Embrace Change
Your 2016 Organizational Plan Starts NOW!
We're now nearly two weeks into the new year, and if you're struggling with commencing or putting together a plan to address the mess in your household, you're not alone. January is not only the start of a new year, it's NAPO's Go Month, which is dedicated to beginning a new year with an organizational action plan to help you change the way you ad ...
Four Hurdles To Clear Before Clearing Your Clutter
For many people, getting rid of clutter can really test one's self imposed boundaries. Sometimes organizing triggers emotional responses to their connections to things (like when items are inherited or handed down from family members), or they challenge one's perceived potential for the usefulness of collected things, but those ways of thinking &am ...
A Chance for Emotional Growth
Beneath the clutter and the process of sorting out the collected mess in people's homes lies the real truth of why people live with disorganization. Truthfully, this sort of chaos doesn't happen overnight-it builds over time, whether through neglect, indifference or not having the time to deal with the surmounting piles of mail, paper, clothes or g ...
A Sensitive Time
In our line of work, frequently we deal with many organizational projects happening under emergency circumstances. Two common cases are relocation & death. With a job change, families are rapidly moved across the country because of their employment status, and certainly no one can prepare for the loses a parent or a partner. In both cases, the ...