Conquering a To Do List by the Wall Street Journal
Is it really this simple? Thanks to the Wall Street Journal!
More from this article! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204296804577124742529431640.html
Category: Office Organizing
Fire Up Your Biz – Enrich Your Life
I am honored to be a part of an amazing group of presenters, sharing information and more. Get ready to stop constantly riding the brake on your business and shift into OVERDRIVE! Listen in for free from your computer, phone or skype!
- Fire up your personal performance.
- Unleash your profit potential™.
- Discover new strategies to manage the demands of running your own business.
- Get a handle on the minutia and details that prevent you from doing the ‘heavy lifting’ to move your business to the next level.
- Quiet the ‘fear voices’ and manifest a larger vision for your company.
- Have a profitable business and time for what’s important to you!
- Live a richer, more fulfilling life
- Have powerful support systems that allow you to free up time and grow your business at the same time.
- And lots more!! Check out the session descriptions below.
Fire Up Your Biz – Enrich Your Life was born from the 1000s of conversations that we have had with business owners just like you about what holds them back from really going where they want to go with their business.
Join us for the fun and learning! https://war91778.infusionsoft.com/go/FireUp/EDelap
Calendars designed by Professional Organizers
Our productivity and professional organizer community is filled with creative and resourceful people! I admire their skills in creating calendars that will work for our clients.
Ready Aim Organize Organize Your Life Calendar
Theresa Finnegan has designed a fold out easel, day at a glance calendar filled with different daily organizing tips. I love this calendar because it shares something new each day and keeps organizing a daily priority. You can purchase it at www.readyaimorganize.com
A Confident Mom 2012 Weekly Household Planner
Susan Heid created this weekly planner as a complete way to organize and clean your home throughout the year. I love this calendar because is captures all the essentials. You can purchase this planner at http://www.theconfidentmom.com/services/classes-products/household-planner-sales-page/.
Order out Of Chaos Academic Planner
Leslie Josel has created an Academic Planner for middle and high schoolers to not just record but also plan their lives. I love this calendar because it visually represents all the dimensions for kids. You can order this calendar at http://www.orderoochaos.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=114&Itemid=70
Twelve for 2012
1. Get a great calendar. Just one!
2. Find the best way to do your to do list. It can be paper, computer or on your phone.
3. Organize your purse with zippy cases for makeup, receipts, and other categories.
4. Organize your car by dumping the trash and papers each time you get gas.
5. Go through your mail every day. Just for 5 minutes and triage the papers.
6. Get ready the night before with your bags by the back door.
7. Make a date with your calendar and lists for Weekly Planning, a time to review what is coming up next week, consolidate your lists, and make a plan.
8. Go through your make up drawer and keep what you use daily easy to access.
9. Go through your email three times a day, making decisions, delegating and deleting.
10. Establish a weekly meeting at work and home to communicate the week’s plan.
11. Find partners to help you complete and work through the tough stuff, whatever that may be.
12. Prioritize your goals for 2012. We can’t do it all, all the time. Decide what is most important this year for your time and energy.
What are your 12 for 12?
Want to get organized in 2012? Clutter Diet Membership Specials until January 16, 2012
So many people want to get organized for the New Year, but if you are on a budget or don’t otherwise have access to hire a professional organizer, I wanted to share with you a resource to help and let you know about a special deal. In 2006 organizing expert Lorie Marrero created The Clutter Diet®, an innovative online program that helps you “get your house in shape.” Her program has helped thousands of members in eighteen countries around the world, making organizing expertise affordable and accessible to anyone, anywhere. As you know, I am on of the five online Experts too!
When you use the coupon code “2012win”, you will receive 25% off an Annual membership! This discount is the lowest possible price Lorie offers.
Annual memberships are usually $143.40, but with this coupon code your price is 25% off, just $107, good through Monday, January 16 at midnight CDT. In other words, it costs you only $8.92/month to have unlimited access to organizing experts for personal consultations online!
