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Goal Setting Success for the New Year: Reward Yourself

The time for setting New Year’s Resolutions has come again.  Do you have lofty expectaions of what you’ll accomplish each year, but find it can be challenging to follow through and stick to it? It can be hard without a plan. Let Simply Placed help. This is the first in a series of posts about how… Read more

Make the Most of your Post-Holiday Season Lull

The post-holiday slow down is here. Can you feel it? Does it seem hard to get things done this week? Lacking of motivation? Maybe you’re ready to check some things off your list, but you can’t reach anyone or get calls or emails back.  Difficult to focus on “normal business” this week when it seems as… Read more

Simply Placed’s Newest Organizer…Kelly!

We mentioned in our previous post about our team expansion that we’ve added three new team members!  Below is some information about one of our two new professional organizers, Kelly Huffman. As a busy wife, mother of three and active community volunteer, Kelly knows first hand the challenges and the importance of staying organized.  Her… Read more

Save Yourself from A Stressful Melt-Down

We know stress can influence productivity.  The next time you’re experiencing counterproductive stress, consider using Christina Marie’s suggestion below.  Please enjoy her guest blog post: A Simple Tip – Save Yourself from A Stressful Melt-Down.    A Simple Tip – Save Yourself from A Stressful Melt-Down  We use vision boards as triggers.  Try a fresh spin… Read more

Life Maintenance Toolkit

To continue on with our National Preparedness Month theme, our next two posts will be about organizing your papers and affairs in case something happens to you.  We have two great resources available that we would love to share with you this month.  The first product that I want to talk about is called the Life Maintenance Toolkit,… Read more

How to Create and Maintain the Perfect Study Zone

With the start of a new school year, that also means homework will be starting very soon!  Do you have a designated study zone in your home?  For older kids, it might be a desk space in their bedroom or in your home office.  For younger kids, we recommend having a study zone in a… Read more

A New Place to Call Home

You’ve searched and searched and now your search has finally come to an end; you’ve found a new place to call home! Whether you are downsizing or upgrading, you have to admit it is exciting to start a new chapter in your life. But what’s this? Your joy is suddenly replaced by overwhelm. Boxes, bags,… Read more

Soles for Souls

Some of you may have heard us discuss our involvement with NAPO.  Sound ominous? It simply stands for our professional organization: the National Association of Professional Organizers.  We have a conference once a year, and a couple of us just spent a few days in San Diego, soaking up information on organizing methods, new organization… Read more

Where Does it Hurt?

Often we’re asked about the ROI of our services – the return on investment. We can easily explain the value that is realized when someone increases their organization and productivity. Another term for ROI is “Risk of Ignoring” – meaning – what’s is the risk of doing nothing about disorganization or productivity challenges? We all… Read more

Product Review-DYMO LabelManager 360D

DYMO was kind enough to once again send Simply Placed one of  their newest products to review, the DYMO LabelManager 360D. What organizer out there doesn’t love to review the latest and greatest when it comes to one of their primary (and oh so fun) organizing tools? Many of you are aware that label makers… Read more

Distraction: An Enemy of Productivity

If we want to get more done, we should focus, right? Easier said than done? We now know that multitasking can be counter productive (when we do so, it takes longer to complete multiple tasks than if we were to focus on one at a time, our rate of error increases, our ability to learn… Read more

Ready…Set…GO (Get Organized)!

On Saturday, January 15th, Debbie presented “Organize Your Financial Records” to the MoneyWise Women’s Conference in Seattle. She offered attendees ideas for systems and habits to keep financial records organized, thereby saving participants time, money and stress. In the theme of saving money, she also offered them a discount on her upcoming GO System Seminar… Read more

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