Motivation Monday Blog – The Tidy Tutor

0 Sentimental Clutter & Minimalism

This has happened to me recently. It isn’t like I didn’t catch it when I was dejunking, I thought the “sentimental clutter” I had was okay being there, after all, I had plenty of storage space to keep it. There was a broken figurine that I came across in my attic. It was a Lenox […]

6 Getting Undressed

What do you do with your clothes when you take them off before bed? I’ll bet I know. You drape them on a chair or maybe a treadmill in your bedroom. You can’t even recognize what it is that you put them on anymore can you? Do you know why I think that we pile clothes […]

3 It’s Spring!! Our Car’s Chaos!

All winter we have been shut up in our houses AND cars! So, I though that this would be a great time to write about the state of our vehicles… Because the weather has been cold, our cars tend to be a little bit more gross this time of year; there has been many months […]

1 Tips for Moving, Packing Materials

I’m moving, and in this video I have some packing tips for ya. Some may think my method is really messy but I say it is THE BEST WAY TO GO! You know what happened when I was editing this video? Here is the link to the Room by Room Facebook Group I talked about […]

0 Gorgeous Chaos?

This is a blog that I did last Year in January, I thought it was a great one to share today for Motivation Monday. Let me know what you think. Today we’re going to talk about something called “Relative Deprivation”. Relative Deprivation was a concept coined by a sociologist (Samuel Stouffer) during WWII who discovered […]

2 Cleaning House, Would a Princess Live Like This?

I did this video in January of 2013. It is appropriate to share today because we have a plan to go through our homes one Room at a time and this video hits home in the area of letting go of things. Let me give you some background; a Mom (Laurie) and her 8 year […]

0 Organizing your Home, A House Cleaning Checklist (sort of :)

I’m letting you know about a Facebook group I created called “Room by Room” and I invite you to join me there. Click here to get in. I thought it would be fun to work on declutterin by concentrating on one room at a time, together! You know that every OGP (Organizationally Gifted Person) declutters […]

0 We Gotta Love Ourselves, Our Subtle Sabotage, & the Answer to All Success

For this Motivation Monday I want to share one of our latest Cawfee Tawks. Inside of Tidy Tutor Tutor Insiders among other things, we meet live once a week, every week on-line and talk about stuff, and we call these meetings “Cawfee Tawk”. This is a very important topic to touch on. Not only is […]

2 Arts and Crafts, Organizing your life

Arts and crafts, organizing your life Because I am selling my house I am looking in areas of my attic that normally I wouldn’t bother with. I came across a box of unfinished projects I had worked on years ago and it made me think of something I wanted to discuss. If you are an […]

2 Are there any good excuses for a mess?

If you are living at home in a mess and want “House Beautiful” but can’t figure out how to keep it that way, I can tell you that one of the most necessary things to do is: Stop Making Excuses. There can be NO EXCUSES for living in a mess, because an excuse is a […]

0 Enjoy the Summer

The purpose of our this video is to have a game plan to get stuff done in the house and be able to enjoy the nice weather at the same time. So often we are so behind on laundry and dishes and housework that we put off enjoying life. Or we enjoy life and feel […]

2 Getting what you want, hairstyles

Are you used to NOT getting what you want? Sometimes, being Organizationally Challenged makes us accept things, we otherwise wouldn’t. Do you ever settle for “OK” because it is just easier? How often have you complained about haircuts, or some work you had done, but really if you dug deep you would see that you […]

1 Simplify your life, clothes, how to get organized

In this video/email I talk about how to simplify your life by being prepared with clothes in your closet that are ready to wear at a moments notice. Even the most organized person can be caught off guard at times. Life happens to all of us! Here in this video I talk about what to do if […]

0 Somebody’s Coming Sunday!

Let’s adopt a new way to motivate us to keep up with the house. This works great for me. “Somebody’s coming Sunday!” If we plan a get together every Sunday or every other sunday we really can FEEL the WANT to get the house together, and not the dread of having to do it. Also, it […]

