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13 March 2023 | Comments [0] »
I spent the morning at the monthly meeting of the St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals. It was so enjoyable and valuable that I decided to re-run an updated version of this post, which I originally wrote in 2016. If you’re a professional organizer and you don’t already belong to your local NAPO chapter, I encourage you to join!
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21 June 2021 | Comments [1] »
If you’re a professional organizer, I hope you’re lucky enough to live where there’s a local chapter of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals. And if you do live near one, I hope you’ve joined it!
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14 March 2019 | Comments [1] »
Way back in 2008, I earned the credential Certified Professional Organizer® or CPO®. This credential is conferred by the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers as part of an accredited credentialing program. In order to become a CPO, I had to pass an exam that I studied hard for. In order to sit for the exam, I had to have 1500 paid client hours or 1250 paid client hours and 250 equivalent educational hours. (I had the latter.)
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16 May 2018 | Comments [0] »
On Monday, I was honored to be named the Volunteer of the Year for the St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO-St. Louis). The recipient of the award, which has been given out annually for the last three years, is selected by the chapter president, who solicits recommendations from the membership.
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21 January 2016 | Comments [9] »
If you’re a professional organizer, I hope you’re lucky enough to live where there’s a local chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers. And if you do live near one, I hope you’ve joined it!
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6 July 2015 | Comments [0] »
If you’re in St. Louis, I hope you’ll consider coming to a fun event where you can get your organizing questions answered live and in person. Here’s the best part: It costs only $10!
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21 May 2015 | Comments [2] »
On Friday, I started a one-year term as President of NAPO-St. Louis, our local chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers. I’ve been an active member of the chapter since its inception in 2006. In fact, I was on the first board of directors, serving six years first as Membership Director, then President, then Immediate Past President. I retired from the board in May of 2012, but agreed to return for a term as President when there wasn’t someone else available to step forward.
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15 April 2014 | Comments [0] »
Yesterday at our monthly NAPO-St. Louis meeting, I was on a panel called Blogging for Your Organizing Business. The other panelists were blogger extraordinaire, Aby Garvey of simplify 101 and online marketing expert Ken Tucker of Changescape Web.
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14 August 2013 | Comments [0] »
I wrote this blog post four years ago and it remains true. Clutter is truly in the eye of the beholder, which can become a problem when people in the same household have different standards!
Since I specialize in working with chronically disorganized people, I’ve seen a lot of clutter. I’ve worked in homes so full of stuff they were uninhabitable (literally).
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1 April 2013 | Comments [0] »
As I’ve posted here, the St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO-STL) sponsored an organizing expo for the public on March 23. It was over a year in the planning and all that planning showed. The event was a great success, with every detail anticipated. It ran so smoothly. I was extremely proud of our chapter. We had great participation!
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20 March 2013 | Comments [0] »
This Saturday is the Get Organized St. Louis! organizing expo presented by the St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO-St. Louis).
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18 January 2013 | Comments [0] »
I’m really proud to say that the St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers is sponsoring its first big public event, on Saturday, March 23, at St. Charles Community College.
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13 June 2012 | Comments [0] »
At the 2011 NAPO conference, I was among the many who shed tears watching the video about Soles4Souls a non-profit group that collects shoes to deliver to shoeless people in Haiti and elsewhere. That year, NAPO honored Soles4Souls with its Organizing Excellence Award, for the incredible organizational effort behind the shoe collection and distribution.
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10 April 2012 | Comments [0] »
I hope that you have a shredder. And that you use it. Identity theft is too dangerous and rampant to mess around with.
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17 August 2011 | Comments [0] »
If you live in or near St. Louis, there’s a great opportunity to learn about time management from one of the world’s experts. The St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers is bringing renowned time-management expert, Harold L. Taylor to St. Louis to give a public workshop.
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6 May 2011 | Comments [0] »
Twenty years ago, I read Harold L. Taylor’s book, Making Time Work For You
. At the time I was in a 9 to 5 job and I remember this time-management book rocking my world.
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12 January 2011 | Comments [0] »
One of the things I did during that glorious week between Christmas and New Year’s was clean out my files. My recycling box is full but I also have a large pile on top of my shredder.
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14 July 2010 | Comments [0] »
If you own your own business and you’d like to see it grow, I encourage you to join me at a special one-day workshop on September 13 called Growing Your Business with Confidence.
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29 January 2010 | Comments [0] »
Shredding is so important. I’m often shocked when I meet new clients to learn that they don’t own a shredder. They think tearing up sensitive documents is sufficient. Then I’ll share with them a little experiment done on one of the morning shows that a client told me about. They took a credit card offer and tore it up. Then they taped it back together, photocopied it, filled it out and got the credit card. To me, that’s proof enough that shredding is essential. Identity theft is too devastating to mess with.
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31 December 2009 | Comments [4] »
2009 was a year of ups and downs for me. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. As I finish inputting data into Quickbooks for the year, I realize that my revenue is down, which isn’t great. I’m chalking it up to the economy. But so many really great things happened in 2009 that I view it as a year of success and progress.
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5 November 2009 | Comments [0] »
The Los Angeles chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers has established the Los Angeles Organizing Awards—our industry’s equivalent of the Oscars. If I’m not mistaken this year is fifth year for the awards, a gala event held in January. They seem to gain in prestige every year.
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21 October 2009 | Comments [5] »
Since I specialize in working with chronically disorganized people, I’ve seen a lot of clutter. I’ve worked in homes so full of stuff they were inhabitable (literally).
But I’ve also been hired to do consultations for people for whom there was no visible clutter, at least at first glance. Yet those folks made the effort to schedule an appointment and paid me to advise them on how to deal with stuff that was bothering them. To my eye, it was small, easily addressable stuff. But to them it was a problem. (I always have to remind myself never to trivialize someone’s problem.)
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18 June 2009 | Comments [0] »
I encourage my clients (and Declutter Happy Hour participants) to be sure and take breaks and build in rewards when they’re working hard (on clutter or anything else).
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31 December 2008 | Comments [5] »
It’s the last day of the year and I’ve been taking the opportunity to reflect on 2008. On the surface, it wasn’t necessarily a great year for business. As the economy tanked, so did my billable hours. After a terrific first two quarters, the last two quarters were…let’s just say less good.
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16 December 2008 | Comments [3] »
…if you’re in St. Louis, that is. I was interviewed for an article on organizing for St. Louis Woman magazine. I think it’s a good article. (I hope I don’t come across as a Scrooge.) Also interviewed for the article was my fellow NAPO St. Louis member, Jodi Granok, who gives some terrific advice.
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9 May 2008 | Comments [0] »
Last night on the St. Louis NBC affiliate’s news broadcast there was a “cover story” called Decluttering Your Surroundings Could Help You Live a Better Life.
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8 December 2007 | Comments [0] »
I decided to offer a quarterly newsletter with a little article, a tip, and an offer. Maybe a little news.
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