comparison and contrast essays Go Clean Your Room! By Sue McMillin with Beth Shearer — Organizing Ideas for Kids — This article was originally published in Focus on the Family Brio magazine for teen girls. “I just can’t keep my room clean!” The constant battle between you and your mom – Yup, this is it, the condition of …
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4 Tips for managing your paper and digital files
This is the third post in the continuing series 31 Tips to Spend Time Properly. These tips will help you invest your time more wisely, productively and energetically each day. Some of the tips can be done immediately; others require cultivation. All are time well spent. 31 Ways to Spend Time Properly Tips 13-16: Manage your paper …
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Dejunking your junk mail
In my seminars, I’m often asked what can a family do to 1) stem the tide of junk mail that invades their home, and 2) how to best manage the mail and incoming paperwork that’s important. romeo and juliet essay Turn the tide to a trickle. There are two great ways to eliminate needless mail …
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Keep the Sabbath Wholly: Time Management 101
Last week I finished a 3-part time management series called Can you really manage time? The lesson I hoped to impart is this: we can’t really manage time; we must manage ourselves. It’s not all about tools and technology, but equally about character. Which leads to today’s post. the yellow wallpaper essay When I discovered …
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Can You Really Manage Time, Part III
Yesterday’s post, concluded with this thought: Focusing on values such as excellence, self-control, and perseverance will strengthen our roots, especially in the area of how we spend our time. Those three values are found in 2 Peter 1: 3-11 (the Bible). Peter says that we have been given everything we need for life and godliness. …
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Chrystal Loves Her Pantry!
Kudos to Jennyce and Chrystal! It’s both exciting and rewarding to hear someone’s success story. Not only your success in helping a friend, but her success in getting organized and making her home life a little easier. ~ Sue, I want to thank you for all the methods and strategies you taught me over the …
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Working Sm@rt
Daniel Stamp is the CEO of Priority Management, a 30-year-old global training organization. He has written a great article called Moments Matter Most. One of his key points is to stop flattering yourself; just because you might be super busy or activity driven, do not think that this is a good measure of your success or …
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What’s on the top of your New Year’s to-do list?
Read time: 3 min. In my last week’s article on procrastination, I gave you practical tips on how to defeat this sinister productivity thief. As far as New Year’s resolutions go, please consider putting it on the top of your list. And I’m preaching to myself even as I type this post! This week, I …
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If I clear off my desk, it’ll look like I don’t have any work!
Read time: 2 min With Christmas on our doorstep and the New Year just steps behind, it’s a great time to wave goodbye to the old and say hello to the new. Why not use the week between the 25th of December and 1st of January as an opportunity to organize your desk, the heart …
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Clutter is anything that gets in the way of the life that you want to live.
Read time: 3-4 min So often in my seminars the following scenario takes place. I will show my audience a “before” picture of a cluttered office or an overstuffed kitchen cabinet, and someone will yell out from the audience, “Hey, that looks pretty good to me!” In other words my clients have lived with so …
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