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Clear Living - Conquering Clutter with Clarity

Presentation Topics

Karen can present the following topics
in 45 to 120 minutes or conduct a
longer workshop upon request:

Clear Your Clutter and Create Space for Miracles

Are you ready for ideas, motivation, and support to clear your clutter and create space for miracles? In this interactive and inspiring presentation, come and hear how to go from stuck and spinning to flow and success. Receive support to create a vision for your work and home life, and an action plan to achieve your goals. Topics covered include paper management, clearing clutter, and creating organizational systems that work for your particular needs and style. Explore underlying emotions and beliefs that may be keeping you from getting out of your own way. Come and be inspired to create a space that will support you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. As someone who is not 'naturally" organized, Karen coaches people to understand their own unique style and to discover what types of strategies and motivation work for them.

Clear Living: The Courage to Change

Unfortunately for many of us, tolerating difficulty is much more familiar than tolerating joy because we are used to struggle, and we as humans tend to find comfort in the familiar, and in our stories. Our stories create our lives, and to avoid the discomfort and feelings of inadequacy and disappointment, we shut down our desires in order to do what we interpret as safe and protected. In this class you will discover four steps you can take to change from lack and deprivation to abundance and joy. Clarity is needed in order to create the changes in your life that you really want. Explore what your style and needs are around what types of motivation and accountability work for you that will get you into action for long enough periods to create successful, lasting change. 

The Clear Living Office

Office spaces can become disorganized very quickly and cause you to feel as if you are swimming in a sea of tasks, emails and projects. The new paradigm of work can produce high stress due to the competitive requirements of accomplishing more with fewer resources. In fact, you may find yourself caught in the trap of leaving organization as your last priority. When the inevitable happens and you can’t find a vital document, you can lose valuable time or even be unable to complete or start a project. Discover how to conquer the chaos that holds you back from greater success. Imagine getting through your “to do list” and prioritizing the projects with the highest returns.

TimeStyling

Your life will change forever when you make peace with time and with your calendar. Time and what you do or don’t do with it can be a huge source of stress. Learn to create a time style that is all your own, taking into consideration work, play, self-care, and projects. Discover how to break overwhelming tasks into manageable pieces, determine how long tasks really take, choose what’s really important and let the rest go, and explore what types of accountability and motivation work for you. Once you improve your relationship with time, life will flow more easily. In this event, Karen will share key strategies that the most successful people use to master the clock.  We will set up a personalized system to fit both your lifestyle and your personality.

From Procrastination to Completion

Everyone procrastinates from time to time. When procrastination occurs often, it is time to look at some new options for getting things done in a timely fashion. There are many reasons people delay taking action. You will learn the key steps to break the pattern of unnecessary delays to getting the tasks in your life done. Gain understandings about why you put off what you could get done now. Learn how to stop the pattern of procrastination instead of letting it stop you, and discover steps to break the pattern of indecision and delay. Completing tasks is a skill you can acquire and have fun with.

Mastering Paper

Becoming a “paper master” is easy once you discover the techniques used by professional organizers. You will learn how you can adopt these techniques to fit your personal style preferences. Karen will provide you with information on mastering all of the types of paper you handle. She will also share strategies of how to take control when you fall behind and how to schedule paper time. You will leave inspired to get your paperwork in order.

Karen also offers a one-day hands-on training in the public sector that is also available for businesses. The one-day session allows participants to bring their piles of paper and set up a customized system that works for them. Each participant has the option of easily creating their system using File It and Find It (FIFI), a Color-Coded Filing System™ that Karen co-developed that is available on our products page. 

The Clear Living Home

Your home should feel like your castle. If you are immobilized by stacks of mail, boxes of unused belongings and overfilled closets, it is time to get organized. There are special strategies that allow you to rapidly transform your cluttered home into a spacious retreat. You will learn how to prevent clutter, sort your possessions, and create a nurturing environment you will love. Imagine walking throughout your living space with the feeling that everything is in order and knowing you can find what you need in a moment’s notice. This does not have to be a dream. You can learn how to create spaces that support you and fulfill the function of the area with graceful efficiency.

Clear Living in Relationships

The clutter from other individuals in your life can be more disturbing to live with than your own. In fact, many relationships suffer due to disagreements over what and where things should be kept. Serious arguments can surface when something can’t be found. This session will offer tips on how to work with people you live with and their clutter. You will learn how to respectfully discuss disorganized living patterns with those you love, and how children can stay organized. Children learn best through experience, noticing their environment, and learning their role in contributing to how a space feels and functions. You will discover strategies to create successful and clear relationships with those you love.

Hiring Karen

Karen presents to both small and large audiences on various organization topics.  She has been a featured presenter for:

Her class topics have included:

You can hire Karen to present one of the topics listed on the Presentation Topics page or have her develop a customized presentation. 

Please Contact Us to request information about hiring Karen to speak
at your event. You will be contacted within 3 business days.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

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