A week after the winter holiday is a good time to reflect. Resolution talk is all over the place. It's on the local morning channels at the gym, every single magazine I subscribe to has a feature on resolutions and keeping them.
What Hotel Rooms Can Teach Us
When I talk with clients about their dream space (their ideal home or work set up) 70% of the time I hear a variation on this: When I’m on vacation and I first get to my hotel room, I sigh with relief at the sight of the room. I want that feeling in my own home. I want that that feeling when I sit down at my desk to work.
I Never Stop Rearranging My Furniture: Here's Why
Lately I've been hearing this comment from friends during casual conversations about life in New York City: I have these friends who move their furniture around all the time. Every time I go over, it's set up totally different.
What Overseas Moves and Refugees Can Teach Us About What is Truly Essential
I’m serious about my work. On the outside, it may look like I'm just this stuff organizer, helping folks resort their stuff in endless bins, all the while waving my label maker around.
Marta Blair: Smart Babies Love This Artist
I'm so excited to share Kid Size Studio's new beautiful line for babies (and kids!) because the artist and designer, Marta Blair, is a dear friend of mine.
Organizing Books: Helpful or Not?
Like the author, Jessica Lamb Shapiro, who wrote the recently released book Promised Land about her delve into the self help literature, I also spent some time immersed in self help books in my 20's. I have to say many of the self improvement books of the mid to late 90's had intoxicating titles. They seemed to hold so much... well, promise.
More Time, Please. Test Driving Apps for Life and Work Improvement
I have a time problem. There's not enough of it. The same thing goes for my clients. It might be surprising to know most of my clients are actually very organized, type A, ambitious and energetic folks. But the time problem affects us all.
Collaborative Consumption Means We Can Share the Legos
Last fall, at the Lego Store in NYC, I stood in brightly lit silence, in awe of the 2 story tall Lego displays. Silent also because I was shocked at the prices of the larger Lego sets. Up to that point, I had only bought small Lego sets on Amazon or when I happened to be in a big box retail store.
Talking Tame Space at Word Up Community Bookstore
On March 15, I had my very first workshop in a local community bookstore three blocks from my apartment. It was so gratifying an experience that I was walking on air for 48 hours. As a person who has always felt more comfortable behind the scenes, being on a tiny platform with 15 people listening to me talk about the too much stuff problem was... well let's just say it was both really hard and really worth it.
Experimenting With Boxbee, Off Site Storage At Your Doorstep
I like to think of myself as the type of person who jumps at the chance to use a new tool or a new way of doing things. It's part of my self-improvement mind set, the need to be more efficient, more forward thinking, more creative. So when I heard about Boxbee, I had two thoughts.
An Introvert Finds Co-Workers
As a self defined introvert, the notion of working alone most of the time seemed, at first, to be a gift. Then after reading quite a bit on how working in groups can improve success, I realized I could really use some coworkers.
Stand Up Inspiration: Organized Homes With Kids. Yes, It's Possible.
On the heels of a recent post about living the good life with kids, I began to see a flurry of advice for overwhelmed parents. Seems I'm not the only one with an impossible dream to live in peace with small, organizationally deranged humans who leave a trail of toys wherever they wander.
The Good And The Bad Of Work I Love
I was talking with a friend recently and she was sharing that she was tired of her job and ready for another kind of work. Later that night, it occurred to me that I hadn't asked myself that since the start of my business two years ago. Back then, I thought this work would be a natural fit, but whether I'd get tired of it remained to be seen.
Being Habitually Disorganized is Very Good for Procrastination
Projects. We all have them. At work, the value of projects completed is quantified, your salary against how much you get done. At home, we don't have to complete projects in a timely way because... no one is paying us to do it.
Stand Up Inspiration: More Writer's Rooms and Phoenixes in Flight
T, The New York Times style magazine, has more writer's rooms. In case you didn't know, I have a thing or two for writers and the rooms where they work. These rooms along with the artist Xu Bing, below, are today's Stand Up Inspiration.