Serving Eastern Pennsylvania, Central and Southern New Jersey, and Delaware
Serving Eastern Pennsylvania, Central and Southern New Jersey, and Delaware
If Everything’s A Priority…Nothing is: Planning a Year That Actually Works with Ellen Faye, author of Productivity for How You’re Wired: Better Work. Better Life.
This meeting is for Professional Organizers and allied professionals.
Attendees will:
**Pause, reflect, and commit their intuitive priorities to paper to gain momentum and focus.
**Understand their structure preference to create a 2026 plan that truly fits the way they think and work.
**Get clear on their goals, intentions and priorities to achieve more and reduce stress.
TIME: 5 pm virtual networking/schmooz-a-rama, new & prospective member Q&A, 5:30 pm official start, chapter updates, 7 pm meeting wrap.
Chapter members, please register for free here. Meeting link and access code available in POINT messages and on POINT Philadelphia Community Home page.
Visitors welcome; register here.
Questions? Email Geri Chark Frankel, Director of Professional Development. or text/call 856-296-6605.
This meeting will not be recorded.
Holding Space From Afar: Exploring Virtual Organizing: What to know before saying yes or no to virtual work with Pam Holland
Attendees will:
For subscriber specials and free tips to declutter your life: http://bit.ly/DeclutterYourLife_Ezine
Existing chapter members, please register for free here. Meeting link and access code available in POINT messages and on POINT Philadelphia Community Home page.
Visitors welcome; register here.
Are you a budding organizing entrepreneur, a team member aiming to sharpen your skills, or an experienced business owner ready to scale sustainably? NAPO2026 Level Up is the ultimate virtual event designed to take you where you want to go. Click to register.
Get ready to grow with purpose and scale with confidence through a powerful blend of on-demand trainings and live sessions where you will learn from the best in the business how to elevate your client experience, systemize your services, and market like a pro.
With two targeted tracks, you’ll be able to choose the learning path that’s right for you!
Each track will be hosted in NAPO University and includes 4 on-demand courses and 4 live, presenter-led sessions.
Earn up to 1.0 CEU per session, with up to 16 CEUs available across both tracks!
Topic: Organizers’ Favorite Things
This is show-and-tell, professional organizer-style.
Come mix and mingle with your organizing friends, including chapter business partners who offer excellent complementary services to our community. This meeting is a lively and relaxed way to share our favorite tips and tools.
It’s time to reveal “what’s up your sleeve”! You will have one minute to show off your favorite tool or describe your go-to tech solution to your colleagues at this perennial crowd-pleaser. Newbies and veterans alike LOVE to see some new tricks.
Location: Homewood Suites by Hilton Philadelphia Plymouth Meeting, 200 Lee Dr, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
***NEW Time***: 4 pm Informal networking and schmoozing.
Official call to order at 4:30 pm.
6:30 pm is the close of the formal meeting. We’ll adjourn to a nearby restaurant to continue socializing and sharing.
Existing chapter members, please register for free here. (This is essential to help us plan for refreshments and supplies.)
*Special offer: NO GUEST FEE for the March 2026 meeting with pre-registration. Visitors welcome. Please pre-register here AND here. You do NOT need to pay the $25 guest fee, but you do need to register in advance.
Between The Home Edit and Marie Kondo, everyone wants to tidy up. Coupled with sheltering-in and working from home for months, the desire to live with less and deal with our messes has grown.
Thanksgiving and the approach of more holidays add incentive to put our homes in order. “Getting organized” has become a need, not a dream.
For those who want the expertise, guidance, and support of a professional organizer, hands on help is still available. If in-person organizing doesn’t work for you, virtual organizing is an option worth considering.
Virtual Organizing is not new…
• Over ten years ago, Sheila Delson, co-founder of The Institute for Chronic Disorganization, coined the term Virtual Organizing (V.O.). She has since educated experienced organizers in the best practices and most successful methods for V.O.
In years past, V.O. had been limited by familiarity with zoom and other remote options. With so many adjusting to zoom school, virtual offices and FaceTime meetings, that tech barrier is (virtually) gone making V.O. much more accessible.