0 Planning, productivity, makes happy :)

Motivation Monday! We are going to think about tomorrow today. We can never get this principle too drummed into our heads. (CLICK VIDEO TO WATCH THE VIDEO 🙂 If we aren’t in the practice of thinking ahead, what happens is, the day goes by, and at some point we just don’t want to do anything anymore. […]

4 New Hairstyles, taking care of yourself

When we struggle to get organized, it is very common that we don’t take care of ourselves. Putting ourselves on the back burner is a familiar practice for many of us. With so much to do, it is often difficult to find time for self care. Sometimes we think if the house is such a […]

0 Party Planning, Organizing, How to organize your life

Once upon a time, I was desperate for a “Normal life” I wanted so badly to be like my friends and family who were so organized. They did not live like me, they had it all together. I used to wonder, “How do they know? How do they know what to do and when to […]

2 Relationships, Getting Organized and Self Care

For this Motivation Monday I am going to talk about self care.Have you ever noticed that if we have nowhere to go, we don’t get dressed? Did you know that organized people get dressed if they have nowhere to go? They would never think of laying around all day with their hair a wreck, in […]

0 Just do it Anyway! House Cleaning

For people like us who are Organizationally Challenged, the phrase that Nike made famous “Just Do it!” doesn’t work. We ask, “Just do it? Just do what?!” You and I know that so much has to be done, so what is it we are supposed to do? What we need to say instead is “Just […]

3 Christmas ornament storage, Organizing Your Home, Christmas Decorations

OK, this is going to be short, sweet and simple. As of this writing it is January 6th, we have to think about getting our Christmas decorations in storage and out of our main living areas. Now if you have things that are just winter decor, like snow men, and snow scenes you can keep them up till […]

0 Holiday meal planning – food preparation for events

If an event is coming up, preparation is key. Often we leave what we are going to eat kinda till last, figuring that we can always pick up something. But the fact is having what we need in the house to eat makes the day more enjoyable, and NOT having what we need in the […]

2 holiday invitations, christmas party food, overwhelm

The holidays are upon us and there are events that we are invited to or would like to attend… There are often snacks to bring, an entree, desert, or a salad to volunteer to bring along with us. Often when we respond, we need to let the host or organization know what we will be […]

0 house cleaning, delegating, doing dishes

For this Motivation Monday we are going to talk about dishes. If you want to get organized there are TWO things that MUST take first place in our prioritizing list. And Dishes is one of them. In this video I talk about the RULES of dish doing, and that it is an absolute DELAGATE-ABLE job. […]

0 The Holidays, Get organized, live life happy

Click video to watch the video – Scroll down to watch bonus videosSCROLL DOWN FOR THREE BONUS VIDEOS!The holidays are coming and we want to live life happy. This Motivation Monday (That you are getting on Tuesday) I encouraging you to work on your bedroom. The holiday season is stressful for the OGPs (Organizationally Gifted […]

2 Cooking – Organization – Being a homemaker – Motivation Monday

We are cooking today, even though we are all about “organization” is ultimately really about being a homemaker. Getting organized has many facets and being in the kitchen is part of it. So we make gravy in today’s Motivation Monday Video, or sauce as it is also known, it all depends on what kind of […]

2 Storage solutions, self storage ideas, diy portable storage units

If you are looking for storage solutions, I have a great one for you! A student of mine was looking for self storage ideas, and I came up with great diy portable storage units! This particular one works great for bedroom storage ideas, so it you are low on storage space this will be a […]

1 Be organized, with less stress, while running errands with your kids

You know how we can be short with our children when we are under stress? I have a little tip which makes a way to be kind to them under pressure and running errands. When we have to pay attention to things, but they want us to pay attention to them it can get hairy. […]

1 Family meals, favorite family recipes, Creative and different meal ideas

Getting organized is much more than knowing where your keys are. Having creative and different meal ideas and being able to get the meal prepping down, as well as having all you need in the house to make your favorite family recipes, is all part of living an organized life! Here I show how we […]

0 Bedroom Tips – How can I get organized – How To Apply Feng Shui

This week for Motivation Monday I talk about Feng Shui. In this video I show how I Feng Shui’d my bedroom. I talk about Feng Shui Tips and tips for the bedroom. I also talk about what I think about it all. I don’t necessarily believe in the ‘religion’ of Feng Shui, but I do […]

1 Freedom to Let go Using Feng Shui

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3 M.M. Kitchen Done! Old & Outdated? or Shabby Chic?

