Home Organization
Gearing up for some time off
Monday, December 10th, 2007In a little over two weeks, our home and home office will enter a new reality: Winter break. When our three kids have time off from school, the home and home office find themselves in one of two states of being: Utter chaos and disarray, or a blissful state of auto-pilot. After 19 years spent […]
Making calendaring & contact management work at home
Saturday, December 1st, 2007I was looking at my Microsoft Outlook calendar recently, and I noticed a funny thing: As many events in there were for family life as were for my writing business. “Interview with XX Company” was followed by “Pick up Zoe.” “Client Meeting” was on the same day as “Zack hockey.” It got me to thinking […]
Space. A Final Frontier
Thursday, September 13th, 2007When I created my first home office back in 1989, my desk became the repository for all things clerical. Papers, files, folders, my phone and Apple IIc computer all shared space atop a folding banquet table. I had a small file cabinet I’d kept from my college days that served as my drawers, and a […]
Snapshot of a Desk
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Stop. Look down. What’s the state of your desk right now? Is it a cluttered cacophony representing a chaotic mind? Or is it neat and tidy and certain to scare anyone otherwise beleaguered by a messy space? Your desk can speak wonders. What’s yours say about you? Regardless of whether you work from a traditional […]
A Concoction Called Organization
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Home. Home office. School. Business. Work. Extracurriculars. Pastimes. Canines. In today’s home, obligations abound, creating what could become a convoluted, chaotic mess.
It’s the first week of school, and already conflicts are fostering insanity. I’m speaking on small business networking tonight, at the same time that our son has hockey practice and one of our daughters […]
Travel Decompression…
Sunday, August 19th, 2007As much fun as it is to prepare for a trip - gathering my stuff, buying extra gadgets, organizing my belongings and imagining the perfect office on the road - that’s how loathesome it is to come home. This week, I returned to my home office that was neat - but turned upside-down in very […]
Teeny-Tiny Tips Can Equal Big Changes
Sunday, August 12th, 2007For some reason, so many people equate getting organized with achieving an enormous and impossible feat. Something that only some lucky people are capable of having.
One woman, Elena, told me once that she felt she’d be more likely to succeed at climbing Mount Everest than to succeed at decluttering her living room. In her mind, […]