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The Best Place To Start Organizing

So where is the universally most effective place to start organizing? Anywhere! Yup, that's right - the first place you select is perfect. This spot is exactly where you are supposed to begin. That low hard-to-reach shelf in your pantry? Excellent. The random basket of odds and ends in your bathroom? Right on the money! No need for self-doubt or criticism.

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Planning for Everyday Life: Virtues and Best Practices

Planning for life can be challenging. It is constant. We need to do it everyday and something is always popping up to threaten our objectives: meetings, traffic, weather, phone calls, or even just our energy levels and ability to focus. It can feel like we are under siege, constantly fighting against the daily deluge of unanticipated interruptions. And to what end? Life happens and things don’t turn out the way we expect so what is the point of planning in the first place? Should we even bother? Absolutely!

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Productivity Tips for Office Dwellers

1. Opt out of distractions to allow time for focused thinking: - Turn off e-mail indicator on your task bar and send calls to voicemail - Set Blackberry alarm (for how long you can work) and then hide in drawer - Close your door or hang a picture of a closed door on your cubicle wall (provided below)rn- If possible, turn to an open work area that doesn’t have a computer Impact Value: It isn’t a big revelation that interruptions decrease productivity; however it is important to realize that “multi-tasking” is also a distraction.

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Embracing a Shift at New Year's

I once read a dating book by relationship expert John Gray (no relation:) who explained that one of the tricks to starting a good relationship was to always end your relationships in the best way possible. This has always stuck with me: If you embrace the change, are grateful for and learn from your experience, and can let go of what no longer serves you, the energy is cleared to allow for a fresh, new beginning. Now what about the relationship that you have with each passing year? Do you think it works the same way? I do.

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6 Quick Ways to Clear Winter and Welcome Spring

The trees have started to bud, the birds are singing, and the daffodils are popping open everywhere. You can just feel spring on its way! When it gets like this outside I have the strong urge to shake up the stagnant winter energy inside my home. The air indoors seems in such stark contrast to the fresh, vibrant breeze making its way through the trees. We have such little time each day to devote to a big spring cleaning job, so I have outlined here some of my favorite quick and easy ways to refresh the energy in your home and make it feel ready to welcome spring. Enjoy! 1.

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Are you a Chronic E-mail Checker? Yeah me too.

Last night I got the chance to relax on a beautiful backyard porch home to a number of potted tomato plants, herbs and ivy – even the occasional rabbit. Trees and singing birds surround its high walls - it is a little haven of nature in the middle of the city. Being from the country, I appreciate any chance I get to ‘commune with nature,’ a practice critical to my mental well-being. As I sat there grateful for my good fortune, I couldn’t help but think, “Wow this is beautiful! I wonder if I have any new e-mail!” Wait – What?! Am I for real?

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Without This Your Organizing System Can’t Last

I’ve seen it time and time again. My client is no longer letting items fall through the cracks. They have created time in their calendar for focused work without interruptions. Their productivity has skyrocketed. They’ve built a beautiful system for knowing what it is they need to do and when they are going to do it. But they are still feeling anxious. Why you ask? Because they still don’t fully trust that they could build a system that works. That they can handle maintaining it.

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Ten “Knock Your Socks Off” Productivity Statistics

1. “In 2005, a psychiatrist at King’s College in London administered IQ tests to three groups: the first did nothing but perform the IQ test, the second was distracted by e-mail and ringing phones, and the third was stoned on marijuana. Not surprisingly, the first group did better than the other two by an average of 10 points. The e-mailers, on the other hands, did worse than the stoners by an average of 6 points.” (Tim Ferriss, The Four Hour Work Week http://nymag.com/news/features/24757/)

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I’m Scared to Share This With You

In the last week alone I’ve done the following: > Consistently eaten far more sugar than what feels good to my bodyrn> Procrastinated and rationalized my way out of yoga class three timesrn> Found it mind-numbingly exhausting to empty my dishwasherrn> Stayed up past midnight a handful of timesrn> Watched an obscene amount of reality TV What’s my point in sharing all of this with you? > I want you to know that while I am committed to walking my talk, I slip up and get off track too.r

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How to Prioritize When Everything is #1

When I am speaking in front of a group on the topic of productivity and organization, inevitably I get this question: “I have so many tasks I need to get done that are ALL are TOP priorities. How do I figure out what to do when everything is a #1 priority? Good question. I have some good news and some bad news for you. The good news is that there is a way out of this feeling of frustration and overwhelm so that you can choose which tasks are the TRUE priority in any given moment. I call this micro-prioritizing.

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Do you hate the mail? Try this.

One very big key focus in my work with clients is understanding what triggers overwhelm and developing a system to get them – and keep them – out of it. Dealing with the mail is very often one of these triggers. And it makes sense doesn’t it? There are all decisions to make when dealing with the mail – What should I pitch? What should I keep? Where should I keep it? Sometimes it is just easier to not deal. It is easier to let it stack up. But the challenge with this approach is that it creates lots of energy-draining anxiety.

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Are You Overwhelmed By Donation Requests?

While speaking to my friend and colleague Christine Lucas of the Salvation Army last month, it dawned on me that I needed to write this article. Often I find in my client’s homes stacks of solicitations and donation requests. These free address labels, greeting cards, and pleas for cash can be a BIG part of paper overwhelm. Especially if you haven’t created yet a “Giving plan” that can streamline the entire process.

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