About TCO
Take Control Organizing helps individuals and families to build positive life habit, reduce stress, and take back control in their lives.
With clutter, comes chaos.
With chaos, comes stress.
We have all been there, buried under the stress that comes from disorder. Maybe you can’t find a report you spent hours creating, because it’s buried somewhere on your desk. Maybe you can’t find your left shoe, but you swear you left it by your front door just the other day. Maybe you were already running a few minutes late when you reached into your pocket for your car keys to find nothing there, and the wave just hit you that you are going to miss your interview altogether.
Wherever you are, no matter how frustrated you have been, there is hope. You have a choice.
Being disorganized is a state.
It doesn’t matter how you arrived, it matters that you are here. You recognize that your house may be cluttered, your schedule in disarray, your outlook confused. More importantly, you recognize that you want to do something about it, to exchange your current state for something better.
Being organized is way of life.
Being organized is more than having a clean home. It means that you have taken the time, and invested the energy required to change the way that you live. It means that you have developed the habits required to make the change, and you have realized the results. It means that you choose to trade disorder for order, stress and chaos for freedom.
Living Easy
But it doesn’t have to be difficult. With guidance, developing a new lifestyle might be as simple as having a filing system that works for you, or opening a door to a closet that is clean and organized.
Organized does not mean Spartan
If you are afraid that any investment you make in becoming organized will affect your 25-year Nutcracker collection, or require you to donate your 100th pair of shoes to charity, don’t worry. Everyone has their unique passions, and so everyone should have a system that works for them, a system that includes quirks, causes, cases, and even 25-years worth of collectibles.
Being organized means taking control of your life. It means understanding the inventory of your space and schedule. It means opening doors to new opportunities to create, to complete projects, to introduce innovation, clarity, and peace into your home with ease.
It means taking small steps that can change your life for the better.
An Organizing Professional and You
For some, achieving an organized lifestyle might be as simple as keeping up with this site (and others) for tips, tricks, and resources to implement over time. For others, it might be more challenging.
Take Control Organizing serves a broad range of needs, from large projects, helping you to define systems for living in your home, eliminating clutter and debris, to more modest projects focused on lifestyle, closet renovations, kitchen usability audits, and more. Whatever your need, Take Control Organizing is here to help you take back control and discover the benefits of organized living for yourself.
Nikki Kinzer is a professional organizer and owner of Take Control Organizing. For over a decade, Nikki has been helping individuals and organizations deliver results through change. As a professional organizer, she coaches people and their families on how to build positive life habits, reduce stress, and take back control in their lives, all by teaching the benefits of organized living.
Nikki specializes in residential organizing and custom planning around client space and lifestyle, and is expert at delivering coaching and organizing service virtually, via phone and online video conference. Nikki is an active member in the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) and has a degree in Merchandising Management from Oregon State University.
She loves living in the Northwest and is a proud mother of two.
