Just Organize Yourself —
JOY Challenge for aspiring and
new professional organizers

Are any of these reasons keeping you from launching or expanding your professional organizing business?

— Have you tried to get hands-on organizing practice, but sometimes lack the motivation, confidence, or accountability to follow through?

— Does the thought of following an organizing project on your own from start to finish overwhelm you?

— Do you know the basics of organization, but need some space-maximizing ideas, creative solutions, or organizing product recommendations?

— Would you like a little inspiration to show you how a space can blend both form and function?

Then the Just Organize Yourself (JOY) Challenge is made for you! 

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Each season, we will tackle a new area of the home. As you work on your own space, you can walk through the entire process using my tried-and-true organizing process. (Be sure to take before & after photos to add to your portfolio!) You’ll get the motivation and accountability you need, along with specific guidance and tips to make this space professionally organized. By the end of the process, you will feel competent, confident, and ready to tackle this type of space with your clients.

Each JOY Challenge offers step-by-step directions to organize a specific area of the home. Join this season’s challenge, and you’ll receive a JOY Step-By-Step Organizing Guide filled with directions to make the project quick, painless, and fun! You’ll learn how to assess the space, how to empty, quick-toss and sort items in the space, and how to declutter down to the items. (You’ll even get access my Let It Go! Disposal, Donation & Recycling Guide.) Then, you’ll learn how to containerize items within the space, and discover tips to label for easy retrieval. Finally, you’ll get into the clean-up and maintenance phase, an essential — but often overlooked — part of any organizing project.

As you work through the project, you’ll have easy access to our private JOY Challenge Pinterest page. Here, you’ll get loads of organizing product recommendations at a variety of price points for your challenge space, crafty organizing DIY projects, and photos of gorgeous, organized spaces that will inspire you to joyfully organize your space.

You’ll also be invited to join our private JOY Challenge Facebook group. Here, you can connect with others who are taking part in the challenge, ask questions, post before and after photos, ponder products, request an accountability partner, and so much more. This page is moderated by Time to Organize, so if you have specific questions during your organizing project, we can offer timely support.

Each season will introduce a new project. Join our current challenge and see how it goes. Then, you can join the next challenge if you choose, and you’ll be on your way to becoming a full-fledged organizing guru!

I created the JOY Challenge because I truly believe that by organizing and beautifying one space at a time, we create pure joy in our clients’ homes.

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the next joy challenge… registration not yet open!

You’ll receive the following benefits:

• JOY Step-By-Step Organizing Guide (downloadable PDF)
• Let It Go! Disposal, Donation & Recycling Guide (downloadable PDF)
• Access to our private JOY Challenge Pinterest page
• Access to our private member’s only JOY Challenge Facebook group
• An assortment of fun little downloadable freebies throughout the challenge
• Personalized answers and suggestions to your organizing challenges

If you love your first challenge, pop back to this page and sign up for the next season’s challenge. Each one will highlight a new area to get organized (joyfully, of course!), along with a new Step-By-Step Organizing Guide and access to that month’s Pinterest page and Facebook group. BONUS: You’ll get to enjoy special “member’s only” discounts once you do your first challenge and share your before and after photo or other proof of project completion. (There’s that accountability we promised you!

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about PAST challenges (closed)

ORGANIZE YOUR LAUNDRY ROOM CHALLENGE: The laundry room — it’s a quiet workhorse of a room. It accepts mountains of dirty clothes and helps families transform them into wearable, fresh-smelling wardrobes. In addition, this space also tends to be the receptacle for an odd assortment of household essentials (like extra paper products, batteries, and light bulbs) and cleaning supplies (including unwieldy items like brooms, mops, and vacuums). With our handy step-by-step guide and online resources, you will learn to declutter like a pro, find lovely ways to store household necessities, discover laundry day efficiency tips, be inspired to make the room pretty, and much more!

ORGANIZE YOUR BATHROOM: The bathroom definitely gets a workout each day. Sure, it’s used for the basic everyday activities — showering, washing hands, and other essential tasks. But it must also function as a space to house essentials like cosmetics, cleaning supplies, first aid items, towels, and the like. If your clients can’t find what they need when they need it, they’re likely to over-buy shampoo, toothpaste, and soap. Having an organized system for storage is so important! In addition, bathrooms are a place to enjoy a relaxing evening bath or invigorating morning shower. So it should be not only clutter-free and organized, but also relaxing, spa-like, and simply lovely. If you’d like to learn how to organize a bathroom, please join us in this JOY Challenge!

BEAUTIFUL BEDROOM CHALLENGE: If your clients are like most people, they spend at least a third of their lives in their bedrooms. If they’re spending so much time in this room, it had better be peaceful, organized, and beautiful! With the help of the JOY Challenge, you will learn how to create a restful retreat that your clients can’t wait to visit each evening. This season’s challenge will teach you how to declutter a bedroom, find lovely storage options, gain tips for furniture arrangement, create the perfect sleeping environment, and much more. Please note that this Challenge will not focus on the closet/wardrobe. We tackled that in our Spring 2016 Challenge. So that makes this Bedroom Challenge a relatively easy, low-commitment project that you should be able to complete in just 2-5 hours. However, if you’d like to learn my process for organizing clothing, I am happy to offer you access to the Closet Challenge How-To Guide at no additional charge! You’ll even get access to my secret Closet Pinterest board! 

COMMAND CENTER CHALLENGE: If your clients are like most people, their kitchens are the hub of the home. Papers come in (lots of them), papers go out (hopefully on time), appointments are made, notes are jotted, and bills are paid. But if they don’t have a centralized space to contain these papers and ideas, they are likely in the midst of chaos and confusion. They need your help to set up a handy Command Center! This season’s challenge will teach you to set up a compact file box for most needed paperwork, create a message center for a household, set up a reference binder, get office supplies at the ready, and much more. Join today!

WARDROBE CHALLENGE: Having a fabulous wardrobe can really boost a gal’s confidence and outlook on life! But if those gorgeous new outfits don’t have the proper places to “live,” it can lead to frustration as she tries to make order of the piles of t-shirts, scarves, and skinny jeans. Spring is upon us, and you’re going to learn my favorite process for getting closets and clothing in order, as well as some tried and true tips to keep it “always organized.” When preparing for the perfect closet, the goal is to come up with a system that will allow minimal maintenance effort, while maximizing space, time, and wardrobe. 

KITCHEN CHALLENGE: January is officially Get Organized Month, so it’s the perfect time to tackle the most-used room in the house — the kitchen! You’ll sort through old Tupperware containers, cull the collection of mugs, toss expired foods in the pantry, and make the fridge fabulous and functional. This challenge will teach you to maximize the space you have in your kitchen, whether it’s a large cook’s kitchen or a tiny galley-style space. It’s not about the size of the room. It’s about how you use it. You will learn how to organize any kitchen for maximum efficiency and make it beautiful to boot.

ENTRYWAY CHALLENGE: November is the start of the holiday season, which means that company will be ringing the doorbell throughout the next couple months. So it’s time to get that entryway in tip-top shape! You’ll need to clear the way for guests’ coats, and no matter where you live, winter is on the way, so boots (whether rain or snow) are coming! Not to mention finding a home for hats, mittens, scarves, and bags. This challenge will teach you to maximize the space in the entryway and make sure everything there is helpful and intentional.