How Can A Professional Organizer Help You?

iStock_000009194822Have your asked yourself, “how can a professional organizer help me?” Professional organizers help people decrease stress and increase the time they have to spend towards friends and family. Professional organizers help people regain control of time, space and improve the functionality and appearance of their home and office. Professional organizers work with clients in their home or offices to enhance efficiency, boost productivity, allowing clients to channel more energy toward individual talents. Professional organizers help to simplify lives.

In Order to Succeed is a full-service professional organizing firm providing home and business organizing solutions, moving and relocation assistance, and time management to people in New York City, Connecticut, New Jersey and downstate New York State. Our Professional organizers help clients throughout the tri-state area make their homes and offices less stressful and more streamlined.

Our professional organizing specialists and professional organizing assistants work with people in New York City, Connecticut, New Jersey, and downstate New York state to de-clutter homes, offices, or calendars and create sustainable organizing systems to keep lives organized and clutter-free. By hiring a professional you’ll be able to increase productivity, save time, and optimize your resources.

How do you know if you should hire a professional organizer? If you answer yes to any of the following questions a professional organizer could help you simplify your life.

You feel overwhelmed when you open drawers and closets
Do you feel stressed out more often than not?
Do you want to understand why you accumulate stuff?
Do you want to learn how to efficiently sort, purge, and organize the stuff you have?
Do you want to design an effective organizing system for your home or business?
Do you want that organizing system to be one you, your family, and employees will actually use?
Do you want to find space within the space you already have?
Do you are moving your home or business and want it to be as stress free as possible?
Do you can’t see the surface of your desk in your office under piles of paperwork?
Do you frequently miss important deadlines?
Do you have difficulty keeping track of work and family schedules?
Do you want to learn how to work more efficiently?
Do you are embarrassed to invite people to you home due to all the clutter?
Do you want to create an efficient and effective organization system for your kitchen?
Do you have trouble completing tasks and feel there is never enough hours in the day?
Do you want to learn to work more efficiently?
Do you want to save money by being more efficient and productive?
Do you want to learn effective time management skills?
Do you have boxes in your closet, basement, or garage you haven’t looked in in three years?
Do you want to learn how to simplify your life?

In Order to Succeed has professional organizers in Brooklyn, New York City, Connecticut, New Jersey and downstate New York who need to organize an office, tame their paper piles, and technology, fill out insurance claims, de-clutter any area of a home such as a kitchen, or office space. Our professional organizers handle clutter clearing, wardrobe editing, cabinet, closet and storage area organization to make the most of any space. They define and a create a space for things most often used, create filing systems, develop simple systems for mail management, bill-paying, and household maintenance, and offer time consulting services to figure out your key life objectives and priorities. Our professional organizers will manage properties, set up email management and technological support, and handle lifestyle management and concierge services. Basically our professional organizers take on projects based on the needs and wishes of our clients. We want to help you be more productive, feel a sense of balance, recapture time and take the stress and complexity out of your home, work or move. Professional organizers simplify lives.

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5 Reasons Your Business Should Hire a Professional Organizer

18455_5302Professional organizers help clients decrease stress, regain control of time and space, improve the functionality and appearance of their office, enhance efficiency, boost productivity and help simplify lives, but you didn’t here it from us. Here are 5 reasons your business should hire a professional organizer, spoken by 5 people who did:

Stacks of various paperwork were scattered throughout my home office, and it became beyond burdensome. My family members and patients alike were dismayed to see the disarray. I knew something had to be done, but my tight family and work schedule allowed little time to do so. When I found In Order To Succeed®, I was more than happy to leave it to them to create order out of my chaotic situation. The results were dramatic! Denise immediately understood my working style and designed a plan to specifically fit my needs. She systematically eliminated the chaos and developed a system of filing and organization that is efficient and easy for me to use. And, anyone else who comes in to assist me finds the system seamless as well. I was worried that the vast amount of paperwork and clutter in my office would be too daunting, but Denise tackled the barrage head on, and then showed me ways to keep my office neat, organized and smooth- running from now on! I am forever grateful for her help. I cannot stress enough how much time and money In Order To Succeed® has saved me. My office is now a well-oiled machine! GR, Physician, Hoboken NJ

