In recognition of “Getting Things Done” and professional organization this month, I interviewed Ellen Faye.  Ellen is the owner of Straighten-Up and she’s a Certified Professional Organizer.  She’s been working in the professional organization business since 1999, and she is a key person in the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO).  Here’s the interview:
1.  How did you get into the professional organization business?
When my youngest child went to school full-time, I decided I needed to get back to work.  I had been in the hotel business, learned about service businesses, but I knew I didn’t want to work for someone …read more

I’m getting organized!  I’m very excited about this, as I have been frustrated over the past month as I try to get my home business going.  I have a lot of STUFF sitting around (David Allen of Getting Things Done (GTD) actually calls it that) and I have problems every day figuring out what to do first.
I’ve been studying GTD religiously.  I even went out and bought a bunch of file folders and a labelmaker, as David Allen suggested. But I didn’t know where to start.  I’m too disorganized to even BEGIN figuring it out on my own.
Then, today, miraculously, …read more