Happy blogiversary to me!
Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of my blog. I can’t believe that I’ve been writing this blog for five years. In that time I’ve created 612 posts. (This is the 613th.) That’s quite a few words!
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Some great writing on clutter
Janet Barclay who is a professional-organizer-turned-virtual-assistant has an Professional Organizers Blog Carnival every month. She sets a theme and invites organizers who blog to submit blog posts on the theme.
Tagged with: blog carnival, blogs, clutter, janet barclay, poc
Unclutterer guest post on routines
I make no secret of the fact that I love Unclutterer.com. It’s a smart, informative blog on living simply and I read it regularly. The editor, Erin Doland, does an amazing job with keeping the daily content fresh.
Tagged with: blogs, guest post, routines, unclutterer
One busy mom's cleaning routine
Meagan Francis, a writer I’m acquainted with through the online community Freelance Success, is a mother of five. In her blog, The Happiest Mom she provides insights from her journey to happiness in motherhood.
Creative disposal
A lot of my clients are perfectionists, and one of the things that keeps them from parting with an item is that they want to identify the perfect person or charity to receive it. They don’t want to clutter the landfill, so they let items clutter their homes instead.
Tagged with: blogs, decluttering, disposal, perfectionism, recycling, repurposing, think outside the bin, trophies
Stressed out by meals? SimpliFried can help
I love the blog Unclutterer. It is full of sound advice about getting rid of clutter and living simply, written by and for intelligent people.
Tagged with: blogs, decluttering, meal planning, simplifried, unclutterer
Help for that scary pile on your desk
I go on and on here about the value of clearing off your desktop at the end of the work day. I’ve been doing it daily for three years and it’s really enhanced my productivity. It’s now such a habit that I’d kind of forgotten about the scary, teetering pile of paper that can pollute your desktop. (Though I do sometimes let the paper in my inbox — which is not on my desk — pile up.)
Tagged with: blogs, clean desk, freelance success, jennifer hull, paper piles
Happy birthday, blog!
Today is the 4th anniversary of this blog. My first entry, on November 10, 2006, titled What is organized? was about everyone having personal standards for what they consider organized.
Top 50 organizing blogs
I woke up this morning to a nice email telling me that this blog was selected for inclusion in Onlinedegrees.net’s list of the 50 Best Blogs to Organize Everything In Your Life.
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A side benefit to being a blogger
I just got finished reading through my blog posts for 2009, in an effort to put together a post about my favorite blog posts of the year. (That’ll come later in the week.)
Tagged with: blogging, blogs, cats, encouragement, goals, twitter
Guest blog on Parent Talk Today
Kathy Sena, a fabulous freelance journalist who writes the Parent Talk Today blog is reprinting my “Mindful Gift Giving” post from earlier this week. I’m honored!
Tagged with: blogs, gifts, kathy sena
A few technical changes to the blog (and an RSS favor)
I wanted to draw your attention to the new “Tools” section of the right-hand sidebar to the blog. You’ll see an RSS Feed button and Follow Me button and a search box. We’ve reconfigured the RSS Feed for the blog with some new options, like the full blog post appearing in the feed, rather than just an excerpt that requires you to go the site to finish reading the post. Data reporting to me has been improved as well. If you’ve already subscribed, I’d appreciate your unsubscribing from your current feed and resubscribing with the new link. If you haven’t subscribed, please do!
Tagged with: blogs, social networking
Disorder 2 Order: Blog of the Week
I’m returning to my blog of the week format, after a couple of Wednesdays away from it, with Disorder2Order, the blog of Megan Spears, an organizer in the Portland, Oregon, area.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, megan spears
My guest post on Serenity for the Self-Employed
Two weeks ago, I made Serenity for the Self-Employed my Blog of the Week since the blog owner, Heather Boerner, was starting a 30-day organizing challenge. Heather then invited me to do a blog post on the mistakes people make when they’re trying to get organized.
Tagged with: blogs, guest post, mistakes, serenity for the self-employed
Your Life. Organized: Blog of the Week
This week I’m featuring Your Life. Organized, the blog of Monica Ricci, a professional organizer in Atlanta. Monica’s an organizer with a national presence. You night know her from her appearances on the HGTV show Mission Organization. She’s Organizing Advisor to Office Depot and also works with Beazer Homes. She’s the author of Organizer Your Office in No Time.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, la organizing awards, mission organization, monica ricci
Serenity for the Self-Employed: Blog of the Week
Serenity for the Self-Employed is a blog written by freelance journalist Heather Boerner, with whom I’m acquainted through the online writing community I belong to, Freelance Success. Her blog, which aims to help self-employed people maintain their serenity (and sanity), just yesterday started a 30-day organizing challenge so this week seemed like a good week to highlight it on my blog.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, serenity for the self-employed
Get Everything Done: Blog of the Week
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that I’m a fan of Mark Forster. He’s a time management and personal organization guru who wrote the time-management book I most adhere to, Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management (link at right).
