Taking Control: The Organizing Podcast

School's ending people, and the summer whirlwind is right 'round the corner! Have you made plans? Scheduled camps? Prepared your family for changing expectations? This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright share tips and tricks for helping you make the transition into summer a smooth one!

Do you understand your distractions? Are you sure? The drive to keep focus when you need it, and make sure you don't lose momentum when you need to be productive, can be the most important mission you take on when you're taking back control in your life. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright offer tips for staying productive when you need to, and they talk about the latest craze at work: the stand-up desk!

You put so much work into changing the way you live, and building the new habits you need to take back control in your life. When a family member comes along and shakes up those new habits, it's a recipe for disaster! This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright offer tips for sharing your process with your family, and making sure those most important to you understand how to work with your new lifestyle, and not against it!

It takes time to build new habits. From learning to put your keys away in the same place every time you walk in the house to processing daily mail, it takes weeks to turn positive steps into habits you can live with. The same is true for negative habits and self-doubt, which if left unchecked, can turn into negative life change that gets in the way of all the change you're trying to make in your life. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk about the doubt that can slide in to you organizing progress and how to turn that doubt back into positive reinforcement in your life.

Running late? You can regain control! With five easy strategies that will help you plan better, schedule smarter, and manage your time masterfully! This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright take on the chronically late and offer suggestions for how to get back in control of your time!

There are only 24 hours in every day. No matter how hard we try, how much we wish it to be otherwise, there is simply no way to cram more time our lives. And yet, some of our biggest organizing challenges come from how we think about the time we have. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright take on this issue of time, how we think about it, and offer suggestions for how to manage the activities we take on, rather than the scarce minutes we have on the clock!

We plan when we build things. We plan at work. Cities plan. Schools plan. Planning is everywhere. Yet why is it that so many of us have organizing projects that get stuck in mid stride, doomed to the back burner? Because we didn't go into them with a plan. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk planning in your organizing projects and how you can set yourself up for success, no matter what project you take on next!

Toss a sweatshirt on the couch after a workout. Loose your keys. Open a cabinet and cereal boxes tumble out onto your head. When you start to loose control, are you modeling the right behavior for your kids? That's the big question this week: how do you teach your kids the right behaviors, and when are you sending them astray? This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright take teaching your kids the organized lifestyle, and helping them build the right habits that will serve them for life!

We all go through phases in our lives, and organization is certainly not immune. But sometimes, the biggest stress we put on ourselves comes when we realize we have fallen out of living an organized live and feel as though we are suddenly failures. Not so! This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright take on the organizing cycle and give you some ideas on how you can get back on the horse when you start feeling chaos creeping into your life!

If you're disorganized, and suffering as a result, it's all too easy to buy in to the myth that there are some people out there who simply can't get organized -- and that you are one of those people. But it's not true! You can change, you can build new habits, and you can change your life no matter how disorganized you are today. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright take on the myth and give you a framework for thinking about organization and how to get started on your own organizing journey.

We still have a few weeks until Christmas, but we're already thinking ahead! This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk about goals, stress, and setting yourself up for success with smart resolutions for the new year!

You've made it through Thanksgiving -- now get ready for the real onslaught! This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright offer key tips for keeping your holiday season free of stress and rich with holiday cheer!

We've all been there: one day you wake up and suddenly notice the gadgets, gizmos, bins, boxes, and booty that we once thought would change our world but today -- covers us in clutter! Time to make a change. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright review some new habits you can take on to prevent the purchases that cause clutter before it happens again!

We've all been there: one day you wake up and suddenly notice the gadgets, gizmos, bins, boxes, and booty that we once thought would change our world but today -- covers us in clutter! Time to make a change. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright review some new habits you can take on to prevent the purchases that cause clutter before it happens again!

You've accepted the costs of clutter -- now look at what getting organized can do for you! Free yourself from the guilt, stress, and frustration that comes from living your life out of control. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk through the benefits of organization and how you can move from making an organized live an expense to a powerful investment in your future!