I have been working on my kitchen. Nothing major, but it still has been work and mostly cosmetic. The idea was that as I was doing something that needed to be done in my house, you would have been doing something in yours. It started out as a Motivation Monday-Stop-Procrastinating Project, and it ended up being a series […]

0 M.M. Having fun even if it feels wrong

When we are so used to living a certain way we can really become stuck in a rut. Often we feel guilty enjoying life, and that has everything to do with the comfort zone we have been used to living in. It is difficult to be happy and have fun when we THINK we are […]

0 M.M. – My Kitchen continued…

Last week on motivation monday we were talking about my Kitchen. I’ve been working on it, painting the walls, fixing holes, changing handles on the cabinets, painting cabinets the whole 9 yards… Well I really thought I would have had it finished by the weekend and then I could have worked on the video and […]

0 M.M. – One Room A Week

Chose one room this week. Monday to Sunday. (If you opened this up on Wednesday don’t use that as an excuse to not do something. There are LOTS you can get done in 4 days 🙂 Set a timer for either 2 different 30 minute jaunts, or ONE 50 minute, each day this week. (If […]

1 Motivation Monday! The Bathroom that never needs cleaning

There are two videos on this post, both with the same subject. THE BATHROOM SWISH! The first one I talk about it, the second one I demonstrate it. Cleaning house is never fun but have you ever made up a game so that it was more palatable? Like putting water on for tea and seeing […]

2 Creating excuses to clean

For this Motivation Monday I thought I would share something that I hoped would help me finish a project. I have been putting off painting the woodwork and doors in my kitcen. I was wondering, what might motivate me to DO IT! well, while I was at Trader Joe’s I saw these darling sunflowers. And […]

2 The MacGyver in us

Organizationally Gifted people may be really good at organizing, but they do not work well if things don’t go as planned. They are NOT able to make substitutions the way we are for things. Organizationally challenged people can think on their feet, we prove it when push comes to shove. Did you know that when you google […]

2 Time management – Outings and appointments

Don’t you hate it when you aren’t prepared for an outing even when you knew it was coming up? We want to be organized so bad! We always hear about time management and prioritizing, but somehow, for me, “Time Management” always sounded like it was over my head, and being told to prioritize just made […]

0 Motivation Monday – Lawn Work

I need to do some lawn mowing, and yard work. I have never done this before, I really don’t know how to mow a lawn, so I figured, I probably am not alone. And I saw an opportunity for a video. I was going to get a landscaper here, but it seems like I should […]

0 Motivation Monday – Stop Procrastinating (easy for you to say!)

This week for Motivation Monday we are going to do something in the house that we have been putting off. Things don’t take as long as we think they do. Procrastination is such a foolish thing. We ignore things, and we really don’t know why. It makes us lose sleep and causes us to be […]

0 M.M. – Fixing holes in a wall

Some DIY to distract us a bit from organizing. If you have been working on getting rid of clutter, and learning how to get organized, I find that as you are working on it, you might want to have a distraction from it. Because it is how we tick. Staying to long on the same […]

0 Motivation Monday – Lost keys

Replacement car keys – How Can I get Organized? All of us who use car keys or house keys, have experienced that dreaded moment where we say “I lost my car keys!” Weather we find ourselves locked out of the house or our car, it is at the very least inconvenient and can be […]

0 Seasonal Switch :) – How Do I Get Organized #6

(I made a HUGE mistake and deleted 30 videos from youtube, the ones that were google hangout I don’t have a copy of. I’m sorry! I am working on doing duplicate videos to replace them) Here is our video number 6. Last week we worked on our bathrooms, all of our videos are below numbers […]

