By Carmen Coker As the saying goes, the kitchen is the heart of the home. But your kitchen can also be the heap of the home if you let clutter pile up! If you want to know how to organize your kitchen now, then here are five easy, low-cost ways to do just that: 1) Edit …
What Children Can Teach You About Organizing
April 19, 2013By Carmen Coker Children live big. They laugh from the heart … play like there’s no tomorrow … dream without boundaries … derive joy from the smallest of things. As adults, the opposite often happens. We laugh less … play less … dream less. The responsibilities of adulthood – work, bills, commitments, family – tend to …
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All You Need To Know About Learning How To Be Organized & Letting Go
March 29, 2013By Carmen Coker A Zen parable tells of a wanderer who happened upon a river. He wanted to cross it, but there was no bridge. Afraid to wade across the river on foot, he spent hours building his own raft from vines and trees, which ultimately carried him safely to the other side. However, once across …
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Five-Minute Blitz
March 8, 2013By Carmen Coker The battle drums are rumbling…it’s time to suit up for clutter combat. Let Operation Organize commence! Rest assured, this is one battle that will reduce the amount of clutter in your life – quickly. TheFreeDictionary.com defines the word “blitz” as an intense campaign. Today’s challenge is to select one area of your home …
Break The Procrastination Cycle
February 22, 2013By Carmen Coker Everyone’s got one of those tasks that never seems to get done, no matter what. You know you are in trouble when you start to joke about it, laughing at your failure to accomplish the task. Making light of the situation takes the sting out of the fact that you have procrastinated yourself …
Want To Get Organized – For Good? Here’s How To Make Your New Year’s Resolution Last
January 31, 2013By Carmen Coker So you recently made a New Year’s Resolution “to get organized.” Well, you’re in good company! Organization is always a popular top ten resolution every year. But now that you’ve set the organizing goal, how do you successfully negotiate the ins and outs of accomplishing it? Here are four simple tips to do …
5 Secrets For Waking Up Organized
January 4, 2013By Carmen Coker Scarlet O’Hara famously said in Gone With the Wind, “Fiddly dee, I’ll worry about that tomorrow!” And if you want to have a hectic morning, then you should definitely try to emulate her. But if you want to have a smooth morning routine, a little planning and prep the night before will help you …
How To Break Mental And Emotional Attachments To Your Clutter
November 30, 2012By Carmen Coker A wise Zen master once said: “Be like the wind. Blow over everything without becoming attached to any of it.” Have you become attached to your clutter? When you are tied to your clutter – whether it’s emotionally, spiritually, mentally, or otherwise – decluttering becomes all the more difficult to accomplish. Here are …
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The Key to Finding Balance and Getting Organized
November 2, 2012By Carmen Coker When you are responsible for taking care of others – whether it is at work, at home, or both – then taking care of YOU can become a low, maybe even non-existent, priority. Women, in particular, feel incredibly off-kilter when this occurs, but men are also not immune to self-neglect and its repercussions. …
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The Biggest Organizing Mistake of All
September 28, 2012By Carmen Coker You’re sure to find a perfectly organized home when you open up any magazine. And those pictures make you think: Man, I wish my house looked like that! Of course, the ideal home doesn’t have to be in a book, in a magazine, or on TV. You may need to look no further …
8 Lazy Ways to Get Organized
August 31, 2012By Carmen Coker Even if you don’t feel you have the time, money, motivation, or inclination to get organized, there are plenty of low-effort, big-win strategies for banishing clutter, saving time, and being productive. Part 1: Shopping Clutter starts at the store. You buy something you don’t need or even truly like … something you might …
5 Simple Ways to Declutter Your Home Now
August 3, 2012By Carmen Coker When it comes to tidying up your home, organizing and decluttering aimlessly isn’t enough. It’s essential to organize with one goal in mind, and that is to create a sanctuary where you and your family can easily live, work, and play for years to come. Here are the top five residential “trouble spots” …
The Moments That Make You Disorganized: Common Clutter Traps To Avoid
July 6, 2012By Carmen Coker If you are trying to get organized, close your eyes for just a minute and imagine the moments that make you disorganized. Think through the last day, week, month, or even year(s) of your life … and you’ll see them there, as obvious as the big pile of clutter on your desk. While …
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When Lists Don’t Work
June 22, 2012Generally speaking, a list is a good thing because… When you write a list, it helps you focus. When you follow a list, it keeps you on track and moving toward list completion. And when you cross off list items, you feel productive. And yet, despite proven results and positive qualities, lists don’t always work …
Check Off Those Summer Organizing To-Do’s – Here’s How
May 18, 2012By Carmen Coker The weather is great, you’re feeling energized from all that extra solar energy you’ve been absorbing and you’ve got some extra time off. Now is the perfect time to tackle one of those big organizing projects you’ve been wishfully thinking of. First, let’s review a few tips that will help you to get …
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Time-Wasting Habits – and How to Break Them
April 25, 2012By Carmen Coker When tackling a cluttered lifestyle, sometimes it’s not what you need to “get” that will help, it’s what you need to “get rid of.” Here are three common time-wasters – and actions steps that will help you to get them out of your daily routine so that you can enjoy a clutter-free, stress-free …
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How to Stop Procrastinating
March 30, 2012By Carmen Coker I find that, when it comes to organization, getting started is half the battle. If you’re procrastinating on an organizing project, the key to pushing past the procrastination is to find out what motivates you. Know your motivators before a wave of procrastination hits, and you’ll be prepared to deal with it — …
51 Ways to Get Organized Now
February 17, 2012By Carmen Coker Are you ready to get your life more organized? To help you get a jump start, I’ve put together a list of 51 easy and quick ways to get organized and feel more balanced today. Please don’t let this number overwhelm you – you don’t have to do all 51 at once! Read …
