Why We Procrastinate and What We’re Planning to Do About It…Later

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Why do we procrastinate? We’re probably not lazy or lacking in self-control. We know what needs to be done and why it’s important to us. So why do we go out of our way to avoid the inevitable? In episode #200 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores procrastination and avoidance behavior and suggests tips and techniques for breaking an unproductive cycle.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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A Game You Can Win: Using Gamification in Your Organizing Process

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Gamification is the practice of incorporating traditional elements of games—scorekeeping, rewards, social components, etc., to non-game contexts, such as decluttering and organizing. In episode #197 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the pros and cons of gamifying your organizing process and suggests ways to set yourself up to win big.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Are We Ever Finished Decluttering? Organizing With No End in Sight

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People who struggle with clutter sometimes get discouraged by how far away and out of reach our goals seem to be. We ask ourselves, “Will I ever finish?” In episode #183 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, ponders the question of whether we’re ever really finished decluttering and offers tips for setting organizing goals that keep you engaged and motivated.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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May Is for Motivation: How to Energize Your Organizing Projects

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Are you running out of steam on long-term organizing goals, or were you short on enthusiasm in the first place? In episode #165 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for finding—or creating—the motivation to keep your organizing projects and commitments going strong.

We’ve prepared a survey to learn more about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #165: Reasons to Organize | External and Internal Influences.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Efficiency versus Effectiveness | How to Avoid Decluttering Burnout

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Have you ever spent hours organizing minutia, only to discover that you hadn’t made any progress toward your most urgent goals? In this episode, we’ll explore the distinction between efficiency and effectiveness, especially as it applies to organizing and productivity.

When you’re wrangling a long-term decluttering project, sooner or later your energy wanes and decision fatigue kicks in. We’ll talk about causes of decluttering burnout and offer strategies to help you move past it.

In episode #163 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses these topics and answers questions from our viewers and listeners.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Creative Destruction: Craft a Strategy to Organize Almost Any Room

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Every home is different, and every room of the house has its own special clutter problems. But with a thoughtful approach, you can look beneath the mess to see a plan and design in the chaos. In our next meeting/our next webcast/today’s webcast, we’ll outline a process for analyzing the contents, purposes, and layout of a room to create a decluttering and organizing strategy.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Celebrate “Get Organized Month” by (re)Starting Organizing Projects

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January is “Get Organized Month”! But after the year-end shakeup, it can be hard to figure out how to start new projects, restart past efforts, make a solid plan, find motivation, and keep momentum. In episode #148 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for planning and implementing a rock-solid organizing project.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Ask Us Anything: Motivation; Organize Papers for Tax Season; Stuff for Company

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In this week’s “Ask Us Anything” (AUA) show, we answer your questions and discuss topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.

In this episode:

  • Tips to cultivate motivation or keep your motivation fresh
  • Organize papers to be ready for tax-filing time
  • The stuff we keep to be ready for company

In episode #145 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers audience questions and discusses these topics, as well as other organizing and decluttering issues.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Make Room for the Life You Love: Setting Organizing Goals for 2022

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Stuff becomes clutter when it stands in the way of our vision for what we want and need in our homes: relationships, fulfillment, comfort, peace of mind, and so on. In episode #97 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explains how to turn clutter obstacles into the starting point and motivation for setting concrete goals and planning new organizing projects.

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Make Space for the Life You Love: Organizing Goals for 2017 (Meetup)

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Our stuff only becomes clutter when it stands in the way of other things that we want and need, like relationships, comfort, and peace of mind. The December 2016 Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup examines the many ways that clutter keeps us from living the lives we dream of.

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