Tackling organizing projects can be tough. No matter how great your motivation may be to live an organized lifestyle, digging into the grit and grime of actually organizing can kick up unique challenges that can drive you right to distraction! This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright discuss techniques to help you save your sanity and stay focused when facing your toughest projects. From time and alarms, to getting better sleep, this week we'll help you get back to work and on task!

Hot on the heels of "Taking Control of Your Space" and the TCO 101 live interactive seminar with Nikki, we're thrilled to introduce the TCO 101 Self-Study Program! This week on the show, learn about this new program designed to give you the framework and structure you need to build the habits of the organized lifestyle. Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright discuss the practical exercises and tools that help you take control of your space on your time!

You know the feeling: maybe you know that you have something out there to do, maybe you don't, but whatever the case, you have a lot of time and no direction so you might as well kick back with a movie. Not a great use of time! This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright take on this listener-submitted question: what do you do when you have too much time and too little motivation? It's a tough one, but we've got tips!

Project deadlines! Vacations! It's the end of the year and you're limping across the finish-line! Fear not: you have a tool at your disposal to help you keep track of all those tasks looming out there with discrete deadlines in the form of Back-Scheduling! This week on Taking Control, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright share how back-scheduling works and how you can make use of it to manage stress and stay productive.

You've done all the right work of getting your tasks out of your head, freeing yourself from the stress of carrying it all with you. But that brain dump yields stacks of paper, cards, stickies and more of task after task after task. How do you manage your analog work management process so that it works for you, and doesn't add more stress to your life? This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright discuss the evolution of the process, and Nikki shares a toolset from a recent client meeting that might just work for your epic todo list!

It's time to check in on progress toward checking off our tolerations list this week on Taking Control. Predictably, lessons are being learned ALL OVER THE PLACE, some simple, some humiliating, all useful! This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright review the reality check that comes with tackling the things in our homes that have gone invisible to us tackling tolerations and lessons learned!

Perseverance. It's the magic ingredient that can help provide the muscle you need to get through your most difficult tasks. From the practical challenges of wading through an impossible task list, to the emotional challenges that come from dealing with failure, perseverance can give you the guts and gusto to get back on your game. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk about the challenges that require the greatest practical perseverance and share strategies for staying on top of it all.

You've been living with stress and disorder you're whole life. Suddenly, you're introduced to the concepts underlying ADHD and realize that this bucket of behaviors may actually define what you've been going through, and struggling against, all along! This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright discuss what it means to wake up to a diagnosis of ADHD and share resources that can help you make the transition to living an organized and productive life through accommodations and structure.

If you stop for just a minute and really examine the space around you, you'll see them. The Tolerations. They're the little things that are broken or falling apart, systems that have gone woefully out of date, that you live with thanks to a sad lack of inertia to fix them. Luckily, all it takes to get out of the rut and begin to see the things that have gone invisible to you is a plan. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk about the state of tolerations in their homes and take on the challenge to trample them all!

Living alone introduces a whole new emotional and practical reality to getting organized. Without the structure of a partner or family, it is all too easy to let good habits slip, and allow clutter to creep into formerly organized systems. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright take on this listener request and share practices for living organized while living alone.