While trying to figure out how to be a freshman in college, Layne Brookshire would spend her idle time organizing her space. That habit spilled out when she would go to other people’s dorms or houses where she would do the same thing. Layne is a professional organizer and the founder of Ms. Placed Professional Organizing in Austin, Texas. She says organizing brought her a lot of inner peace calmed her anxiety over roommates, tests, and a lot of other things. After noticing that an organized space helped her focus and study, it became apparent to her that her environment has a huge impact on her productivity and her ability to rest in the space. Layne tells the whole story of how she catapulted into organizing and lets us into the importance of living life with intention, teaching your kids to be diligent with their own possessions, and when the best time is to get a professional organizer.

That is awesome for everyone that’s out there. Go ahead on your phone and grab her Instagram and you will be able to see the cutest spread of pictures. She’s very color coordinated and automatically you go to her Instagram and you think this girl’s got her organizing going on. I’m glad that you mentioned that. We’re so glad you’re on the show, Layne. I appreciate your time.

Thanks for having me.

A lot of times, I find in this world of professional organizing that it comes naturally to us and it seems like we were born this way or we have always loved organizing. It’s funny because the longer you do it, you realize that not everybody thinks about organizing the same way as we do. Go ahead and tell the audience why you got into organizing, how long you’ve been doing it and why you started it?

Your environment has a huge impact on your productivity, your ability to rest in the space.

A huge network of professional organizers that are my actual friends too. It’s so funny how the world works and we’d become internet friends first before we meet in person. I have a big pool of people that are my friends that are organizers. A lot of people do have that story where we’re always organizing when they were kids. That was not me and my parents would say that too. I’m honest that my room was a mess but I would get to the point, where I felt overwhelmed and then I would do a total clean sweep. It always started in the closet. I would organize it in a way where I can hang out in there like the clubhouse when I was younger.

When I went to college, I started dealing with real-life anxiety and depression. I didn’t think about it at the moment but what I noticed I did with my idle time is that I would organize my space. I would reorganize it. It brought me calm when I was trying to figure out how to be a freshman in college. I’m trying to figure out how to be no longer the big fish in a little pond. Who am I going to be outside of what my family is and what I did in high school and all this other stuff? I noticed that’s how I spent my time organizing.

When I’d go to other people’s dorms, houses or whatever, I start doing the same thing because it brought me a lot of inner peace.

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