In order to do my best to remain transparent, I want you all to know that I struggle, too. There are several things I struggle with, but I want to share my biggest struggle at the moment and the biggest struggle I have had for years – losing 10-15 pounds. Those that know me and have seen me in person, would not say I have a weight problem and medically speaking, I really don’t have to lose weight, but the clothes in my closet are saying something totally different. While a 10-15 pound weight loss might not sound like a real struggle, it has been a consistent struggle for me and it is […]
In my business, I have to spend a lot of time listening…….and not talking. Whew, for this magpie that is a difficult thing to do and sometimes I just don’t do it as well as I should. However, listening is one of the most important things you can do, day in and day out. What is the old saying…..that is why God gave you 2 ears and one mouth. Research says we remember only about 25% of what we hear…..that is not a lot of remembering, therefore that is not a lot of listening. Active listening, implies doing just that….actively listening as opposed to passively listening. Active listening is something we all […]
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I have a new love/hate relationship in my life……..my FITBIT. My son and his girlfriend gave me a FITBIT for Christmas. I had been looking at them and thinking it would be a really good thing for me to have and lo and behold I unwrap my Christmas present and there it was, in all it’s glory. Now for those of you that are not as UBER cool and up to date on this stuff as I am, let me tell you all about a FITBIT. A FITBIT is a fitness product, in the form of this beautifully stylish bracelet, that tracks my steps, distance and calories burned. If I tell […]
I have several different projects going on each year and I finally gave in and realized I am a paper project planner girl. I have tried to plan projects digitally and it has not worked so I found this gem and I am so happy! This is the ARC system from Staples. It is a notebook you can modify – adding pages, dividers, and other contraptions you might need to keep yourself organized. It also allows you to buy bigger discs to enlarge the notebook, as your notes and project expand. There are different colors to choose from but for this particular project I chose this oh so pretty pink! These […]
The final step of Christmas “take down” is the tree. The first step is to remove all the ornaments. I lay a towel out so I can see them all on my oriental rug…..some of them can get lost in the pattern of the rug. I sort them, on the towel, by kid’s ornaments, fragile and non-fragile. Then I start boxing them up…..wrapping the fragile ornaments in tissue paper and then placing them in a Ziploc bag. The other ornaments are placed in their original boxes or in an ornament box I have. Each of my children’s ornaments is organized in their own box and labeled with their name. When the time comes, […]
It is that time of year…..you have enjoyed the Christmas decorations but now it is time to take them all down. Here is a step by step process of how I attack my “take down”. Hopefully you will find something here you can use while putting your decorations away. Gather all your “like” items together. Your “like” items will be boxed together so it makes it easier to attack one box at a time when you are putting them up this year and when you are ready to decorate again next year. You can see, from the pictures below, the “like” items I have: Santas/decorative items, stockings/pillows/tree skirt, Nativity sets, framed Christmas photos […]
I hear it all the time from clients or prospective clients: I have ADHD or my kids have ADHD or my husband has ADHD. I, myself, am convinced I have ADHD and I am a professional organizer! Granted, I am one of 7 children, growing up in the 60’s when those acronyms meant nothing. I am sure I had traits even way back when but had to somehow learn to cope and teach myself a new way to do things. Here are five strategies I have learned that have helped this distracted, procrastinating gal.1. I talk to myself, not crazy talking to myself, but talking my way through. I remind myself to […]
The other day it hit me…..a lot of the things I do are based on basic math principles. Here are several examples: If you want to weigh less you have to eat less junk food and exercise/move more. If you want to have less clutter, you have to bring in less and get rid of more. If you have only so much square footage, you can’t fit more than that amount of stuff into it. If you want to have a successful marriage, you have to spend more time working on it and less time fussing about it. If you want to increase the odds of raising responsible kids into […]