Tips For Achieving Goals Along Your Decluttering Journey

Oct 29

Make A Difference Day

By Jonda Beattie It's All About You: A Personalized Approach to Achieving Your Organizing Goals

I think we all know that we make differences in people’s lives and in our world but Make a Difference Day is a day to think about what else we might add into our lives to make a difference on this planet. Make a Difference Day was created by “USA Weekend” magazine in 1992 to offer community support and encourage volunteerism across the country. This year the official day is October 28. The idea behind Make a Difference Day is to remind us that each and every one of us can make a difference in our world. As we read…

Oct 15

Plan To Enjoy Your Holidays

By Jonda Beattie It's All About You: A Personalized Approach to Achieving Your Organizing Goals, Uncategorized

What can you do now that you’re an adult to enjoy your holidays? Remember when as children how we all looked forward to enjoying the upcoming holidays? First there was Halloween with all spooky decorations, planning what we wanted to dress up as, and the anticipation of oodles of candy made it a great October holiday. Then came Thanksgiving. We looked forward to the wonderful Thanksgiving feast and the influx of family members. In my family there was an adult table and a children’s table. The older children looked forward to graduating to the adult table. My family celebrated Christmas….

Sep 10

Does Your Home Still Suit You?

By Jonda Beattie It's All About You: A Personalized Approach to Achieving Your Organizing Goals

I feel that I have lived many lives. I was a child. Then I was a young married adult. Before I knew it, I was a mother. I was a divorcee. Then I was a widow. I was a retiree. Now, I am an older married woman and entrepreneur. Just as the role I played in my life has changed so has my wardrobe, hairstyles, and my home. The home that suited me at one point does not still suit me. Does your home still suit you? My different homes Sometimes your home just happens when you are on…

Aug 13

Four Tips To Help You Focus

By Jonda Beattie It's All About You: A Personalized Approach to Achieving Your Organizing Goals

Do you often come to the end of your day and wonder where the day went? Are the items on your “to do” list barely touched? Maybe instead of staying focused and moving forward on your priorities, you drift from one thing to another, never finishing anything. You float through the day distracted by thoughts that pop into your brain with no sense of focus. You spend time looking for items you just used like your phone, your scissors, or even your cup of coffee. If this sounds like you, help is at hand. I have four tips to help…

Jul 09

Reasons To Create Personal Boundaries

By Jonda Beattie It's All About You: A Personalized Approach to Achieving Your Organizing Goals

Most everyone knows that a fence or a wall set around a building is a boundary. It lets people know that when they enter, they are entering someone else’s property. Why does someone want to have personal boundaries? According to Oxford Languages a boundary is a line that marks the limits of an area. When thinking about personal boundaries, I like to think of it as having an invisible fence that protects us and that has a gate we control. Everyone has boundaries but not everyone has the same boundaries. It is important that your boundaries work for you rather…

May 07

7 Ways To Ensure Your Gifts Are A Blessing, Not Clutter

By Jonda Beattie It's All About You: A Personalized Approach to Achieving Your Organizing Goals, Uncategorized

,Are your gifts a blessing? We like to think that our gifts are a blessing and not clutter. We picture smiling faces as the recipient opens our package. But what if that person does not need or want the item? What if the gift becomes just more clutter in their home? Then the gift becomes a burden. I recently worked with a mother who was decluttering her daughter’s bedroom. As we dug through the clutter, we came across multiple packages of bath bombs including one that was a red nose on a Rudolph card. There was also a plethora of…

Apr 29

April Is Stress Awareness Month

By Jonda Beattie It's All About You: A Personalized Approach to Achieving Your Organizing Goals

Did you know that April is the National Stress Awareness Month? It’s common to hear someone say that they are “stressed out” but what is stress and how are we aware of it? According to Psychology Today, we are aware of stress when we feel a disconnect between the situation in which we find ourselves and our resources to deal with it. Sometimes the stressful situation is very real, like when we are attacked by a dog. At other times the situation is imagined like thinking about heavy traffic each morning. Real or imagined, our bodies act the same way….

Mar 12

Spring Cleaning – Yeah or Nay?

By Jonda Beattie It's All About You: A Personalized Approach to Achieving Your Organizing Goals

Spring is rapidly approaching, and we want our homes to reflect the freshness and beauty of the season. Spring cleaning is a traditional way of making this happen. Concept of Spring Cleaning Spring cleaning is not a new concept. According to Wikipedia spring cleaning dates back to more than 3000 years B.C. Examples are the ancient Iranian Festival of Nowruz that is still practiced and the ancient Jewish custom of cleaning the house in preparation for the springtime feast of Passover. In the northern hemisphere, springtime weather is warm enough to open the house and still cool enough to keep…

Feb 05

How Do We Spend Our Time?

By Jonda Beattie It's All About You: A Personalized Approach to Achieving Your Organizing Goals, Uncategorized

February is Time Management Month. Can we really manage time? Intellectually everyone knows that we can’t control or manage time. This is what we can do. We can manage how we spend our time. We all know that time just keeps moving along. Twenty-four hours each day and we can’t change that. So, when we say time management what we are talking about is good choice management. You can’t save time – just spend your time wisely. Before I give you tips to get better control of your time the first thing to do is track how you spend your…

Aug 23

Remember, You Are The Expert On You When Hiring A Professional Organizer

By Diane Quintana It's All About You: A Personalized Approach to Achieving Your Organizing Goals

We at Release Repurpose Reorganize are organizing experts. We started this jointly owned organizing business in 2020, we also own our individual organizing businesses and have been working as professional organizers since 2005. Even before that Jonda and I were organizing things here and there. While we are organizing experts, we are not the expert when it comes to knowing you, our clients. You are the expert in the subject of you. We firmly believe that the best way to create personalized organizing systems for you is to work with your strengths and preferences. Most professional organizers feel the same…

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