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Home Organization for the Hopelessly Disorganized Series: Part One

Admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:49:36 +0000

Home organization need not be a drag. If you have told yourself over and over again that you are disorganized, this series of posts are for you. This series consists of laying the foundation to get organized, the action items or otherwise known as the how to’s of organization, and lastly how to maintain an [...]

Organizing Email Files: Free up an Hour a Day

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:55:49 +0000

It’s been said most people waste about a hour of their time daily searching for files in their inbox and computers. Organizing files in your email inbox can give up to additional hour in your day. What could you do with an extra hour a day? This post will share three tips for organizing files [...]

The Action Plan for Organizing Your Life

Admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:06:38 +0000

How do you begin organizing your life? If you don’t where to start then the goal, could be overwhelming. If you just pick an area and start attacking then it could be draining as well. This post will show you how to begin organizing your life in a simple achievable way. First you want to [...]

Organizing Documents for Tax Season

Admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:42:26 +0000

Many people put off having their tax returns prepared until the April 15 deadline is right around the corner. The cause (well at least one of them) is that they don’t have system for organizing documents. One way to eliminate the stress of tax season is to set up a system to keep your financial [...]

Successful Household Organization: Managing Your Most Important Business

Admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:18:18 +0000

You may be running your home very differently than how you manage your work. The majority of working families do. When it comes to your job, there are new people coming in out of your workplace on a regular basis. The employees whom perform well, you’d like them to stick around. The same applies to [...]

Letting Go of Guilt Clutter: Is Your Home a Museum?

Admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:07 +0000

Warning: This is a touchy subject if you have recently experienced the loss of a loved one; please come back to this post after the healing process is complete. Has your home become a museum? Your home is filled with memorabilia and relics of loved ones whom have passed on. This is the toughest are [...]

Declutter Fast eBook Review

Admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:36:12 +0000

How does it feel when you take your first step in your home? Are you welcomed by clean clutter free atmosphere? Or are you overwhelmed with clutter? You might feel embarrassed to have people over to your house. You may even experience trouble finding things when you need them most. If this is the case [...]

Clear Clutter with the Cycle of Completion

Admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:31:24 +0000

Clutter exists in many forms: physical, emotional, and mental. No matter what shape clutter takes it’s a drain on our livelihood. Today I would like to share with you one important method to clear clutter from your mind. This is through the understanding the cycle of completion. The cycle of completion is a method to [...]

How to Create a Clutter Free Home

Admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:36:58 +0000

When you have a clutter free home, you accomplish more and your overall state is a positive one. The atmosphere allows you to breath easily, you can move at a slower pace. So how do you create a clutter free home? Today we’ll discuss three questions to ask yourself to create an environment to support, [...]

Household Organization: Creating a Storage Plan

Admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:22:08 +0000

How tough is it for you to find the out of season clothing, decorations when you are preparing to enter the new season? It’s a battle for most people. One way to ultimately master household organization is to create a storage plan for the seasonal items. If you like to prepare in advance for Christmas [...]

Conquer Clutter with 3 Questions

Admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:54:33 +0000

Has clutter taken over your home and your life? Does every attempt to declutter gets defeated because it keeps showing up out of the blue? How did all this stuff get here in the first place? Well the obvious answer to that question is someone had to bring it in. Cluttering is a bad habit, [...]

Organize and Declutter Your Home: Breaking it Down in Baby Steps

Admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:23:37 +0000

Want to get organized? Are you feeling overwhelmed when you take a look around your house only to see the massive accumulation of clutter? Here are the quick an dirty baby steps to organize and declutter your space in one shot without the anxiety. Phase One Organize and Declutter Your Home: Schedule and Assign First [...]

Living with Clutters: A Survival Guide

Admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:08:10 +0000

You established a new habit of organization. Are your efforts being defeated by living with clutterers? Each time you get your home clean and organized, they come in to blow all to pieces. It’s frustrating isn’t it? You may have had many arguments about establishing and maintaining organization. It become a real challenge when you [...]

