Do you struggle to get things done each week?
Are you drowning in paperwork, nervous that you’re dropping the ball on something important?
Are you are going through a life transition that’s creating chaos in your life?
Do you have spaces in your home that are adding unnecessary stress to your days?
Disorganization steals your space, your time, your mental energy. I can help you steal it back, one step at a time.
“Anne has been an incredible asset in helping me organize my home. She is terrific at implementing organizing systems, creating new habits and getting me hooked on Evernote. She is super flexible and very easy to work with - she also makes it fun!” -Amy, Singer/Songwriter & Mom
So, How Does it Work?
Step One
Schedule your no-obligation consult with Anne
Step Two
Together we design a personalized strategy for your situation
Step Three
We schedule your sessions
Step Four
Your stress level goes down as you gain a sense of control
Ready to Get Started?
Anne Lyons
Professional Organizer / Life & Productivity Coach
Why do kids get to have all the fun? As adults many of us let fun go somewhere along the way. Like everything else is so much more important that there isn’t just time for fun. Ever feel like you wasted time playing a video game, doing a puzzle, or doodling on a piece of paper? Ever feel like reading a cheap romance novel was indulgent and embarrassing. You know what it really was? FUN.
How do we deal with the emotions that the crises abroad and at home generate, yet we are largely powerless to affect?
I was recently invited to do an exercise where I had to visualize the end of my life and look at my “older, wiser self”. I had to imagine - as if watching it on a screen - where she was; the feel of that place, the smell of it. I was asked to contemplate as a curious outsider - what does her life look like? What would she want me to know? What would she say were her greatest experiences, joys, sources of gratitude? What might her regrets be? Here’s what Big Anne showed me:
I was gone for a week, and it wasn’t a total news blackout for me – I got the headlines. Upon my return home, the stressful news of the world hadn’t changed much. Climate change was still making the weather scary. Political parties still sniping at each other and starting culture wars. Bad guys around the world are still being greedy and cruel to the less fortunate. People still frightened by things that they don’t understand about each other. It was not made better or worse by my lack of consuming the details.
Also as a professional organizer for over ten years, I know all to well what it’s like to take too much of your parents' stuff. I can’t count the number of clients whose initial call with me includes the phrase “...oh and I’ve got a bunch of things in my basement that came from my parents’ house that I need to figure out what to do with…” That was a burden that I did not want for myself. I was very deliberate about what I chose to keep take home with me.
Some people are able to plan their regular content months in advance. I tend to wait for inspiration to strike and it usually does. I did actually have multiple ideas, so I decided to give you the nuggets of inspiration I had this month. Sometimes nuggets are all you need.
Instead of New Year’s Resolutions, I considered a list of what I’m NOT gonna do. But it felt negative, and I couldn’t come up with a great list. So I flipped the script. Not a list of what I HOPE to do. Not a list of what I WON’T do. I decided to just make a list of what I’ll KEEP doing. Recognize what works in my life and keep doing that. A sample:
You want less clutter in your life. So do your friends and family! Here is a list of clutter-free gift ideas to help you all achieve that goal. A couple of them actually take clutter away…
…The voice told me to - but I replied to that voice with: “I’ll do it when I get in the car.” A brief procrastination, but one that made the hour I lost that day an absolute waste of time, instead of the heroic parental gesture it was intended to be.
What’s your brain keeping you from doing? Find your own Raffi sound bath and see what wonders you might experience.