. This is my third national NAPO conference in as many years and I’m very excited.
Filed under: Organizing Sharing || Tagged with: napo · oprah · peter walsh · travel
A couple of shopping tips
A week ago, our 14-year-old Panasonic 32” TV bit the dust. It had been threatening to die for a few months, so the sadness of its death was tempered with the excitement over the prospect of buying a modern TV. I was anxious to get one that didn’t weigh 150 pounds and take up so much space.
Filed under: Living Sharing || Tagged with: belt-tightening · shopping · television
Shredder lust
Inspired by this thread on Unclutterer, particularly the great comments, I lingered in the shredder section of Office Depot yesterday. I found one I liked (but don’t need) but it’s not available online, so I can’t show it to you.
But check out this nice-looking Black and Decker shredder-, which was recommended by a commenter in the Unclutterer entry (and called “sexy” by other commenters).
Filed under: Organizing Sharing || Tagged with: shredders
Meet Joe, the biggest challenge to my morning productivity
Each morning when I’m writing my blog post one of the biggest impediments to my actually accomplishing that task is Joe, my orange tabby cat.
Filed under: Living Sharing || Tagged with: cats · joe · productivity
The morning rush
I’m a punctuality-challenged person. That’s not a great trait for a professional organizer. My clients have a reasonable expectation that I’ll arrive on time. And besides, it’s just good business to be respectful of your clients’ time.
Filed under: Organizing Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: control · joe's goals · mark forster · punctuality · routines · silvercreek glider club · time management
Perils of a new alarm clock
I got a new alarm clock recently, and I really like it. It allows me to wake up to a CD (right now, Lyle Lovett) and its snooze interval is six minutes rather than ten.
Filed under: Living Sharing || Tagged with: control · oversleeping · priorities
