Take this down: May 21st is National Memo Day. Fun Facts: In 1968, a chemist at the 3M company was trying to develop a super-strength adhesive, but instead created a low-tack, reusable, pressure-sensitive adhesive. 22 years later, in 1980, they finally figured out how to use this adhesive, and the Post-It Note was born. The …
“Where Are My Keys?”
May 13, 2013If you find yourself asking this question frequently, it’s time to change upyour system. Most of the time, the simplest solutions work best. Leave your keys in the same spot – and while you’re at it, leave your cell phone, wallet, and other daily essentials there as well. Suspend them in your purse – if …
The Basics of Organizing
May 7, 2013You can say a lot about organization specifics – the best way to organize a junk drawer, great strategies for handling bills, or the proper order for your medicine cabinet. Sometimes, though, it’s just handy to live by basic organization principles and apply them where needed. Try applying these basic organizing rules to your daily …
Paper Planning – Goals Without Interruptions
May 6, 2013We live in a world of distractions, a world where during the course of a single meeting, you can get five notifications on your cell phone – two recurring notifications for obsolete meetings, a spam text, a voicemail from your significant other, and a Facebook notification. Using a paper planning system helps you focus without …
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May 2, 2013What Children Can Teach You About Organizing
April 19, 2013By 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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Setting Boundaries for Your Small Business
April 5, 2013How 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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Welcome to the Beginning
April 3, 2013Graduation is one of those strange endings in life where everything begins. Now that you have that degree, it’s time to apply the things you’ve studied your whole life, right? Well, maybe-if you’re patient-patient with the job market, patient with your co-workers, and patient with yourself. Maybe my own experience can help explain what I …
All You Need To Know About Learning How To Be Organized & Letting Go
March 29, 2013By 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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Spring Cleaning Checklist
March 14, 2013Everybody has their own methods for Spring Cleaning—we aren’t going to dictate what you do with your home, but this checklist should give you plenty of things to cross off as you go. (And who doesn’t like crossing things off their list?) Click Here to Download our Spring Cleaning Checklist in Classic Size Click Here …
Five-Minute Blitz
March 8, 2013By 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 …
4 Tips for Eco-Friendly Organizing
March 1, 2013Getting 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. …
On-The-Wall Organizing
February 28, 2013If you ever attend a junior high school dance, you’ll learn a lot about organizing. First: People sort automatically. The “popular” girls will be huddled in a corner away from the speakers giggling over their shoulders. The athletic boys will have their own section with a convenient wall to hold them up while they pose. …
Break The Procrastination Cycle
February 22, 2013By 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 …
Easy Steps to Starting Your Organizing Journey
February 8, 2013As 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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Want To Get Organized – For Good? Here’s How To Make Your New Year’s Resolution Last
January 31, 2013By Carmen Coker So you recently made a New Year’s Resolution “to get organized.” Well, you’re in good company! Organization is always a popular top ten resolution every year. But now that you’ve set the organizing goal, how do you successfully negotiate the ins and outs of accomplishing it? Here are four simple tips to do …
Finding a Work/Life Balance
January 29, 2013Have you ever had the nagging feeling that you should be doing something else? It might come when you’re looking at family pictures on Facebook during work hours, or when your kids call you late in the evening and ask you when you’re coming home. Finding the right work/life balance can be one of the …
Forming a Habit
January 25, 2013In the spirit of the New Year, I’m here to answer the burning question that you may have…sorry, it’s not the recipe to my homemade cookies…that will remain a mystery! The true question is, how long does it really take for a habit to form? Do a Google search, like I did and you’ll find …
How To Keep Your Resolutions
January 16, 2013The results are in – here are the top five resolutions from our 2012-2013 survey: 1. Become more physically fit 2. Improve financial condition 3. Improve health 4. Lose weight 5. Read more/become more educated In an interesting twist, we also asked our respondents about their resolutions’ duration, both which resolution they gave up first …
Clean & Green: Help The Environment By Getting Organized
January 11, 2013By Monica Friel We all want our beloved earth to last and flourish for future generations. How we utilize what we have can truly make a difference in our pursuit of helping the environment. When you think about your stuff; what you buy, how you use things, why you keep what you keep, it enables you …
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