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Lea Schneider Quick Facts

Main Areas: Organizing and teaching others tips, ideas and step-by-step how-to organize
Career Focus: Speaker, author, organizing consultations and hands-on organizing, business owner
Affiliation: Organize Right Now LLC, National Association of Professional Organizers, Association of Food Journalists

Lea Schneider, a professional organizer, writer and motivational speaker, brings inspiration on the positive impact of organization to both home and business through her company Organize Right Now LLC. Her organizing advice and hands-on organizing helps homeowners tackle everything from piles of papers to walk-in closets missing their floors.

Her goal is to help others achieve that peaceful and satisfying feeling of being in control of ones own environment. She leads people to find a more stress-free life by reducing clutter, organizing and prioritizing.

Lea Schneider's organizing advice has appeared in Woman's Day Magazine, Natural Health Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens Kids Rooms, The Principal Financial Group Newsletter, Finally Organized Finally Free for the Office by Maria Gracia, Bella Magazine, and in newspapers, including the Wilmington News Journal (Delaware), The Jackson Sun, (Tennessee) The Daily Columbian (Washington), Herald-Dispatch (West Virginia) and The Pensacola News Journal (Florida). She has appeared on the Organizing Playground, Sandy Springs 1620 (Atlanta, Georgia), Newstalk 101.5 (Jackson, Tennessee) and ABC affiliate WBBJ-TV (Jackson, Tennessee).

Her organizing ideas on can be read on Web sites such as What's Cooking America, where she writes a monthly column on kitchens, and in My Roommate is Driving Me Crazy, and Online Organizing. She is a discussion moderator for professional organizers from all over the world at Get Organized Now.

Lea is the author of Growing Up Organized: A Mom-to-Mom Guide©, available as an E-book. Her latest e-book releases are Closet Clutter to Closet Control: Your Four-Step Process to Organizing Your Clothes© and Dancin’ to the What’s For Dinner Blues©, a guide to conquering kitchen chaos and menu making madness.

She is proud to be a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers, NAPO, and the Association of Food Journalists. Lea, a former newspaper writer covering home, garden and food issues, has a B.S. in Business from Florida Southern College.

Other Programs & Highlights

PRESENTATIONS

Motivational Speaker and Professional Organizer Lea Schneider, owner of Organize Right Now LLC, brings organizing solutions with her presentations created just for busy people.

Being organized

....or the lack of it...

sets the tone that rules the entire day,

from getting out the door in the morning

to the amount of stress we feel to the success of that day.

“We simply dig ourselves a deeper and deeper hole of disorganization by continuing to repeat patterns of behavior that do not work. You can learn to focus on your disorganized traits and counter them with positive solutions. Motivation to change is founding examining the excuses, both real and imaginary, that keep us disorganized.

Lea speaks on a variety of organizational issues. Learn the whys of disorganization, the steps to becoming organized, managing time plus organizing closets, the kitchen, tools and tips of the trade and more.

PRESENTATION TOPICS

But, I Don’t Have Time To Get Organized! You know disorganization is costing you time and money. Change the way you think about getting organized and get a concrete solution for the piles of papers on your desk.
Top 10 Timewasters: How to stop running in circles and get the time to do what you really want to do.
Breaking the Disorganization Habit: There are common traits of the disorganized. Discover what those are and you can break the mold.
When Your Can-Do Can’t Keep Up With Your Want-To©: Getting motivated and getting organized, start to finish.
Keeping Your Resolution to Get Organized: Tossing the excuses out with the clutter, making a plan and learning how to stick to it.
The Downsizing Dilemma: Learn what to keep, what to let go of, and how to develop an action plan.
Quieting the Clatter of Clutter: Step-by-step tips for removing clutter, including piles of paper from your life.
Growing Up Organized: Sharing with parents' how to teach organizational skills.
What in the World Do You Have in There? A look at organizing a woman’s world.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Lea Schneider

Before you can pitch the clutter, you have to ditch the excuses that got you cluttered in the first place.

Excuses are the biggest obstacle to being organized. We repeat the excuses to ourselves until we actually believe they are real. We say we can’t organize because “I have too much stuff. I don’t have a home for this stuff or I don’t have time for all this stuff.” In the end, don’t you have to get organized precisely because you do have too much stuff, no place to keep it and no time to deal with it?

Children can grow up organized. Begin with expectations that everything has a place and that all family members participate. Even a toddler can drop their dirty clothes in a hamper and a 3-year-old can put canned goods on a shelf after shopping.

Getting Started With Lea Schneider

Everyone can have success in organizing if they agree to four basic rules.

Set a realistic goal. Life is not a 30-minute before-and-after TV show.
Choose only one thing to work on at a time
Divide the goal into small, manageable tasks.
Accomplish your goal completely before beginning another project.

Visualize your space organized. Ask yourself "What exactly belongs in this area? What do I want it to look like? What will it contain? How accessible do I need things stored in here to be?

Then ask yourself "How did this space become so disorganized?"

If you don't change the behavior that got you disorganized in the first place, you'll find yourself in the same situation in no time. Make changing routine a part of changing the space.