(photo by stuartmiles/freedigitalphotos.net) Read these quotes:Live your dream and share your passion. Life is short, live your dream and share your passion. As soon as you start to pursue your dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. ~Barbara Sher~ Dream big dreams, commit to your true passion and you will learn to fly. OK, do you feel like a loser yet? I know when I read the quotes, I certainly do. These quotes are not in and of themselves bad and will really resonate with many people, but just not with me. Why don’t they touch my soul? I’m not a dreamer. I don’t “get” how to find my purpose […]
The 5S system is a 5 word productivity system – you guessed it, all the words start with the letter “S”. The words are Japanese words and I will post them in Japanese, because of course that will make me look much smarter, with the English translation. This system is typically used in the workplace, but is easily applicable to home and life organization and productivity. Take a look at these words and definitions and see if there are parts of this system that could work for you: Seiri 整理Sort Remove unnecessary itemsRemove obstaclesWaste removalPrevent accumulation of unnecessary items Seiton 整頓Set (Straigten, Streamline)Arrange all necessary items so they are easily selected for useMake […]
This is the last post about my epic closet clean out. I don’t post any before and after pictures on my website because I think they are unrealistic. Anyone can get an area cleaned out for a period of time, but the most important thing about organizing any area is not to make it clean but to make it organized and functional. If I have said it once, I have said it a thousand times – we don’t live in magazines. We live in houses where real people live, doing real life, so organize your closets, your home, and your life accordingly. With all that being said, I am posting my […]
I spend a lot of time working with people and their clutter, actually, that is my full-time job as a Profesional Organizer and Life Coach. As an organizer, I work with people to get their homes organized. As a life coach, I spend time helping people work through their mind clutter to get them unstuck and moving forward. Clutter is not just the stuff we collect, hoard, and store. Clutter is anything that gets in the way of living our best life now. Do you know what needs to be cleared out of your emotional closet? Jealousy Anger Unforgiveness Perfectionism Comparison Resentments Grudges Past Abuse Past Relationships Guilt Fear Your Own […]
Ok. I am about to open up myself to you, just like many of you do with me. I am going to show you my closet…..in a minute. I hope my closet says several things about me when you look at it:1. I am not a perfectionist, even though I am an organizer.2. I live in real life, like all of you, and my closet can become a mess, just like yours.3. I had to schedule time, just like you, to attack the closet clutter.4. I know I have too many shoes 🙂 5. I have several things in my closet that do not belong there.6. My husband and I share a closet, […]
In my first Closet Clean Out Blog Post I showed you what my closet looked like prior to the clean out.If you missed the first blog post, click on this link to see how all this began! In this blog post, I am going to show you what it looked like as I was organizing and talk (well, write) about the process I went through as I was doing the clean out. Beware – it’s not pretty! These are scuff marks on the walls in my closet. Who knows how they got there, but after 20 years, they just happen. In my first blog post, I talked about all […]
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Have you ever noticed how you wake up one day and a whole month or year has passed! Life is speeding along at an ever increasing rate and you are just muddling through and moving mindlessly from one day to the next. So how do you change that trend? Live with intention. Live deliberately. Pay attention to the moments. Plan your day. Adjust your plan when your day doesn’t go as planned. Live with gratitude – focus on the good.Quit sighing so much.Don’t project into the future.Do things afraid.Keep the main thing the main thingKnow your end goal in life and live accordinglyDo what you can with what you’ve gotQuit wishing your life […]
Wow, How negative can I be? I’ve already decided you won’t reach the goals you have set for yourself in 2016!! What the title should read, but it would have been entirely too long is: Why You Won’t Reach Your Goal, Even Though You Want To, But If You Do These Things You Can Reach Your Goal! So what are the magic bullets for reaching your goals: 1. You have to be a little uncomfortable Yep, most goals take you out of your comfort zone. You have to get up earlier, you have to exert more effort, you have to change old habits, you have to change your way of thinking. […]
It was November 29th and I was walking around my neighborhood. As I was walking, I saw several houses completely decorated for Christmas and several neighbors out decorating. I started hearing this little voice in my head start to clamor for my attention: Peggy, you are already so behind. You don’t even have the first Christmas thing out of your attic. Peggy, look at how pretty that house looks decorated. You decorate the same way every year and your house needs painting and your roof needs fixing and you should use fresh greenery and, and, and……. Well, as I continued to walk I decided to take hold of that voice and […]