Ariane Benefit, M.S.Ed.
Organizing Coach &
Consultant Specializing in
Chronic Disorganization
and ADD

Helping People and Businesses Achieve Extraordinary Results and Lifelong Change
for over 25 years.

Coaching Services to Empower, Encourage and Support You in Achieving Deep Change that Lasts - Forever.

• Organizing Priorities
• Ending Procrastination
• Detaching from Clutter
• Making Time For You
• Succeeding with ADD
• Breaking Urgency Addiction Patterns
• Home Office Organizing
• Financial Organizing
• Paper Organizing

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Organizing Coaching Services

Have you read lots of books about ADD, organizing, procrastination, time management etc. but still struggle to apply the concepts to make LASTING CHANGES in your life?

• Do you constantly have that nagging feeling
  that you aren't living up to your true potential?
• Does low self-confidence keep you from taking action to improve your life?
• Does your chronic disorganization and /or difficulty with letting go of things cause a
  serious reduction in your quality of life?
• Are you, or someone you love, not able to manage the impact of ADD symptoms on others?
• Is procrastination and perfectionism causing you painfully chronic stress, problems at work and more?
• Are your relationships at home and at work sufferring from tension and conflict due to disorganization?
• Has success and achievement in your life
  caused a need to rethink the way you organize your time, prioritize and make decisions?
• Do you have difficulty getting yourself to motivated
  to do things you really want to do?
• Are you always "too busy" and stressed out to take time for yourself? Has overcommitting yourself has become a pattern you can't seem to break?
• Do you have adult ADD or suspect you do?
  

Do you often say things to yourself like:

• "I just can't do this by myself"
• "I don't have time do this the way it should be done, so why bother?"
• "What's the use? Even if I do organize it, I'll just let it go again."
  

Are you ready to start seriously
changing your life for the better?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then hiring me as your coach may be the perfect solution for you! I offer personal virtual coaching by telephone in the following areas:

• Adult ADD and / or Chronic Disorganization (CD) Coaching - I help you reduce the impact of ADD on your life, re-build your self-esteem and self-confidence, and learn to appreciate your strengths as we develop effective strategies to overcome or compensate for your weaker areas.
• Decluttering and Simplifying - I work with people with mild to severe cluttering tendencies to release traumatic attachments to things that are interfering with your quality of life. I do not encourage ANYONE to release things under duress or in pain. Instead, I work with you on the cognitive beliefs and reasoning that affects your feelings about your things to empower to distinguish what is truly most important to you and peacefully things that are not contributing to your quality of life.
• Organizing your home, office, paperwork and finances - It is amazing how much organizing can be accomplished over the phone using photos and a web cam (if you have one) and, if you are physically able to do the work yourself. If you set up a free Skype account, I can use my webcam if needed to demonstrate certain organizing concepts and techniques. If you are not physically able to do the work, I will help you develop the plan and then find the right assistants or professional organizers to work with you in your home to implement the plan.
• Time Management - Does it make you crazy when people tell you to just "schedule your time" as if it were as easy as just writing it down in your calendar? I totally get the difficulty many people have with prioritizing and making decisions about how to use their time. It can be incredibly stressful for creative people to even hear the word "schedule."
  I work with people to design, creative, simple, flexible strategies for making sure important things get done without having to "schedule" your whole life.
• Life skills - As needed I help you build life skills such as setting boundaries using open, honest, yet non-threatening communication, resolving conflicts and reaching win-win agreements, building trust, making decisions, listening effectively, and re-building your self-confindence.

Trying to change your life all alone by trial and error takes a long time. It can be extremely painful and stressful. What coaching does for you is to provide focused support using a tried and true process that helps you get the results you want.

Faster. Easier. And, with a whole LOT less suffering.

I am a coach with a Master's in Education, 25 years of corporate and small business experience, and deep expertise in one-on-one coaching, productivity, change facilitation, communication and negotiation, chronic disorganization, ADD, financial, home office and paper organizing.

I offer a unique combination of skills. experience, and compassion to help you set goals, bring out your own inner wisdom, and give you the insights and skills needed to empower you to accomplish your goals without spending a fortune or years before see lasting results. I work with you to:

• Build your confidence!
• Establish specific goals and keep them in the forefront
• Prioritize, focus and make difficult decisions
• Develop skills needed to accomplish your goals
• Become aware of and release the negative beliefs and self-talk that are holding you back
• Overcome perfectionism, procrastination and get motivated to take action
• Get the RESULTS you want!

 

How Does Coaching Work?

As your coach, I provide you with personalized support to make getting the results you seek faster, easier, and much more enjoyable. My coaching process is a combination of deep listening and:

• Asking empowering questions to facilitate insights and find your own natural ability to find solutions
• Sharing my observations of thinking and behavior patterns that aren't serving you and figuring out more productive patterns
• Problem-solving
• Celebrating your successes
• Overcoming obstacles and challenge
• Encouraging you to take action and try new ways of getting results

I help you stay motivated and focused on your vision while building your self-confidence, developing your skills, and empowering you to accomplish your goals!

 

My Coaching Process

During each session, we discuss your goals, successes and needs. We then focus on overcoming any challenges. You leave each session with fresh insights and ideas, a positive outlook, and specific actions to advance you progress. When you encounter obstacles, we will use that as an opportunity to figure out customized strategies to get you back on track. Deeply listening and asking targeted questions facilitates you in getting to the heart of the matter quickly. Focusing on doable interim goals that lead to your ultimate success increases your confidence and belief in yourself.

