08 January 2008
June,
Thank you so much for coming over the other day.
I got so inspired and motivated that I redid all my files in my file drawers and typed them all up again, and purged like you wouldn’t believe.
I can’t wait to do more.
By the end, I had 2 huge trashbags and got rid of 2 more boxes in the office.
I had the task list going and went thru everything and it felt sooo good!
I spent 25 hours (!!!!) on all this stuff since you left!!!!
You’re fabulous!
What a burst of energy!!!
What a fabulous way to live!
I can’t believe you’ve been living like this for so long! It feels sooooo good and I have soooo much energy!!!!!
Writer
After a three and half hour session less than 24 hours after the first session …..
08 February 2008
Hi June,
It's a new day and thank you for all your energy, your gifts.
I feel and see much possibility--limitless.
I sure wish I didn't have to go to work today because I am feeling organizing mania for my home, have been tweaking around this morning, but gotta do other stuff, and I sense how much room there is going to be for all that stuff I have to do, it will be fitting in better and flowing more smoothly, I can see how.
Looking forward to more work together
J.W., Social Worker / Mother
18 August 2007
Hi June,
I'm really happy with how my home is now ... The worst of it is done, and it feels so good!!!
I still have some projects but I did a lot more decluttering of the drawers and closets, getting rid of clothes, but the really cool thing are the boxes!
They just set me free to be able to declutter without having to stress over "Should I throw this away? what if I want it again some day?," soI just put it in boxes.
Right now, I have 90 boxes stacked up in the hall and spare bedroom against the wall. They don't seem obtrusive really. In fact, they are nice to see because they are labeled and they stand for organization, and they are my friends.
Is there a world's record for number of declutter boxes in one two bedroom apartment? In addition to the 90 in my place, there are quite a few more (I didn't count) that have been taken to my mom's garage.
In the midst of this though, I accomplished a big milestone. I made an appointment for Fleabuster to finally come on 7/23. I got everything ready over that weekend before they came, which was good. It made me have to clear out closet floors and under the beds, and other finishing touches.
A few weeks before, I had gotten a new vacuum cleaner, a Dyson upright, really powerful, and for the first time in my life, I really loved vacuuming. I did end up putting some toxic meds on Zack, just a week before FleaBusters came, and by the time they came, there really weren't any signs of fleas. I considered cancelling them, but just went through with it to be sure, and because it was a milestone.
Back on decluttering--time management is something I'm working on. I don't think I'm very far along, yet it's good, I'm just seeing things, and making small changes, and quite miraculously, I have see time expand before my eyes. Days just last so long, it's magical. There is lots of time for everything. It's weird. I love it. I continue to waste a lot and make my life harder than it could be and haven't figured it out yet, but I must be making some progress, just with some of the small changes, because of the way time has expanded so much. It's quite wonderful.
Love xoxo
Judy
I used to dread having an organizing session with
June. Just the thought of the process would provoke an overwhelming
fatigue, which would completely take over me. In the beginning, the
sessions would only be three or four hours but it felt like days.
Into the first 45 minutes, I would often just glaze over detached
and watch June, the humming bird, in her effervescent determination
clapping her hands together and muttering her mantra, "It's taking
on a life of its own." I just wanted to run. I'd welcome answering
the phone just to escape for a few moments. Not to escape June, mind
you, but the exhaustion from resisting letting go of my stuff. Miraculously,
it got easier.
The first thing we did together was my filing system. It took weeks,
maybe even months. Granted, my files did look pretty (and I am an
aesthetician) but the bigger picture was completely lost on me. This
whole "honoring" your roles and stuff, I thought 'Propaganda!'
June prophesized that I would experience a shift. I sat and waited
as if it would arrive by Fed Ex the next day. Imperceptibly, at first,
it crept in. I began to be more aware of honoring myself and noticing
how and when people in my life didn't honor me. Decluttering was taking
on a whole new meaning. I didn't just purge files. I purged relationships
that no longer had purpose. "Bye!" became easier to say
spiritually and verbally.
It was a real leap of faith and trust to let June in on what I hold
onto. I've never known anyone who loved digging into my dark side
and looking into the dusty corners without condemnation. June simply
delves into discovery with a nonchalant, "What's this?"
and holds up the goods -- gotcha!
I still don't always get her path of importance like one of the last
sessions we had; June had an obsessive interest in my medicine cabinets.
