Not Your Traditional Back-to-School Advice

However, you will be ahead of the game if you clearly communicate with your family during weekly family meetings.

Helping Hands

A couple of weeks back, I talked about summer vacations and how over-scheduled we sometimes make them.  I recommended taking more time to relax and enjoy time with family, which are ultimately the most important memories we can make. Now I’d like to take this idea a step further. I want to share with you …

Humor Really Is the Best Medicine

Laughter. Even the word brings a smile to our faces, doesn’t it? We love to laugh. We love to hear others laugh. When asked the favorite trait of a loved one, how often is the answer, “Their laugh.”? And yet, when we’re feeling insecure or vulnerable or defensive about something, it seems like laughter is …

Summertime

“. . . and the living is easy.” Except that, these days sometimes it’s not. Summer, the time for relaxing. The kids are out of school, the warm sun and blue sky beckon, that two weeks’ vacation time is burning a hole in our proverbial pockets. And yet, how often do we try to cram …

Father’s Day

Before we get to Father’s Day, I would just like to comment that does it not feel like Mother’s Day was yesterday?  LOL Besides seeming nearly impossible yet another month has gone by, if you are anything like me sometimes those weeks are a bit of a blur.   How many memories zoomed past, even in …

Behind the Scenes of The Bonnie Hunt Show

I have to say that I loved being on the Bonnie Hunt Show. It was one of the Best experience ever (and it’s not just because my boyfriend won the dance contest during the audience warm up). Bonnie is utterly sincere – and really studies the material and the people before coming on the show. …

Need More Time?

Who doesn’t?  Imagine what you could get done with an extra a week?  Or an extra half hour a day! Unfortunately I believe the 24 hour day is pretty much set in stone.  No 27 hour days just because your son forgot to do his science project, or you ‘misplaced’ that bill, or a million …

Our Elders, It Isn’t Enough To Just Respect Them

We are truly blessed to live in a society where health care has advanced to the point that we can live well into our 70s, 80s and even 90s. But my concern is that our society, and how we care for our elders, has not caught up with such medical advances. Previously, before the nuclear …

A Tribute To Family

As many of you know, I just experienced a very big loss in my life.  That of my dear Aunt Ingrid.  It is still too fresh to discuss in detail, but I do appreciate the outpouring of love and support I received during that time. Each day it gets just a little better and I …

Gifts can be more than material goods, they can be love incarnate…

As Mother’s Day, Father’s day, Graduation and Wedding Season approaches, I am frequently asked about the moral quandary we find ourselves in regards to gift-giving. In many ways, disconnected ways, our society has become far too dependent upon giving material objects to show the level of one’s caring.  But what if you don’t want to …

Going Behind the Scenes of “Hoarders”

I frequently get asked what it’s like to work on A & E’s #1 show, “Hoarders” It is both exhilarating and exhausting. Both physically and emotionally. To go into some of those homes… At first it feels sad beyond belief but then you remember these people not only need your help, but want it (although …

Why I am a producer on A&E’s hit show “Hoarders”

Trust me it wasn’t for the fame or the glory.  The show is hard work, but ever so rewarding. As a professional organizer, I saw first hand the devastation that this condition could have upon not just the person themselves, but for the entire family and even the community. To have a loved one withdraw …

A & E’s #1 show, “Hoarders” is casting a new season!

So if you know of anyone who needs the kind of help our show “Hoarders” can give, please refer them to me! My email is…. info@CenterForOrganization.com If you are reading this blog, you are probably already familiar with the show, but what you may not be aware of is how “Hoarders” affects so many people …

Aid Still Required

We are all caring people.  Our heart goes out to victims of a natural disasters.  Donations flood in.  We are all going to make sure change, real change, real improvements happen in these devastated areas. Then the car breaks down .  The dog gets sick.  The kid’s science project is due.  Our lives demand attention …

Every moment it seems like I am constantly facing the choice – family vs. work. This is where being organized w time supports both choices.

Packing up a mobile flipchart, markers, 2 inspirational books, lunch & hiking boots. Taking a client to ocean cliffs to discuss their goals.

I’m doing an informal poll. Do you watch ABC’s Nightline? and Why? Thank you for your reply. Dorothy Breininger

4:30 a.m. Early morning call for my day with ABC Nightline Producers & crew. Great people. GPS is set – off to Diamond Bar & Torrance, CA.