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Using a Travel Grid: Pack Right, Pack Light!

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I recently helped a client pack for a trip.  She had previously felt unprepared for trips, having found herself either over packing and lugging a hopelessly heavy suitcase, or under packing and not having what she needed. We did two things to help ensure a better outcome for this trip. First, we created two packing lists.  The first list was items she takes on a typical domestic vacation.  The second included items she needs when traveling overseas.  Using … Read More

Coaching: Grateful for the Opportunity to Witness…

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I keep a gratitude journal and at some point I plan on writing about what a powerful influence it has been in my life.  Today though I want to discuss what I wrote in that journal yesterday: “I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as witness to the amazing changes my clients are making in their lives.”  An individual comes to me when they are overwhelmed by one or more areas of their life.  The source … Read More

My Favorite Things…Leopard Print File Bench

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Every once in a while I like to share a favorite with you, be it an organizing product or something that makes life simpler.  Today I want to share my Leopard Print File Bench, which makes organizing my files simpler and my living room more fun and functional! My office is in the living room of my home.  I chose to have my office there because I can easily see what’s going on elsewhere in the house … Read More

My Favorite Things: Five Favorite Organizing Books

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I’ve read a lot of books about organizing and related topics over the years and am often asked to recommend books I’ve found especially helpful or insightful, so I thought I would share my five favorite organizing related books with you. These books are listed in no particular order and I have given a brief explanation of why I they are on this list. Organizing from the Inside Out, Second Edition: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your … Read More

Organizing the Desk: Back to Ready – Part 2

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Last time I shared my cluttered desk with you, along with the reasons it ended up being so cluttered.  Today I want to share the steps for getting it back to ready.  These aren’t the only possible steps that might help someone get their desk back to ready, but they are the steps I used and hopefully they might give you some ideas for steps you may want to take… I cleared everything off my desk – I … Read More

Back to Ready – What it Means to be Organized – Part 1

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Marilyn Paul introduced me to the concept of “getting to ready” in her book, It’s Hard to Make a Difference When you Can’t Find Your Keys. In her book, she describes being organized as: “a dynamic between a state of readiness for action and taking action. It is the rhythm of taking action, creating the natural disorder that comes with taking action, restoring order with helpful habits and useful systems, and thus returning to readiness for action.” … Read More

Favorite iPad Productivity Apps – Part III: iThoughts HD

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Today I want to share an iPad app designed for non-linear thinkers. Non-Linear Thinkers Like many folks with ADHD, my thought process tends to be more relational than linear in nature.  A colleague of mine calls those of us who think relationally Global Creatives.  This is a blessing and somewhat of a curse: a blessing in that I’m brimming with ideas on all sorts of topics, a curse in that it’s super challenging to get my brain … Read More

Favorite iPad Productivity Apps – Part II: Toodledo

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Today’s app is so much more than just an iPad app.  Instead it is a cloud app, available to me on whatever internet accessible computer I am using, on my iPhone, and on my iPad.  The app is called Toodledo.  Per the Toodledo website: “Toodledo is a three syllable word pronounced “two-dull-due” or more technically \’tü-dəl-dü\. It is a play on the words to-do and toodle, which is a british term meaning “take it easy”.  The idea … Read More

Favorite iPad Productivity Apps – Part I: Penultimate

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I am a HUGE fan of iPad.  I’ve carried mine with me everywhere for almost two years and when people ask me if I like using it, my typical response is, “I don’t like it, I live it!”  While that might sound a bit exaggerated, it really is true, because it’s key to my productivity.  I use it to calendar my life, track my to-dos and projects, communicate with others, read, etc.  I’m often asked what my … Read More

Laundry Room Closet ReDo

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Something I really wanted when we moved recently was to find a house with a laundry room on the second floor that had plenty of space for processing laundry.  I had transitioned the laundry room from the mudroom to the second floor master bathroom of our last home and loved that our clothing never left the second floor.  It meant no more toting dirty clothes down the stairs and clean clothes up.  In my mind it was … Read More