Tired of getting great ideas and not using them?
You have a lot going on in your business. It’s hard to keep track of everything and stay caught up.
I have too many projects going on at the same time, too many ideas to follow up on…
My work in progress sometimes devolves into chaos and clutter. It ends up staying out while I’m doing other work, and next thing I know, my desk and the floor around it are swamped.
I grab a scrap of paper here, there, wherever, and make some important notes on it. Then pretty promptly lose it!
Sound familiar?
Most people believe organization is a rigid formula requiring diligence and perfection. You’re busy! You stay caught up when you can, but you suspect that there’s a better way. Just – when do you have time to figure it out?
You don’t have to crack down to get organized.
Being organized isn’t an either/or proposition. What you need is a new way to approach it. It’s time to drop the belief that there’s something wrong with you because there’s a mess and incomplete projects around you.
It’s time to work with your creative impulses.
You’re always going to create new stuff – and a mess in the process – that’s just how creativity works. You’re still going to get sidetracked sometimes. However, you can discover how to channel this creative energy and fluidness so that it helps you and your business instead of holding you back.
How can you help me if you’re not in my office?
Great question!
If you’re wondering how I can help you virtually, you’re certainly not the first to ask! It seems odd because most people assume that organizing is an in-person experience.
Unlike most organizers, I’m also a coach.
Most organizers will come in and fix your problem for you. That feels yucky to me because I don’t think you need fixing. You just have challenges that need creative solutions. As a coach, I help you clarify problem areas and discover creative solutions.
For example, if you have a big old pile of papers on the corner of your desk, I ask you lots of questions about what’s in the pile. Once you got clear about what you needed, we’d brainstorm about what would work better for you.
We talk. We co-create solutions. Together, we take into consideration things like:
- your working style
- the size of your space
- the amount of storage you have
- your learning style
- who you share the space with
- your budget (financial and time limitations)
- any sticky areas, habits, or frustrations
- what your business needs to succeed
You get solutions that actually help you focus better and feel more productive – without making your work harder. You get relief and clarity and results.
I feel like I’m in your space
When we’re talking about practical issues like furniture placement, I’ve found 2 simple ways to simulate being in your space with you:
- Take panoramic photos of your space and send them to me.
- Meet on Skype video so you can give me a tour of your space.
These are really effective – and they’re always optional. Most of my clients just meet with me on the phone and we talk. I ask lots and lots of questions. I really like listening to you. Sometimes I get intuitive ‘hits’ and run ideas by you to see how they sound. But most of the time, I listen and ask questions that help you find your own answers, your own solutions.
The unique thing about working with Inspired Home Office
Do you feel overwhelmed some days? Frustrated? Organizing isn’t always about the stuff. Sometimes the biggest barrier to creating order is what you believe about the stuff.
Many of the clients I work with have struggled their entire lives striving for perfection and believing they perpetually fall short. In our work together, my clients find that disorganization resolves itself when they begin to examine and release the high expectations they have of themselves. Their work flow actually improves. Their enthusiasm returns. Their lives get simpler – by addressing the stuff around them and the stuff inside too.
If you just want to talk organizing, we’ll just talk organizing. But if you want room for the whole you in the process, it’s here. You’ll receive nothing but compassion, respect, and non-judgment.
Instead of struggling, try something different.
You don’t have to struggle. You can create unique organizing systems that last. It is possible to have the order you crave and a thriving business.
Are you ready for a change?
If what I’ve described sounds better that the things you’ve tried so far, I’d love to hear from you. You can either contact me or choose from the options below.
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Hey Jennifer,
Things are going well. The change in my office has caused a change in the way I’m thinking and I’ve found that both are causing changes everywhere else. I’ve gotten my office straight, and am letting it sit awhile, while I work on the rest of the house!
The idea that “Jen said it’s ok” has allowed me to rediscover hidden piles of things, and things to do, around the house.
It was a pleasure working with you and I find that I’m sending “Thanks” your way several times a week as I work through those rediscovered piles. And make peace, or pieces, with it. 
Cheers,
Walter P. Brown, Novel Website Design
Hi Jennifer,
So, this weird thing has started to happen, and I’m kinda thinking that it’s not necessarily a coincidence… One “big” thing I did (feels big to me) was move my laptop out of my bed and into the project/office room… Seems like not such a big thing…
BUT, here’s the weird part: I’ve never ever thought that photography was something that *I* could do to, like, make money, you know? Recently, though, more and more of my friends seem to be coming out of the woodwork to ask me to take photos for them – 3 people this week alone…and they’ve been offering to pay me. Say WHAAAAA???
Anyway – this is all a long way of saying that it just doesn’t seem like a total coincidence that after i shifted *where* i do my photo work/play, other things started to move. It reminded me of you saying about how moving even one thing out alters the energy of the space…
I still have a lot of space I need to clear out – physical and mental – but dang, I can’t help but think that I’ve made some decent start…
Thanks again,
Stacie Somers
Before we started working together, my office was okay… except that the piles would come and multiply at night. It was fairly common that I couldn’t see my desktop, and that I would go into overwhelm trying to track everything that was going on… It was hard to get to the proactive, creative projects to grow and develop.
Not to mention how many emails and little details, little to me, but big to the clients or customers affected, kept getting dropped. Ugh! It felt horrible!
I had some doubts that it could work over the phone – I have to admit. I there are places I need real hand-holding, and I doubted that phone support would really work.
Working with you, well, short of a cure for cancer… I don’t mean to be flippant, but it’s totally transformed my day-to-day working. My office is neat and organized, and stays that way. My digital files are getting more organized and easier to navigate every day. And this means that I’m effective, I’m on task, and when I do procrastinate, I no longer have the excuse of cleaning up my office- because it’s already there.
Truly amazing to see that I can have a work environment that fits me and molds itself to how I best work.
And here’s the best thing: a lot of the overwhelm has disappeared. Even though I still have the same number of things to do, and I still can’t get finished everything I need to – the fact is that now everything has a home, and nothing is getting dropped, forgotten or lost, means that when I quit for the day, whether it’s at noon, 5pm or 8pm, I can leave feeling relaxed, knowing that it will still be there, tomorrow, and I don’t have to track it all in my head.
If a successful business owner was considering working with you [Jen], I’d say, “Pay the money, let her work on you.” Really, there are lots of internal blockages to efficiency, and I do a lot of them. And yet, if the office itself doesn’t match how you work, what’s gonna stick? The efficiency or the mess?
How much time do I spend in my office each week? Don’t ask… if I’m going to spend that much time in it, it better be a place of refuge, of nourishment, and it better be something that I enjoy being in, that really, really works. So shut up and work with her already. 
That’s from the heart.
Mark Silver, Heart of Business
Other 1-on-1 successes:
Darcy Prince’s epiphany