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Welcome To Living Orderly...
I would like to introduce you to our first edition of
Living Orderly, Living Well, which is the monthly newsletter for Living
Orderly, LLC. Living Orderly, LLC is a new professional organizing company
servicing the Tampa Bay area. The company is owned and operated by me,
Jill Ferguson, and I am assisted by my sister, Ginger Rivera. Some of you
know both of us from Video News Clip, the company I owned and operated
for twenty years. It has been a little over two years since the sale of
Video News Clip, and now I am back doing something I love, organizing! I
have really always been an organizer working for myself, my family, and
my friends. I am excited about being a professional organizer because I
know what kind of impact organization can have on your life. The time and
energy you save alone is so worth it, not to mention the amount of stress
you can actually relieve.
Now many of you will know Ginger as your Southern Living At
Home representative. Ginger will tell you that she has learned to be
organized from trying to juggle her family, home, work, and the time she
volunteers. Ginger and I are just fourteen months apart, so we grew up
together in the same house with the same parents but one of us was
organized from very early on and the other learned to be organized as an
adult. Now, that may say to you that some people are born with the
organizing gene, but it definitely tells you that organization is a
learned skill. A skill that anyone with the desire to be in better
control of their life can learn!
In each edition of Living Orderly, Living Well, we will
give you ideas and tips that will help you bring order to your life.
Jill
Why Hire A Professional Organizer?
Have you
said to yourself, “I want to get organized, or I’ve tried to get
organized”, but then you always find other things to do or your
organization attempts only last a short time? If either one of these
things sounds familiar then hiring a professional organizer (PO) may be
for you.
Let’s face it, there is always something better that you
would rather be doing than organizing. A professional organizer will keep
you accountable to the task at hand, and it will be more fun to work with
someone. With a PO you will get a fresh perspective on your surroundings.
A PO can also help assess your situation and come up with a plan of
attack rather than just attacking the situation. A Professional Organizer
will help to create systems for organization and teach you organizational
principles while you work that will help you maintain your new organized
space.
The
National Association of Professional Organizers describes a professional
organizer as someone who helps individuals and businesses take control of
their surroundings, their time, their paper, and their systems for life.
If you have been feeling like you are out of control of the things around
you and you’ve been unable to get them in order yourself, then it is time
to be proactive and call a professional organizer.
Time
To Tackle Your Clutter
Clutter tends to accumulate most every place that we land
— our desk, countertops, shelves, closets, even on our computer desktops.
Some of us are worse than others, but most of us can probably admit to
having clutter somewhere. It is possible, though, to have a clutter free
life, if we are willing to take the time to form some new habits. Below
are a few things to do that will get you started with de-cluttering your
surroundings.
It is
possible, though, to have a clutter free life, if we are willing to take
the time to form some new habits. Below are a few things to do that will
get you started with de-cluttering your surroundings.
Go through your house room to room with a basket and pick
up the things that belong in other places in your home. As your basket
becomes full, go put the things where they belong. Now in this process
you may also find things that go in the trash/recycle, can be given away,
or need to be returned to someone else. You need to take the appropriate
action for those things as well. Use the tip on the front page of this
newsletter for the things to be given away. You may want to go ahead and
put the things that need to be returned in your car. Break it up into
chunks of time that are manageable to you depending on the amount of
clutter you have in your rooms. Once you have freed the rooms of the
clutter then make this routine a habit either weekly or monthly. If you have
kids, get them involved because chances are a lot of the clutter belongs
to them.
To stop
clutter from coming in, make it a habit that when you bring something new
into your home you will get rid of one or more of your belongings. Try
looking at the rooms in your home as if you are
seeing them for the first time. Make sure that what you are looking at
are things that you like and enjoy. Chances are that you have been adding
to your décor without really looking at the things that need to be
retired. Just remember it may be time for you to pass them on for someone
else to enjoy.
For more tips and information
be sure to visit us at www.livingorderly.com and www.theprofessionalorganizer.com.
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