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Motivational Quotes That I Love!

I see quotes all over the internet but there are some that catch my attention and make me feel great! Here are a few that I like. Maybe you will find some inspiration too...

Tuesday Tip in May: Fresh Air INTO Your House!

OPEN YOUR WINDOWS!!! Let fresh air permeate your home.  Open the windows! Add houseplants too! They can help clean the air inside your home! I find that a nice smelling home is important and one step is opening the windows and letting fresh air in. Takes any stale air out.

Some good plants:

Ferns
Snake Plants
Rubber plants
Aloe Vera
Spider Plants
Gerber Daisy

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2 Minute Tasks

Look around your house. Look around your cubicle. Look in your garage. Peak in the closet. Do you SEE anything you could do in 2 minutes or less? Be real! Are there things you could do to clean up or organize that would ONLY take a few minutes to complete????

Today's tip is:

Go ahead and do it!!!!!

Get Rid of the Wire Hangers!!

Are they laying around? Are they hanging in your closet , empty and taking up space?  You've got way more than you need, and the sight of them makes your closet seem even messier. Let your clothes breath by ditching most of the hangers you don't use (especially those wire dry-cleaning ones, which leave dents in your favorite blouse). If you need to restock, it's not a pricey investment, and you can buy the sturdier, tidier kind. Take them to the cleaners! Or throw them out!!!

I'm all about wooden hangers or huggable hangers.

In 30 Minutes!!

Set aside 30 minutes today!!!

ONLY 30 minutes.

JUST 30 minutes.

Okay! Now pick one thing to tackle and do it for 30 minutes. It doesn't matter what you choose. IT could be decluttering the junk drawer in the kitchen. Maybe its clearing off the floor in the bedroom closet. Attention might need to be paid to the kitchen table. Papers everywhere. Go through them!

I believe in you! I KNOW you can set aside 30 minutes. It doesn't matter if you finish in 30 minutes. You can continue OR stop when the 30 minutes are up! that's up to you. At least you can eliminate ONE sentence from your vocabulary:

I don't have time!

YAY!!! You Can Set Aside ONE Hour to Organize!

I just wanted to support those of you who are are following my Friday tip to set aside ONE HOUR this weekend and clean, sort or organize. If you did this yesterday (Saturday), congratulations! I am so proud of you ! If you are doing this today (Sunday), I'm your biggest cheerleader !!! You can do it! You will feel so much better.

This is a representation of time management. You can set aside an hour on any day of the week. YAY!!

A Beautiful Morning IN Sacramento!

Doing It For Yourself!

I am SO proud of you today! I hope you followed one or more of my tips this last week . If you did, I am happy and excited for you! If you haven't yet, there is always time to start one of them. They were tips for the week but they can apply to ANY and EVERY week!

End Of The Week Tip!

Here is a tip for the weekend:

Today, schedule ONE HOUR sometime this weekend and vow to clean, sort, or organize something or someplace in your house!*




*We place restrictions on ourselves. We always say we are TOO busy. In reality we DO have time. You have to WANT to eliminate something or change a piece of behavior to make change happen.

Thursday's One Sentence Tip!

Today's tip is:

When weeding out a junk drawer, collection, bring it all out to a large space (a table, area of floor, bed) to make it easier to make piles for keep, giveaway, donate, trash. 

Midweek One Sentence Tip

Here is today's one sentence tip:

Consider getting clear containers to store items in.*



*They have clear containers on the market in different colors, so when you store them on shelves, they can fit in to the decor of your space. Clear containers are great to SEE what you have. They are also a great monitoring tool for how MUCH you have.

Today's One Sentence Organizing Tip

Today's one sentence tip is:

Go thru your house, the whole house, and gather all pieces of jewelry (earrings, bracelets, necklaces, broaches, etc) and put them all in one place and if you don't have a case, grab a box/basket/big hat/something to put them all together.*


*And then vow to at some point get jewelry organizing box or hanging products and organize your jewelry. And keep them all together in one place!

The Week of One Sentence Tips!

Everyday this week , I will present a tip in ONE sentence. I am doing this in honor of our fast paced world of short attention spans and "cut to the chase" conversations. People want easy answers, quick solutions, short soundbites. So here we go.

Today One Sentence tip is :

Be truthful to yourself about your messy, unorganized, cluttered situation, it will set you free and can create the beginning of change.

5 Random But Useful Tips!

Take a large trash bag and go around the house/apartment and dump the trash in it from the smaller trashcans.

Flowers do wonders for adding beauty to any room!

Vacuuming can refresh a room.

Dusting can refresh a room.

Clear off the the top of the fridge.

Eww, What's On There!

Recently I have learned to look at my sponges. Yes, sponges. I saw a study that stated there are around 10 million bacteria per square inch of a kitchen sponge and a million per square inch on a dish cloth. I believe it!

Sponges are things we use everyday and may forget to think about changing out. I encourage you to change them out! I change mine when they smell, or when they are super frayed, of course. But now I just replace my sponges on a regular basis. I check them about every two weeks. 

Cobbwebs, Dustbunnies, Clutter Oh My!

I'm always concerned for home safety. Especially for homes with lots of clutter and "stuff". You don't want to create fire hazzards. It's another reason to clean out and organize. Here are a couple of reminders/tips:

Don't place anything on radiators or floor air/heat vents.
Don't place anything in shelves above radiators or floor air/heat vents.
Don't place anything too close to radiators and floor air/heat vents.
Vacuum radiators, floor air /heat vents, air conditioners every couple of weeks.

Give IT A Thought!

I invite you to think about why you aren’t organized and how its affecting your life. Then I want you to think of why you would want to get organized and how your life could improve because of it.

I ask you to think about your goals of organization, both big picture and small immediate plans. For me it was:I’m organizing to enjoy my life to the fullest. My goals are to have my office, home and yard organized. My immediate goal is to organize my home office and closets. Okay. That’s settled. NOW when can I start???

Getting started is the biggest hurdle! I give tips on this blog on how to start and different techniques and way to start. What I am asking now is WHEN to start? We ALL have busy lives and its easy to say, “I don’t have time to organize” or “I’m too tired these days”. There is ALWAYS time to organize! You don’t have to schedule LARGE chunks of time. I want you to be REALISTIC and HONEST with yourself on why you AREN’T organized? And apply the same rules of being realistic and honest and ask yourself, can you make the time to get organized? There are no rules on exactly when you organize. Every day you wake up is a day for you to start the organization process in your life.

Start in the summer months? In the Spring for Spring Cleaning? Start of the school year because the kids will be out of the house for 8 hrs a day? Right before a big family holiday like Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas? Maybe during part of your vacation? You take 2 weeks off. One week organize, the other GO on vacation. Or maybe its THIS weekend? Or TOMORROW? or TODAY????

When can you start organizing????