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, mark forster, time management
The Home Office Organizer: Blog of the Week
On Wednesdays, I highlight a blog of the week, which is usually about organizing (though sometimes I stray). This week’s blog of the week is definitely about organizing. It’s organizer Brandie Kajino’s blog, The Home Office Organizer.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, brandie kajino, krista colvin, o myth
Organize in Style: Blog of the Week
This week’s blog of the week belongs to Krista Colvin, an organizer in the Portland, Oregon, area, whose blog helps those of us who like to add a little style to our organizing efforts. Organize in Style presents cool products and cool ideas with a great injection of fun.
Tagged with: aby garvey, blog of the week, blogs, brandie kajino, krista colvin, o myth, organize in style, the shebang
IKEA hacker: Blog of the Week
I’ve blogged before about products from the Swedish furniture manufacturer and retailer IKEA. I like the look and price of their products. I’ve found their furniture to be long-lasting (my husband works daily at a desk we bought at IKEA in northern Virginia back in 1988, and I bought current desk at the IKEA in Elizabeth, NJ in 1998). I don’t like having to put furniture together, but I that’s why I have friends (thank you, Sally!).
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, ikea, ikea hacker
Life Remix: Blog of the Week
This week’s Blog of the Week is actually a blog network. Every day Life Remix provides a brief summary of the day’s entries from each of the great blogs that make up their network.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, life remix, unclutterer
Christine Kane's Blog: Blog of the Week
This week’s Blog of the Week isn’t an organizing blog per se, but it’s full of fabulous, inspiring information that can certainly be applied to organizing (and professional organizers).
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, christine kane, encouragement
Crazy Aunt Purl: Blog of the Week
One of my favorite knitting blogs, Crazy Aunt Purl, justified its permanent status on the Links section of this organizing blog (where it’s been since Day One), with yesterday’s post.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, crazy aunt purl, decluttering, knitting, laurie perry
The Clutter Diet Blog: Blog of the Week
This week’s BOTW is Lorie Marrero’s The Clutter Diet Blog.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, clutter, clutter diet, decluttering, lori marrero
Declutter You: Blog of the Week
This week’s Blog of the Week is Declutter You, the newly revamped and re-energized blog of Washington DC-based organizer Scott Roewer.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, scott roewer
Unclutterer: Blog of the Week
If you’ve found your way to my blog, you probably already know about Unclutterer. Just in case, though, let me sing the praises of my Blog of the Week.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, erin doland, unclutterer
Organizing Playground: Blog of the Week
This week’s blog of the week is actually a podcast (though it does have a blog associated with it). Organizing Playground is a weekly radio show out of Atlanta hosted by professional organizers Allison Carter and Sara Fisher.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, organizing playground
Jeri's Organizing and Decluttering News: BOTW
This week’s blog of the week is the fabulous product-driven website by Bay Area PO, Jeri Dansky. Jeri is absolutely amazing at ferreting out different types of products in a category.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, jeri dansky, purse
Here's quite a list of blogs
If you’re a blogophile and love reading about productivity and organizing, have I got a list for you. It’s The Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs from College Degree.com which offers online college degrees.
Tagged with: blogs, productivity
Lifehacker: Blog of the Week
This week I have to extoll the virtues of Lifehacker. It’s a fabulous combination of high- and low-tech tips on enhancing productivity and customizing things to make them a little more to your liking.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, lifehacker, productivity
Organizing LA: Blog of the Week
As promised, on Wednesdays I’ll be presenting a Blog of the Week, to share with you my favorite organizing blogs. (Or at least I assume they’ll all be organizing blogs.)
This week’s blog is Los Angeles-based organizer John Trosko’s Organizing LA Blog.
Tagged with: blog of the week, blogs, john trosko, organizing la
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.
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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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My must-read blogs
In 2008, as part of my new dedication to getting a handle on my time, I’ve been trying to read more blogs. That may sound counterintuitive…blog reading can be a huge time suck.
Tagged with: blogs, productivity
The tyranny of the blog
I love having a blog. The freedom to write whatever I want is wonderful. (Way, way back in the day I had a column in PetLife magazine in which I could write whatever I wanted. It was exhilarating.)
But that freedom is a two-edged sword. With little structure surrounding what to write, and no deadlines, it can be very difficult to (1) take the time to post to my blog and (2) come up with something remotely meaningful to write.
Tagged with: blogs, don't break the chain, michael neill, routines, steven pressfield, time management, writing
My go-to site for organizing product ideas
I love reading other organizers’ blogs. There are some great ones out there. One of my favorites is San Francisco-area organizer’s Jeri Dansky’s blog, Jeri’s Organizing and Decluttering News.
Tagged with: blogs, jeri dansky, organizing products, spice storage
