Batching Tasks a Recipe to Manage What you do with Your Time

I have been asked  this month to be a part of Janey Barclay’s Professional Organizer Blog Carnival . This carnival is a collection of Blog Posts written by professional organizers. This is a huge honor to be in such esteemed company and for you this is an awesome collection of resources to help you get [...]

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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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Perfection Paralysis and Procrastination

If you ask anyone that knows me really well… TODAY they will say that I am a Ready, Fire, Aim kinda gal….Well it has not always been that way. They will probably say that I have no fear and really do Take Charge! in my life….

It was not always so…and how does someone go [...]

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Your Top 5 The Most Awesome KICKASS Business Tip Ever!

Over 5 years ago I learned one of the most valuable KICKASS Business Tips ever… No really I am not kidding.

I learned it from Cameron Herold who read it somewhere….and used the concept for himself with some…OK lots of success…check out his bio…and, at that very small conference that he happened to be [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Success and 9 words that struck me like an ICEBERG

Today while catching up on several blogs and cleaning out my in-box I was struck by a very simple message from a hard working guy,Gary Vaynerchuk , a guy who says what he means and means what he says…and these 9 words he said hit me like an ICEBERG…”HARD WORK is never not part of [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Are you a victim of the “Time Hijackers”?

Why is it that some people accomplish so much and still have free time to play and have fun while others are always struggling to get something done…anything done? Are you a victim of “Time Hijackers”? [...]

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