Many people are off for the holidays starting this week, and sometimes they are home looking around wishing they felt a little more relaxed in that environment. Here's a quick way to make some progress while everyone's around to help. Periodically, we have around here what I refer to as a "Day of Reckoning." Things… Read more »
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How to Make Something Better by Ripping It Up!
Quick weekend tip for you…When organizing or when unloading groceries and other purchases and putting them away, I am always annoyed at how packages are designed well for shipping and selling and store display, but not for dispensing and everyday use and storage. Sometimes things are hard to open, too. Are you listening, package designers?… Read more »
8 Questions to Ask Yourself for the New Year
My husband told me years ago that sometimes at his work they step back and ask themselves the Stop-Start-Continue questions: What should we STOP doing? What should we START doing? and, What should we CONTINUE doing? These are great questions to ask ourselves as we head into a new year. I am a big believer… Read more »
Lorie’s Guide to Workwalking- Walk While You Work!
I have been "workwalking" for a while, since about November 2008. (Well, not continuously! LOL But you know what I am saying.) Here is a blog post I wrote back then when I got the idea from a Time magazine article. I walk on a treadmill for a maximum of 2 MPH while I work… Read more »
Are You Looking for the Clutter Diet Workbook?
We get a LOT of searches on this blog for "Clutter Diet Workbook," so I am writing this post to be here to answer that question when it arises. We have a few Clutter Diet workbooks, so here's the scoop: For the Clutter Fitness Workbook that accompanies our book, The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on… Read more »
Nine Creative Ways to Say “No”
I have always admired my friend, Renee Peterson Trudeau, for her ability to set boundaries between her work life and personal life and truly practice self-care. She is author of The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal, which is a book I recommend often. This brilliant article is an excerpt from it. During the holiday season we… Read more »
Don’t Confuse Activity with Accomplishment!
This week in our monthly members-only webinar, where we do "freestyle" Q&A with me and my expert team, someone asked us what our favorite organizing books were (besides The Clutter Diet book, of course). Before I go on with my point, I am going to tell you what we said, because if I don't, I… Read more »
How Do You Measure Up?
When we work with clients and members of our online program, people are often surprised when we don't have them buy organizing supplies in advance. "Don't you need some bins or something?" they ask. We often do need some bins. The issue is that we don't know which kind, what size, how many, or what… Read more »
What Stuff Represents YOU?
My dear friend just lost her beloved father-in-law last week. The family members were allowed to choose items they wanted to keep from his belongings, and they selected sweet symbols of their time with him that were valued and treasured– his gardening tools, his money clip, and other very personal items that represented him, his… Read more »
Get Kids to Listen without Nagging, Reminding or Yelling
THURSDAY NIGHT- 11/11/10, at 8:00pm Central (9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific) my friend Amy McCready, Today Show parenting expert and founder of Positive Parenting Solutions, is giving a FREE webinar to our readers and members! The webinar is live and interactive, so bring questions for Amy so she can help you! We'll get to whatever questions… Read more »
