We always say that to be organized and more productive, you should think like a lazy person. Constantly ask yourself how you could do things faster, better…or not at all! Forms are one of the best ways to save time and gain efficiency. I daresay I am in love with forms. If you're doing something that might ever possibly need to… Read more »
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Sowing the Seeds of Organizing Success
At the Clutter Diet, we have a lot of fun with the weight loss metaphor—how the personal change involved in getting organized is very parallel to what it takes to lose weight. Both endeavors are not an overnight process. Little choices and little changes add up to a lot… It’s choosing baked chips instead of… Read more »
Broken Windows- There Goes the Neighborhood
Stay with me for a moment, because this really does relate to clutter! In sociology class in college I remember hearing about the "Broken Window theory," from the book Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling and Catherine Coles. (To my Kindle subscribers: sorry, that book's not available on… Read more »
WDIO Duluth News Segment: Good Housekeeping: Clutter Diet
April 21, 2009 Dawn Sandomeno was drowning in her messy home office, so she and her partner were forced to work at the dining room table. “My clutter issue is basically paper. Things I need to file away, and the other thing in the room is I think we’re having an issue of whether it’s… Read more »
Boxes Full of Air
One of the funniest things I see in offices is many linear feet of neatly lined-up rows of software boxes on shelves. Photoshop, QuickBooks, flight simulators, pretty much any and every kind of software and game. Open the boxes and they are often empty! Boxes full of air, taking up valuable storage space. Why is this?… Read more »
Real Simple Magazine: Switch Your Closet Over, And Make It More Manageable While You’re At It
April 17, 2009 Click on the link below to read the featured article on how our Simple Division® Garment Organizers can make your closet a more manageable place to be. Need help getting organized? Here are 3 ways we can help: Get our FREE report, “30 Ways to Find Time to Get Organized“ Get… Read more »
National Organize Your Files Week- Yippee!
The third full week in April (next week, 4/19/09-4/25/09) is National Organize Your Files Week— aren't you excited? How will you celebrate? What do you mean, you're not celebrating? Let's just get this out of the way– Nobody really gets excited about paper. Even those of us who teach about managing paper and help others… Read more »
Digital Spring Cleaning
Along with your patio furniture, window screens, and seasonal clothing…your hard drive needs attention too! Larger portions of our lives are increasingly spent in the digital world and we've got to think about streamlining that information. A survey just done by Microsoft showed that 60% of us sometimes think our online lives are more disorganized than… Read more »
Wide Open Spaces…
Someone in our Clutter Diet program just posted a suggestion for us to talk about "table clutter." We in the organizing biz refer to this as a problem with "undesignated space." Let's say you have some kind of open, flat surface–it could be a countertop, a formal dining table that you never use much, a… Read more »
Rebel Without a Clock
People usually think I am a very regimented person because of my work and expertise. In reality, I am a big rebel… against rigid scheduling. I tend to feel better and function better when I have a prioritized list and an open block of time, rather than scheduling out every minute of the day. When… Read more »
