Have you always wanted to plan your own healthy homemade meals but just don’t know where to start?  Are you tired of feeling tired? Ready to take charge of your health? Don’t wait for another year to roll around – now is the time to get organized and start meeting your goals!  Our very own Tabitha Colie, Professional Organizer and Holistic Health Counselor will be teaching sessions on Healthy Meal Planning Made Easy. 

No matter your age, you can have your best, most energized year yet. Learn valuable tips on how to purge your pantry, makeover your meals, and savor the flavor of healthy and sweet success. Walk away with time-saving techniques for meal planning and preparation, ideas for streamlining your kitchen, and savory recipes that will make every mealtime both delicious and nutritious! 

Tabitha’s first session will be Thursday, February 16, 6:30-8:30 PM in White Salmon, WA (Columbia River Gorge area) at D’Lish Delivered kitchen: 521 E. Jewett Blvd. Cost: $40
To register, email Tabitha Colie: tabitha@itssimplyplaced.com but hurry, space is limited!

Look for more Healthy Meal Planning Made Easy classes coming to a venue near you this Spring and Summer – please let us know if you would like to attend a class in your area.

How do you plan your meals at home?  We want to know!

Wouldn’t it be great if you could find everything you needed to learn in ONE place?

Get the benefit of advice, brainstorms and business shortcuts from global business consultants and coaches, who are bringing their ‘best game’ to the table.  There are 20 experts lined up to help you fire up your business – and reclaim your life – in 2012.  Seekers of organization and productivity wisdom can go to Fire Up Your Biz and Enrich Your Life  and sign up free to hear over 20 global experts share specific strategies and tactics that helped them gain control and purpuse in their business.

Thanks to to organizer of Fire Up Your Biz – Enrich Your Life, Stephanie Calahan, starting on January 18th, you can listen in on interviews with 3 experts a week for 6 weeks.  You can listen to our own Debbie Rosemont discuss productive meeting techniques on January 25th in We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This: How To Run Meetings That Actually Get Things Done!  Each interview will deliver practical, actionable strategy and tips.  You can join in on one call or all of them!  The more you listen in, the more you will learn…and, if you attend live, you just may win a great business boosting prize.

Join us for this amazing interview series and you will:

Fire up your personal performance

Unleash your profit potential

Discover new strategies to manage the demands of running your own business

Have a profitable business and more time to focus on what’s important to you

Simply Placed is honored to have been asked to serve as a Featured Expert for this series. We look forward to sharing valuable information to help you have more productive meetings. In addition, we look foward to listening in on the other expert calls, where we don’t doubt we’ll learn and benefit as well.

Join us, won’t you?

There’s a lot going on in our homes for the next few months, holiday guests, gift wrapping and meal planning just to name a few.  Simply Placed has three ways we can help you have a more joyful season to fit any budget.

For just $24.99 you can get our Simply Organized: Holidays eBook and Workbook bundle! This is a great resource to help you stay organized with your holiday details. Tips, worksheets, checklists and ideas abound and are suitable for printing and, if you choose, putting into a binder as a fantastic resource you’ll refer to again and again during the holiday season. Don’t need both? $17.99 gets you the e-Book alone or the eWorkbook alone. Pick your poison!

For $150 we can help you come up with a specific plan of attack for the season. We’ll work with you to brainstorm your lists, create an action plan and help you identify when to do what (and what not to do!), so that the stress and overwhelm of the season begins to melt away.

Starting at $225 (price dependant on number of hours used or purchased) you can also make an appointment with one of our organizers to get your home in top shape for holiday entertaining!  This is the perfect time to get your pantry in order so everything you need to make the best holiday feast is right where you need it.  You might also be expecting some overnight guests in November or December and with that comes the need to organize the guest room, linen closet, coat closet, kitchen, or other rooms!  Let us also help you unearth your dining room table so you can use it for family meals and entertaining, not as a holding place for piles of paper or things needing to find a home elsewhere. 

Need help with some of the details and errands of the season – shopping, wrapping, shipping, organizing your party plans or holiday menu, etc.? We can help with those things as well. Just ask.

We can help you for just a few hours, or save some money with one of our 12 or 24 hour packages. (Bonus! With the purchase of a 24 hour package this month or next, you’ll receive the Simply Organized Holidays eBook and workbook for free!).

What ever your budget this holiday season, Simply Placed is here to help. Please let us know how best to support you in having more joy and less stress during this magical time of the year.

Stress-proof yourself for the holidays with Simply Placed!

To help better prepare you and your family for the busy holiday season, we’re offering our Simply Organized: Holidays eBook and Workbook  free with the purchase of a 24 hour hands-on organizing package!

How can Simply Placed help you during the holidays?  Do you have a dining room table that needs clearing off before you can host your family for a festive meal?  Is there a guest room in your home that needs organizing before your out-of-town family or friends arrive? Want to finally organize your kitchen and pantry so that holiday meal planning and entertaining is that much easier?

Or maybe you need some assistance with all that decorating and gift wrapping in the next month?  Save yourself the stress, book a 24 hour organizing package and get a great holiday organizational guide free!

Book your 24 hour hands-on organizing package anytime during November or December to get your free Simply Organized: Holidays package.

Do you have guests over during this season?  How do you prepare?  We’d love to hear about it!

