Beverly OMalley
MAM(health), BSN,
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Organizing and Learning How to Organize Expert
Beverly OMalley Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- organizing and learning how to organize
- Career Focus
- educator
Bev OMalley has over 35 years of experience in nursing and is a health promotion specialist.
She is currently employed at a university where she teaches internationally educated nurses who are upgrading their skills and experience to become a registered nurse in Canada.
Beverly is passionate about health promotion and likes to write about topics that help people become empowered in their everyday lives.
She is fascinated by the effect of the organized environment on human health and wellbeing.
Oh and she loves to organize just about anything!
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Getting Organized at Home - Organization Improves Your Health
Getting organized seems to be a lost art. Without constant effort at home organization you can quickly build up clutter that can affect your physical, mental, and spiritual health. The main home organization remedy for curing clutter is control and balance. Clutter control requires that the amount of stuff coming into and leaving your space is kept in balance. Getting organized at home is just part of a healthy lifestyle.Somewhere, somehow, some people have lost control of household acquisitions and disposals!
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Family Smoking Facts - Harmful Effects of Cigarettes and Your Smoking Behaviour in the Home
The smoking facts about the effects of cigarettes and the smoking behaviour of parents is clear. Secondhand smoking in children is a significant cause of morbidity. Children who live in a family where smoking is normalized are more likely to grow up to be smokers. Harmful Effects of Cigarettes on Child Health - Smoking Facts The effects of environmental tobacco smoke are now well established. Children have small and sensitive airways making them particularly sensitive to the effects of secondhand smoke.r
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Kitchen Organization - Cure Messy Kitchen Madness with Kitchen Organizers and Common Sense
These ideas for kitchen organization will help to cure your messy kitchen. There are a number of efficient and well designed kitchen organizers you can use for kitchen storage solutions but the best of all kitchen organizers is you! The real problem with a messy kitchen is that it slows you down. You cannot find what you need when you need it and sometimes that leads to duplicate purchases which means that you just have more things to store and look after.
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How to Get Organized With Paper - Organization Tips For Paper Clutter Control
Wondering how to get organized with paper? These organization tips can help you manage magazines, newspapers,and your mail. The secrets for how to get organized with paper are neither mysterious nor difficult. Paper organization like any other organizing task simply requires an understanding of the entire process of how paper gets into your house and what to do with it once it does. Here are some tips for how to get organized with magazines, newspapers and mail. These are the three biggest sources of paper clutter in any home. Magazines
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Messy Room, Cluttered Home? - How to Organize Your Home Spaces To Prevent Clutter
If you have one messy room in your house be careful. Unless you pay attention to what is happening to create that messy room you may end up with an entire cluttered home! Clutter is a silent invader and it will creep into your home and take over unless you stop it. Clutter prevention starts first with your awareness that clutter is starting to build. Once your clutter alarms start to go off, do a careful analysis of your messy room so that you can put some clutter busting solutions in place.
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Compulsive Hoarding, Cluttering, and Collecting - Pathology vs Pride in the Accumulation of Stuff
Compulsive hoarding is not collecting. A person with a hoarding disorder is often unable to perceive their mess in the same way that outsiders do. There is no logical reason for hoarding behaviour. It is almost certainly a sign of a mental illness or at the very least an indication that there is altered brain function.
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Towel Clutter - Bedroom, Bathroom, and Personal Organization Ideas to Get Rid of Towel Clutter
Towels are the most common cause of clutter in your bathroom. Ideas to get rid of clutter include improving the space utilization so that you have more places for the towels to go as well as addressing the personal organization skills of everybody who uses the bathroom so they become more self reliant and accountable for managing their own towels. Space Utilization
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Clutter Control - Getting Rid of Clutter Requires Constant Attention, Effort, and Discipline
What is your clutter control ability? Do you regularly balance what comes into your space with what leaves your space or do you spend more time on energy on accumulating stuff than you do on getting rid of clutter? While creating a place for everything and putting everything in its place is one of the cardinal habits of the organized population it is only one half of the equation. You also have to achieve a balance between what is coming in and what is going out of your space.
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Family Money Management - Advice for Borrowing and Lending Within Families
Articles on family money management advice usually dispense information about spending, saving, and investing. But there is another part of money management in families that is important and that is lending and borrowing. If you have ever loaned money to a family member and they failed to paid you back, you are undoubtedly familiar with the damage to personal relationships that can result from borrowing and lending of money between family members.
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Attention Baby Boomer Generation - Understanding Your Silent Generation Parents and Their Clutter
The baby boomer generation was born after 1945 when their parents (the silent generation), started to establish families and communities after the hardship of the second world war.
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Declutter Tactics - Extreme Techniques for Getting Rid of Clutter
Do you need to declutter but are unsure of where to start? Are you held back by fear of throwing out something you might need or want? Do you keep items that are perfectly good (or maybe not so good) because you cannot live with the guilt of throwing them away? The declutter tactics profiled here for clearing clutter might be just the solution you are looking for. These suggestions are not meant to be a systematic way of clutter control. These extreme tactics are for people who are held back by confusion or emotion and then do nothing rather than try to analyze what is really going on.
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Organizing Your Life - 3 Things You Should Know About How to Get Organized
Are you wondering how to go about organizing your life? If your life has become "cluttered" and you feel like you are drowning in an unorganized mess of "stuff", then getting organized will help you take control of your life. However, before you go out and buy a neat and tidy filing system it ...Are you wondering how to go about organizing your life?
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Beverly OMalley
"It's amazing what you can do when you start with a plan eh?" - Mike Holmes
"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential" - Winston Churchill
"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it,
it is not all mixed up." - Winnie the Pooh
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I am fascinated by the influence of personal organization skills on success and the ability to create and establish a life that is in control. It amazes me that people think that they are victims of some sort of strange circumstances and that they have no control over their own life.
The same personal organization skills that help people to plan their space can be used to plan their own lives.
The best way to get a life that is more under control?
- learn how to set priorities
- set boundaries
- establish good personal organization habits
- know and understand your own life - it is not an accident. Your life is what you have created.