They were full but "Geez, June, they were organized." Still
she wouldn't back down. She put me on the stand, "But did you
touch everything? Why do you have two of these? Do you use all of
this everyday?" Yes, she was finding holes in my reasoning. I
told her I thought we should do the living room shelves. She fixed
her glance again on the medicine cabinets and declared, "I think
we'll start here." Three hours later we were still in the bathroom.
I was feeling that tiredness coming over me like in the early days
but now I was experienced enough to know that this was an indication
that June was right. The very next day I began my morning where I
always do, in the bathroom ... including the medicine cabinets. Honoring
the start of my day was, indeed, just what the doctor ordered.
There are triumphant moments, like the time we took on my garage.
I plowed through 10 boxes in an hour. In two hours the garage was
done. Now, I find that I cannot wait for June to come. I know something
wonderful is going to happen. I am hooked on feeling inspired and
I trust the journey that June will take me on.
Of all the noticeable changes, one looms largest;
the tasks that I used to avoid doing still need to be done but the
dread with which I used to approach them has been transformed to joy
and the pride of achievement. The smallest of tasks produces the same
exaltation because they are all about honoring my well being.
Gwenne Wilcox, Creative Director / Mother
When I first read the testimonials of all of your
happy clients, there was a part of me that was skeptical. It seemed
too easy, too good to be true. Wow. Organize a few closets and my
whole life will be perfect. Yeah, right. And those emails filling
my mailbox, telling me can make millions of dollars without ever leaving
my bedroom, are completely on the level. Then we started working,
and I discovered that I’d been wrong …
It wasn’t easy …
At the end of our sessions, I would be literally
light-headed with exhaustion, and when you would pick up a file and
ask, “What’s this?” I’d want to shove it under
a couch cushion. We’d spend hours working through my office,
I’d revel in the serenity for a few days, then I’d find
my old habits creeping back and the piles would reappear. For a while,
I started questioning it all – not your extraordinary capabilities,
but whether I was capable of making good use of them. Was I wasting
my time? Maybe it was hopeless. Maybe I was just disorganized by nature.
Then, slowly, but surely, good habits started to replace bad ones
and I started noticing changes. I realized that the work we were doing
went far beyond cleaning out file cabinets; we were teaching me whole
new ways to co-exist with my “stuff.”
I’ve always been the kind of person who would
go on a big cleaning/organizing spree, then slip back to chaos in
a matter of days. Through the work I’ve been doing with you,
I realized that I’ve always treated organizing like crash dieting.
Everyone knows that crash diets don’t work, that you have to
establish good, sensible eating habits. You’re helping me learn
good, sensible organizing habits. Although I still have a long way
to go, I’ve been thrilled to start discovering that the miracles
I read in all those testimonials are already starting to happen to
me.
J.W., Business Owner / Mother
July 25, 2003 Today I started a cleaning/organizing
journey with the Organizing ManiacTM. Today I felt fear,
embarrassment, fatigue and hope. "Will I be able to do this?
Me…a third generation SLOB and second generation HOARDER."
I am fearful. Me…who took upper division science
and math classes and graduated with a B.S. and a Masters from a UC
university …will I be caught for the fraud that I am? Somehow
I tricked even myself into believing I was a competent woman. But
how can that be when I can’t keep up my house, I can’t balance
my checkbook, I can’t find important documents, and Tax Season
leaves me sleepless with anxiety. From New Year’s Day I feel
the heaviness of taxes clouding my mind and indecision paralyzes me.
As the April 15th deadline approaches I suddenly come to my senses
and frantically gather together 1099 forms and other tax documents
and hand them over to my accountant. His "magic" is my saving
grace.
I am embarrassed. I would much rather ride the scariest
ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain or watch the scariest horror flick
then try and figure out TAXES. I can deal with my parents illnesses,
face death, take care of my bleeding children, release spiders to
freedom, live with snakes, and probably even eat Madagascar Hissing
Cockroaches rather than truly cleaning out my closet. It’s not
like I never clean. I do shuffle and reshuffle, wipe, vacuum, use
Windex and even have moments when parts of the house may look clean
or organized … but it’s just a facade. I still don’t
know where the paper is that my financial planner needs to transfer
one of my mom’s accounts to her trust. Four years after my mom
had her trust written, I’m still trying to transfer some accounts
over to it.
