Sarah Welch

I am a real woman on a mission to help busy people get sanely organized.

I am passionate about this topic because I believe that the chronic overload we all face is stealing our attention and energy from the only thing that really matters: the present moment. When you're worried about the 50 other things you have to get done later, it steals the present moment from you. Clutter, sloppy schedule management, and lack of clarity around your priorities...all sap your attention and energy from the here and now too.

So, I've devoted my life to helping busy people learn how to get organized in a way that enables them to be truly present -- with the people they love, doing the work they love, or just being 100% wherever they are right now.

In general, I believe that the standard "organizational fare" out there doesn't do any of us a whole lot of favors. Pictures of pristine rooms (which we refer to as "org porn") are nice to look at, but set us up to feel inadequate. First, because the vast majority of those pictures are pure, airbrushed fantasy. But also because they present "being organized" as some sort of idealized end state. Getting buttoned up isn't about achieving some picture-perfect outcome. Becoming (and staying) organized is a process, a journey. It's not about being perfect, but learning to navigate the subtle shades of grey in between the poles of black (chaos) and white (perfection).

My approach to getting organized was born of necessity. For years, I soldiered away as a stressed-out professional mom with more to do than time to do it all. Even though I had a lot of accomplishments to be proud of, I often felt like organizational failure because my life didn’t live up to a picture-perfect, “org porn” standard. I yo-yo'd back and forth between the two poles of chaos and perfection for a long time before I finally figured out how to stay a step ahead of the chaos without becoming totally anal-retentive.