Peace of Mind Organizing

Happy birthday, blog!

10 November 2010

Today is the 4th anniversary of this blog. My first entry, on November 10, 2006, titled What is organized? was about everyone having personal standards for what they consider organized.

In four years of blogging, I’ve created 486 entries. I really enjoy blogging, and occasionally surprise myself when I look back at old entries. I’m actually pretty good at it most days! In honor of the anniversary I decided to come up with a favorite post from each year of this blog and post the first paragraph and a link. I hope if you have a minute you’ll click on the links and take a trip back in time with me.

2006
Backsliding (November 16, 2006). In the organizing field, particularly for organizers who work with chronically disorganized people, backsliding is all too common. You leave a client with systems in place, skills transferred, attitudes and motivation high, and then you stop hearing from her. You try to contact the client and when you finally reach her she admits that she’s lost control again. She’s ashamed of this and rather than reaching out to get more help, she just doesn’t call. What she probably doesn’t realize is that this happens all the time and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Continue reading

2007
For me, this is what it is all about (July 16, 2007). I just got back from an intense five days working with a client in another state. I know from her feedback and from what we accomplished that I really made a difference in her life. That’s what I love about this work! Continue reading....

2008
Self care (July 15, 2008). I’m always struck how clutter gets in the way of life. I have many clients who constantly feel an obligation to deal with their clutter. They plan to devote a weekend to decluttering, then they start to feel overwhelmed, so they don’t actually deal with it. (Until they call me.) Continue reading....

2009
It’s a tie. I just have to include both posts I wrote about working with professional organizers. I love them both.

My adventure with a professional organizer (June 12, 2009). As I blogged about the other day, I hired professional organizer Karel Worley, of Clearing Your Path, to come to my house and help my husband, Barry, and me declutter our basement. Continue reading....

I’m officially hooked on working with POs (July 6, 2009). Last month I blogged about working with professional organizer Karel Worley in my basement. With my husband’s help, we tackled a dirty decluttering job in only four hours. It was one that I’d been dreading for months. It was amazing how much we got done and how painless it was. Well, I’m at it again. My friend, Aby Garvey, of simplify101, and I have been talking about swapping services for awhile. We thought it would be more fun (and a lot faster) to work together on some of our projects at home. Continue reading....

2010
Fear of the Unknown (July 12, 2010). I’ve had to learn a new skill set. And I didn’t make it easy on myself. Continue reading....

It’s interesting to me that all my favorite blog posts were written in June or July. (Except 2006, but the blog wasn’t begun until November.) I wonder what’s up with that?

It took me several hours to skim all my blog posts, but what a fun exercise. It’s really a great way to be reminded of the milestones of the last four years.

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