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.
It’s easy to look at our own collections through filters of memory and nostalgia and to rationalize our attachments until our spaces are overflowing with the physical reminders of our pasts. Our August meetup will examine the rationalizations we use to hold on to things that we should logically let go. We’ll suggest an approach to decision-making that balances sentimental value with our real-world conditions of time, space, and resources.
Do you cringe when you look at—or even think about—your list of things to do? Does your list shame you for what you haven’t accomplished instead of helping and motivating you to manage your time and tasks? It’s easy to forget that the to-do list is supposed to work for you, not vice versa.
At our July meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll explore sources of task-management resistance. We’ll talk about how to rethink your list as a tool for success instead of a catalog of failures.
