Interesting twist on downsizing and environment!!
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Productivity Tip: Think you know how much time you are spending on tasks? Track this for a week to see - you will be amazed. Eye opening!

Organizing Tip: Make clean up fun! Dim the lights, use flashlights and hunt for toys to clean up in the evening with your kids!

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide

A Day in the Life of a Professional Organizer

There was a surge in calls from potential clients last week. Great news. So, like many of my clients putting off projects I have avoided my daughters room clean up. We talked about doing it together but she's giving me the go ahead to do it while she's gone. She will still have creative approval and input for colors and designs but I'm sorting and purging. It's critical that when we get to the point of choosing organizing products for her room that she be lead on that project. She has to invest in the solution in order to remain invested in the upkeep. I will guide her, of course, however I need to be able to work with her on "her" design if things start to go back. She is just a toss it on the floor kind of kid, not sure where that comes from. So acceptance is the first step in working on her room and giving her the best possible tools...if I can organize family, especially children, I can do ANYTHING!

Productivity Tip: We allow email to manage our day, you must manage email. Check twice a day, close it in between to avoid distraction.

Hilarious Jim Pelley speaking about Attracting Clients with Humor today @ 3pm PST www.educatingsmallbusiness.com/advanced-course.html

"There's no bad ideas when you're brainstormin' " Disney's Imagination Movers opening song!

All we have is this moment. Choose to make it positive, productive and real.

Organizing Tip: Home Office organization from SMEAD. http://ping.fm/DFIb4

Productivity Tip: Take 5 min before bed to get everything you need by the door. Don't start with stress by rushing around to find things!

Organizing tip: Decide on sentimental items without touching them...touch feeds emotion. Ask for help to clear this "emotional" clutter.

Productivity Tip: Document your client engagement process so everyone gets a consistent experience-don't reinvent or guess each time.

A Day in the Life of a Professional Organizer

We are starting a home project of redoing/reorganizing the kids rooms...both are changing stages; Bailey from princesses to 8 going on 16 and William from toddler to Spiderman/Monster Truck/Lego guy. I'll chronicle this project from the organizers standpoint. Our first step over this past weekend was to purge William's room of trash and donation items. I have what remains stacked in the closet until it's time to paint. We picked colors for William. Next step in there is to measure for baseboards and make a list of accessories; new doorknob, switches and outlets all updated to match....more on the cool IKEA accessories we're adding once we get the final list together.

A Day in the Life of a Professional Organizer

Can you say Best Mother's Day EVER! I woke up to arguing between my 5 and 8 year old in the kitchen then the smoke alarm going off. After fanning the smoke from the detector I got back in bed to receive my breakfast in bed. Of course both kids climb in after setting the tray on my lap, a rose in a vase, a melted blue otter pop to drink, waffles that I am sure have been in the freezer for a while and a sunnyside up/black on the bottom egg. Better than a Denny's Grand Slam. The three of us ate the waffle and passed on the egg. The best part was hearing that William licked the ice off the waffle before putting it in the toaster and brushed it off when he dropped it on the floor taking it out of the toaster! And Bailey not wanting to "waste" a knife so she put the butter on with her hands! Yummy. We spend a few hours at the park playing in the sand and napping under the huge oak trees at our park...There is NO better life than mine...I am truly blessed. Thank you Bailey and William for being such amazing kids.

Transitioning to new AWESOME website!!! More info coming soon.

Working on Educating Small Business with my Rock Star business partner Christine Giri!

Did you know there are Professional Organizers in New Zealand, Australia, Netherlands, Japan, Columbia, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Canada....?

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It is impossible to feel good about your choices unless you are clear about what your work really is...David Allen

Organizing Principle: Sort first so you know what you have...you can better organize if you know the full scoop!

Nearly flawless corporate relo...how cool is that? Now my very favorite part...organizing and creating an efficient workspace!

A Day in the Life of a Professional Organizer...

I'm back from conference and comotose (did I spell that right?...I have been up since 3am east coast time.) Uugh..ok so I didn't really think through the 5:30 am flight departure from Orlando, I just wanted to get back to be with the family. So of course the kids are playing down the street and I'm blogging...what happened here?

Exciting news! I have taken the position as the International Ambassador for the National Association of Professional Organizers. I spent Friday evening with organizers from the Netherlands, Columbia, New Zealand, Australia, Puerto Rico, Bermuda and Canada. I met the Tokyo ladies on Saturday. I am very much looking forward to serving at the national level. As outgoing President of the Sacramento chapter I'm looking forward to continuing my efforts with the association.

So I'm giving myself the gift of work life balance today and leaving my house a little thrashed from travel and kids landing in order to get to bed early and start the week off fresh.

More about the cool conference stuff later!!

Kelli