Wouldn’t it be great if you weren’t doing all the meal planning & preparation alone? Why not enlist the help of family members in the process? Delegate certain tasks to your kids. If you have young kids at home, try buying them a few of their own kitchen tools (Jake’s tools could be green & Suzy’s… Read more
After you’ve cleared clutter in your kitchen and pantry and have assigned homes to the items you’ll keep in these areas, you can consider whether or not you need products (to go along with some new habits) to help you stay organized. There are so many fabulous kitchen & pantry organizing products available today. The selection… Read more
Why take time to organize your kitchen and pantry? Because for many, the kitchen is the heart of the home. We spend a lot of time in the kitchen. It is the place where we work to nourish our bodies, feed our family, and entertain our guests. It is the place that people congregate or… Read more
We work with both residential and business clients, but find that many times they share challenges. One common “gripe” among our busy clients is that its hard to get healthy, cost effective, palate pleasing meals on the table every day. As a result, many people we know eat out, take out, resort to fast food,… Read more
Do you get overwhelmed with the process of meal planning? Are you making several trips a week to the grocery store? How often do you buy duplicates of something you already have in your pantry because you just can’t find it? We love to consult with our clients on time management & organizing, especially around the… Read more
Looking for a great mentor to guide you in your business? Consider an accountability partner. My relationship with with my accountability partner, Jan Wencel of Spark Productivity was recently mentioned in the Toilet Paper Entreprenuer (TPE) Blog and in the July 2009 Issue of the Women Business Owners Digest. Jan and I met over 3 years ago… Read more
Declare your independence from clutter this month. Make it easy. Take just 15 minutes per day to clear clutter from one drawer, surface, or area of a room/office. A lot of people feel overwhelmed by the task of organizing. Sometimes it helps to really break the project down into small, bitesize, manageable pieces. We may say… Read more
I taught a GO System class to a group of Comcast employees last week and got a great email from one of the attendees the following day. He wrote, Great Class, There are not very many classes that you are able to start using immediately, and see results. Thanks for giving me the gift of time…. Read more
While at the National Association of Professional Organizers Conference in April, I bought a new organizing product to test out. Turns out that its a great tool and I wanted to share it with you. If you love to clip, print or collect recipes from family, friends, magazines, newspapers and the internet, but don’t have a… Read more
I often talk about the 80/20 Priciple when working with people to determine their priorities and help them figure out how to get those priorities done. The 80/20 Principle, otherwise know as Pareto’s Principle, says that we get 80% of our results from 20% of the work that we do. If we’re able to identify… Read more
Though we’ve heard of, and some of us have dreamed of, the paperless society, the fact is, we still have lots of paper coming into our lives. Much of the time it starts in our mail box. Do you have a daily mail system in place? You may find it helpful to get into a… Read more
Do you have paper pain? End it once and for all. If you’re in the Seattle area, come join us on 6/17 from 6:30 – 9:00 pm at the Phinney Center and we’ll teach you a system that makes it just as easy to file, instead of pile. We’ll get you set up with a… Read more
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