This Behind the business post features Brigitte Todd - owner of Clutter TOSS.
While doing early spring cleaning this year, I was thinking of Brigitte quite a bit - and a lot of my "stuff" found its way to charity and garbage. It amazes me how quick a shelf can fill up or papers pile up on the corner of the desk. It seems just one day I think " I have to look at this a bit later" and next thing you know there is a pile growing.
I actually met Brigitte through her work at 4-H Oakland County Fair where I volunteered as a Photography judge. But Brigitte volunteers on a next level - she is the Chair for Exhibit Hall and puts in countless hours to make the Oakland County Fair a success.
Brigitte loves organizing - she said - if she wouldn't need the money, she'd still do it. She started her de-cluttering business journey by helping out friends - but requests grew and Clutter Toss was born. She helps people who need to sell a house and get it in order, people who downsize, as well as people who need the help to de-clutter but have no idea where to start.
1. everything needs a home.
2. de-clutter anything that is broken, not useful, or a duplicate.
3. Remember less is more.
I have put her advise to good use , but there is still more work to be done.
I met Kelly few years ago. Out paths had crossed at Chamber of Commerce networking events and Coffee Club. But over the past year going to Coffee Club almost every week, I learned more about her business.
Kelly is the business coach and her company is Bound for Bliss. Her goal is to help her clients in creating the life they desire.
She went back to school to become a therapist, but found herself more in alignment with life coaching - the proactive aspect of it as well as being able to use ones past as a tool in shaping the future.
I asked her about her clients - who are people who are seeking her help.
Kelly - its people who are deciding that they need the change in their life or people who are going through change.
She helps her clients in seeing a bigger picture.... putting all the little puzzle pieces in their life and putting it all together. People who know that they need to grow, and will need to put the effort in that growth. As she said - " the people are finally to the point where the pain of change is less than the pain that they are in - because the pain is what pushes you forward."
Kelly starts her day with yoga and meditation and she also uses it in helping her clients growing in awareness - noticing their own story and being able to write their own story, and learning from their experiences.
Majority of Kelly's coaching sessions are via phone. It helps with clients busy schedules as well as help them being open in their own environment.