The Benefits of Hiring a Professional Organizer

Hiring a Professional Organizer can be a game-changer, especially if clutter and disorganization are causing stress or inefficiency in your life. A Professional Organizer is a skilled expert who helps you, the individual and/or owner declutter, optimize spaces, and streamline processes so that you can make better use of your time at home and running your business being productive. The professional organizer helps you find peace of mind with behind-the-scenes organization.

Groom Your Room is a Professional Organization Company that provides customized solutions to help simplify your environment, save you time and reduce stress.

"I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency."- Theresa May

How does this work:

1-     Saves Time and Reduces Stress:

A Professional Organizer helps to streamline your space, makes it easier to find things, and maintain order. Groom Your Room saves you hours of frustration and overwhelm by eliminating the mental burden of clutter.

2-     Creates Long-Term Systems:

Groom Your Room is more than just a company that tidies up your space(s), we implement systems that you approve of to help you stay organized long after we have left. Whether it is helping to maximize better storage solutions or daily habits, setting you and your family or business up for success is part of our mission.

3-     Maximizes Your Space:

Groom Your Room knows how to make the most of any space, whether it is a small apartment or a large home or a business. Every inch is ensured to be used efficiently.

4-     Helps During Life Transitions:

Major life changes, moving in or moving out, downsizing, adding to the family or planning for your legacy all hold the potential of being stressful, uncertain, and overwhelming. Groom Your Room can help ease the transition and make the process smoother.

5-     Improves Productivity:

A clutter-free environment boosts focus and efficiency. Knowing where to go for what you need instead of searching all over and wasting precious time is in itself time saving but also fills the house with pride and gives time back to you so that you can do more of what you love to do. Groom Your Room wants to make sure that your home can practically take care of itself.

6-     Reduces Emotional Overwhelm:

Especially when closing a home due to death or distance, clutter that is not yours is emotionally draining. Groom Your Room takes the burden of that emotion and works with you to make sure that what you want to do with a lifetime of “stuff” is handled in the utmost respectful and caring way possible. Groom Your Room guides you through decision making processes and takes as much of the physical burden from you as possible.

7-     Saves Money in the Long Run:

Disorganization leads to misplaced items (think scissors, flashlights, matches, sunglasses, favorite writing implement, etc.), duplicate purchases, and wasted resources and time. Investing in a professional organizer prevents these unnecessary expenses and the bonus is that your professional organizer gets to know you and your systems so well chances are, in the long term, you don’t have to participate in the declutter process, your organizer can do the job for you.

Ok, ok. I understand why I need a professional organizer. But I am so nervous that I won’t be able to keep the organization working for me due to old habits or laziness or lack of time.

Do you have any tips that could arm me with hope?

“Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.” -Henry Cloud

Practical Tips to Maintain your Organized and Decluttered Space:

1-     Follow the one-in-two-out rule:

It used to be that one-in-one-out was the rule but if progress is what you are after, and lasting organization is what will bring peace of mind and less stress to your home or space, then bump it up to one-in-two-out. One new item in and 2 old items out, will quickly help your spaces take center stage. Think about clothing. If all you do is bring one new sweater in and only take one older sweater out, where are you creating space and breath? By taking 2 items out, by being that honest with yourself, you prevent build-up of indecision and clutter.

2-     Assign Every Item a Home:

Everything in your home/business should have a place where it belongs. Designating specific places for your items will make your world so much more fun to manage. Out of place items are immediate clutter and now time has to be spent finding where it belongs which takes time away from something that really needs your attention.

3-     Create Daily Resets:

Each evening, after the kitchen is ready for rest for the night, take 10-15 minutes to pick up from the day. Grab a favorite basket or box and go around collecting what is out of place. In the morning or after dinner the next night, put all the collected items where they belong. By creating this habit, you are preventing clutter from building up and practicing creating good organizing habits.

4-     Use Storage Wisely:

Avoid stuffing drawers and bins with random items. You may think you are hiding the mess but subconsciously you are creating resistance to using that drawer or bin because you remember that it is now a “junk” drawer and not taking on the responsibility of becoming something of value to your home and family. Remember, streamlining and labeling specific uses for storage is what helps create good organizational habits.

5-     Be Mindful of “Just in Case”:

In most cases, if the item hasn’t been used in 6 months or more and costs less than $50 to replace and will take less than 50 minutes to replace it, donate it or let it go now because right now is what you are living, not the “maybe” of tomorrow. “Just in case” is a huge clutter trap.

6-     Regular Declutter Sessions:

For example, after the end of every school year, declutter calendars, back packs, books, etc. After a change of seasons declutter winter clothes, landscape equipment, and shoes. A monthly or seasonally scheduled declutter will help you stay in the know as to what you need, what you can donate and what you can re-purpose or recycle.

7-     Involve the Whole Family:

Teaching your children how to empower their own decision-making will set them up for a more organized future. You don’t have to take on the burden of organizing everyone all alone. The family can help and learn how to determine what is important to the family. Even with the help of a professional organizer, the whole family can take their part in creating less stress, less burden of time and more freedom of pleasurable pursuits.

Call to Action:

If you have never worked with a professional organizer, why not give it a try. Groom Your Room offers a free consultation where we sit down and discuss your goals and outcomes. We plan, plot a pathway toward success and reduce overwhelm and stress. Chaos managed and deep, cleansing breaths guaranteed. Check us out at www.groomyourroom.com.