I recently read the book ‘Getting Organized’ by Chris Crouch. He focuses on changing behavior and points out that anytime we encounter a new idea there are three possible outcomes:

1. Nothing will happen
2. We will alter our behavior in some minor ways
3. The idea will significantly change our behavior and our life forever

A year ago I worked with my client Susan in Alpine, Utah. She greeted me when I arrived with this statement, “I am just NOT an organized person!” “My mind does NOT work that way.” She and I worked side-by-side for a total of 10 hours. Susan learned, Read more…

Photo Organizing in my own home is a routine project that I attack quarterly. Each time a new season rolls around I spend one day photo organizing including sorting, purging, labeling (naming) and storing my new digital photographs and prints. Read on down the page for 5 photo organizing tips I’ve come to understand over the years. But before you get to these tips, I’ve got great news for you.

Because I love to learn how to better organize anything & everything, I recently spent a few days researching the best ideas AND free and low cost products available for organizing printed images and digital photos. I have created a $7.70 downloadable product, my Photo Organizing Mastery Set, that comes immediately to your email inbox and includes:

• The best priced photo scanner and where you can rent it
• My “top 10″ photo organizing tips
• My 5 step SPARK guide for easy photo organizing
• The 5 best FREE photo managers for digital photos
• The useful 4-point naming formula for digital photographs
• My “best tools & products” page for printed  images
• Where to get FREE digital photo editing tools

 Now to my 5 Photo Organizing Tips   Read more…

via MarthaStewart.com

We all know that a garage recycling center is a useful idea. However, most garages do not have an actual organizing system in place to make recycling easily doable. MarthaStewart.com has a good idea and offers some nice recycle container stickers to make the job look good. She reminds us that recycling may save the planet — but it ruins the corner of your kitchen or garage until collection day. An easy-to-make garage recycling center can help you set a workable system in place.

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If you live outside Utah, we do virtual organizing sessions nationwide.

One of my favorite holiday traditions is hosting a game night for my extended family. This night includes those that live locally and those that come to town for the holidays. Typically we have 30 attend.

I just watched a TV segment produced by Stephanie Bryson of Studio 5 titled Best Family Games 2011. (Stephanie produced a few of the segments in which I was invited to be the organizing expert.) Stephanie included some fun games in the segment. Her criteria for the games she chose to highlight:

• Easy to learn
• Wide age appeal
• Quick to play

Of those listed, my personal favorites are included here   Read more…

   My Get Organized ACT+SPARK formula is once again so helpful. A month ago I did a little Analyzing and decided to bottle salsa with my home grown celebrity and sun sugar tomatoes picked from my backyard garden. The salsa recipe came from my sister, Kristi. She collected it from a Minnesota friend of hers. It really is the MOST delicious salsa I have tasted. Kristi shared onions and peppers from her garden so all I had to purchase was a can of green chilies and a few other pepper types.
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This post will allow you to rethink HOW you will handle the organization and dispersal of the items necessary for kids lunches in your home. I recently presented a “Organize your Home Spaces” workshop. One of the class attendees, Brea Mefford of Highland UT, a sweet young mother of 6 (VERY IMPRESSIVE!) was motivated to fine-tune the system she used for kids lunches in her home. I asked her to email me the photos and information so you too can consider using the kids lunch system she has set in place. I found it to be very creative. Here are Brea’s suggestions:

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I know you have asked yourself, “Is organizing a yard sale worth the effort?” Listed here are the ’how to’s' of organizing a yard sale that IS worth your time and effort.  My 5 step SPARK formula is your secret to success. It walks you through the needed planning and progression of a yard sale worth holding. Read more…

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Organize it Up with Wall Organization!

As my culminating BYU internship work experience with Vicki Winterton and ORGANIZING Mind over Matter,  I was invited into the home of  one of Vicki’s clients to work alongside them on Mrs. R’s combination home office / craft room.   Mrs. R is a busy Mom located in Orem, UT.  Her office/craft room had become a catch-all for any item she had no designated spot for. She had a wall organization system in place but no idea how to categorize it so piles had taken over the room. Vicki met with her previously to ASSESS the space and CREATE a plan. This busy Mom of four had found the time to pull everything out of the room.  She’d sorted into three general categories the items that would go back into the room. Read more…

Don’t miss the ONLY Utah household waste collection event in Utah County this year. Thanks to the Utah county health department you can bring your “ dangerous stuff” to this scheduled drop-off event for SAFE disposal! The keyword here is SAFE! Safe for you…Safe for the collectors…and Safe for the environment.
Please take note, the Utah County Health Department will only accept: Read more…

Home Office Decorating from photobucket

  Home office decorating adds personality and uniqueness besides completing an organized office.  I am guest blogger, Virginia Kestler, a BYU college student intern for Vicki Winterton, Utah’s professional organizer.  I graduate next month with a degree in interior design. This article will deal with  home office decorating. Once you decorate to display your personality and you organize to increase your productivity and efficiency, YOU will feel comfortable and at peace in your home office. Listed below are my suggestions for making your home office reflect your personality. Read more…