The best part of all– If you are concerned whether this program is right for you, no worries, because your first two weeks are free! You can sign up for the Annual membership with this coupon code and your card will not be charged until 2 weeks later, and you can cancel at any time. We feel great about recommending Lorie and her team, because there is no risk involved.
For comparison:
Month-to-month Clutter Diet membership: $17.95/month ($215.40/yr)
Normal price for annual membership: $11.95/month ($143.40/yr prepaid)
Usual price PER HOUR with a professional organizer in person: $75.00+ per HOUR
YOUR PRICE: $8.92/month ($107/yr prepaid)
Get organized with these member resources:
- unlimited access, 7 days a week, to a team of Certified Professional Organizers® for personal consulting in the member area, including photo consultations,
- easy multimedia tutorials,
- searchable reference articles,
- your own customized reminder system,
- and their exclusive weekly project plans…
…all for about the price of a box of trash bags or a package of coffee.
Click here
http://www.clutterdiet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=1403
Choose “ANNUAL” option, and enter the coupon code 2012win to get started with your free two weeks and lock in this very special discount price. After January 16 at midnight, annual memberships will cost $143.40.
Your first week takes you through Lorie’s 7-Day Quickstart [use your affiliate link here] program, a week of focused guidance to help you choose a project, plan it out, and get it DONE! Then you get an additional 7 days of full access and support at no charge before your special discount price is applied.
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Clutter Support Group Forming in Kingwood (February 2012)
Have you had a life long struggle with being organized? Need support from a community of people who are equally overwhelmed? Don’t know where to start? Looking for accountability and resources to help you live the life that truly want in life? Need an affordable organizing solution? It’s time to get started and declutter your life!
Join Ellen Delap CPO® in February 2012 for Professional-Organizer.com’s Clutter Support Group. This membership based group is the starting point for your journey in transforming your life, helping you define, establish and maintain an uncluttered lifestyle.
Professional-Organizer.com’s Clutter Support Group is a four week, 1 ½ hour program where members support each other every week. Members will work on individual projects, read along in the book The Other Side Of Organized, and discuss organizing solutions. Fee is $100 for the sessions, book and related materials. Register by January 25. There is a limited membership. For information and to register, call 281.360.3928 or visit www.professional-organizer.com.
Take Back Your Life… By the Sea Galveston Weekend
Take Back Your Life Now! … by the Sea!
A Weekend of Happiness and Positivity
Empower Women to Lead Healthy, Balanced and Organized Lives
Presented by Deborah Olson, M.A., LPC, Kingwood Counseling and Ellen Delap, CPO, Professional-Organizer.com
- Discover your unique strengths and how these contribute to your happiness and resilience
- Learn your organizing style
- Enjoy sessions on wellness, photography, and fashion
- Relax and rejuvenate at the spa, walking the beach and reflecting
- Share and bond with engaging and energized women
Register Now:
Event: Take Back Your Life … By the Sea
Date: January 27-29, 2012
Location: San Luis Resort, 5222 Seawall Blvd, Galveston TX » 
Cost: $295.00
Includes: Fees include all workshop materials as well as breakfast and lunch Saturday, and breakfast Sunday.
Hotel Fees: $139 per night, single or double occupancy
REGISTER EARLY »
via email or call 281-360-3928
Registration deadline January 10, 2012
Address the Mess at University of Houston Small Business Development Center. January 19.
Join us for Address the Mess!
Join the UH SBDC as they team up with the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) to bring you an exciting and informative session on the latest ideas and solutions for organizing your business. NAPO is a group of over 4,000 professional organizers dedicated to helping individuals and businesses bring order and efficiency to their lives. January is national GO – Get Organized month so make plans now to attend. You will receive strategies for email productivity, must-have guidelines for organizing your business finances, and secrets for organizing and preparing your desk and workspace for immediate impact.
NAPO speakers include:
Holly Uverity, CPO®, Office Organizers – The Entrepreneur’s Organizer™
Ellen R. Delap, CPO®, Professional-Organizer.com
Gayle Goddard, The Clutter Fairy
Breakfast included.
