Foam Valentine Bears

With a houseful of girls, Valentine’s Day is a big deal at our house.  It is the most frilly, girly holiday there is.  Making crafts with hearts, lace, glue, glitter and markers is right up our alley.   Last year, I took a homemade approach and 

OCD Profile: Jared Douglas Kant

Today we discuss one more personal story of OCD. Like Sammy in the previous profile, Jared Douglas Kant first experienced debilitating OCD symptoms as a young pre-teen. Also, like Sammy, Jared was a bright kid with lots of creative ideas. Where Sammy was strong in 

OCD Profile: Sammy

This month we are looking at an organizing extreme, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), both to better understand our own organizing motivations and the motivations of OCD-affected individuals, which ultimately impact all of us. While the pre-teen and teenage years are challenging for most people, they are 

OCD Profile: Howie Mandel

Of all the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) profiles, the “germophobe” is the one we probably think of the most often. This person’s greatest fear is that things are unclean, contaminated or may cause illness. While we all may wonder how someone gets to this extreme, we 

Cleaning Standards at the Office

When most of us enter the workplace, we have little control over our circumstances and our daily activities, workload and space constraints are dictated to us by the boss. This lack of control combined with cost-cutting pressures in the economy in general force most employees