Who We Work With

Heart of the Matter works in teams of two organizers and it is quite common for us to look at one another and say.....”I can’t believe we are getting paid to do this”. Call us crazy, but we love this job. The people we work with are our greatest asset. We have built wonderful relationships with those who have welcomed us into their homes and offices.

Since founding Heart of the Matter in June 2004 we have had the privilege to work with a wide variety of individuals

women and men
entire families
children, seniors and every age in between
small business owners,
educators (preschool, elementary, secondary, homeschoolers)
artists
individuals with low vision, brain injuries, learning disabilities, ADD & multiple sclerosis

You might be wondering if hiring a Professional Organizer is a wise course of action for you.

Do you find .... yourself spending too much time looking for lost items?

If you have piles of stuff everywhere and you are always relying on your memory to help you access the items you need, no doubt there are times when you become very frustrated! It can be exhausting to try and hold it all together and function to your potential. Have you spent money to replace lost or misplaced items after giving up your search in frustration?

Do you find .... you have piles of paper all over the place?

Have you ever had to produce a certain piece of paper or financial document in a hurry and experienced the embarrassment of not being able to do it on time?

Do you find .... that you have a sentimental attachment to many of your possessions?

Do items represent another time in your life, or a person, or a part of yourself that you feel will be lost forever if you let it go?

Do you find .... items laying around because you don't know where to put them?

Does the phrase “everything needs a home” sound like a foreign language to you? Are things never stored in the same place twice because ....... try as you may..... you just can’t come up with the logical place to store things?

Do you find .... your storage areas are overflowing?

Do you know you have too much stuff yet have no idea how to start weeding through it and deciding what to keep, what to donate and what to send to garbage or recycling? Do you live in a home or work in an office with limited storage space? Do you need expert advice on products and solutions available to you?

Do you find .... yourself complaining that you are “too busy”?

Do you turn down social invitations or miss outings with your family and friends because you need to stay home and “get organized”? Do you feel you are always too busy to do the things that matter most to you. Do you have exciting creative projects left undone because you never have the time or energy to work on them? Are your relationships suffering because you don’t have quality time to devote to them? Do you feel like you are always working but have nothing to show for it?

Do you find .... yourself in a life transition that is causing you stress?

Have you lost a loved one, experienced the breakdown of your marriage, changed jobs, lost your job, had a baby, or moved into a new home? These are just a few examples of life transitions. It is a given that when you experience a life transition your organizational systems will break down. The frustration and feeling of being overwhelmed is normal, but no less frustrating. Do you wonder what ever happened to your “organized self”? Do you look around and say “how did I ever get myself into this chaos.....this just isn’t me”.

Do you find .... because you are an artist that you associate organizing with “boring”?

Are you a person that feels if you get your space organized that it may squelch your creative abilities? Have you always felt that “organized” people aren’t creative and freespirited? Are you also feeling though that the “system” you have in place now just isn’t working for you and you have no idea how to make things better? Do you feel that you aren’t working to your creative potential because your supplies are a mess....your ideas are strewn everywhere and you don’t have a surface to work on?

Do you find .... you want your space organized but you don’t know where to begin?

Perhaps you grew up in a home where organization was never modeled or taught to you. Is organizing “lingo” a language that you don’t speak? Do you look at your friends and wonder how on earth they can keep their space organized and you have NO idea how to tackle the chaos that is your space? Do you look around you and feel overwhelmed.....feel like crying?

Do you find .... you wish you had someone to help you organize your life?

Have you read all the organizing books, watched all the shows, asked all your friends for advice, yet you still come up empty when it comes to a permanent solution to your clutter and chaos?

If you answered yes to even one of these questions, then you are an individual who would benefit from the services that Heart of the Matter has to offer. Please allow us to help you get to the....Heart of the Matter.

Clients are likely to be successful with us if....

they are motivated and ready for change... sick and tired of their space and their situation the way it is now.
they are ready to partner with us in a collaborative learning relationship... admitting that what they are doing now isn’t working for them and that the only option is to listen, learn and discover a better way
they are ready to get rid of things... to donate the excess and bless others, in order to simplify their own space and their own life.
they recognize that being organized is a foundation for life. It is an investment.

Now that you know the kind of clients we work with, the issues we help them resolve and what our clients need to do to ensure their success, learn more about How We Work.

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