0 Lets Get Organized – Week 5

Last week our assignment was the mess from cleaning up a mess… OR, if you didn’t have one, then you were to look around the house for something that is unfinished or really needing to be done. Like maybe you had Christmas stuff still out, or bags to go to good will, or things to […]

0 Motivation Monday – How do I get Organized – Part 2

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0 Understanding each other

Overweight / Sloppy If you haven’t taken Tidy Tutor University than you never heard this story. And if you did, it bears repeating. I was born an OC (organizationally challenged) and as I’ve grown up I’ve taken some (lots) of ridicule over my messiness. Not so much from my father because he had his hands […]

1 TIOT – My Bedroom/My Closet

This week for Throw it out Thursday, we are in my room, I show you around and we de-clutter my closet. People are always telling me they don’t enough space, and asking me if I have advise about all of their excess clothes, how to store them. I tell them, GET RID OF WHAT DOES […]

1 Motivation Monday – Breaking the Cycles

Why don’t I do what I know I want to do? I received an email from a student of mine, who is taking Tidy Tutor University. It is a course that helps people who are scattered by nature to finally get organized. In the course there are assignments and homework, things you have to do. […]

0 Using Our Binder As Our Planner

Scheduling life Our Routine in action In our Tidy Tutor System that was inspired by Pam Young and Peggy Jones authors of the book “Sidetracked Home Executives”: We construct a binder. I show exactly how it is done through a demonstrative video, which is part of my course, Tidy Tutor University. Step by step we construct the […]

2 Keeping a Room Clean – Emily’s room

Kids need a system too Cleaning a room is easier when with a system. Emily and I went for a walk for something to eat for dinner. It was a beautiful February evening for New Jersey, it was not too cold at all. On the way home, I thought we could do a motivation Monday video on […]

3 Motivation Monday – Scheduling life to live it

Getting Organized Really does start with scheduling your days and than keeping your commitment to yourself. I teach that we need to have days plugged into the week. The reason for that is because weeks go by and we do, what I call “a-lot-a-nothin” One of the days we need to plugin is a […]

1 Motivation Monday – Life Changes

When we have changes going on in our lives, living in a mess can make a hard situation even harder. It can make a desire for change difficult to impossible to implement which is one of the most detrimental consequence of being OC (Organizationally Challenged). Some things happen because the have to, we have no […]

1 M.M. – Dignity in Clutter?

There is an entirely different mind set that people who are organizationally gifted have about ‘stuff’ compared to the organizationally Challenged. I give you the princess… Does she keep old dresses? NO! Now don’t tell me it is because she is loaded and doesn’t have to keep old dressed. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I challenge […]

0 Motivation Monday – Avoid This Excuse

No excuse! Just getting organized. If you are in Tidy Tutor University or you are at all familiar with Pam Young and Peggy Jones’ work you know about the “No excuse rule” People who are OG have the same ‘stuff’ we have in our lives but they manage to keep a clean house. you learn […]

0 What does Hollywood know?

I remember when I reached 45 That I was too old to pursue my dreams. I was filled with regret about how I didn’t do what I always wanted to do, and now it was too late. It took me another 5 years to realize that it was BULLSH@# !!! When I reached 50 something […]

0 M.M. – Last M.M. Video?

If you are one of my Peeps who read and don’t watch the video, I gotta tell ya, if you want the message in this one, you will have to watch it. It is very short, if that matters to you… When you do you will see why I couldn’t put to words what it […]

0 M.M. – Not lazy – Not Unmotivated – No Judging

Getting Organized the way WE are 🙂 I was on a gas-line today (after the hurricane in Jersey, there is a gas shortage here) and so I did my Motivation Monday video while waiting for the line to move. Last week, I did a video while out with my girlfriends, and asked them to share […]

0 M.M. – Candles, Storms & Dinner time

Name: Email: There is a storm coming in my area today, they call her Hurricane Sandy. Fortunately for me I don’t live by water, I should be just fine. We may have a power outage, and so I will need some candles. And that is what made me thinking of candles for this Motivation Monday. […]

0 M.M. – Charging Car Battery

You know that because of our natures we can often do things that are a bit counter productive, like forgetting to close our car door after getting home from grocery shopping, only to find out later on that we drained our battery. I know you can think of other ways the car battery could or […]

0 Motivation Monday – Take the First Step!

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0 Going On Too Long!

