By Monica Friel What happens to your groceries when you bring them home from the store? Do you toss what you must into the fridge and throw the rest haphazardly into cabinets? If you’re constantly in a hurry when you bring groceries in, your kitchen will reflect the chaos. The most important part of maintaining an …
By Joshua Zerkel Summer… ahhh. When summertime comes, there’s a palpable change in the air – a feeling of fun, relaxation, and freedom from worry. Or at least, that’s how it can seem! Of course, the details of life and work don’t just go away with the change of the seasons. Especially if you’ll be …
By Naomi Cook Perhaps you’ve heard of this song before. If not you definitely should! It’s one of those fun summertime songs that actually won a 1964 Grammy Award for comedy. The gist of the song is a kid writing a letter home to his parents about his time at overnight camp. This reminds me …
By Carmen Coker An old Chinese proverb declares that “the palest ink is better than the best memory.” And there’s a good reason for it! Relying on your memory can be tricky business. When you think about the fact that: You get exposed to more information in one day than a well-educated individual living in the …
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By Monica Friel Are you tired of your current wardrobe? The universal 80-20 rule applies to our closets: we wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time. Chances are, there are outfits hiding in your closet that you’ve never thought about putting together. Doing a mid-season closet clean out is a great alternative to an …
Is your email inbox count currently in the triple digits? Do you forget to write people back because new emails are constantly piling up on top of the older ones? Are you forgetting about events or even worse, forgetting to pay your online bills? If you answered even one of these questions with a resounding …
By Carmen Coker As the saying goes, the kitchen is the heart of the home. But your kitchen can also be the heap of the home if you let clutter pile up! If you want to know how to organize your kitchen now, then here are five easy, low-cost ways to do just that: 1) Edit …
Which programs and apps are best suited for your needs? In 2013 it’s just crazy not to gather all your favorite blogs and websites into one easy-to-read RSS feed. The question is, which one is the best? Well, it depends on how you keep up with your internet reading: on a computer, a tablet …
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By Monica Friel Do you work at home and feel like you can’t get anything done with kids home from school during the summer? Unless your kids are in camp or summer school full time, they are around much more during the summer months, so intrusions and distractions abound. There are many different scenarios with …
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By Carmen Coker Children live big. They laugh from the heart … play like there’s no tomorrow … dream without boundaries … derive joy from the smallest of things. As adults, the opposite often happens. We laugh less … play less … dream less. The responsibilities of adulthood – work, bills, commitments, family – tend to …
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As a self-employed business owner, aside from working with clients in their homes, I spend a lot of time in my home office. It’s wonderful to get out of the office and network with new people who can help you and your business grow. However, while a lot of networking can help both you and …
How you organize your time, work space, and personal life are key ingredients to your small business’s success. How successful you are in your chosen workspace depends on how well you’re able to set boundaries around your work life. If you previously worked for someone else, most of your working life was probably decided for …
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By Carmen Coker A Zen parable tells of a wanderer who happened upon a river. He wanted to cross it, but there was no bridge. Afraid to wade across the river on foot, he spent hours building his own raft from vines and trees, which ultimately carried him safely to the other side. However, once across …
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Urban living is great – many of us are fortunate to live in beautiful, historic buildings that are just bursting with character. Another thing that’s bursting is our closets. With more clothing and belongings than ever before, it can be a constant struggle to find places to put all our “stuff,” especially in closets that …
The month of March can mean different things to different people. For sports fans it is all about March Madness, and for fans of warm weather it is about the first day of spring. However, for fans of organization like me, a Professional Organizer, it is the start of yard sale season and the time …
By Carmen Coker The battle drums are rumbling…it’s time to suit up for clutter combat. Let Operation Organize commence! Rest assured, this is one battle that will reduce the amount of clutter in your life – quickly. TheFreeDictionary.com defines the word “blitz” as an intense campaign. Today’s challenge is to select one area of your home …
Getting organized can be a fantastic way to simplify and streamline your busy life. The process of getting organized can involve weeding through (and discarding) some of the belongings that have been keeping you from living how you want to live, and finding other products that can help you live in more comfortable, effective way. …
By Carmen Coker Everyone’s got one of those tasks that never seems to get done, no matter what. You know you are in trouble when you start to joke about it, laughing at your failure to accomplish the task. Making light of the situation takes the sting out of the fact that you have procrastinated yourself …
So…we just said hello to Baby New Year and now we’ve suddenly been rushed off to face Uncle Sam! Yes, it’s that time of the year again; time to get your documents in order and send off your returns, and sometimes even more money! My wish for all of you is to get a nice …
As a business owner, you’ve probably already been faced with one of the biggest challenges – staying organized and productive. Realizing that you need to make time to get yourself organized is one of the biggest steps to getting organized. It isn’t enough to simply say, “I’ll file that stuff later.” Later never comes. When was the …
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