Motivation in your Home Office on a Rainy Day

What do you do when the spring rain puts a damper on your motivation?

Staying focused can sometimes be challenging when you are a solopreneur. Working alone in a home office can be lonely at the best of times however when you add some gloomy weather it can be paralyzing.

Time to pull out your [...]

Getting things Done: Eating the Elephant one bite at a time

March break is less than a week away and as I sit here making my huge, really big, gynormous…OMG will I ever get it all finished in 4 days list, I wonder how people who are not organizationally gifted get it all done!

The tasks of this week in front of me are not even [...]

Office Organizing Tip Batching Quick Tasks

I love it when multiple organizing tips come together.

Here is an enhancement to the 5 Minute File that I mentioned last month…I hope you are all using this one and a recent post on Batching Tasks.

This video gives you a visual on both concepts…..Enjoy!

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The Great Organizing Giveaway

As we near the end of January it is time to dust off those Resolutions…now don’t tell me they aren’t dusty…resolutions typically lose their steam long before now…yes I am a realist…that is why I don’t make them…well not in January but that is for another post.

Was getting organized one of your Resolutions?

If [...]

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 [...]

The 5 Minute File..AKA…the Crappy Paperwork that never gets done

I challenge you right now to take 15 minutes to gather up all the bits of paper currently cluttering your desk, floor, chair…etc, and put it aside…together…in a folder…to work on at a time that is more convenient. By convenient I mean when you can take some uninterrupted time to Git-R-Done!

This gathering of the [...]

For 30 seconds today I missed “The Office”

What does your office look and feel like? Why not spend some time making your office an extension of who you really are, enjoying the benefits of working the way that works best for you [...]

Elaine Shannon Silver Leaf Member Professional Organizer

Silver Leaf Member of Professional Organizers in Canada…

Since 2004 I have been involved in the Organizing industry in a volunteer capacity at our local chapter and as a previous Board member of Professional Organizers In Canada as a Past Director of Development. As a member since 2004 I have proudly earned the status of [...]