Depending on your unique needs and goals, I work with you to:

• Articulate truly compelling goals that motivate you to take action
• Identify and overcome the mental and emotional obstacles that are holding you back
• Acknowledge and appreciate your unique talents and gifts
• Develop a plan of action
• Strategize custom solutions to your unique situation.
• Master the art of letting go of things by reframing the way to you relate to your things.
• Design and implement organizing systems and/or time management solutions and that work best with your personal style.
• Change habits that no longer serve you

Between sessions you are encouraged to email me regularly with updates and get support when you need it. I also ask you to share photos with me as necessary to help you solve any problems.

Although clients often tell me they want to keep me around forever, I would feel like a failure if they did! I don't want you to become dependent on me. My goal is empower you to become more organized in all areas of your home and life. Ultimately, I measure my success by your growth, achievement and ability to organize on your own!

"I've worked with organizers in the past, but Ariane is different. She doesn't impose a one-size-fits-all organizational stategy, but develops one tailored to who you are and how you work. Ariane is not only interested in getting you organized, but in making sure that she leaves you with a system that helps you to stay organized. With her help, I'm more productive than I've been in years!"

- Debbie Rasiel, Alpine NJ

 

How is coaching different from therapy?    

Coaching is different from therapy because it assumes you are ready and able to take action to improve your life once you have the skills and mindset needed. It does not "treat" mental illness or emotional disorders. If you are seriously depressed, are bipolar, or have ADD, OCD, out-of-control addictions or other conditions for which you are currently seeking therapy, you should continue your treatments. Coaching can be a wonderful adjunct to your therapy by helping you learn specific organizing skills and strategies that increase your ability to achieve your therapeutic goals.

I am not a therapist and I won't delve into your past to analyze and explore all the whys and sources of your problems. I stay focused more on WHAT you want, and HOW to get it.

A professional therapist's job is to remain detached in order to effectively identify and treat deeper emotional issues that may even require medication to treat your problem.

As your coach, I won't be as completely objective and detached. Our relationship will be more like that you might have with a nutritionist or a personal trainer. I will celebrate your successes with you, share skills and knowledge, help you brainstorm solutions, and overcome challenges that get in your way. I will be your champion and partner - seeking to understand where you are, where you want to be, and help you bridge the gap to get there by encouraging and enabling you to take action on your goals!

 

Coaching Success Story - S

I had the honor of coaching a lovely client that I'll call S. After forty years of feeling like a failure at organizing her home and living with clutter that was draining her energy and sucking the life out of her, she called me for help.  At first she felt like she was being "too self-indulgent" and that she "shouldn't need help", but she also knew she wasn't getting results on her own.  She was so ready to change, and so motivated that she took the chance - and it paid off for her!

She had a very special event planned which involved having several guests stay in her home for a weekend.  That event was just 5 weeks away and she was determined to have her entire house in order in just 5 weeks! 

This would be a challenging task for anyone!  We developed a room by room plan together and she hired a local handyman to help her with the "brawn" of implementing the plan. As she encountered procrastination and other internal obstacles to accomplishing the plan, we tackled the internal beliefs and "stories" that just weren't serving her and came up with strategies that worked to get her motivated to take action and get the job done. She experienced some intensely powerful breakthroughs.

 

She overcame her fears, released "negative stories" an rebuilt a new image of herself as a person who CAN get things done.  Someone who CAN be organized and CAN let go of clutter.  She LOVES letting go of clutter now!  It's a feeling of power and mastery she hadn't known before. 

She let go of truckloads of clutter. As a side affect, she received 2 job offers within one week after clearing her clutter - and she had not even been looking! You don't have to believe it...it just happens. When you clear clutter and take charge, you make room for great new possibilities in your life!

 

ASKING FOR HELP DOESN'T MAKE YOU WEAK!

It makes you HUMAN. We all need support to overcome things that are difficult for us to do alone.  Asking for what you need is self-respect and self-love in action.

Changing a lifetime of habits and patterns that aren't working for you is NOT a simple endeavor!  Getting the support you need is no more self-indulgent or weak than going to a doctor when you don't feel well, hiring a personal trainer to help you improve your health, or getting a music teacher to help you learn to play a musical instrument.

 

Coaching Success Story - N (ADD, Financial, Paperwork)

"N" is was a widow in her 50s who was diagnosed with Adult ADD in her late forties. When her husband died 7 years prior to my working with her, she was faced with having to run her home and pay bills for the first time in her life. She was so overwhelmed by the situation that she began stuffing papers, including bills, in drawers and bags and boxes all over the place.

She had received a million dollar insurance benefit, but had no idea how to manage it.  Even with all that money in the bank, she had collection agencies hounding her and had ruined her credit rating.  She was spending about 8 times what she was making - but did not know it.

She had almost a phobia of filing systems. We sorted sort through all the paper and created a super simple filing system that she actually loves now because she can find everything she needs. Getting her papers organized made it possible for us to work on the much bigger issues. I coached her through settling collection accounts, getting unfiled tax returns completed, and finally getting a handle on where her money was going.  She was shocked to learn that most of her money was gone.

I helped her consolidate and simplify financial accounts, eliminate service charges and late fees, and get a $2,500 dollar property tax rebate that she almost threw away.

We organized a bill paying routine using online bill-pay, reduced her expenses and even helped her redesign her social life to include activities that didn't require spending so much money.

Organizing her paper and financial situation avoided her losing her home, and bought her another year. We are now working on an ADD friendly career to enable her to replace the income she lost when her husband died.  

Coaching Investment    

Coaching is an investment in your skills and ability to take action on your goals. My coaching programs are designed to ensure that you get results. My fees are set to be fair and reasonable. My fees have been benchmarked and are comparable to other successful coaches.

 

Ready to Get Started?

The first step is to complete a one hour intake consultation.
Get more information here!

 

100% confidential and nonjudgmental.
Over 25 years experience helping people and organizations
get the results they want!

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