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Organizing Tasks to keep chaos at bay
Staying on top of our daily organizing tasks and managing our possessions can feel like a part-time job – a job for which our compensation is personal satisfaction, improved productivity and enjoyment. Because the demands of each day don’t allow us much time to organize our personal “stuff”, keeping a daily routine is important to…
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CHAOS! How my disorganized basement gave me hives
Do you shudder when you enter a room, open a cabinet door or see your disorganized basement because you face “stuff” that you’ve postponed tackling? Have you procrastinated a project that you really want to accomplish? Looking back at her process of dealing with an accumulation of “stuff” in her basement, client, Lynn Amos…
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How to Organize Your Spices
I’ve learned that the process you use to organize the smallest things in your life, like your spices, is a metaphor for how you organize YOUR LIFE. American poet Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) famously said, “If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves.” Let’s look at the…
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Why People Hold Onto Stuff
“Y is a crooked letter.” This was my grandfather’s standard response to the basic question of childhood “Why, Grandpa?”. My interpretation of that expression is that the answer is complicated. And, when it comes to human behavior, it almost always is. Why do people hold onto stuff? The answer is complicated because there are so…