Letting Go of Clutter: How to Shift the Fear of Lack Mentality

Admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:37:19 +0000

If you had parents, or grandparents that lived during Great Depression, you may have learned a hoarding behavior. The most challenging obstacle for people with this mindset is letting go of clutter. Past generations had to pinch every penny, utilize every resource that they had. Past traditions have taught us to hang onto spare items [...]

Paper Clutter- Are You Drowning in it?

Admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:07:28 +0000

For many of us paper is an essential part of our lives. Mail, bills, vital documents, literature, memos contribute to paper clutter, if isn’t managed properly. It becomes a tedious task sifting through the seas of paper, to find that one piece of paper to pay our taxes (as an example.) Here are five tips [...]

Clean Clutter: Eliminate the Overwhelm

Admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:29:55 +0000

Do you get overwhelmed when you clean clutter? The mess is so big, you don’t know if you’ll ever get it all cleaned up. If this is the case, I have a solution that will reduce overwhelm, along with this it serves as a maintenance plan. The solution is clean as you go. I’ll tell [...]

Home Office Organization: How to Accelerate your Personal Productivity

Admin — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:58:30 +0000

A clean uncluttered office increases the effectiveness and efficiency for the work produced. Home office organization is key, whether you run a business, work from home, or even manage your home’s operations. Tasks that eat up time are sorting through jumbled mess of papers, to find that one document that you need. If you want [...]

Organize your Office

Admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:08:06 +0000

When you enter your office, it’s mission impossible to locate what you are looking for. Piles of papers have conquered your desk. You want to organize your office, the task seems like a daunting one. Once you experienced enough frustration with the inability to get any thing done and refused to feel scattered brained any [...]

What You Can Do to Get Organized Now

Admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:33:11 +0000

Is your life run by chaos and disorder? Do you wish to get organized now, better yet yesterday? Organization is a crucial skill of some of the most successful people. Have ever wondered why that is? Organization consists of categorizing areas so two or more areas don’t get confused with one another. This skill also [...]

Clutterers: What’s Your Clutter Personality Type?

Admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:13:09 +0000

Before tackling the clutter build up in your home, it might be a wise idea to assess the situation. How did your home get so cluttered in the first place? Remember awareness is the first step towards change? Wouldn’t you like to tackle this demon once and for all? In Cut the Clutter and Stow [...]

Declutter Your Life: Transformation Phase One

Admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:37:50 +0000

The first phase to declutter your life is identifying the problem then, deciding where you want to go. There are common misconceptions about the decluttering process. Many believe that it is simply the act of throwing stuff out. Clearing the clutter out of your home works to get the job done in the short term…although [...]

Organizing Computer Files for Quicker Access

Admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:12:32 +0000

How long does it take for you to find a file on your computer? Organizing files on your computer will allow you to locate files easily. This also frees up time and prevents frustration when you have minimal time on your hands. Imagine being able to find family photos, homework assignments and business documents in [...]

Cleaning up Clutter… It’s All Just Fun and Play

Admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:27:31 +0000

Parents with little ones in the home; you are well aware of the chaos that is created by the clutter they leave behind, with little cooperation for cleaning. You may think that this is just part of being a kid. In all reality, this is the most important time to begin establishing good habits. The [...]

Clutterers: When You Need Support

Admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:12:25 +0000

A support network is great resource to have when creating a positive change in your life. Did you know that there is a support networks for clutterers? Clutterers Anonymous is a support network for people suffering from severe problems with clutter. Today’s post is about CLA, what it is about, who it’s for, and how [...]

5 Steps for Clearing the Clutter

Admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:13:42 +0000

Clearing the clutter from your home seems like an overwhelming and daunting task. You take one look around your home, and you give up before you get started. The job is just too big…There is no way that you’ll ever get it all done. (Can you relate to this feeling?) Here are 5 simple steps [...]