Nine Organizing Tasks in Nine Minutes or Less If you are like most people, your work day roars past like a freight train. The day is crammed with meetings, tasks and emails. You might think, “If I only had a moment to do __________…” , fill in the blank! And before you know it you …
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Time ~ The Fourth Dimension ~ Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series I provided significant quotes and thoughts from my books about time. In this final segment of the series, I leave you with two more timely quotes: “You might say, “I don’t have enough time!” But I say, “You have all the time there is.” Are you …
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Procrastination’s ugly offspring
As we enter the new year, my friendly-professional-organizer DNA compels me to continue last week’s posts on Procrastination by calling out one her many monstrous children. Like the tiny mustard seed that grows up into a dense brushy tree, Clutter relentlessly consumes space and brings disorder in our work, home and lives. Clutter is not …
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Four life-changing habits
The first of “Making Promises Become Practices” series, the Five Steps, explored the idea of how to make the promises that order and organization declare a reality in our lives. Today’s post tackles our habits. In my thirty years of being a professional organizer, I have found that long-held habits are often the bump in the road, or …
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Control your meetings: a simple secret to successful time management
This is the seventh and final post in the continuing series 31 Tips to Spend Time Properly. These time management tips will help you invest your minutes and hours more wisely, productively and energetically each day. Some of the tips can be done immediately; others require cultivation. All of these tips are time well spent. solar panels …
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4 Tips for your workspace and desk
This is the second 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 9-12: Your workspace and …
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12 Steps for an Organized Desk
Or why you don’t want to discover you have 119 eyeliners and you lose 57 bras. A while back I read a great article by Mark Shead, a seasoned blogger, about organizing your desk. I’ve picked 3 of his 12 tips that point to critical organizing maxims, truths that transcend the specifics of our desks …
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Principles to live by and enjoy life more fully
Over the years, I’ve enjoyed teaching thousands of clients basic organizing principles that help them get control of their stuff, give them more room and space, and save them time and money. All of the techniques and skills I teach are built upon simple truths. Every so often, it’s good to step back and reflect on …
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Declutter your email
Don’t Freak Out, Declutter! Part 2 Do horrible feelings of dread muddle your mind as you log into your email? You have 1732 emails stacked up in your in-box, 1200 of them unread! But, you don’t feel too badly about it, your office mate has 3100 emails in his in-box with 2600 unread! One recent …
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Five things you might not know about….
PLANNERS! “Those who fail to plan, plan to fail” Winston Churchill • Perhaps the most fundamental technique in planning our days and weeks is to have a planner which could be a loose-leaf notebook to help you keep track of all your errands, appointments, and things to buy. If you are not paper-based, your iPad …
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