As spring approaches, it is the perfect time to re-imagine and organize your home office. To do your home office justice, however, you need to go beyond just organizing your files and putting all of your pens in a cool coffee cup. That’s simple stuff.
Organizing can be stressful, but you can take the stress out of organizing. How? By breaking it down into small goals, by being ok with imperfection, by getting help when you need it, and by just continuing to try. Celebrate the small victories! When faced with
Are you as eager as we are to swap winter for spring wardrobes and exchange snow shovels for some gardening tools? Unfortunately, the downside to tossing open those curtains to let the sun shine in is that the damage from being stuck inside all winter
Up for discussion in the Maniac Book Club: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson. Margareta Magnusson is a Swedish author who has lived all over the world. She graduated from Beckman College of Design and her artisitc works have been displayed around the
Very few of us were born with organizing skills in our DNA. Good habits, like anything else, happen with practice and by establishing a routine. Organizing is no different! It’s something that we are all capable of learning, and once we do, our lives can
Organizing your home can be challenging, especially when the primary storage solutions (like drawers and closets) are already overflowing. We've all experienced the frustration of having to dig behind multiple bins and through various boxes to find a single sweater for a chilly summer day. Although
Our Organizing Challenges with Organizing Maniacs Facebook Group has been tackling closets - clothing closets, linen closets, pantries, and more. It's been so exciting to see the progress people have made in tackling these small, manageable projects. Closets always feel like an organizing challenge, don’t
Our most recent Maniac Book club selection was The Power of When by Michael Breus, PhD. Breus is a clinical psychologist and a diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He's also a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Using over 200 evidence based
Organization projects are not everyone’s idea of a good time. If you have multiple organizing projects to tackle, it can be overwhelming. Where do you begin? Luckily, getting started is the hardest part. Organizing can be a rewarding experience, and once you begin to see
Removing clutter from your home is a great way to stay organized, but when things are messy, it can be hard to see where the clutter begins and ends. It may also be overwhelming at first glance to decide what to keep and what to
It’s a new year, a new you! Right? Unfortunately for many of us, those goals don’t always become a reality. We promise ourselves with New Year’s resolutions that we will be more organized, be more present, and more of whatever we lacked in the year
ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau is an updated edition of their classic text for adults with ADD. The collaboration between Kolberg, a professional organizer, and Nadeau, a psychologist, offers the best understanding and solutions for adults who want to get and stay organized. “Don’t fight