Carmen Coker
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Professional Organizing Expert
Carmen Coker Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Home & Relocation Organization
- Career Focus
- Professional Organizer, Business Owner, Author, Speaker
- Affiliation
- National Association of Professional Organizers
Carmen Coker honed her organizational skills during seven years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. In May 2007, after leaving the military and completing a short stint as a Department of Defense analyst, she established Clutterbugs.
Her goal is to assist people with the sometimes overwhelming task of putting order into their lives. Clutterbugs offers a wide range of programs and services including individual coaching and seminars.
Carmen blogs at Get Organized, which has been featured in Better Homes and Garden's Scrapbooks, etc magazine and was named one of the "Top 5 New Year's Worthy Websites" by the Santa Monica Mirror.
She has over 500 hours of organizing experience and is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Carmen Coker Books
Cheap Organizers: Recycle, Reuse, and Repurpose...
http://www.organizeclutterbugs.com/cheaporganizers.html
The Clutterbugs' Guide to Closet Organizaton
http://www.organizeclutterbugs.com/closetorganizationguide.html
The Clutterbugs' Guide to Office Organization
http://www.organizeclutterbugs.com/officeorganizationguide.html
The Clutterbugs' Guide to Time Management
http://www.organizeclutterbugs.com/timemanagementguide.html
The Clutterbugs' Guide to an Organized Christmas
http://www.organizeclutterbugs.com/organizedchristmasguide.html
101 Days to a More Organized You
http://www.organizeclutterbugs.com/moreorganizedyou.html
Articles by this expert
SelfGrowth articles and saved writing connected to this expert.
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Get Organized: Organizing Tools that Will Take Your Holiday Event From Blah to Brilliant!
Can you imagine the holidays without either throwing a party or attending one? It seems that this time of year just wouldn’t be complete without several get-togethers – or more! Which is why it’s only appropriate to discuss how you can host your own holiday bash in an oh-so organized fashion: I’ve taken a good look at the do’s and don’ts of party planning and broken it down into the few essentials you need to master for a super soiree. And included easy organizing tips to ensure your party is declared the event of the year!
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Get Organized: 4 Easy Steps to Organizing Success
So you recently made a New Year's Resolution "to get organized." Well, you're in good company! Organization is always a popular top 10 resolution every year. But now that you've set the organizing goal, how do you successfully negotiate the ins and outs of accomplishing it? Sometimes getting started is the hardest part but all you really need is motivation and a plan. Here are 4 tips to do just that. (1) Have a plan. Don't say: My goal is to get organized. Do say: I want to better manage my time. -Or- I want to tidy up my closet. -Or- I want to organize my estate.
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Resolved to Get Organized - 3 Steps to Kick-Start Organizing Goals
In January of this year, A-list celebrity Hillary Swank announced: “My New Year's resolution is to get rid of some stuff because I bring it in and I can't get rid of it.” If you were like Hillary Swank and you also placed organization on your list of New Year’s resolutions, then you were not alone. “To get organized” was one of the top 10 New Year’s resolutions for 2007, according to about.com and myGoals.com.
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Get Organized: The Four Essential Elements
Sophie set on the sofa at her friend Maria’s apartment, surveying the surroundings. Everything was so organized! The DVDs were categorized by type and were alphabetized by title. Books were on the shelf by order of height. The coffee table was ado ed with just the right amount of décor, not enough to be considered minimalist and not enough to be cluttered. Sophie sighed aloud. She thought, “I would love to be as organized as Maria! But this looks like too much effort to keep it together.
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Get Organized: 5 Simple Ways to Declutter Your Home Now
When it comes to tidying up your home, organizing and decluttering aimlessly isn’t enough. It’s essential to organize with one goal in mind, and that is to create a sanctuary where you and your family can easily live, work, and play for years to come. Here are the top five residential “trouble spots” for clutter, and what you can do to organize them. 1) The home office The problem: Overcrowded libraries with books, magazines, and files as well as big electronics like computers, printers, and shredders mean little extra, useable space.