We hired In Order To Succeed® for a project of conducting much needed research. Our firm needed to determine whether to launch a new product our medical center had been considering for quite a long time. Our problem had been that we did not have the time or resources to take the first step. In Order To Succeed® managed to gather all the data necessary, both quickly and accurately, which helped us to make the decision to take next steps for new product development. In Order To Succeed® enabled us to get the ball rolling on an initiative that has been well received by our clientele, and profitable to our Center. In retrospect, we wish we had made the decision to hire In Order To Succeed® years ago. Major Medical Center, NY, NY

Nina, working with you was such a pleasure. I had been procrastinating about organizing my office. It just seemed like it was too much to do. Especially so, when I considered my large, time consuming regular work schedule. You made it easy, efficient and fun. Before I organized my workspace with your help, I had papers and magazines everywhere. I could never find anything and did not have a good paper flow. I had supplies in several different areas and I was constantly getting up from my desk, consistently disrupting my work. Now, I have organized files – both electronic and paper; and, my desk is clean and no longer cluttered. I’m so much more efficient. I no longer must get up from my desk all the time. SH Interior Designer, Fairfield CT

If you are starting a new phase in your personal life or business practice, I highly recommend utilizing Denise and her team of professional organizers. She helped me evaluate what was working and what was not working in my practice. She helped me develop a plan that I could achieve, and she kept me accountable for accomplishing the changes. Because she understands business processes and has a strong handle on what enhances professional effectiveness, she helped me go to the next level. If your hesitation is about giving up time out of your already crammed schedule that is all the more reason to hire her – with a little help from Denise in the time management arena you will have MORE time, not less. CC, Marketing Consultant, New Canaan, CT

I really benefit from knowing that our convenient weekly phone call is scheduled as a “standing meeting,” and that I’ll come out of the discussion with very concrete and customized goals for the coming week that suit MY specific needs. Denise keeps me accountable for making real progress each week. She’ll stay on top of me and always offers fresh ideas and sound advice. I never knew how much more I could accomplish by being more focused and organized. ASC, Advertising Executive, NY, NY

Further Reading
Learn more about In Order to Succeed’s Business Organizing Solutions
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Product Review: Snow Leopard

snow leopardIts been a little over a week since Apple introduced its new operating system Snow Leopard. In that week In Order To Succeed’s professional organizers and industry specialists who use Apple have been trying out the new system to bring you this product review.

Overall there are not a whole lot of differences between Snow Leopard and the previous operating system Leopard. Apple’s newest operating system does however, just feel cleaner, simpler, and more efficient, something we always love to see. It is faster, can support more memory, and allows for longer battery life.

Snow Leopard is incredibly easy to install simply insert the disk click, the install button and give it about 45 minutes.

In terms of quickness the applications you are most likely to see an improvement are in web browsing and Time Machine.

“The most significant performance boost was seen when making a Time Machine backup: 30 minutes in Snow Leopard versus 45 minutes in Leopard to backup 60GB of data via a FireWire 800 connection,” says Wired.com.

Snow Leopard runs faster than previous Apple operating systems because it is designed for Macs that have Intel Chips. Apple began using Intel chips in 2006, so if you have a Mac pre 2006, sadly, the new operating system isn’t going to work for you. It may be time to consider a computer upgrade

Other great improvements include the new version of QuickTime that will now convert clips to play on the iphone, ipods, and upload directly to YouTube. The built in email, calendar, and address book now support Microsoft Exchange Servers but only with the newest version.

The new operating is also much smaller freeing about 7 gigabytes of hard drive. Did we mention we also love things that save space?

The price tag of Snow Leopard is very reasonable $29 dollars for an individual user running leopard or $49 for a family pack with five users. If you are still using Tiger an individual user will cost $169 or $229 for a family pack. If you bought a Mac after June 8, 2009 you can upgrade for $9 but only until December 26, 2009 so make sure you take advantage of that special price.

Overall we think Snow Leopard is great. It is space saving, efficient, and just simpler.  We suggest you upgrade all though with all new operating systems it may be a good idea to give it about a month to make sure no bugs are discovered.