Our final new addition to the team this Fall is Cailin, our new Client Service and Marketing Assistant for Simply Placed.  If you remember our previous post, Simply Placed has been expanding the team!  Below is some information about our latest addition.

Cailin Shovkoplyas has a degree in Communication Journalism from the University of Washington and is also a certified technical writer.  She enjoys working with clients and being a resource to them. 

Cailin loves providing people with whatever they may need to help bring balance into their home and work lives. She believes any goal can be achieved with a little enthusiasm and the willingness to embrace new habits.

She joined Simply Placed in 2011 as a client service and marketing assistant.  Cailin is often the first point of contact someone will have with Simply Placed and she’s perfectly suited for that role with her resourcefulness, professionalism, compassion and “can-do” attitude.

When she isn’t communication with clients, Cailin can be found cooking, baking and spending time with her husband.

Cailin can be reached by email at cailin@itssimplyplaced.com or by phone 206-579-5743 Ext. 702.

We mentioned in our previous post about our team expansion that we’ve added three new team members!  Below is some information about one of our two new professional organizers, Kelly Huffman.

As a busy wife, mother of three and active community volunteer, Kelly knows first hand the challenges and the importance of staying organized.  Her compassion and patience allows her to relate to clients to fully engage and meet their needs. 

Kelly’s love of organizing was sparked early on.  As a child, she organized the bedrooms and closets of friends and helped her teachers organize their classrooms.  Over the years, she has transformed many spaces through organization. 

Kelly wanted to become an organizer to exercise her natural talent for streamlining spaces, clearing clutter and stress from life and her desire to help individuals find peace through productivity. Her favorite thing about being an organizer is empowering clients to realize their own ability to take control of their environment and improve their quality of life.   

Her professional goals are to help clients save valuable time for the things that matter most to them, focus on what is important, to relieve stress and chaos, and to realize their own capabilities in maintaining an organized and productive life.

Kelly can be reached via email at kelly@itssimplyplaced.com or by phone 206-579-5743 Ext. 703.

Simply Placed has brought on three fabulous new team members to provide the very best service to our clients and the Simply Placed community.  We welcome you to learn a little bit more about each of them in the coming weeks, beginning with one of our two new Professional Organizers and Productivity Consultants, Tabitha Colie!

As a child, Tabitha spent hours organizing her Barbies, books, and board games, which led her to a lifelong passion for creating order and clearing clutter.  After subsequently spending her career organizing complex corporate marketing programs, she joined Simply Placed so that she could have a direct positive impact on others’ lives.

Tabitha loves the challenge of finding simple and creative solutions to seemingly overwhelming projects. Her primary goal is helping people “clear the decks” so that they can devote time and energy to their real life priorities and passions.

Tabitha holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and is a certified Holistic Health Counselor. In her spare time, she can be found hiking in the mountains with her husband and Labrador Retriever, and re-organizing her own closet.

Tabitha can be reached by email at tabitha@itssimplyplaced.com or by phone 206-579-5743 Ext. 705.

If you or someone you know is looking for a great Part Time job opportunity, we have two openings you should review. Simply Placed is currently hiring for:

Administrative Assistant, Client Services & Marketing (Part-Time) 

and

• Professional Organizer (Part-Time)

Click on each title for details about the job, requirements and how to apply. Please help us spread the word. We look forward to finding two new team mates that will allow us to add even more value to our clients and community!

 You may have already read about our great partnership with Soles4Souls.  Well, we have decided to not only give to those in need of shoes, but also to give back to our great clients, and our SP community, by having a fun, summer contest, for all our shoe lovers out there.  Here’s the scoop:

During the month of August, 2011, Simply Placed will be collecting shoe donations for Soles4Souls.  (Read more about this worthy charity here).  We will be mailing your donations  to a US warehouse, which in turn re-distributes over 50% of the shoes to US residents in need, with the rest going overseas to shoe the poor in over a dozen countries.  Simply Placed will be collecting shoes, and $1 for each shoe, in order to cover the cost of mailing shoes to the warehouse.

Here’s the prize-winning part for you: For every shoe+dollar you donate to Simply Placed in the month of August, you will be entered into our contest to win a free 3 hour residentail organizing session (valued at $225).  DEclutter= Do Good = Feel Good!

To take part:

For those of you with scheduled organizing time in August, simply give your shoes and dollars to your Simply Placed organizer, and we will enter you into the contest.   A pair of shoes plus $2 gets you two entries!

For anyone not scheduled in August, we are happy to arrange to collect your donation, or arrange to meet you with your contributions.  For those of you working with groups, either in school or office settings, we are happy to connect with you, and get you boxes to promote a drive yourself, which you can then give to us for tons of entries for YOU to win! 

The drawing will take place at our staff meeting on September 2nd and the winner announced here on our blog and in the September newsletter (we’ll call you as well).

Looking forward to mountains of shoes for those in need. Please let us know if you have any questions and good luck to you!

Sincerely,

Your Shoe-Lovin’ Simply Placed Team

I was a guest on the Real Estate Radio show on KKNW 1150 AM here in the Seattle area last month. In case you missed the show, you can listen to a recording here. I spoke to show hosts Craig and Rob about various topics including home organization, time management, prioritization, the 80/20 principle, the best time to organize, and much more.

Let us know if you have any thoughts or comments about the show. We’d love to hear from you.