Posts Tagged ‘home office’
How Dedicated Zones Work
In: Systems
1 Dec 2011“Dedicated Zone” is an expression professional organizers (like me) throw around a lot, but what exactly does it mean and how does it work? A dedicated zone is an area, as small as a drawer or as large as a room, that one reserves exclusively for one category. The dedicated zone should be determined at [...]
Making Multi-purpose Work
In: Floor Planning
19 Nov 2011One of the things I hear a lot from my clients is, “I’d like to see YOUR home!” The translation seems to be, “are you REALLY able to do all the stuff you’re suggesting I do?” I am. And the reason I am is because I don’t get my ideas from magazines. I am constantly [...]
The Right Sort
In: Clutter Control
31 Oct 2011When speaking of people, “the right sort” tends to have a very nasty usage, but when speaking of excess stuff, “the right sort” is the best way to get some really good organizing started. Typically, when one resolves to organize a cluttered basement or home office, there is a tendency to throw out not enough [...]
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- Tags: clothes, home office, paper, purging, sorting
Organizing, A Month At A Time
In: Clutter Control
6 Jan 2011Getting organized is a very popular New Year’s resolution, but it’s much easier said than done. A great way to approach it is to focus on organizing one room at a time. This is particularly helpful if you have a plan for matching the right month with the right room. Here is just such a [...]
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- Tags: attic garage, basement, home office, kitchen, resolution
Reaching Goals
In: Time Management
1 Jan 2009Originally from Matt Baier’s Organizing Works Newsletter, January 2009 REACHING GOALS January is the month we like to make a fresh start. Getting organized is a very popular New Year’s resolution and this month I would like talk specifically about how to stick to the goals we set. These goals can be as small as [...]
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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- 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 [...]