CHAPTER 3
LEVEL 1: PHYSICALORGANIZATION
Knowing that I am a Certified Professional Organizer® (CPO), people often ask me, “Have you always been organized?”
The truth is, not always, and my mother is the one who reminded me of this fact. There was a time when keeping my closet clean was particularly challenging for me. As a fourteen-year-old, my social life was important, and on this particular occasion, my friends and I made plans to go to the movies on a Friday night. All week my mother reminded me that my closet had to be straightened out before I could go to the movies. All my clothes had to be folded, hung, or otherwise put away. I kept putting it off; I just couldn’t face the mess.
When Friday evening arrived, my closet was still in a tangle ...
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