Articles tagged with encouragement
13 November 2015 | Comments [0] »
This past weekend, I experienced the thrill of an empty basement in my own home. My husband and I live in a two-family home built in 1908. (We used to rent out the downstairs apartment, but now we live in the whole thing.) It has a scary unfinished basement that I joked was straight out of Silence of the Lambs. The limestone foundation walls and plaster-and-horsehair dropped ceiling shed dust onto the floor that is so bad we have special “basement shoes” so we don’t track dust around the house.
Tagged with: decluttering,
emotions,
encouragement,
karel worley,
paint away,
procrastination,
professional organizer
6 September 2013 | Comments [0] »
Back in 2009, as a requirement for the CPO-CD® program, I hired a professional organizer to help me in my home. It was a great experience and I blogged about it at the time. The post is still true (and, I think, interesting). I really loved being in the client’s shoes, and, four years later, I still reflect on that experience when I’m working with clients.
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emotions,
encouragement,
karel worley,
professional organizer,
worth repeating
29 August 2012 | Comments [0] »
I did the first of what will be a number of team organizing jobs for a client recently. In that first session, my five-person team made some amazing progress. It seemed like life-changing progress. I was thrilled.
Tagged with: decluttering,
emotions,
empowerment,
encouragement,
photographs
16 January 2010 | Comments [0] »
Last year around this time, I blogged about Jen Louden’s Virtual Retreat. It was a weekend event where participants got to hear interviews with a variety of self-help folks to help them nurture themselves.
Tagged with: empowerment,
encouragement,
jen louden,
relaxation,
self-care
28 December 2009 | Comments [0] »
I just got finished reading through my blog posts for 2009, in an effort to put together a post about my favorite blog posts of the year. (That’ll come later in the week.)
Tagged with: blogging,
blogs,
cats,
encouragement,
goals,
twitter
12 June 2009 | Comments [1] »
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.
Tagged with: decluttering,
emotions,
encouragement,
karel worley,
professional organizer
20 April 2009 | Comments [0] »
n January, I took Jen Louden’s wonderful Virtual Retreat. Jen, known as “The Comfort Queen,” offered up a four-day weekend full of talks (over the phone) from inspiring self-help folks. It was terrific.
Tagged with: empowerment,
encouragement,
fear,
gratitude,
jen louden,
optimism,
self-care,
workshops
30 March 2009 | Comments [0] »
Our first “Declutter Happy Hour” session begins tomorrow, March 31, at 2 p.m. central. If you haven’t signed up yet but are intrigued, head on over to the Declutter Happy Hour website and check it out.
Tagged with: clutter,
declutter happy hour,
decluttering,
emotions,
empowerment,
encouragement,
shannon wilkinson
12 January 2009 | Comments [0] »
While the new year also feels ripe with possibilities for me, I have to admit that the advent of 2009 is a little scarier than usual. I have great hopes for a turnaround in our economy, but I know that for many people (including me, sometimes) the economic situation makes taking action—or even feeling good—a little difficult and scary.
Tagged with: empowerment,
encouragement,
fear,
gratitude,
havi brooks,
jen louden,
michael neill,
optimism,
relaxation,
self-care,
workshops
6 January 2009 | Comments [0] »
I heard Wendy Davie speak at the NAPO Chicago Midwest Conference and Expo in November. Her talk, “Forward Momentum: How to Take Your Organizing Business from OK to Awesome, Fast,” was one of the highlights of the conference for me.
Tagged with: big picture,
encouragement,
goals,
napo chicago,
wendy davie
12 November 2008 | Comments [2] »
This morning I received the e-newsletter of Christine Kane, the blogger, musician, and creativity consultant whose blog was my Blog of the Week a few months ago.
Tagged with: christine kane,
decluttering,
encouragement,
gratitude,
self-care,
workspace
6 August 2008 | Comments [0] »
This week’s Blog of the Week isn’t an organizing blog per se, but it’s full of fabulous, inspiring information that can certainly be applied to organizing (and professional organizers).
Tagged with: blog of the week,
blogs,
christine kane,
encouragement