Archive for 2010
When Ambition Outweighs Energy
In: Systems
8 Dec 2010On the subject of food, my mother used to tell me “your eyes are bigger than your stomach!” On the subject of organizing, I have observed that, for many of my clients, their ambition significantly outweighs their energy. Don’t get me wrong. I think it is important to challenge ourselves. It’s OK for our reach [...]
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- Tags: ADHD, delegate, energy, Harold Taylor
The Best Defense Against Clutter
In: Clutter Control
21 Nov 2010The best defense is a strong offense. Variations on this expression can be attributed to many sources throughout military history, dating as far back as Sun Tzu and The Art of War. It can also be applied to the war on clutter. The idea is that if all your military efforts are focused on protecting [...]
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- Tags: strategy, war on clutter
More-ganized
In: Systems
8 Nov 2010The neighbors are talking. Clients have been telling me that their neighbors are questioning why they are working with a professional organizer. They are asking because these clients happen to be very successful people, who seem to have it all together. And they do! They are on top of all their priorities and are actually [...]
Trapper Keeper Thinking
In: Systems
28 Oct 2010How are your kids’ school organizing systems working so far this year? Do you remember the Mead Trapper Keeper from the 1980’s? In this commercial, the dumb guy has a semester’s worth papers explode out of his old binder while the smart girl neatly traps her week’s-worth of paper in her Trapper Keeper. I never [...]
Good Organizing Means Good Fun
In: Clutter Control
7 Oct 2010Being organized means getting to the good stuff faster, or at least it should… I’m amazed at how often my clients expect me to scold them for not putting things away between visits. First off, learning good organizing habits after a lifetime of bad ones is not going to happen overnight. Second, the homeless clutter [...]
About Matt Baier Organizing
Professional Organizer Matt Baier and his team declutter and organize homes and offices in Stamford, New Canaan, Greenwich, Westport, Darien, Norwalk, Fairfield, Westchester County, and New York City.
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- Floor Planning (5)
- Paper Management (25)
- Systems (65)
- Closet (10)
- Time Management (16)
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- Compelements
- To File Is To Find
- The Weekly Round Up
- My Case Against Paper Clips
- What’s Making Your Tasks So Difficult
- What A Waste?
- How Dedicated Zones Work
- Making Multi-purpose Work
- “We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!”
- The Right Sort
- Lisa Corrado: Matt, you are so right when you say many of what we consider tasks are actually projects. And I real [...]
- Steven: Tasks are simple. If you try to finish the tasks then think that you have completed the project. You [...]
- Elaine Hoffmann: I want to thank you and your amazing team for the great work you have done organizing my basement,at [...]
- Linda Kuppersmith: What a brilliant concept. As a business owner that wears several hats (Sales, marketing, accounting [...]
- Matt: Karen, sorry it's taken me so long to get back to your inquiry. I have used several different smart [...]