This has been going on for way to long. While on the plane ride home from Texas I was reviewing videos I had on my iPhone and came across this one (that I hadn’t used, until now). I said to myself “Holy Mackerel! This has been going on for way to long!” Us OC’s (Organizationally […]

0 M.M – The Clothes We Take Off

This new habit was life changing for me! So much changed when I began to implement this in my life. When you take your clothes off, to either go to bed,or just simply to change out of work clothes, what do you do with them? Most of us have a habit of putting them over […]

0 M.M.- Preparing for Plans

Name: Email: My friend Bob and I went to a party and it is at the party where I do this weeks Motivation Monday. It was last minute and so I couldn’t prepare. Don’t you hate it when you need to go to a party or a wedding and you haven’t gotten things together? When […]

2 Motivation Monday – A Cleaning Game

This was my very first Motivation Monday. It was done Feb 7, 2012! It is one of my favorites! (Don’t have the kids in the room when you listen to the video, it may sound a bit risqué, as you can probably see in Katie’s face, but I was oblivious to it at the time.) […]

3 M.M – Tips for organizing the home

Flip Flops and Better than a Jewelry box This is a great tip for organizing flip flops and jewelry. (not in the same space 🙂 Our flip flops can be so hard to find, they are flat and we tend to just kick them off in the closet or right where we walk in the […]

0 Motivation Monday – With Katie – Clean out the car Extravaganza!

This week for Motivation Monday! My daughter Katie surprised me with a video! I edited it, I give my own tips in the beginning of it, and we have got a FUN absolutely REAL video titled: “Cleaning Out The Car Extravaganza!” Katie takes all the STUFF out of her car and puts it all into […]

1 Motivation Monday – The First Layer

Summer doesn’t start until June 21st, so if you are still telling yourself that you have to get your winter things out of your drawers and get the clothes that are more fit to wear in warm weather into them, how great is it that officially it isn’t summer yet and it is still spring! […]

4 Clutter, sentimental, declutter, keepsake flowers

I did this video back in May 2012 when my daughter Emily had just attending the Senior Prom, I thought it would be great to re-share today. Let me know what you think. And please scroll down to the bottom of this page to get in on my FREE video Series to get ready for […]

0 Motivation Monday: What Matters to You?

If you have so much stuff that no one can tell what you loved and what you didn’t… when the time comes and you pass away, your loved ones will not have the strength to try and figure it out and get through the clutter. They will have a dumpster delivered and just start cleaning […]

5 Motivation Monday: Spring Cleaning

With this method, your house will get the attention it needs on a regular basis, instead of a ridiculous burnout cleaning session once a year, that doesn’t happen anyway and only leaves us disappointed, and sometimes in more of a mess! What is it about spring that makes every woman in the world think that […]

0 Motivation Monday: 15 minutes a day

15 minutes a day doesn’t sound like much, but you will be amazed at the amount of work you can get done. We have a warped perception of time, and we think tasks will take longer than they really will. Take 15 minutes today in an area that will make you feel good to have […]

0 Motivation Monday: Hot Spots!

What are your Hot Spots? Maybe you always open your mail in there. Is there a table in your entrance area, that gets a bunch of stuff accumulated there? Maybe a lot of stuff gets piled in your back or front porch. Maybe your bathroom has a lot of bottles on your counter or sink […]

0 Motivation Monday: Your Haven!

This week we are thinking about our bedrooms. Our bedrooms are the places that are left till last. Maybe because no one sees it unless they are invited in there. It is the first place we dump stuff. It needs to be a haven. People’s health improves when their bedrooms are in order. Children’s behaviors […]

0 Motivation Monday: Do it For You!

Hi, My name is Kathy Roberts, I am the Tidy Tutor. Why is it that we always make the house nice for other people? Like if we are gavin g company, or someone is getting married… we always make our homes look and feel good for other people. Or if we are moving and need […]

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