Entries by Ellen

Organizing your Aging Parents

  Suddenly the roles are reversed for you and your parents.  They need your help with their mail, paper work and medical care.  It can be a difficult and emotional time too as you as your family find new ways to support each other.  Your aging parents need your patience, help and support in ways […]

Making Organizing Manageable

How do you eat an elephant?   …….One bite at a time!   Making organizing manageable is all about breaking the tasks into manageable pieces.  When we see a big project it’s often overwhelming.  We think about organizing our entire home, storage or an office and it seems to be an impossible tasks.  There are several […]

Asking for Help

  Is it not in your nature to ask for help? Have you asked for help and you heard crickets? Is it easier to procrastinate about something rather than ask for help?   Let’s admit it, asking for help is hard.  It may seem like it’s a signal about deficiency or weakness. It may be […]

5 Tried and True Techniques for Productivity

  When we have tried and true tools and techniques, we trust these won’t fail us.  When it’s crunch time it’s easier to be more productive.   There are so many different tools, tips and remixes for each of us to use.  I have learned to trust these 5 techniques for making sure I am efficient […]

15 Favorite Organizing Products

  There are so many organizing products available everywhere. It can be confusing and overwhelming.  It’s about size, proportion, color, clear and so many more choices.  In addition you probably have a lot of organizing products at your home that you can reuse like baskets, bins or even shoe boxes. I put together this list […]

Organizing a “Texas Basement”

  It’s quite funny but in southeast Texas we have no underground basements. The same applies to southeast Louisiana.  Due to the water table in Houston, our “Texas basement” is storage above the garage.  (In other parts of the country this is called the attic!) It can be accessed by a pull down ladder or […]

Celebrating 15 year of Organizing

  It’s hard to believe that Professional-Organizer.com is celebrating 15 years of making a difference with individuals, families, students, professionals and stay at home people.   In 2000 when Professional-Organizer.com started: Hoarders and Clean Sweep were not on TV Professional organizers and productivity consultants were just beginning to be recognized as resources to help you at […]

Small Business Computer Clean Up

Our small businesses require 24/7 computer access.  There’s nothing more troubling than computer challenges.  Check out these tips in collaboration with Lisa Margetis. She is sharing about keeping your computer cleaned up and ready at all times.   What’s the best way to get started “cleaning up your computer” for a small business? The best way […]