Today I feel fatigue. The Organizing ManiacTM
runs around me as I study a small pile of miscellaneous papers. I
stand amazed and dazed as all my mom’s papers are now filed neatly
into two file boxes. Two file cabinet drawers, two large department
store bags, one box and a dinner tray…all filled with papers,
plus miscellaneous papers just strewn across my studio floor fit into
two file boxes. It’s the same magic my accountant possesses.
This magic still eludes me and I’m tired trying to figure it
out.
Will I be able to understand taxes, balance my checkbook,
clean my house, effortlessly find what I need, as well as finally
find time to pursue my secret dreams? The Organizing ManiacTM
believes it! I will continue my journey with HOPE. (to be continued
…)
05 March 2005 Thank you for helping me clear a path
so I can see rainbows again! Thank you for sending me the article
on Broken Windows that you sent to me. I think that’s totally
been me for the past eight years. I kind of feel like a newer, fresher
me is starting to emerge.
18 July 2005 Thank you so much for coming out on Friday and for grounding
me. I'm feeling like I can tackle this huge ( for me - huge) change.
I'm really ready to let go of things that don't fit into the spaces
we're creating. I realize now that for me letting go of a lot of old
things feels like losing a part of my identity. But at the same time
there's an excited energy at creating a void that I can fill with
whatever I want, that I have the power to make that choice ... my
choices. In my personal space I can have things that truly reflect
what I am and what I want to be.
I will try and be diligent through this process and incorporate my
husband and the boys to help in creating our world...our HOME....
My friend has every Wednesday as Susan day and doesn't do anything
at the school on that day or doesn't answer the phone from like 8
am - 2pm. I was thinking Thursday can be my day to organize, go through
my in box, not answer the phone, etc. I really want to go into the
next school year with a plan of action.
Thank you for always being there at the right time to lift my spirits
and ground my soul.
20 July 2005 This is huge for me. I'm glad you're the one helping
me through this cleansing out period. I'm simultaneously excited and
terrified, motivated then lethargic....thoughtful and frazzled. AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
I painted two walls red..... I've been placid too long.
N.S., Writer
29 December 2003 You are a true Blessing to every life you enter!
I was so upset and confused about having to be the only one to sort
out and throw away my fathers' stuff but had decided to get it over
ASAP so it would not consume my whole Christmas holiday when you entered
the picture. You "covered me in a calmness" in three ways:
1/ Because now I was not alone. 2/ You said you just helped someone
do this very thing for their parents. 3/ After explaining my goals,
you stepped up and lead me through the junk to stuff that was important
to keep. You even went to the nursing home with me to set up my fathers'
things as well as having the resources at hand to haul the big junk
away easily and effortlessly! Now I can enjoy the rest of my Holiday
without that burden pressing down on me !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH and
I am so thankful to GOD that we trained for that marathon when we
did and were able to meet you when we did!!! (cont'd)
31 December 2003 I am so thankful. Today I went to
the apt and turned in the keys, no problem. The manager thanked me
for what I had done and said they will be painting and recarpeting
the apartment. I then went to Dad's bank to get paperwork for the
power of attorney. I then went to see Dad and met the notary. We filled
out the forms and I went back to the bank to file their forms with
them. EVERYONE EVERYWHERE I WENT COMMENTED ON HOW ORGANIZED I WAS
… THANKS TO YOU!!!!
W.M., Son
October 3, 2003 I just wanted to say THHHAAANNNKKKK
YOU for the wonderful session Wednesday night. You are truly inspirational
and you have helped me so much in my life!!! I like the new category
for my job -- ABUNDANCE JOB -- I feel different already with that
in mind. More appreciative and thankful.
I feel so excited about the next month before I see
you again. I've already been practicing being "right here, right
now." It feels really good...simpler. Next step: journaling.
Time management is totally crucial right now because after last night
class I realized how much I need to study if I want to do well. I
am going to dedicate an hour today on time management.
I love my refrigerator. I feel like a millionaire
with food!!! I actually don't think I need to go shopping for at least
a week. Now I can save more money!!
I'm going to work hard on time management as I have
a lot on my plate so I'm wishing myself luck and I feel blessed knowing
that you're out there pushing me along, keeping the faith and helping
me to unearth the miracles…
S.S., Working Actress / Law Student
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