A Professional Organizer enhances the lives of clients by designing systems and processes using organizing principles and through transferring organizing skills. Professional Organizers help individuals and businesses take control of their surroundings, their time, their paper, and their systems for life. (Source: National Association of Professional Organizers)

• You will feel calmer and more in control of your life.
• You will be able to get the most important things done first.
• You will be able to locate things when you need them.
• You will save money by reducing your storage needs and eliminating redundant purchases, as well as avoiding late fees on your bills

No!  A Professional Organizer will teach you organizing techniques that will enable you to decide what can be thrown away and what should be kept.

If you could do it yourself, you would have already done it!  Reasons why you haven’t include:

• You can't justify taking the time to organize when there are so many other pressing tasks.
• You never learned organizing skills.
• Your mess is has too much emotional context for you to tackle on your own.
• You associate being organized with inflexibility and lack of spontaneity.
• You are afraid that being organized will diminish your creativity.

On the contrary.  Once you have learned how to keep clutter at bay, you can free your mind of the minutiae of everyday life and can exercise your creativity without distractions.

Everybody can benefit from being more organized, even people who don't view themselves as "the organized type".  A Professional Organizer knows that people have different styles, and that an alphabetized filing system will work for some but not for others.  Your Organizer will work closely with you to determine your style and design organizational systems that will feel natural to you.

Not usually.  Your Organizer needs to understand what is important to you, what goals you want to achieve, how you want to spend your time, and what habits and distractions are getting in your way.  In addition, an important result of working with a Professional Organizer is the transfer of skills that will enable you to stay organized after the Organizer leaves.  This means that you will need to work together during most of your organizing sessions.

During the first session, your Organizer will view your space, discuss your organizing objectives, and find out what is working for you and what isn't.  The Organizer will give you feedback on what changes can be made to achieve your objectives, and together you will create a organizing plan. Throughout subsequent sessions, you and your Organizer will carry out that plan, with frequent checkpoints to ensure that you are comfortable with the changes. 

Call Organizing Goddess, LLC, for a free phone consultation at (212) 249-3537.