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Teaching remotely: How To Organize For Your Classes

PROBLEM: How to organize student’s planning notes and supplies while teaching online.

I am currently working from home in the lockdown in my small flat. I don’t have a separate space for work and I’ve been struggling with how to manage and organize all my paperwork for the classes I teach.

I work for different schools/groups, each with lots of paperwork, and normally my work takes place in a schoolroom with children. I have recently bought a new filing cabinet to help me organize all the materials I need but am finding it hard to get everything filed. Each student […]

By Isolde|2021-01-24T13:03:10-05:00January 24, 2021|Ask An Expert, Family Organizing, Office Organizing|0 Comments

Help is on its way! Free Professional Organizing

11 months and counting! Amid the stay-at-home orders and social distancing, we are all trying to maintain some sense of “normal”. We have had to transform dining rooms into virtual classrooms or workspaces, turn our bedrooms into meditation and “de-stress” spaces, our living rooms into playrooms. Most of the rooms in our homes are now functioning on two levels. For instance, our guest room is also a gym now. Homes are no longer just places to relax and recharge, they are community centres, safe spaces, gyms, school rooms, art studios, and offices. There is a deep connection between an organized space and our mental health. And the current global […]

By Isolde|2021-01-20T16:11:06-05:00January 17, 2021|Ask An Expert, Decluttering, Family Organizing, Home and Garden, Office Organizing|0 Comments

Great Toy Organization Solutions for your home

I wrote an article on solutions for toy organization and storage some years ago, Nanny Robina also posted it on her site. I am going to revisit this article as I think it’s a good time with everyone still having to stay at home due to the current global health crises. The fallout from the virus has meant that families are now at home all the time; working, living, playing, remote learning, cooking, exercising, and sleeping. 11 months into the pandemic and though there is light at the end of the tunnel because of the vaccine, it is tempered by the fact we are not out of […]

By Isolde|2021-01-13T16:54:22-05:00January 10, 2021|Decluttering, Family Organizing, Organizational Personality Types|0 Comments

Easy Step-by-Step Plan To Help You Declutter Your Home

Are you feeling overwhelmed and don’t know where or how to start with decluttering your home? Sometimes the most dramatic change you can make to your home — and you and your family’s mood — is decluttering so that the things you love, the features and style of your home, are displayed to their best advantage. When I ask clients what they want to feel in their homes, the most common responses are “peace,” “space” and “pride”. Clutter keeps us from achieving these goals. Having an easy step-by-step plan for decluttering will help you avoid the overwhelm and take your home from clutter to clarity in no time at […]

By Isolde|2021-01-13T14:00:09-05:00January 4, 2021|Decluttering, Family Organizing|0 Comments

How To Start Decluttering

Covid19 has meant that we are all staying home and thus the clutter keeps building up in all the nooks and crannies around the house. Eventually, you will need to deal with it. How to start decluttering? It sounds such an easy thing to do, right? After all, it’s just clutter. But what exactly is decluttering? The dictionary defines it quite simply as; “To remove clutter from a room, an area, etc.” So, really all you have to do is simply remove all your clutter. Another dictionary describes decluttering as “to remove things you do not need from a place, in order to make it more pleasant and more […]

By Isolde|2021-01-22T13:50:04-05:00December 28, 2020|Decluttering, Family Organizing, Organizational Personality Types|0 Comments

Small Home Office Organization

Today I am going to write about small home office organization. Covid19 has meant more people are having to work or study from home. What do you do if you don’t have a separate room for your home office? Working or studying from home is hard enough at the best of times. There are many distractions, and potentially constant interruptions from pets, family, and doorbells. As a Professional Organizer, I have helped many entrepreneurs create home offices, creating workspaces that are efficient, productive, and organized. The home office needs to look good, feel good, and be somewhere they want to sit down and work in.

By Isolde|2020-12-28T13:56:42-05:00December 20, 2020|Entrepreneurship, Home and Garden, Office Organizing, Organizational Personality Types|0 Comments

Preparing For A New Dog: Filer Pet owner tips

Today we are going to examine the challenges The Filer pet owner might have in getting their home ready for a new dog. The Filer, the 4th and last Organizational Personality Type (OPT) will be the most “organized” about bringing home their new puppy. The Filer would rarely say they have clutter or need help getting organized. After all, as their namesake says, they file! Indeed a lot of their identity centres around having an organized home and being on top of things. It is only when you take a closer look that you start to see how their clutter manifests; it’s […]

By Isolde|2021-01-13T17:31:54-05:00December 14, 2020|Family Organizing, Home and Garden, Organizational Personality Types|0 Comments

Preparing For A New Dog: Spreader Pet Organizing Tips

The 3rd Organizational Personality Type is The Spreader. Of all the OPT’s, the Spreader will be the one who will have the most challenges in getting organized for a new pet. As their name states… they spread. Open a drawer in their hall table console and you will find a treasure trove of things, keys, glasses, tools, snacks, stationery, bills, etc. It is not that they don’t want to have an organized system in their home for their adorable new pet – literally, they don’t know how other people do it. Have you heard of the old saying “A place for everything […]

By Isolde|2020-12-15T14:18:26-05:00December 6, 2020|Family Organizing, Home and Garden, Organizational Personality Types|0 Comments

Preparing for a New Dog: The Piler Pet Organizing Tips

Today we are going to examine the Organizational Personality Type of the Piler Pet Owner and what their challenges might be as they organize their dog supplies. As their name suggests, they pile. Their piles are not random, the piles are not clutter either… they are organized and intentional. Pilers are not messy people, they simply don’t have a need for their organizing to appear tidy. We are going to look at why a Piler organizes in piles and what solutions will help them in decluttering and organizing for a new dog.

Unlike the Nester, with the Piler […]

By Isolde|2020-12-13T13:39:49-05:00November 30, 2020|Family Organizing, Home and Garden, Organizational Personality Types|0 Comments

What Your Clutter Says About You

I created my Organizational Personality Types (The Filer, The Piler, The Nester, and The Spreader ) system to help you determine what your organizing style and issues are, and from that place determine the kind of solutions that will work to declutter your home, and be easily maintained. Understanding your organizational challenges first, allows you to choose solutions that stick. Because my partner and I are preparing to get a new dog, I felt it would be a good idea to re-examine specifically what challenges might arise for each Organizational Personality Type. But before I get into the specifics I […]

By Isolde|2020-12-15T14:20:48-05:00November 17, 2020|Family Organizing, Office Organizing, Organizational Personality Types|0 Comments

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Organizing Odyssey Blog: Professional Organizing Tips

PROBLEM: How to organize student’s planning notes and supplies while teaching online.