Focus
If you’ve ever worked with a professional organizer, you know that one of the things we bring to the table is focus. When you make the financial and time commitment to have a professional help you get organized, you tend to stay focused on the job during your session. And if your attention strays, the organizer draws it back to the project at hand.
Filed under: Organizing Living || Tagged with: accountability · decluttering · disorder · storage
Some stylin' new office products
The office superstore Staples has developed a new line of office supplies for people who appreciate “creativity and style in the workplace.” They commissioned a survey that revealed that more than half of workers reported that having stylish office supplies gets them noticed in the workplac
Filed under: Sharing Organizing || Tagged with: notebooks · office supplies · staples · style · workspace
Creative Organizing: My first Blog of the Week
So let’s get started. My very first Blog of the Week is (drumrolll, please)....Creative Organizing the wonderfully creative and personal blog from my friend, Aby Garvey the high priestess of organizing scrapbookers.
Filed under: Organizing Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: aby garvey · blog of the week · freelance success · scrapbooking
Professional Organizing featured in WSJ
It’s not a large article, but to me it’s significant. The Career Journal section of today’s Wall Street Journal features “Professional Organizer” as the career it examines in its Pay Grade column.
Filed under: Organizing Sharing || Tagged with: napo · press · wall street journal
Have a happy holiday weekend!
Whether you’re staying at home or traveling on this very busy weekend for travel, I hope you have fun and stay safe.
Filed under: Living Resources || Tagged with: gas prices · travel
Something to make you smile
If you’re a dog lover, click on this link to see a video of a dog enjoying a water slid
Filed under: Sharing Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: chuckles
Traveling light can save money
American Airlines has announced it will start charging $15 for the first bag a passenger checks. I remember being shocked when airlines starting charging for bag number two. Now you can’t check any bags free of charge (on American, at least). Passengers will start bringing even more carry-on luggage on board. That’s going to make flying an even bigger hassle. Sigh.
Filed under: Organizing Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: packing · travel
How are those New Year's resolutions coming?
Back at the beginning of 2008, I blogged about my constant craving for order as reflected in my January 1 journal entries year after year
Filed under: Organizing Living || Tagged with: clean desk · don't break the chain · goals · habits · new year · productivity
Off to Baltimore!
I’m catching a 6:25 a.m. flight to Baltimore this morning to attend the HH Backer 20th Annual Pet Industry Spring Trade Show and Educational Conference . It’s funny: for ten years I was a pet writer and always wanted to attend this show. But I never found a magazine to send me and didn’t have an excuse to go.
Filed under: Living Sharing || Tagged with: pets · roll over rover · sally brown · travel
Are you a knitter? You don't have to knit alone!
As I’ve chronicled here, I’m a knitter. I knit pretty much every day, usually in the evenings, usually while watching TV. It’s a solitary pursuit, though my animals and my husband often keep me company.
Once a week, however (when I’m in town), I actually leave the house to knit.
Filed under: Knitting Sharing || Tagged with: knitting · ravelry · westin knitting group
I'm a member of the Peter Walsh fan club
Peter Walsh, organizer on TLC’s show Clean Sweep, as well as Oprah’s go-to guy for hoarders, gave the keynote address at this year’s annual conference of the National Association of Professional Organizers.
Filed under: Ranting-and-Raving Organizing || Tagged with: clutter · napo · oprah · organizing playground · peter walsh
And now for something a little different...
I frequently link to great organizing blogs, since this is a blog about organizing. But today I have a more eclectic offering.
Filed under: Sharing Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: blogs
Don't forget -- postage rates go up today
It’s come: The day for which I’ve been stockpiling Forever stamps. First-class postage goes up to 42 cents today. The rate for an additional ounce stays the same at 17 cents, so a two-ounce letter will cost 59 cents to mail. In addition, the rate for a postcard goes up by a penny, to 27 cent
Filed under: Living Organizing || Tagged with: belt-tightening · postage · productivity
Great publicity for the organizing profession!
Last night on the St. Louis NBC affiliate’s news broadcast there was a “cover story” called Decluttering Your Surroundings Could Help You Live a Better Life.
Filed under: Organizing Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: decluttering · napo st. louis · peter walsh · press
The Time Timer
Are you familiar with the Time Timer? It’s a tool, often recommended for people with ADD, that gives a visual representation of the passage of time.
Filed under: Organizing Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: geralin thomas · productivity · time management · time timer · tools
How do you eat an elephant?
I’m going through one of those periods again where I completely empathize with my clients. I had a very busy March and April (I was out of town half the month of April) and now that I have a little time to breathe, I look around my house and think, “I need a professional organizer!” There are no shortage of wonderful organizers here in St. Louis I could hire for help, but I’m going to try to economize and do the work myself.
Filed under: Organizing Living || Tagged with: 15 minutes · accountability · backsliding · decluttering · productivity · time management
Have you tried a coach?
I was never one for organized athletics as a young person. I was on the sixth-grade girls’ basketball team at Green Park Elementary, but that was the only time I ever was under the tutelage of an athletic coach. (I know, very impressive.)
Filed under: Living Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: balance · coaching · shannon wilkinson
Life is what you make it
On my way to a client’s house this morning, listening to NPR, I heard a story that made the hairs stand up on my neck. It was a story on Morning Edition about Larry Woodard, a Dallas, Texas, man who was falsely convicted of raping and murdering his girlfriend. He languished in prison for 27 years, all the while writing letters asserting his innocence and requesting re-investigation of the case.
Filed under: Sharing Living || Tagged with: attitude · balance · empowerment · motivation
Packing for the plane
I’m flying home from Hawaii late this afternoon. It’s an overnight flight and I arrive in St. Louis at 8 in the morning. That’s an eleven hour journey, not counting the time I spend waiting for my flight at the Honolulu airport.
Filed under: Organizing Living || Tagged with: knitting · mark forster · packing · travel
