What is your Disorganization Costing YOU?

Yes there is an actual cost…real dollars that come from your bottom line if you are disorganized….I am not referring here to being messy…real organization means being able to find things when you need them.

The Cost of Disorganization comes right from your bottom-line!

Every minute you spend looking for something is time that you [...]

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Elaine Shannon Rants on the Recession and Overconsumption

creak….can you hear the video vault being opened?

I have been known to get up on my soapbox as you have seen in the last few weeks and I also love a good rant….

If you are Canadian then you have had the opportunity to see Rick Mercer in action…well…he is the king of rants. [...]

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Sorry, that Chicken Distracted me!

If it isn’t a chicken perhaps it is a shiny object. Or maybe its the telephone or the sound of the e-mails as they are arriving or the Crackberry that rings non stop or the mess on the desk that is calling you….oh there are so many distractions.

How do you ever expect to [...]

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Join the Organizing Revolution and take back the driver seat

Becoming a WAHM(Work at Home Mom) certainly was not what Linda thought it would be…laundry…cooking… entertaining kids all day and worst of all….looking at the disorganization 24/7. What happened to the dream of making money while the kids were at school and meeting other women over morning coffee? Was it the fact that she could [...]

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6 Steps to Organizing Nirvana

Not the Nirvana that “Smells like Teen Spirit” but the kind of Nirvana that Buddha described as ” the perfect peace of the state of mind that is free from craving, anger and other afflictive states”.  This may be a bit deep when the topic of organizing is on the table but really….perhaps it does [...]

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We are not in this ALONE, Elaine gets on her soapbox

I got this question the other day on my Youtube channel.…Yes I have my own channel…yes with videos…and yes I am in them…Enough with the sarcasm please!

Anyhow this is how it went.

…”you have a lot of great ideas…can you do a video on maybe getting your kids (and husband lol) to help around [...]

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Does it need to feel good and look good?

Organizing Philosophy…

“Organizing is not about how it looks but about how it functions and feels”

Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting my “Clutter to Clarity” workshop at a Lunch & Learn to 7  amazing women. They love what they do, they love the company they work for and they admire their leader….to be [...]

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Kitchen Countertops and a trip down Memory Lane!

Today I am walking down memory lane. It is hard to believe that this video was co-produced 5 years ago with a great group of guys from my home town. The 6 months I spent with Hit Media!;  Glenn Ingersoll, Andrew Tidby and Greg Hemmings were amazing. They have since ventured out on their own [...]

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You do what for a Living? I am a Professional Organizer!

This very cute video is courtesy of  fellow Professional Organiser Wendy Davie (spelled with an s because she is from the land down under).  Wendy has found her inner Speilberg  and created this very cute Wall-E type video about “What a “Professional Organizer” does for a living”. I could not have said it better myself.

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Detox by DeCluttering

I have also been blessed with the opportunity to see how making small incremental changes to remove clutter can suddenly open up the flow of energy or Qi as it is called in Feng Shui. It is like breathing energy into the space or situation. [...]

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