Gayle shares the latest organizing insights she gathered while attending the 2016 conference of the National Association of Professional Organizers in Atlanta, Georgia.
For our April meeting, we’ll dig into the core source of paper backlog: an impulse to collect that’s out of sync with our will and ability to process. We’ll explore ways to rethink and retool paper storage by defining “bigger buckets.” Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, facilitates the April 2016 monthly meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but what if you can’t figure out how to even start moving?
The Clutter Fairy presents a talk called “Leap into Spring Cleaning: 10 Quick Projects with Big Impact” to the MOMS Club of Fulshear/Simonton, Texas.
Our February meetup presents a slate 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 you moving forward by leaps and bounds.
Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy, will speak to seniors at the Fonteno Senior Center about organizing paper to get ready for tax time.
Clutter can be both a symptom and a cause of our inability to let go of the past and move forward. At the January 2016 meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy, will examine how our stuff can anchor us to unproductive habits instead of supporting our ever-evolving lives. We’ll talk about how to “set an expiration date” on clutter to open up space for new possibilities in 2016.
The Clutter Fairy invites you to visit Ikea Houston for NAPO Houston’s 2016 GO Month event on Saturday, January 23, 2016. Get your shredding done for free while you watch, courtesy of Southern Shred!
The key cause of the pileup is that paper never stops coming—not a day goes by that we don’t collect more junk mail, bills, receipts, magazines, invitations, advertisements, and so on. For our December 2015 meetup, we’ll examine the habits and beliefs that contribute to paper clutter. We’ll offer ideas to help you stem the tide of incoming paper, clear your backlog, and build a system to keep from ever falling behind again.
The September 2015 meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup talked about how the lines between you and your stuff get blurred in the first place, and how to start seeing the boundaries clearly again.
