RTP - Let's Discuss Downsizing with Barbara Hemphill

Let's get together and talk about downsizing with a professional organizer, Barbara Hemphill.

For 30 years, Barbara Hemphill focused on organizing paper and physical clutter. With the dawn of the Internet, she began applying her principles to digital clutter. In recent years has concluded that the true clutter that actually creates the physical and digital clutter, and prevents people from accomplishing their work and enjoying their lives is emotional and spiritual. Attendees will learn:

• The one word solution for accomplishing your work and enjoying your life.

• Why “paper clutter” happens, why it matters, and what to do about it.

• The surprising reason why it’s so difficult for us to let go of our stuff.

• How to make your clutter someone else’s blessing.

• A powerful 5-step strategy for creating the life you desire.

About Barbara Hemphill

An internationally recognized expert on increasing profits, productivity and peace of mind by eliminating physical, digital, emotional and spiritual clutter, Barbara’s life work has been to increase public awareness of the emotional and physical cost of clutter. She founded the Productive Environment Institute to train Certified Productive Environment Specialists who are available to assist individuals and businesses.

Her passion is helping people eliminate the physical, emotional, and spiritual clutter that prevents them from accomplishing their work and enjoying their lives. A respected expert in paper, information and time management, and work/life balance, Barbara’s books include: Kiplinger’s Taming the Paper Tiger series, Love It or Lose It: Living Clutter-Free Forever, Bushido Business, co-authored by Stephen M.R. Covey, Tom Hopkins, and Brian Tracy, and her 2011 release, Organizing Paper @Home: What to Toss and How to Find the Rest.

Spanning a 30-year career on the cutting edge of a growing industry, Barbara has appeared on the Today Show and Good Morning America, in Reader’s Digest, USA Today, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, The New York Times, Real Simple, and Guideposts magazine. She is past president of the National Association of Professional Organizers, a winner of the Founder’s Award, and a two-time winner of the President’s Award.

Initially trained in music education, Barbara organized an international choir in Grenada, West Indies, and New Delhi, India, and can frequently be found in the choir or at the piano at her church.

Connect with Barbara: http://www.barbarahemphill.com/

Twitter: @barbhemphill (https://twitter.com/barbhemphill)

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ProductiveEnvironment

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarahemphill

This is the schedule for the meeting.

We will gather in the atrium before moving to the upstairs conference room as a group.

5:00 - 5:15 socialize in the atrium as everyone arrives

DON'T BE LATE - doors are automatically locked on weekends, so don't be late

5:15 - 7:00 meeting and/or guest presentation in the upstairs conference room

7:00 - 8:00 continue the conversation 11 minutes away at Caribou Coffee (8201 Brier Creek Pkwy)

If you do arrive late, post a message here and we will send someone downstairs after seeing your message. Please, try to arrive on time because the building is locked on weekends and it may be a while before anyone notices a new message posted here.