Ridiculous Memory is a cool technique for creating habits. I have been working with my Antidote to Overwhelm clients on developing routines and habits. At the same time I heard reference to improving memory with a technique called ridiculous association. This is a technique I learned as a kid and didn’t even realize it was […]
If it’s on fire, it seems obvious that that is an urgent situation and requires immediate attention. It can be much harder to know if it’s urgent if it is a task that comes up during your day. How do you know if something is urgent, or if that same thing is merely an interruption
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The first system I set up for my entrepreneurial clients is a follow up system. Usually they have been avoiding it, saving it for later, or winging it. They have mixed, alright, I really mean chaotic, results with that. So, I fix it. It is a big mistake to not do the follow up required
Paper piles up quickly so I wanted to share a way to clear paper clutter with this relevant vs. interesting hack. It provides criteria for making the decisions needed to keep only the best information on the pieces of paper. Many of my clients are kind of frozen over which paper they need to keep.
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Common practice is to do a seasonal closet switch out of your clothes, then do it for all the members of your household. This way of managing clothes by season can be very time consuming, and in my opinion, a complete waste of time. There is washing, evaluating, folding, stuffing, boxing, unboxing, fluffing, hanging, and
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Almost every home and office I work in has a problem with boxes and cords. Box, cable and cord storage takes up a huge amount of room and are just never used again. It seems like it should be easy for people to let go. And yet. When does this fear of getting rid of
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The bathroom is one of those spots where clutter can accumulate quickly. People tend to store too many things in their very small, often weirdly shaped, cabinets. Cabinets are also notorious for medicine and cures for ailments you don’t have and ‘try me’ items that linger after you decide you don’t like them or they
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Do you know what happens in your rooms? Some spaces have formal titles like kitchen, bathroom, and laundry. It’s self-explanatory to know what happens in these single focused rooms, and thus, it’s easy to determine the primary activities that take place there. It makes sense to keep the stuff you use in those rooms near
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