Entries by Ellen

Learning about ADHD, Organizing and Productivity

  October is ADHD Awareness Month.  It’s a time to learn more about neurodiversity, that being that brains work in many different ways.   Every story with ADHD is a different story I work with creative, resourceful, smart people with ADHD. They uses their strengths in different ways given their executive function weaknesses. My clients […]

How Every Day Organizing Helps Emergency Preparedness

  Being organized equals preparedness.  There’s no down side to being a little more prepared in general ways especially important when it comes to emergencies. While it feels uncomfortable to discuss emergencies of any sort, there’s comfort in knowing you have created a plan.  These little steps with connections, paper work and finances, will take […]

Emergency Preparedness: Lessons Learned

  A little under 2 years ago, Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast.  Our community Kingwood, Texas suffered great losses. From loss comes lessons! It’s where we learn that we can help others too.  Here are several lessons learned on emergency preparedness that help you.   Protecting your home and finances Most of our community […]

On Demand Delegating

  Do you often with you had 25 hours in the day, 6 hands or could clone yourself?  It’s often that we are faced with more to do than we have time, skills, resources or energy.  Delegating is a solution for you!  With so many resources on the internet, there’s lots of options to delegate […]

My Organizing Obsession: Carts

  My love of carts has me extolling their use on my blog! Carts can add an extra storage space for stuff and papers. It’s rolls to where you are to work. It adds an extra space for your papers.   The rolling file cart gives you options for accessible file storage.  Highly visual, you […]

Professional Organizers’ Favorite Planners

  My clients and my colleagues are often searching for the perfect planner.  There’s a range of options for all of us, from digital to paper.   I polled my colleagues to help you determine what planners are most popular and why!   Planner requirements What helps you determine the planner you choose? Ability to […]

9 Ways to Simplify Back to School

  It’s a combination of happy and sad when back to school comes around. We are reluctant to get back to routines and there’s a big to do list to prepare for the upcoming school year. We tend to think of back to school as a long series of complicated, expensive, and arduous tasks that […]