My charming colleague Peter Walsh has just released his new book entitled Does this Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More. He’ll be on Oprah tomorrow, 2/7/08. (book cover photo from Barnes & Noble’s website) Peter and I agree that both organizing and weight loss are all… Read more »
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Results of NAPO Los Angeles Organizing Awards
Thank you to everyone for your support and your votes. We did not win the award, but as always, it is a true honor to be a finalist! Here are the winners for this year’s awards. I will post some photos here later… Update: Here are a few photos (thumbnails below, click for larger images)!… Read more »
Resign Yourself to the Inevitable
I had a meeting at a country club this week where they had the most beautiful ashtray urns I had ever seen flanking the front double-doors. I am not a smoker, but I noticed them because they had done a great job of making the best of a situation, and it illustrates a great point… Read more »
Are We Having Fun Yet?
January is jam-packed with organizing celebrations… it’s National Get Organized Month, last Monday was "Organize Your Home Day," this Monday the 14th was "National Clean Off Your Desk Day" and it’s also "Life Balance Month." In the spirit of Life Balance, I have a few things I am focusing on for 2008… one is Conquering… Read more »
Are You Prepared for the Worst?
Recently, a friend of mine has been deeply affected by a car accident that killed a good friend of hers. The person was a mother of 3 children and the husband travels often for work… the impact to that family is absolutely earth-shattering. The result? My friend and others around her have been very focused… Read more »
What is Holding You Back for 2008?
In our Clutter Diet tutorials, we talk about how there are 3 kinds of organizing, and "Planning" is the top level of those… Planning is incredibly important and makes everything else work better. It does require that you step back, take some time out, and think. Have you thought about 2008 and what you would… Read more »
Organizing Lessons from Broadway
I am writing this week from New York where I have been on a whirlwind media tour for 2 days with a bunch of really nice magazine editors and filming a segment for www.better.tv. It’s been a blast! I went to a broadway show, Spamalot, which was wonderful. I had a great seat on the… Read more »
Take Donations in Now to Get Your Tax Deductions!
For those of you with piles of donation items to take to Goodwill, the Salvation Army, or other worthy charities, remember that you should donate your stuff before December 31st to get a tax deduction for it for 2007. We are fans of using It’s Deductible software, which is bundled with some editions of TurboTax… Read more »
If It Were Easy, Everyone Would Do It
People who know me are going to get sick of me talking about the book The Dip, by Seth Godin. I was honored to speak last week to a stellar group of student leaders at my alma mater, Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. When thinking about what to tell them about what I have learned… Read more »
Leave Your Clutter on Park Benches
If you are a book lover, you will really like this idea. Take books you no longer want that are cluttering up your shelves, register them on BookCrossing.com, and leave them around in public places for other people to take. That’s right, just leave your books on park benches, in hotels, in coffee shops…! That’s… Read more »
