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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.

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By Isolde|2021-03-07T16:27:22-05:00December 20, 2020|Entrepreneurship, Home and Garden, Office Organizing, Organizational Personality Types|0 Comments

“SEEING” THE SOLUTION… de-cluttering – not so easy – or is it?

De-cluttering a space is difficult because it’s not just about purging what you don’t need it is how to make what you do need “look” clutter free. With all the best of intentions, even buying the latest “organizing” gadget… You even purge everything you no longer want. And there you stand looking at your desk and no matter where you position the new paper tray … well it just doesn’t fit nicely and your desk looks even worse. It doesn’t even make it look organized! So you rearrange your lamp, move the pen, paper clip, and business card […]

By Isolde|2020-11-17T10:58:21-05:00March 8, 2011|Decluttering, Family Organizing, Home and Garden, Office Organizing|0 Comments

Tax time and organizing receipts for the entrepreneur

It doesn’t matter how organized you are, doing your taxes means two things;

1. Taking stock of the year gone by in a purely factual way. How did it all add up, how did all the work, the effort, the dreams and the disappointments – how did they all add up and what do they reveal on paper? When you look back and reflect over another year gone by it is with feelings. Tax time forces you, as a business owner, contractor and artist to reflect on the past year as the sum of its worth. There is a terrific opportunity here – it might not have […]

By Isolde|2020-11-17T10:52:36-05:00March 7, 2010|Entrepreneurship, Home and Garden, Office Organizing|2 Comments

Fear and expectations and asking for help

I passed my driving test! First attempt too. When I reversed the car into the parking space at the end of my test I was almost sick with dread and shame. I dreaded being told “You seem like a nice person but you and driving? Yea not a good mix. You failed – but that’s a good thing as the world is now a safer place. All the best with being a passenger!” And I was full of shame because here I am a mature somewhat intelligent woman in my 40’s only learning to drive now. Particularly in North America […]

By Isolde|2020-11-17T10:30:44-05:00February 14, 2010|Decluttering, Family Organizing, Home and Garden|1 Comment

Kindle

A couple of my friends got the new Kindle as a gift this year. Wow, it really is a beautiful piece of technology. My friend John loved his because he is a father and now he can put all his child’s books on the Kindle. Now, when they are travelling, he doesn’t have to carry a huge array of books for reading. But the other thing I learnt is that it is not just books but magazines that you can download onto the Kindle! That really excited me.

So many of my clients get professional and life-style magazines. They love them. The main problem […]

By Isolde|2020-11-17T10:40:06-05:00January 6, 2010|Decluttering, Entrepreneurship, Family Organizing, Home and Garden, Office Organizing|0 Comments