Do You Need a Professional Organizer?

professional organizers2Professional organizers help clients decrease stress, increase the time they have to spend towards friends and family, regain control of time and space, improve the functionality and appearance of their home and office, enhance efficiency, boost productivity, allow them to channel more energy toward individual talents, and help clients simplify their lives. Here are only a few of the many reasons you may need a professional organizer.

 

  1. Feeling overwhelmed when you open drawers and closets
  2. Stressing out more often than not
  3. Wanting to understand why you accumulate stuff
  4. Wanting to learn how to efficiently sort, purge, and organize the stuff you have
  5. Wanting to design an effective organizing system for your home or business
  6. Wanting that organizing system to be one you, your family, and employees will actually use
  7. Wanting to find space within the space you already have
  8. Moving your home or business and want it to be as stress free as possible
  9. Not seeing the surface of your desk in your office under piles of paperwork
  10. Frequently missing important deadlines
  11. Difficulty keeping track of work and family schedules
  12. Wanting to learn how to work more efficiently
  13. Being embarrassed to invite people to you home due to all the clutter
  14. Wanting to create an efficient and effective organization system for your kitchen
  15. Having trouble completing tasks and feel there is never enough hours in the day
  16. Wanting to learn to work more efficiently
  17. Wanting to save money be being more efficient and productive
  18. Wanting to learn effective time management skills
  19. Having boxes in your closet, basement, or garage you haven’t looked in in three years
  20. Wanting to learn how to simplify your life

Further Reading:
For more information on professional organizers and reasons why you might need one visit:

In Order To Succeed
Organized Home
Tuscon Professional Organizers
Let’s Get Organized
Home Transitions

Stress Free Business Moving Checklist

Just as moving a home is stressful so is moving an entire office. There’s the new desks and office spaces to assign, company contact information to change, permits to get, boxes to pack and then unpack and that’s only the beginning. In Order To Succeed‘s Stress Free Office Moving Checklist was desgined by our professional organizers to make your office moving as stress free as possible.

Business Moving Checklist

3 months prior to Moving Day
☐ Put together a “moving binder” to keep notes and file paperwork
☐ Hire a mover
☐ Create a floor plan of your new office and begin making decisions on use of space
☐ Hire or choose an employee to be a move coordinator
☐ Order new phone and fax numbers
☐ Start a list of who needs to be informed of change of address
☐ Arrange a meeting with the new office’s building manager

2 months prior to Moving Day
☐ Order change of address labels
☐ Order Internet access
☐ Take inventory of all furniture and computers
☐ Order any needed office furniture and or computers
☐ Inform vendors and customers of change of address
☐ Update website information
☐ Update financial information
☐ Notify post office of change of address

1 month prior to Moving Day
☐ Contact all utilities
☐ Arrange for special transportation of special office equipment such as copiers
☐ Store property that will not be moved
☐ Check to see if you need any moving permits
☐ Complete an office floor plan
☐ Assign new offices and phone numbers

3 weeks prior to Moving Day
☐ Dispose of items that cannot be moved
☐ Arrange for a cleaning company to prepare your office before your arrival
☐ Begin pack nonessentials
☐ Place any need do not move tags
☐ Tag all desk pads and chair pads

2 weeks prior to Moving Day
☐ Back up computers
☐ Inspect new building
☐ Begin to pack nonessentials
☐ Post diagrams of the office at new location
☐ Make sure all office doors in new location are marked
☐ Label bookcase shelves and pack
☐ Label and disconnect all computer components
☐ Distribute new key cards

1 week prior to Moving Day
☐ Confirm any travel reservations and/or arrival time of moving van
☐ Defrost refrigerator and freezer, propping doors open
☐ Pack your belongings or let movers pack
☐ Disconnect and prepare major appliances for move
☐ Set aside anything that will travel in your car so it will not be loaded on the truck
☐ Clean out supply cabinets
☐ Clean out desks
☐ Disconnect all office equipment

Moving Day
☐ If using a mover, be sure you or someone is at the old office to answer questions
☐ Collect old key cards
☐ Arrange to have an employee vista old office periodically to pick up mail

Download your own copy of In Order To Succeed‘s Stress Free Business Moving Checklist.