Ellen, Author at Ellen's Blog, Professional Organizing for Kingwood & Houston

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Ellen Delap is a professional organizer, family manager coach and productivity consultant in the greater Houston area. She is passionate about making a difference for families and being an organizing resource for the community. Her blog notes her remarkable encounters and experiences in organizing.

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Back to School Tips Featured on ABC13

August 7, 2012/0 Comments/in ADD and ADHD, Family Organizing, Organizing Skills, Paper management, Productivity, Student Organizing, Time management/by Ellen

I am thrilled to share Back To School Success Strategies with our Houston community! http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=8762205

Back to School: Tips for Organizing School Lunch

August 5, 2012/0 Comments/in Back to School, Classroom organizing, Family Organizing, Green Organizing, Organizing Skills, Time management/by Ellen

Back to school! Its that time of year that makes moms happy and sad; happy to start new routines and sad about the energy and organization it can take to get your family going. Throughout the month of August we are featuring organized moms who will help get you started back to school with the toughest tasks. […]

Back To School: Tips to Organize Your Home

July 31, 2012/5 Comments/in ADD and ADHD, Family Organizing, Organizing Skills, Paper management, Productivity, Student Organizing, Time management/by Ellen

Back to school time brings backpacks by the back door, papers flying in from kids, and upcoming activities, back to school night and more. Create a command center and landing strip that helps you control the information and stuff. Establish a command center with a slot of your kids’ papers and the mail. The slots […]

Back to School: Tips for Morning Routines

July 29, 2012/5 Comments/in ADD and ADHD, Family Organizing, Financial organizing, Organizing Skills, Paper management, Productivity, Technology and Organizing, Time management/by Ellen

Back to School: Successful School Strategies

July 25, 2012/0 Comments/in ADD and ADHD, Family Organizing, Organizing Skills, Paper management, Productivity, Time management/by Ellen

Fall is around the corner and now is the time to establish successful strategies and routines. This time of year we are ready to begin again, even more so than at the new year. When families work together new routines, the results can be amazing! Communication is the key. No one likes to be […]

Overcoming your Organizing Fear

July 13, 2012/4 Comments/in ADD and ADHD, Family Organizing, Office Organizing, Organizing Skills, Paper management/by Ellen

Do you say, I would rather jump off a cliff, go to the dentist, or even run away when faced with organizing? One of the most basic emotions we have is fear when getting organized. Whether we fear being shamed, we fear loss, or we fear defeat, we must acknowledge this. In order to […]

Smoothing transitions

July 10, 2012/5 Comments/in ADD and ADHD, Organizing Skills, Time management/by Ellen

Change is hard! We all like things, places and people to remain status quo. But there are lots of transitions that happen and in the midst of a transition, organizing begins to lag behind sometimes. It might be a move, a new job, the loss of a loved one, addition of a new family member or other […]

Organizing Tips for College Freshman

July 8, 2012/6 Comments/in College organization, Family Organizing, Organizing Skills, Paper management, Productivity, Student Organizing, Technology and Organizing, Time management/by Ellen

It’s almost that time to set your college freshman off! It is a bit scary, a bit exciting and a bit overwhelming for you and for them. It takes time to get ready for freshman year, so now is the time to get started. Here are a few tips for organizing your college freshman. […]

Cell Phones for Soldiers Drive Kingwood. July 1- 31, 2012

July 4, 2012/0 Comments/in Family Organizing, Financial organizing, Organizing Skills/by Ellen

Cell Phones for Soldiers wants to turn old cell phones into more than 12 million minutes of prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas. To do so, Cell Phones for Soldiers wants to collect 50,000 cell phones each month through a network of more than 3,000 collection sites across the country. Since 2004, […]

Tackle a Tiny Area: Toys

June 22, 2012/4 Comments/in ADD and ADHD, Family Organizing, Organizing Skills/by Ellen

Tackling toys to many is not a tiny area! But if you tackle it in one hour segments, it gets the job done! Kids play with toys when they are not ovewhelmed by the quantity. Think about a kindergarten classroom. There are 25 kids and not even 25 toys. So less is more in this […]

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