You know you need a professional organizer at home if one or more of the following applies to you:

• You feel guilty when you look at piles of clutter and mess in your home
• You have unread magazines older than 2 years
• You avoid inviting people to your house because you think it is a disorganized mess
• You cannot find anything in your garage
• You have rooms or drawers in your house that are just plain scary
• You haven’t seen the top of your dining room table in a long, long time
• More than once, you have made a firm resolve to be more organized
• You feel that your clutter is out of control
• You buy replacements for things you own but cannot find in your house
• Most of your plastic containers in your kitchen probably don’t have lids
• If you use email daily: you have more than 10 messages in your In folder; more than 30 in your Sent and Delete folder

You know you need a professional organizer at work if one or more of the following applies to you:

• If you use email daily: you have more than 10 messages in your In folder; more than 30 in your Sent and Delete folder
• You often wish that someone, anyone(!) will organize your files
• You feel that your clutter is out of control
• You are drowning in paper
• You purchase more office supplies because you cannot find what you ordered last time
• People walk into your office, take one look at your desk and ask, “How can you find anything in that mess?”
• You contemplate going into the office on a non-work day just to clear the piles of clutter
• The storage room is just plain scary
• You are late to meetings because you cannot find important files (or a pen!)
• You don’t know how to help your staff to become more organized
• You have vowed to be more organized at the next job

You know you need a professional organizer for life issues if one or more of the following applies to you:

• You feel at odds with your working life
• You want to improve your personal or professional life
• You want to improve your physical and emotional well being
• You want work/life balance… you’re just not sure how to achieve it
• Happiness and peace of mind seem elusive
• You still don’t know what you want to be when you grow up
• You cannot think of a single affirmation to get you through a tough day
• If you had a good mentor you feel that you could improve your personal or professional life
• You would go to school (or go back to school) if you can just figure out how to work it into a hectic schedule
• Disorganization is causing your life to feel out of control
• You feel like you need a kick in the butt to get you out of yourself

Who needs a professional organizer?