ADD and Paper
It’s a love/hate relationship with paper! What do we keep? How long do we keep it? Or are you just overwhelmed by it and can’t even get started! What’s a person to do?
Working with paper if you are ADD/ADHD, hone in on your strengths and personalize your systems and routines. Start by facing the fear, overwhelm and hatred (yes, a powerful emotion) about paper. It is an evil monster, an anchor, and the enemy. But now that we have vented, we are ready. Paper may never be easy, but something we can work through.
Be brutal about what to keep and what to toss. Often we are keeping way to much! Using these resources, as well as asking your accountant, you will keep less and work with less paper.
http://www.oprah.com/home/The-ABCs-of-Important-Papers
Keep paper from even coming in your home. Drop paper at the gas station when you are filling up. Shred paper by having a baby shredder in the kitchen. Say no to receipts for gas.
It is very important to create “slots” to drop your paper.
- Everyone needs a command center with easy access. Here is where papers that need action start. If you need to have a basket just to hold paper until “processed,” it can sit where you normally drop the paper. In the command center are the actions you need to do. Label the slots with what you call these items. Action, Pay, File are all required here. But in addition you might have Pending, one for each of your kids and your partner, Receipts, and Contacts.
- Next step is to create your files, which are the papers you will reference in the next year. First decide what to keep and how long. Don’t get overwhelmed, thinking about how much you have back logged on paper here. Just work in 15 minute segments with a timer. Everyone can do this for 15 minutes! Start with general categories, like Auto/Home, Finance and Personal. Keeping categories general makes it simple to file and simpler filing means more filing!
- Add an archive section for required papers. This includes your taxes, legal documents, and other long term papers. You may need to add a section for investments that are getting to be a very large volume.
- Keep your important documents like birth certificates, marriage certificates, divorce decrees, wills and related papers in a safe or safe deposit box. You will always know where these are.
Sounds like a big project? Get help each step of the way with a professional organizer, trusted friend or reliable assistant in turning your paper into a workable system. It is worth the work to create what works for you!
Be the first to organize with Rubbermaid’s New Bento Boxes
Searching for a new way to organize, with not only function but also beauty and style? As a member of NAPO I am fortunate to preview Rubbermaid’s New Bento Boxes! This new concept for stylish organizing makes a difference in lots of spaces.
- Bento’s Flex Dividers allow users to customize the inside of the box, creating organization solutions that are perfect for a variety of needs. Flex Dividers pop open when needed, and simply pop back when not. Each Flex Divider can be opened or closed separately of the others to create a permanent home for belongings.
- Bento Toppers™ can be used in two distinctive ways. One way is that it can be a tray to display and contain items. By using Bento Toppers this way, you can create boundaries for items that can often take over a counter space such as magazines or mail. Use the Bento Topper on its own, or resting as a tray on top of a Bento Box to contain items like remotes while cov-ering the contents in the box below. The second way to use Bento Toppers is as a lid for the Bento Box by simply flipping over the Topper. This way you can hide things (such as personal bathroom items) that you do not want everyone to see but are needed for easy access.
- Bento Boxes and Toppers come in variety of fabric designs and colors to compliment any home décor. The boxes were designed to hold common household items such as DVD & Video Games, File Folders, Mail, Toys, Hair Care Accessories, Audio & Video Accessories, Magazines, Board Games, Crafting Supplies and Office Supplies. Bento Boxes are stackable to make the most out of your space. Covered with polyester, the boxes are durable, yet easy to clean with a damp cloth.
Bento boxes are available at Rubbermaid.com, Fred Meyer and Macys.com. They range from $8.99 to $27.99 in price. This makes them an affordable stylish product!
Thanks to Rubbermaid, I received a set of Bento boxes in red. These are already storing art supplies and toys in my home!
Want to win a Bento Box? Leave your comment on how you will use this fabulous new product in your home! Contest ends on October 20!
I did a random drawing, entering all the names and the winner of this fabulous set of boxes is Kitty! Thanks to everyone for sharing their ideas!
