Home Organizing Seminars

Minding Your Matters® offers home organizing seminars to help people create a calm and restful home environment. While each seminar has a basic content and structure, presentations are customized to meet the specific needs of your audience. Contact us for specific details about content, format, length of time, and pricing for these seminars.

Upcoming seminars

Bust Through Time Bandit Barriers

Is your stress level high because you are always in “react mode”? Have you ever said, “For once I would like to be ahead of the game.”? This seminar addresses organizing your time in relation to your personal goals and life plans. We will explore erasing procrastination, setting priorities, striving for excellence instead of perfection, and delegating unwanted tasks. By learning to create a flexible and balanced schedule, you will be able to complete necessary life tasks more quickly and create time for more pleasurable pursuits.  

Contain Your Collections and Photos

Are your photos in their original packaging or on your computer in one big file? Is your favorite collection in whatever box was handy the items came off a shelf? Is the memorabilia from a past trip in a bag somewhere? Photos, collections, and memorabilia represent cherished memories, but often the way they are “housed” is anything but admirable. Attendees will learn methods to better maintain and honor these memories.

Corralling Your Home Calendar

Have you tried different types of planners only to abandon them when they don't seem to "work"? Do you maintain several different calendars? The objective of this seminar is for participants to gain knowledge to enable a calendar/planner choice that complements personal preferences and increases personal productivity. Topics include the pros and cons of paper-based versus digital planners as well as features to consider when selecting a planner.

Eliminate Email Overwhelm

Do you get overwhelmed by the number of e-mails you receive? E-mail seems to appear twice as fast as it can be processed.  Even worse is the paper that results from the emails and any attachments. Getting caught up in answering e-mails is a major impediment to the successful completion of other tasks.  We will explore techniques to relieve you of the e-mail burden and its’ “brother” the paper pile and to keep them at bay once and for all!

Hone in on Home Organization

Is clutter at home cluttering your mind during the day? Clutter is the enemy of organization, and disarray in one area can impact how effective you are in all areas – at home, in your mind, at work and at play. From the garage to the bathroom, this seminar will give you the information to organize your home in a way that will help you be more organized personally and professionally.

Living at the Speed of Stress

Has your life been invaded by stress? If your answer is a resounding "YES", it's time to learn strategies to thrive in a world that has gone (slightly) bonkers. Going beyond stress management basics, this seminar equips attendees with the tools to avert common stressors and to successfully adapt to new ones. Discover how to use some stress to your advantage and then dismiss the rest! 

Managing Your Home Financial Matters

Do you know what's in your investment portfolio and why? Do you understand how the market really works? Do you know what tax documents to keep and how long to retain them? This seminar will address your current and future financial needs as well as the best methods for organizing your home financial documents.

This seminar is co-developed by Janice Russell, CPO-CD, of Minding Your Matters® Organizing Consultants and Greg Brissette, Vice President/Investments at Janney Montgomery Scott.

Organizing for a Less Stressful Holiday Season 

Do you want to reduce stress and increase time during the holiday season? Do you find yourself getting frustrated trying to buy gifts, plan parties, and decorate within a short period of time? Would you like to be able to enjoy the holiday season? If you would like to “declutter” the busyness of the holidays, this seminar will help you discover how to simplify gift buying and party planning, organize for trouble-free decorating, and prevent the dread of “undecorating ”.

Organizing Students for Success

Does your student remember in the morning that he or she needs to take special supplies to school that day (thus making you late for work)? Are you tired of nagging about scattered textbooks, papers, sports equipment and clothes? Organizing is a learned skill; however, Organizing 101 isn’t taught in very many high schools or colleges. Yet, organized students experience greater success in school and in life. Decrease the stress in your household by leading the way toward an organized school life for your teens.

Organizing with Style: Using Your Personality Style to Understand and Organize Your Life

Have you tried to get organized only to have clutter and chaos enter the space again? Do you feel that others stay organized while you struggle to bring order out of chaos? Organizing is most successful when you capitalize on your strengths. This seminar addresses organizing in relation to your personality. You will learn to appreciate the strengths of different personality types and to organize a common space with an individual of a dissimilar style.

A Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) Type assessment (which reflects how you see and interact with the world) is included with the seminar. Participants will learn a basic organizing framework applicable to any space and strategies for working with diverse personality styles. Attendees will leave with an action plan for dealing with a current organizing challenge.

This seminar is co-developed by Janice Russell, CPO-CD, of Minding Your Matters® Organizing Consultants and Belinda Dowdy, Life Coach.

Perish the Home Paper Pile

Is the paper clutter at home distracting you from concentrating on other home or work tasks? Paper clutter is one of the greatest sources of frustration at home. Seeing piles of paper can de-motivate you and prevent you from being effective at home. From which papers to keep to how and where to file those papers, this seminar will help you to be engaged and motivated and give you the information you need to file your papers in a way that will help you be more organized with your home papers.

Stop Letting “Stuff” Overwhelm You

Do you feel so overwhelmed by “stuff” that you have considered taking a torch to your personal clutter? Does the stress associated with these piles of confusion cause you to be less efficient in your personal tasks? This seminar will help expose the habits surrounding “stuff accumulation”. Participants will learn decluttering and organizing principles that are applicable in all spaces and situations.

Tackle the “No Time” Trap

Do you want to hide whenever someone says, “Can you …?” Whether it is a colleague or a friend, people are always asking for our time. We usually respond in one of two ways: say “yes” without thinking or say “I don’t have any time." Regardless of our answer, we either feel guilty or angry. Our ability to feel satisfied with how we use our time at home hinges on identifying time wasters, interruption sources, ineffective to-do list formats, inadequate calendaring methods, and inability to say “no” successfully. This seminar will explore techniques to improve your ability to avoid such barriers during the 24 hours you are allotted each day.

There's Nothing Quite Like Organized Children 

Do you get frustrated by always reminding your children to put away toys, clothes or books that have been scattered around the house? Does your student remind you in the morning that they need to take special supplies to school that day (thus making you late for work)? Parenting challenges associated with disorganization can distract you from work and personal tasks. Organizing is a learned skill; however Organizing 101 isn’t taught in very many high schools or colleges. Organized children can prevent mental clutter which sidetracks you from your ability to concentrate on the professional or personal task at hand.