Mi Perfil

Well here it is, summer again.  If you are travelling this summer, do you have your travel plans organized?  I use a desktop filing system (called a SwiftFile) that contains individual folders for the 12 months and 31 days of the month.  As I make reservations and receive confirmations, I place all of the documentation into my filing system in the folder

I am so excited about a new productivity tool called the Productive Environment Platform or iPEP.  It was created by the Productive Environment Institute and PBWorks (formerly PBWiki).  The Productive Environment Institute (formerly Paper Tiger Productivity Institute), founded by the "Paper Tiger Lady" Barbara Hemphill, has developed many systems and

Greetings from Orlando, FL.  I am down here for the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) annual conference.  I thought I would share my highlights from each day.

The day started for me with a trip through the exhibit hall.  There were many vendors displaying the latest and greatest organizing products.  I was particularly impressed with the

Happy Earth Day!  Today is the one day of the year when the 3 R's, Reduce - Reuse - Recycle, are on everyone's mind.  Of course there are so many ways to incorporated the 3Rs into your life, and getting organized is one of them.

Many of the organizing supplies you use (file folders, manila folders, envelopes, plastic bins and containers) can be used over and

Last week I launched my new FREE webinar series "Effective Paper Management Systems" using tools such as the Internet and telephone to deliver my message.  While this is a new concept for some, many people are regularly attending webinars.  For those of you asking "what is a webinar?", it is basically a seminar that is delivered over the Internet (web). 

An article came out this week in the New York Times detailing the author's experience working with a professional organizer to organize her home office.  http://tinyurl.com/cqvykk  Of course I love it when anything is published about the work of organizing consultants because it brings awareness to the type of work that we do.

The important message in the

Late last night I finished my email newsletter on the topic of creating simple digital notebooks in Microsoft Word.  A digital notebook is a digital "dumping ground" for information.  You type notes into it, you cut and paste information from emails or websites, etc.  I am not going into all of the details here.  You can read more about it in my newsletter