Follow up Friday
I wanted to update you on a few recent blog posts:
- There’s still time to enter to win The Other Side of Organized: Finding Balance Between Chaos and Perfection, the fabulous new book by my friend Linda Samuels, CPO-CD®. You can read the review on Wednesday’s blog post. To enter, either comment on that post or this one, and/or tweet about it on Twitter (being sure to put @janinea in the tweet so I’ll see it).
Filed under: Organizing Sharing || Tagged with: aby garvey, container store, declutter happy hour, elfa, linda samuels, napo la, napo st. louis, shannon wilkinson, shred and protect
Has your shredding piled up?
Shredding is so important. I’m often shocked when I meet new clients to learn that they don’t own a shredder. They think tearing up sensitive documents is sufficient. Then I’ll share with them a little experiment done on one of the morning shows that a client told me about. They took a credit card offer and tore it up. Then they taped it back together, photocopied it, filled it out and got the credit card. To me, that’s proof enough that shredding is essential. Identity theft is too devastating to mess with.
Filed under: Organizing Resources || Tagged with: identity theft, napo st. louis, paper management, shannon zipoy, shred and protect, shredders
Highlight reel for 2009
2009 was a year of ups and downs for me. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. As I finish inputting data into Quickbooks for the year, I realize that my revenue is down, which isn’t great. I’m chalking it up to the economy. But so many really great things happened in 2009 that I view it as a year of success and progress.
Filed under: Ranting-and-Raving Sharing || Tagged with: aapo, accountability, declutter happy hour, napo, napo st. louis, nsgcd, speaking
It's like the Oscars for organizers
The Los Angeles chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers has established the Los Angeles Organizing Awards—our industry’s equivalent of the Oscars. If I’m not mistaken this year is fifth year for the awards, a gala event held in January. They seem to gain in prestige every year.
Filed under: Organizing Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: aby garvey, denslow brown, napo la, napo st. louis
Standards of clutter
Since I specialize in working with chronically disorganized people, I’ve seen a lot of clutter. I’ve worked in homes so full of stuff they were inhabitable (literally).
But I’ve also been hired to do consultations for people for whom there was no visible clutter, at least at first glance. Yet those folks made the effort to schedule an appointment and paid me to advise them on how to deal with stuff that was bothering them. To my eye, it was small, easily addressable stuff. But to them it was a problem. (I always have to remind myself never to trivialize someone’s problem.)
Filed under: Organizing Living || Tagged with: chronic disorganization, clutter, disorder, napo st. louis, order, perfectionism, unclutterer
R&R - practicing what I preach
I encourage my clients (and Declutter Happy Hour participants) to be sure and take breaks and build in rewards when they’re working hard (on clutter or anything else).
Filed under: Living Ranting-and-Raving || Tagged with: holidays, knitting, napo st. louis, relaxation, rewards
The glass is half full
It’s the last day of the year and I’ve been taking the opportunity to reflect on 2008. On the surface, it wasn’t necessarily a great year for business. As the economy tanked, so did my billable hours. After a terrific first two quarters, the last two quarters were…let’s just say less good.
Filed under: Organizing Living || Tagged with: business, economy, napo st. louis, optimism, peace of mind
Peace of Mind Organizing on the newsstand
…if you’re in St. Louis, that is. I was interviewed for an article on organizing for St. Louis Woman magazine. I think it’s a good article. (I hope I don’t come across as a Scrooge.) Also interviewed for the article was my fellow NAPO St. Louis member, Jodi Granok, who gives some terrific advice.
Filed under: Organizing Sharing || Tagged with: napo st. louis, press, st. louis woman
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
My first newsletter is out
I decided to offer a quarterly newsletter with a little article, a tip, and an offer. Maybe a little news.
Filed under: Sharing Resources || Tagged with: gift giving, napo st. louis, newsletter