Obvious benefits of working virtually:
• Guidance on where to start
• Expert clarity for steps involved
• During this pandemic: it is a no-risk option for working together
Five bonus benefits of working remotely:
• Accountability so you’ll follow-through on each step
• Access to resources and connections only your NAPO organizer can provide
• Control over what your organizer sees…or doesn’t 🙂
This may make it easier to focus on a discreet project before you’re ready to open yourself up to a whole room or house re-org.
• Affordability V.O. sessions are typically shorter (1 – 2 hours long) than in-person appointments (which could be half or whole day commitments)
• Any progress you make will be 100% YOURS to claim
If you already have experience working in-person with an organizer, transitioning to a virtual partnership puts the emphasis on what you can do. That’s empowering!
Virtual options aren’t limited to a geographic location.
That said, there are benefits to working with someone local:
• When working with a local organizer, your organizing work can be virtual. Even so, you can still benefit from having your organizer collect items or run some errands, if they handle donations or resale of items.• In the future: post-pandemic, once you’re more comfortable, or when the scope of your project changes, you’d have the option to invite your local organizer in for hands-on organizing. It’s all about choices!
Wishing is a good thing! It creates a vision of what we’d like for the future. Often the vision motivates us into action to make it come true. But the tricky part about a wish, compared to a goal, is sometimes we want our wish to magically happen without our taking action. Can you relate?
Here are some examples of Wishful Thinking that might be contributing to the clutter in your home:
The clothes you wish you could get into two or three sizes down.
The workout equipment you wish you would use.
The craft projects you wish you’d have to time to work on.
The second home you wish you could buy.
Charitable shops have been closed for some time due to the pandemic, and now that they’re opened, they are inundated with goods. Some people are reluctant to donate to charities for fear their items will be thrown in the trash. I’ve been told by Goodwill workers that they are storing items in trailers, however that statement is unverified. Another option for items you wish to sell or give away for free are websites like Freecycle.org and CraigsList.com, or local pages on Facebook Marketplace. Since summer is here, you can find ways exchange items with social distancing.
Wishful Thinking can be shifted to Realistic Thinking. If you have trouble getting started, consider the help of a professional organizer. Many are doing virtual organizing and can help you shift your thinking so letting go is easier. YOUR WISH FOR A CLUTTER-FREE HOME CAN COME TRUE!
Yes. Virtual organizing has been around and effective for much longer than this recent COVID-19 quarantine. However, our current degrees of isolation are making virtual organizing more attractive than ever before to both organizers and those looking for organizing help.
Surprised? You might be. Yes organizers can, and often do, physically redesign your office or room layouts, remove your clutter and set up your files and spaces. Yet, the more important and valuable benefit of what they do (what you are really paying for) is what you don’t see. It is the things you experience when working with a professional organizer and the resulting benefits of those experiences.
Whether in-person or virtually in-person, a professional organizer is a pot of gold when it comes to processes, goal setting, motivation and innovation. Partnering with clients from deciding where to start, to trouble-shooting client-specific challenges, to supporting continued maintenance – an organizing and productivity specialist is the way to go.
If you have already worked with a professional organizer, start there! Contact them and ask them if they are running virtual sessions or, if not, ask if they would consider trying one with you. I recommend sticking with someone with whom you already have a good rapport.
Otherwise, the National Association of Productivity and Organizing professionals (NAPO) and it’s local chapters (here in the Philly area it is NAPO-GPC) are the places to start. NAPO professionals invest in their businesses, training and professional development to make sure they are bringing the best services to their clients. What’s even more exciting is that, since they will serve you virtually, you could choose an organizer from literally anywhere!
During this time of COVID-19, many of us are experiencing some degree of isolation and limitation in our lives. Some of us are eager to get back to an unrestricted lifestyle and others are cautiously waiting it out until stronger assurances are announced. Either way, the support of a professional organizer will help unravel difficult decisions, set up successful solutions and motivate you to stay on track. It is a service that you may decide works best for you even after the quarantines are lifted!
