Welcome to the Organize 
Right Now Blog by Professional Organizer Lea Schneider.
Along with my Organize Online Team, I work to bring inspiration on the positive impact of organization to both home and business. My team of professional organizers, work to Organize Online via phone and email. We share advice to help you be able to tackle everything from piles of papers to walk-in closets missing their floors. We help you figure out where to start, what to do next, what to pitch, what to keep and where to keep it. We keep you motivated all along the way.
We hope to help others achieve that peaceful and satisfying feeling of being in control of ones own environment. Organizing can lead people to find a more stress-free life by reducing clutter, organizing and prioritizing. Vowed and promised to get organized in the past. This time, you can really make it work because you can team up with a professional organizer for expert how-to advice. Ready to get started? Go to Organize Right Now!
Here’s a quick bio about me:
Author of Growing Up Organized: A Mom-to-Mom Guide , available on amazon.com.
Member National Association of Professional Organizers, NAPO
Member Golden Circle NAPO
Motivational speaker and writer. Twelve years experience as a newspaper journalist covering food, home and garden.
Advice quoted in:
Women’s Day, Natural Health and Better Homes and Garden’s Kids Rooms, College News, Southern Breeze and Bella magazines and in the following publications: Pensacola News Journal (Florida), Principal Financial Group Newsletter, Wilmington News Journal (Delaware), The Jackson Sun (Tennessee), The Daily Columbian (Washington), The Herald-Dispatch(West Virginia), Radio Sandy Springs 1620 AM (Atlanta), NewsTalk 101.5 (Tennessee), WBBJ ABC-TV, (Tennessee), Finally Organized Finally Free for the Office by Maria Gracia.
Organizing writings can be found at What’s Cooking America, My Roommate is Driving Me Crazy, The Housekeeping Channel, OnlineOrganizing, and throughout the Professional Organizers forum at Get Organized Now and more.
Teacher of organizing classes for both home and office.
Member Association of Food Journalists
FANTASTIC blog… I have a question… My mother (who suffers from massive anxiety disorders) lives with us. She can NOT seem to part with books – her bedroom is positively lined with them. Now my 14 year old is starting to do the same, and when I say “why don’t we give this one away” he says, but I like that one. ACK!!! BARF!!!!! BLURG!!!! STRESSSSSS!!!! My tiny townhouse is become a dusty library!!!
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By: seasofsilver on November 26, 2008
at 7:04 pm
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you like it.
It can indeed be very stressful to share your space with others…and even more stressful for it to be others who are disorganized.
On my desk, I have a note posted to help me with the volume of reading material that comes my way…blogs, emails, books, magazines, websites and on and on. It is “Not everything is worth knowing or saving.” What you pay for the saving is your time. Things fill up your space and take up your time. Life is precious and I hate to waste mine on stuff.
Your mother and your son have different issues. You need different plans to help you organize your house and deal with their things and needs.
One of the great ways to get help in creating an organizing plan is to work with my team of professional organizers. I have some great experts at my company, http://www.organizerightnow.com, and they help people just like you via phone and email. You get one-on-one organizing advice and a plan of action geared to your family’s special situation. I’ve sent you some info.
One of the best things you can do for your son is to be a role model. Make good decisions about what you keep and what you let go of. Have a dialog about things. Everyday gives an opportunity to reinforce the “too much stuff” lesson as say to him “pitch out that junk mail as we don’t need it.” Or, “Can you gather up the old newspapers and magazines and put them out.” Or, “Help me take these clothes we don’t need to the homeless shelter.” Keep up the dialog. Explain why you need or don’t need things.
Best wishes!
By: Organize Right Now on November 26, 2008
at 10:38 pm