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It’s Time to Create

I work with a lot of creative types. Entrepreneurs and artists alike struggle with the fine line between inspiration and clutter. Bright shiny objects can be the spark for a fabulous new product or design or the stuff that’s in the way of actual production and creation. That is actually a topic for another time….

Maintaining Financial Boundaries

A big part of getting organized is simply to define things. By defining a space you create a physical boundary for certain things to live. By defining a system you create the boundaries to get something done. By defining your goals you create the boundaries for acquiring resources and fulfilling your potential. In other words,…

Holiday Expectations

Around the holidays, the clutter piles up. All kinds of clutter, the stuff, the time sucks, the expectations, the projects, the food, the people, the ideas, it’s enough to cause feelings of frazzle. Where will you put it after the celebrating? It has taken me years, but I have finally hit upon the holiday rituals…

Is Your Clutter a Communication Issue?

If it feels like your family is not on your side when trying to create an organized home, you may want to look at your own behavior in the situation. Have you asked your family for help? Have you expressed to them why getting organized is important to you? Have you explained why you moved…

Incorporate Your Holidays

Has your home office become a dumping ground for all items that need to be cleared from the dining table, kitchen counter and entry hall floor? Especially during the holiday season it is easy to fall into the “I’ll just set it here for later” and “hide the gift” syndrome. After the celebrating you are…

What’s Purpose Got to Do With It?

Ever feel like you used to be organized? Maybe even just last month, but now the piles have reappeared and the place is a mess and now you need to do it again? Why bother? Because, as my coach is fond of pointing out, your environment shows you daily what you can achieve. I believe…

I was on the radio

A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Teri Q Sayre for the 1050 Show. We had a great conversation about why simplifying your life is so much better than just organizing it. Anyway, I thought you might like to hear it too. Click the arrow to go to the 1050 Show page. Access the…

Stuff Creeps In

Sometimes it is obvious, the papers on the kitchen counter or the clothes draped over the treadmill. Other times the clutter is well hidden, the batteries stored in several places or the unwatched videos in the craft room cabinet. Things pile up and stuff creeps in. It is easy to ignore it or dismiss it…

Unmade Decisions

Clutter is unmade decisions. Projects are left to linger because you made a choice to do something else. Papers pile up because you think you need them but, you aren’t sure, so you say “I’ll decide later” and set them aside. Pretty soon all the decisions you didn’t make have spread around the house and…

Feng Shui & Clutter

I’ve spent years helping my clients dig out from under their piles. Almost all of them express an interest in Feng Shui. Some have the idea that the practice will magically remove the clutter from their lives. Many have placed mirrors, crystals and the color red in strategic places and wonder why the clutter is…