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Posts Tagged: motivation

Just Do It! Change Your To-Do’s into To-DONEs

Here’s the setting: you have a goal in mind and you have a strong desire to succeed- but somehow you miss the target. What happened? Watch this video for insights and help to discover what is motivation. (Click here to watch on YouTube if you can’t see the embedded player. Or watch the video at… Read more »

Hearing Voices? Make Them Work For You!

What you say says a lot about you. Be selective, be strong, be nice and make your words count. Watch this video for more good words. (Click here to watch on YouTube if you can’t see the embedded player. Or watch the video at http://bit.ly/lmvoices.) Transcript: Hi. I’m organizing and lifestyle expert Lorie Marrero. What… Read more »

Clutter Video Tip: Motivation for Procrastination: 3 Ways to Make It Happen

How do you get organized? Have you found the motivation to fight your procrastination? Maybe you need some inspiration to start the perspiration that accompanies household chores,entertaining and de-cluttering. But how do you get motivated to organize this domestication location? Watch this video for illumination on how to get organized and stop procrastinating. Confirmation of… Read more »

How Optimistic People Become More Organized

Recently I met Bert Jacobs, one of the co-founders of Life is Good apparel (the t-shirts with Jake, the little happy stick figure guy, on them). When he spoke here in Austin, he talked about optimism being the message of their company. "Your view of the world is a self-fulfilling prophecy," he said, adding to… Read more »

3 Laws of Organizing Success

I was so fortunate to spend a weekend recently attending a Brian Tracy seminar in San Diego. He taught us about many natural "laws" that work in our favor if we understand them, and several of them stood out to me as being very relevant to organizing. Here are my three favorites of Brian Tracy's… Read more »

Which Voices Are Talking Inside YOUR Head?

I recently had the pleasure of doing an audio interview for our private member area audio collection with my friend Wendy Lipton-Dibner, bestselling author of Shatter Your Speed Limits: Fast Track Your Success and Get What You Truly Want in Business and in Life (Kindle edition here). One of the things we talked about on… Read more »

Laziness is a Gift

I hear the members of our online organizing program sometimes talking in our message boards or on our member webinars about how they didn't get something done because they "are lazy." Let's pause for a moment for a couple of points: Speaking negatively about yourself in a permanent way ("I AM lazy" vs. "I felt… 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 »

Be a Force of Nature!

I collect quotes, and I just ran into this one that I couldn't wait to share with you: "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown out on the scrap heap; the being a… Read more »

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