Best Results Organizing

As you read this post, professional organizers from all over the United States – plus many of our colleagues from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, and Asia (and surely some from a few surprise locales I don’t yet know are coming) – are about to touch down in Ft. Worth, Texas to attend the annual NAPO conference. 

First, there will excited squeals of delight as we find one another in the hotel lobby and hallways like high school students returning after a long summer away. Before we officially begin, there will be leadership training events and half-day pre-conference sessions on productivity and marketing.

By Thursday afternoon, once our opening keynote kicks off, until late Sunday, when we roll our organized (if possibly overstuffed) luggage to the curb, there will be classes and meals, networking and dancing, business goals made and diets broken.

If you hear the hum of far-off applause, I suspect it will be for Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, and one of our keynote speakers. Her new book, Outer Order, Inner Calm – Declutter and Organize To Make More Room for Happiness came out this month, and I suspect professional organizers will be clamoring to hear her take on championing our passion for order. 

You may notice fewer blog posts from those in the organizing community in the next few days, but be assured, we will all just be amassing knowledge of new products, productivity methods, and organizing practices to share with you upon our return.

They say everything is bigger in Texas, which means you can expect big news and long posts when I return. Until next week, you can peek behind the curtain by following the #NAPO2019 hashtag on Twitter. And, of course, you can read Paper Doll posts from the past dozen years of NAPO conferences just by typing “NAPO conference” in the search box on the left.

Y’all come back now, y’hear?