Category Archives: Office and Work

When Industries Gather

Productivity and Organizing Professionals to Meet in San Diego  The interior design industry has Westweek at the Pacific Design Center and the food industry meets each May in Chicago at the National Restaurant Association Show.  Next week business productivity professionals and organizing experts for … Continue reading

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Emotional Attachment to Clutter

In a recent interview at the Los Angeles Organizing Awards, I was asked by Carlos Amezuca if being emotionally attached to our possessions makes it difficult to get organized?  Often we feel that by giving up an unwanted gift, or keepsakes no … Continue reading

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Resolution Ideas – Organize Important Records in 2011

Let’s play a Get Organized Month game. In five minutes find all the important documents that relate to the milestones in your life.  Where are your Birth Certificate, Marriage Certificate, Divorce Documents, Death Certificates of immediate family, or even Wills or Trust documents? … Continue reading

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De-Cluttering Your Networking Group’s Business Card Box

Every weekday morning, entrepreneurs gather in cities around the world to network and grow their businesses by passing referrals to each other.  Most of these networking groups keep members’ business cards collected in a container to be passed on to colleagues … Continue reading

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Not Enough Time in the Day?

What did you not get to today?  If there is not enough time in the day, try to manage your time differently.  For the next few days, keep a list of what you wanted to accomplish.  Did you miss paying bills, or maybe … Continue reading

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Organizing Tools and Answers All in a Day

The Los Angeles Organizing Expo is the only expo in Los Angeles dedicated to the productivity industry happens this Monday, September 21.  The fifth annual NAPO-LA event will showcase time saving products, organizing solutions, tools and services held at the Olympic Collection in West … Continue reading

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Organized Travel for Summer

It’s summer and vacation time.  On a recent business trip to Philadelphia, I enjoyed a day to myself sight seeing the historic area of the city.  The week before I was working in the picturesque beach community of Newport  Beach … Continue reading

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Multitasking is not the best use of Time

This weekend I enjoyed going to the movies and seeing Star Trek.  It seems others thought it would be a good place to send text messages and check e-mails.  Even the week before the person next to me was continually using … Continue reading

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Business Dreams Revealed at Conference

The National Associationof Professional Organizers (NAPO)  just completed their 21st annual conference and it was rejuvenating, inspiring, and motivating.  The theme was “Making Business Dreams Come True” and Orlando was the setting. The education was only equalled by the networking with … Continue reading

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West Week Shares Business Principles for All Industries

The interior design industry desended upon the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood last week for West Week - an annual gathering to examine the latest products, styles, and trends for home decor.  Kicking off West Week was an elite panel of experts discussing The … Continue reading

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