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Are You Eating Your Clutter or Is Your Clutter Eating You?

Title: Are You Eating Your Clutter or Is Your Clutter Eating You? The Connection Between Emotional Eating and Accumulation. Date: Wednesday October 21, 2009 Start Time: 6:30pm End Time: 8:00pm David Horine of Transformational Life Coaching and Miriam Ortiz y Pino CPO® of More than Organized Present a Workshop about the eating â�� clutter connection. What provocations, emotions…

Streamline Your Errands

Streamline Your Errands Running errands is often the most stressful part of the week. Naturally, you should ask yourself whether you need to do the errand at all. Do you already have something else that will suffice? Can you order online and save yourself the gasoline and hassle? Simplify your errand running by making decisions…

It's Here Somewhere, & It's Interesting – a Paper System Workshop

Title: It’s Here Somewhere, And It’s Interesting Date: October 27, 2009 Start Time: 6:00pm End Time: 8:00pm Description: Piles sliding off the desk and pages getting lost? Seeking an easier way to control the stacks and access the information you need? Would you like some guidance through the many ways to sort, store, and find your paper and simplify…

Organize Your Purse

Organize Your Purse Boy Scout motto aside, what do you think might happen on the way to work that you need to load your purse with 7-10 lbs. of extra stuff? That’s enough to cause headaches neck pain, and throw your back out of alignment. Ideally, purses should weigh no more than 10% of your…

Radio Interview

Miriam is interviewed on Thrive in Balance. Previously recorded on, Wednesday, May 20, 2009. The conversation revolves around multi-purpose rooms, and how to get the most out of them. Listen to Miriam’s Interview Miriam begins at around: 02:00 More episodes from:  Thrive in Balance. Visit the Thrive in Balance website.

Simplify Your Bathroom

Simplify Your Bathroom The bathroom is one of those spots where clutter can accumulate quickly. People tend to store too many things in their very small, often weirdly shaped, cabinets. Cabinets are also notorious for medicine and cures for ailments you don’t have and ‘try me’ items that linger after you decide you don’t like…

Adjust Your Expectaions

Spring is almost here and thoughts are turning to cleaning, purging and storing winter items until next year. For some this is scary: so many tasks and not enough time. Much of this stress is due to expectations far beyond what modern life allows. We simply don’t have the time for a week of nothing…

Your Piles Could Cause You Harm

Safety – Your piles could cause you harm It may seem like no big deal to have stuff accumulating in piles in your house. But at a certain point this practice will become a hazard. Have you ever stopped to consider the health and safety implications of your piles? Beyond the obvious concerns about trips…

Energy Zappers

Energy Zappers – The little annoyances that drain us. Little things annoy us everyday: a broom falls out of the closet, we’ve run out of eggs when we’re baking, we’re unable to find the important paper we need. It’s how we choose to deal with the little roadblocks in our day can lead us down…

Is it Simple or Just Organized?

Easy – Is it Simple or Just Organized? Sure, everything is put away and labeled. But can you get to things quickly when you need them? Do you have to move something to reach what you are looking for? Even worse, do you have to drive to the storage unit to find it? Is it…