You can say a lot about organization specifics - the best way to organize a junk drawer, great strategies for handling bills, or the proper order for your medicine cabinet. Sometimes, though, it's just handy to live by basic organization principles and apply them where needed. Try applying these basic organizing rules to your daily life:

By Joshua Zerkel 

How you organize your time, work space, and personal life are key ingredients to your small business's success.

By Joshua Zerkel 

As a business owner, you've probably already been faced with one of the biggest challenges - staying organized and productive.

Realizing that you need to make time to get yourself organized is one of the biggest steps to getting organized.  It isn't enough to simply say, "I'll file that stuff later."  Later never comes.  When was the last time you had a bunch of free time to get organized?  Yeah, me neither. 

Have you ever had the nagging feeling that you should be doing something else? It might come when you're looking at family pictures on Facebook during work hours, or when your kids call you late in the evening and ask you when you're coming home. Finding the right work/life balance can be one of the biggest (and toughest) parts of finding satisfaction with your day-to-day experiences. Luckily, the key to developing an effective balance lies in proper organization and time management.

The results are in - here are the top five resolutions from our 2012-2013 survey:

1.      Become more physically fit

2.      Improve financial condition

3.      Improve health

4.      Lose weight

5.      Read more/become more educated

We have a thing for January. It’s National Get Organized Month. All that sorting, stashing, planning, and relocating are right down our alley.

It's been a while since we've had a serious discussion about planners. With the year coming to a close and another starting fresh, now is the perfect time for a refresher. You'll soon be setting goals for a new year, and using a planner will make reaching those goals a little easier. Here are a few thoughts to help you plan from some of the most organized people we know.

Our CEO, Sarah Merz Devoll:

By Monica Friel

Does your New Year's resolution involve getting organized? Make 2013 the year that you commit to better organization. Don't think of being organized as an elusive, far-off goal. Create routines to help lighten the load and bring the chaos to order today. Here are 5 tips to help get you started:

By Naomi Cook