Janice Russell
CPO-CD, COC, M.Ed.
Free
Organizer Coach Expert
Janice Russell Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Facilitating organization with lasting results with clients in business or residential settings who are affected by chronic disorganization, AD/HD and related challenges.
- Best Sellers
- Get Organized This Year!
- Career Focus
- Speaker, Organizer Coach, Author
- Affiliation
- Institute for Challenging Disorganization, National Association of Professional Organizers, Coach Approach for Organizers
Developer of the Flexible Structure Method™, Janice and her team at Minding Your Matters® has an impressive reputation for helping clients achieve “flow.” “Flow” as Janice calls it, is the blissful state of having an organizational process that supports your life and lifestyle. A Certified Professional Organizer in Chronic Disorganization, Janice is also a Certified Organizer Coach and the author of “Get Organized This Year!” Janice’s practical and caring approach to organizing is the basis of her high-content live workshops and webinars. Janice is a Golden Circle Member of National Association of Professional Organizers and Program Mentor Coach for the Institute for Challenging Disorganization. She serves the organizational needs and challenges of both business and residential clients, as well as provides training intensives for fellow organizers nationwide. To enjoy meaningful tips and gain immediate access to all of Janice valuable resources, please visit her website at www.MindingYourMatters.com. To schedule a consultation or request Janice to speak please call 919-467-7058.
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A New Relationship With Your Stuff and Schedule This Year
We’ve just started a new year. How do you want your life to be different at the end of 2012 from how it is right now? Think of one or two ways that you’d like to change your personal or professional life. Got your answer? My guess is that many of you would like to decrease “overwhelm.” The “overwhelm” associated with too much stuff in your physical space, too many tasks in your schedule or too many thoughts in your mind. If that sounds like you, read on for how to achieve better life-flow in 2012.
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Develop the Details to Get Organized This Year
Want to get organized this year? “Getting organized” is one of the most popular New Year’s Resolutions. Let’s bring your desire for organization into reality by developing a plan. Go ahead and groan, but without a destination, you don’t know how to get there. You may have heard of SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely. Without becoming overwhelmed or too legalistic, you can make SMART organizing goals.
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Are You Most Productive on Tuesdays?
On Monday, you are recovering from the weekend and you have emails, voicemails and tasks that have come in over the weekend. Plus, there are probably still some to-do’s from last week. On Friday, you anticipate the weekend and it is easy to get distracted from work. Thursday is almost Friday, so it’s almost the weekend, too. Plus, it’s the best day to work on tasks you’ve procrastinated but which are due at the end of the week. Wednesday is halfway through the week. You see how little you’ve done and how much there is left to do. So Tuesday it is.
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Life Skills for Teens, Greater Sanity for Parents
As a professional organizer working with the chronically disorganized, I see teens everywhere who could use some help in getting organized. It’s a skill set schools tend to overlook, but one that parents know is crucial for success in every area of life. In the blink of an eye, those teens will turn into adults who find that just getting out of the house on time each morning, planning a meal, paying bills by due dates, finding needed items and working a job all require persistent organizing skills. Why are so many of us at a loss? It helps if we expose some common myths.
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What Your Organization or Disorganization Will Say About You
When people leave this world, they always leave a legacy. The legacy might be food, clothing or shelter for those less fortunate. It might be a building used to educate others. The legacy might be children who solve major world problems. These are the bigger legacies. The more obvious ones. Since we all leave a legacy, here are some of the less obvious ones: 1. The person who donated goods to a local soup kitchen each week. 2. Someone who consistently dropped off clothes & household items to a homeless shelter.
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Boundaries Lead to Wellness
May is Family Wellness Month. Whether you are a family of one or a family of ten or more, there are a number of ways that you can enhance wellness in your life. This article will speak to wellness in terms of mental health as it relates to a functional space and calendar.
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Take the Paper Filing Plunge
Ready to implement a new filing system? While choosing your system is an important first step, most of us get stuck when it comes time to actually do the work. So here are some ideas about how to get started:
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Things, Things and More Things
No one can miss the fact that the holiday season is upon us. We all know that this time of year is filled with shopping, parties, decorating, stress for some, and peace for others. Lurking in the back of many people’s minds are thoughts related to Things. All of us interact with Things, whether work or personal objects, each day. During the holidays we have additional Things to keep track of. For example, we have Things for decorating, Things to buy for others, Things for baking special recipes, and Things we will receive from others. Whew! That is lots of Things!
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Decrease Clutter, Decrease Your Stress
April is Stress Awareness Month. Most people are already aware of stress in their lives! But did you know stress is a major cause of clutter? There is schedule clutter because we have more tasks, obligations, and activities than we have hours in the day. There is physical clutter, which overwhelms our homes and workplaces and is caused by bringing in more items. There is information clutter due to the overabundance of newspapers, TV channels, internet access, and magazines. One of the most effective ways to reduce clutter is to attack it at the source.
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Increase Organization through Listening
While listening doesn't sound like something required to organize, it actually is an important part of reaching your organizing goals.
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Where, oh Where can My Papers Go?
How many of the following papers could you find in one minute? -Birth Certificate -Closing documents for your home or rental agreement -All supporting documents for taxes -Record of most recent subscription to a magazine or newspaper -Most recent social security statement By the way, that was one minute for all of the documents, not one minute per document! If you can't find at least one of those quickly, it's time to reorganize your files. It's a task few enjoy, but when it comes to important documents, you'll soon be glad you can find them easily and quickly.
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Archive Your Past Tax Documents
Whew! The tax deadline is behind us! Now, it's time to figure out what to do with that pile of papers covering the desk or dining room table. Not sure where to start? There is an easy way to archive taxes to ensure that you are withi IRS rules. Plus, you don't really have to think about it much each year. First, purchase a box of two-inch box-bottom hanging folders at your local office supply store. Whether they are colored or not is up to you.
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Minding Your Matters
Organizing and productivity tips offered via blog posts and articles. Links to our other social media sites provide additional content for organizing and increasing productivity in your personal and professional life.
May 19, 2017
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Minding Your Matters Organizing
The Minding Your Matters Organizing website provides resources for organizing for office, time, and residential spaces. The site includes product and book suggestions, links to many other informational websites, and a blog that covers many organizing topics.
March 10, 2008
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Janice Russell
"If you bring something into your space that doesn't have a home, it is immediately clutter!" - Janice Russell
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How to get started
Overwhelmed by too much stuff or too many tasks? Here are some suggestions for decreasing stuff or task overwhelm:
- Listen to the audio Stop Stuff Overwhelm, download a monthly organizing checklist and access Matter Minder Organizing Tips FREE
- Check out complimentary information about generating stuff-flow
- Browse our websites to find out more about our business and residential organizing, organizer coaching and presentation services.