Jared | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Organizer
What’s your favorite space to organize? And what’s the hardest space you’ve ever tackled? My favorite space to organize is a home office. I’ve spent so much of my career working with entrepreneurs whose work spaces looked like they should have been quarantined. In that particular line of work, you have to wear so many different hats and keep track of many different kinds of information; so if you have a disorganized space, you’re creating unnecessary stress and landmines for yourself. Whether you’re an entrepreneur or just working from home, having a welcoming and organized office space can completely change the way you approach your work and improve your actual health by reducing stress.
The hardest space I’ve ever tackled is definitely a basement storage room which contained about 30 years of family history. From trunks full of photos, files, legal documents, books and trinkets, to furniture, artwork, holiday decorations, sporting equipment, mattresses, boxes of random items from a second home, and old but expensive sound equipment -- just about every item required several steps to edit and the project took weeks. With that said, it was probably the most rewarding job I’ve done as well.
What’s the one item you must have when organizing? A staging table. Most items we’re editing are in drawers, cupboards, shelves, etc… so I find it most helpful to have a big table where we can group those items together and edit the entire collection versus editing piecemeal.
What do you like to do when you’re not organizing? When it’s warm, anything outside. Most other times I’m probably seeing live music.
What’s your go-to song to get motivated? Right now, probably the Allman’s studio version of Jessica.
What’s one tip you have to stay on track during a project? My number one tip is to divide and conquer. If you break down an organizational project by sub-projects and create a to do list in chronological order, you can track your incremental progress in real time. If you’re staring down a project in its entirety, chances are you won’t even start it.