Posts Tagged ‘NAPO’
OHMIGOSH my professional society has a mascot
I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT SOOOOOOOO MUCH. I belong to the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) and the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD). ICD HAS A MASCOT. Charlie Dependable, a Build-A-Bear teddy bear. Read the whole story. I will always have a fondness for Build-A-Bear. My son’s first gift from…
Read MoreThe Container Store + NAPO GO Month = unbeatable combination
The Container Store is hosting Ask a Pro Organizer tables ALL ACROSS AMERICA in partnership with my professional society NAPO, the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, on Saturday January 31. It’s in observance of GO (GET ORGANIZED) Month, a long-standing and dearly-loved NAPO tradition that has inspired everything from Days of Service to…
Read MoreTimeless Advice from Harold L. Taylor
Harold L. Taylor is a revered member of the professional organizing community, a recipient of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals‘ Founder’s Award. A retiring colleague gifted her books to my NAPO chapter, WA State, and I grabbed Harold’s Making Time Work for You. The “new revised edition of the classic time management…
Read MoreTHANK YOU COSTCO
Costco published Corral the Chaos, a marvelous article about working with Professional Organizers, in its February 2025 Connections magazine for members. THANK YOU COSTCO!!!!! ANOTHER REASON I’M A SATISFIED MEMBER.
Read MoreRainbow Wedding Network
What do you do when you aren’t feeling great, so the hard stuff like bookkeeping ain’t gonna happen, and clients have been cancelling? You spend a few days teaching associates in the Rainbow Wedding Network about your colleagues. Because people getting married REALLY might need Organizers…
Read MoreReplaced by a bunch of books
I’m gonna be replaced by a bunch of books once I make this recommendation. I collect organizing books the way some people collect cookbooks (Spoiler alert, I also collect cookbooks. That’s a story for another day). One of the most illustrious members EVER of my profession, Valentina Sgro, Really Organized, wrote a fictional series about…
Read More$175/hour, free insults
I just signed a contract with a new client. I’m $110/hour + I have to charge sales tax on my services – DON’T get me started on how angry that makes me. I’ve earned the right to charge every penny of that $110/hour: I’m licensed, bonded and insured; I take continuing education classes constantly; I…
Read MoreI MISS PETER WALSH
I am soooooooooooooo sick of ho-my-way-e or-ganizing-the-highway TV shows. OHMIGOD – clients who don’t make more than the most pitiful, halfhearted, mewling peep about letting things go. I WANT my clients to fight back sometimes, it means they’re thinking and feeling the process. You can see the surfaces. Clients who don’t actually do the work.…
Read MoreApologies. Life.
Apologies. Life. I haven’t posted since June 15. Illness off-and-on. The weather. A family member who’s needed support. Some super-special, super-tiring clients. Being part of the team which converted my National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals chapter from a Seattle-based agency to a WA-state-focused body, which we formally celebrated on May 1 (YAY!!!!!). …
Read MoreSpring is Gonna have Sprung
I don’t know what it is about March and April but I get dizzy with blossoming conferences and seminars, every year. This year: March 4 – 5, the Online Hoarding Disorder Conference of the International OCD Foundation March 10, the Connecticut Women’s Consortium’s Buried In Treasures: The Nature and Treatment of Hoarding Disorder with David…
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