If you're gearing up for spring cleaning but don't know where to start, we have a lot of great ideas for you! For the February 2019 meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we'll offer a grab-bag of small projects where you can score big decluttering wins. We'll look at often-neglected areas of our homes and lives and offer pointers to get moving forward in spring 2019.
Sometimes we find ourselves in situations that require us to deal with a lot of stuff in a short time—a serious illness, a death, a natural disaster. You can’t keep these crises from striking, but there are steps you can take now that will help you (or your caregivers or heirs) manage better when trouble arises. At our January 24, 2019, meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll talk about how to plan and prepare so you can minimize the impact of clutter emergencies on yourself or your loved ones.
The studio where an artist or crafter works can be the birthplace of genius…or the place where great ideas go to die. The difference is sometimes just a matter of organization—being able to see, find, and use the beautiful materials that inspire and feed your creativity. For the next meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll talk about how to know when your studio has stopped supporting your work. We’ll suggest a few ideas to reset your creative space and refresh your creative soul.
The studio where an artist or crafter works can be the birthplace of genius…or the place where great ideas go to die. The difference is sometimes just a matter of organization—being able to see, find, and use the beautiful materials that inspire and feed your creativity. For the next meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll talk about how to know when your studio has stopped supporting your work. We’ll suggest a few ideas to reset your creative space and refresh your creative soul.
People with clutter issues often report feeling overwhelmed—they know where they’d like to end up, but they can’t see a way to get there. At our October 25, 2018, meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll examine the thoughts and behaviors that underlie overwhelm. We’ll suggest some better ways to think about clutter problems, and we’ll send you home with a few practical pointers to get unstuck and stay in motion on your organizing goals.
The studio where an artist or crafter works can be the birthplace of genius…or the place where great ideas go to die. The difference is sometimes just a matter of organization—being able to see, find, and use the beautiful materials that inspire and feed your creativity. For the next meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll talk about how to know when your studio has stopped supporting your work. We’ll suggest a few ideas to reset your creative space and refresh your creative soul.
Gayle Goddard will be the guest speaker at the September 2018 monthly meeting of the Quilt Guild of Greater Houston. The topic of the presentation will be “Organizing Your Craft Area.”
The Clutter Fairy has helped a lot of people pack a lot of stuff. Are you packing for a move, for long-term storage offsite, for storage in your home, or to send something in the mail or by courier service? At the August meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll offer advice on best practices and warn you about pitfalls to avoid so your stuff will be in good shape when it finally comes out of the box.
In January, we introduced the idea of algorithms—sets of simple rules—for filtering our stuff to fit our spaces. That presentation generated great feedback and a lot of requests for more examples. For the next meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll suggest criteria you can apply to more types of clutter, including kids’ stuff, office supplies, reading material, and more. We’ll talk about periodically revisiting and adjusting your rules to reduce your collections even more as your organizing project gains momentum.
Negative emotions complicate and compound the difficulty we have processing clutter. Guilt, shame, fear, grief, anger, and other painful feelings reduce our ability to concentrate and make decisions, and cluttered spaces and piles of stuff can aggravate the emotional distress. For the June meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we'll offer a few ideas to help you work around or through the negative emotions.
