Getting Things Done (GTD) Is A Popular Productivity System that gained popularity in the mid to late 2000s. Using it can be challenging, however. What Is GTD, and Where Did It Come From David Allen, like myself, has had an eclectic career history. He created GTD as an offshoot of… Read More »Why Can’t I Get Things Done with GTD
Is your unending list of emails driving you crazy? You’re not alone. Email is extraordinarily time-consuming for most of us. When we could be engaging in more productive work, email is always there, threatening to derail us. Pop-up notifications make email even harder to ignore. Read more to learn how… Read More »Three ideas to master Your Email
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Zoom meetings have skyrocketed. Just to give you an idea, at the end of 2019, the maximum number of Zoom participants in a day was 10 million. By March of 2020, that number ballooned to 200 million. With the rise of Zoom has come… Read More »Virtual Backgrounds: Benefit or Drawback?
5S will save you money. Several hours per day is how much time the average worker, whether at home or at a business, spends looking for things or information. The average executive spends 150 hours each year looking for information. 5S is the most perfect way to organize any space,… Read More »5 Steps to Save Time with 5S
I encountered my client through my website and quickly understood the challenges of the project and how decluttering for your health is so important. My client had been through some serious life events and, as a result, had accumulated more items than the home could reasonably hold. Also, with an… Read More »Health Challenges Require Decluttering
I genuinely love this month with the holidays upcoming and the new year just around the corner. This month I’m focusing my energies on working with clients on setting goals and organizing priorities for the next year. Here’s my updated blog post on goal setting for the new year. I… Read More »Setting Goals in 4 Quick Steps
I’m excited to announce that I’m a volunteer with the Denise Louie Education Center on various organizing projects. Who was Denise Louie? Denise Louie was a young Chinese-American activist who played an integral role in revitalizing Seattle’s International District. Since 1978, Denise Louie Education Center has provided high-quality multicultural early learning and… Read More »Volunteer with Denise Louie Education Center
How did it get there?? We’ve all had that moment. You get home, throw your keys down somewhere, turn on a light, and the house is cluttered. You swear you just tidied everything up–that was last weekend, wasn’t it? Or maybe the weekend before. You sigh, drop the rest of… Read More »Clutter is Costing You: 5 Steps to Declutter
“How did this happen?” you ask yourself one day as you scan the clutter occupying almost every corner of your home or office. Seemingly without your help, the heaps of items that are scattered about or piled haphazardly appeared out of nowhere. It’s just there. It can happen easily. You… Read More »Why Hire a Professional Organizer?
It’s almost impossible to believe that it’s now the last month of 2018; we’re on the cusp of a brand new year. During this month we often look forward to the fresh start that awaits when the calendar rolls around to 2019; often setting new goals is a part of… Read More »4 Quick Steps to Finally Achieve your Goals