EPISODE 77 Can You Have Too Many Books? Key Takeaways To Tune In For: [05:31] How many of us keep books (particularly sefarim) ‘just in case’ or ‘in hopes to learn from them one day’? [06:51] Why do we need SO MANY BOOKS? [07:51] Sefarim (religious books) and what to keep. [08:50] My request to…
EPISODE 76 What I Learned From Doing 929 I started doing the 929 program a few months ago, reading a chapter of Tanach every day when it started for the second time this year. Are you wondering how this relates to organization? Listen for my thoughts on how these two relate and more insights on…
EPISODE 75 World Mental Health Day Seeing as October is National Emotional Wellness Month, and in honor of October 11th being World Mental Health Day, I wanted to speak about the difference between hoarding and clutter. My hope is that if you feel like you fall into one of the categories of hoarding, that you…
EPISODE 74 Should I Buy Things When I See Them? A lady called me last week and asked me – She thinks that G-d will always send her what she needs but what about when things are on sale, should she stock up? She said that she knows she doesn’t need to hoard things but…
EPISODE 73 Hopes for 5779 – Tragedy to Tafkid I was planning to talk about Conquer Your Clutter and a listener question about purchasing clothing on sale, but then yesterday, Ari Fuld Z”L was murdered, and talking about buying things on sale the week of Yom Kippur just didn’t seem right. Instead, this week I…
EPISODE 72 Tashlich – Don’t Throw Your Sins Into the Sea In today’s episode I speak about Tashlich, the Jewish ceremony done between Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur to rid yourself of sin. It is common to symbolically throw your sins away using bread, I talk about my experience, sans bread, saying the prayers at…
EPISODE 71 Is Having More Better? Often times people ask me, wouldn’t it be better if I just had more? I have three bathrooms so I need three toilet brushes, right? This week, I talk about this question, and why having more can sometimes be helpful, but usually isn’t. Make sure to check out my…
EPISODE 70 Rifka Lebowitz of Living Financially Smarter in Israel As a personal organizer, I often get asked about how to organize money. Which is why today, I sat down with Rivka Lebowitz, a financial consultant and founder of the Facebook group Living Financially Smarter in Israel, to speak about all things money and how…
EPISODE 69 Helen Abelesz – Life Coach This week on Journey to organization I speak with my friend and Life Coach – Helen Abelez. We have a great talk about the difference between a life coach and a therapist, how to figure out your mission in life, and then how to find the courage to…
EPISODE 68 Listener Questions In today’s episode I catch up on listeners questions and speak about the upcoming cohort of my Conquer Your Clutter course. Make sure to check out my Conquer Your Clutter course to learn how to minimize the items in your house and maximize the time with your family. Resources/Links Conquer your…