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Get Organized: Time-Wasting Habits – and How to Break Them
"Perfectionism is a paralytic. It’s a powerful venom that causes productivity to die a slow, painful death.” ~ Carmen Coker When tackling a cluttered lifestyle, sometimes it’s not what you need to get that will help, it’s what you need to get rid of. Today we’re going to talk about three common time-wasters – and actions steps that will help you to get them out of your daily routine so that you can enjoy a clutter-free, stress-free life.
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How To Improve Your Memory And Feel More Organized
An old Chinese proverb declares that “the palest ink is better than the best memory.” And there’s a good reason for it! Relying on your memory can be tricky business. When you think about the fact that: You get exposed to more information in one day than a well-educated individual living in the 18th century encountered in a lifetime. You have up to 80,000 thoughts a day. You are bombarded with 4,000 messages daily in your environment. It’s no wonder that you forget things!
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Get Organized: Downton Abbey Helps with Home Organizing
Are you a Downton Abbey fan? I must admit, I’m a sucker for a good British period drama. There’s something about the architecture, the politics, the fashion, the formalities, the romance, and … the organizing. Yes, you read that right! Although discreet, there are organizing, time management, and productivity themes all throughout the ever-popular television show. Whether you are an avid Downton fan, a fan in passing, or anywhere in between, here are three ways that watching Downton Abbey helps you get organized: 1) Everyone has a job to do.
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Get Organized: The Organizing Tip That Will Change Your Life
Sometimes, it’s the simplest of things that can have the biggest impact on our lives. I know in my own life, in this fast-paced world we live in, it seems like there is never a time when something isn’t disorganized and out of place. Our homes, our cars, our offices, even our computers – they all have stacks, piles, bags and bits sitting around and cluttering things up with stuff that doesn’t belong.
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Get Organized: The Most Productive Week of Your Year is Waiting for You
Every single year, getting organized holds a solid place of honor among most people's top 10 New Year's resolutions. At the start of every January, millions of people around the world resolve that this year is the year that they will finally get organized. But by the end of that month, many of those same people are running out of steam as they give up hope of reaching their organizing goals.
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Get Organized: Take Back Control of Your Inbox
"Email is a system that delivers other people’s priorities to your attention. It’s up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It’s not the other way around.” ~ Chris Brogan There was a time when I would sit down in the morning to open my email and I would cringe a little, afraid to look at all the new messages piling into my Inbox already crammed full of messages I hadn’t yet had the time, or courage, to get to.
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Get Organized: The High Cost of Being Disorganized
There is an old proverb called “For Want of a Nail” that goes like this: For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a nail.
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Websites & resources
SelfGrowth-published websites, downloads, and contributor profile websites connected to this expert.
Website
Get Organized!
FREE Get Organized! Tip Kit + Dozens of free tips and tools to organize your home and your life.
November 19, 2008
Website
Home Organization Online
Discover hundreds of FREE tips, tools, and products that will boost your home organization skills and help you get organized once and for all!
November 19, 2008
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Clutterbugs
Dozens of FREE tips and tools to organize your home and your life, including a FREE "Get Organized" Tip Kit and weekly E-zine newsletter. Start here, start now - exterminate your clutterbug today!
September 23, 2007
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Carmen Coker
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves … self-discipline with all of them came first.
Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Founding Father Benjamin Franklin
…keep a tidy soul.
Author Mark Twain
Contacting Carmen Coker
Email: info@organizeclutterbugs.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Carmen_Coker/1279009210
Twitter: http://twitter.com/carmencoker
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/carmencoker
How to get started
Home Organization Online: http://www.home-organization-online.com/
Discover hundreds of FREE tips, tools, and products that will boost your home organization skills and help you get organized once and for all!
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Clutterbugs Website: http://www.OrganizeClutterbugs.com/
The website and store for my professional organizing company Clutterbugs.
Get Organized! Blog: http://getorganizedtips.blogspot.com/
A blog for the organizationally challenged! Tips, advice, and general musings about getting organized.