Does it seem impossible to beat holiday stress? So often I hear people complaining about how hectic the holidays are. They stay up late to get it all done. They shop through lunch to buy things to make it easier to cope. They ignore clients, family members and friends — just to do one more […]
Sometimes not doing something is better than doing it. Busy work is the stuff we do because at some point it seemed like a good idea, and maybe it was for a while. I hear from entrepreneurs about their lack of time and yet when we start to look at where the time goes, it is obvious that it is to busy work.
It is frustrating to work so hard all the time and feel like you are not making a dent. Wouldn’t it be nice to get twice as much done in half the time?
You want to get to new, cool ideas that will make you a bunch of money, and you want to not work all hours of the day so you can spend time with your family having fun. So, let’s look at what can go first.
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What does researching have to do with clutter? At my place not much, but for many of my clients, research is a way of life. Or maybe it’s a way of not getting around to making decisions, which is what causes clutter.
How you research, and make decisions based on the research is the key to eliminating most of the paper clutter I encounter. Can you find the information you have been accumulating when you are ready to act? If not, then having a simple strategy about how you find information when you need it can save you hours of time every month.
The information piles up. Then when you look for it, you think you have found the piece you are looking for and then it’s not the one you thought, so you put it aside, for now, and keep looking, for the one you thought it was.
What is going on here? Well, you have redundant information, and it is in your way in several places.
Sometimes what is an obvious clutter breakthrough point and easy for me, is the brilliant idea that you need to have a breakthrough to release your clutter. I talk to people about their clutter all the time. I see patterns in how they talk about their stuff. Mostly, I notice the wrong thinking that is
Is your clutter a communication issue? Stop the blame and get some perspective. If it feels like your family is not on your side when trying to create an organized home, you may want to look at your own behavior in the situation. Have you asked your family for help? Have you expressed to them
It is easy to keep the money clutter off your desk by defining your money system. A good “how I process my money” system gives a place for all the different kinds of money clutter to go. You might be wondering just how much money clutter is on your desk? The answer is more than
How much time do you spend shifting piles around your home office and from one side of the desk to another? Does your workflow actually take longer to get ready to do something than to actually do the thing? Have you ever spent the whole day “organizing” and have it all feel even more overwhelming
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If you want to get and stay organized, you will need to learn how to develop an organizing habit that works. For real success to take hold, you must stop rearranging your things every couple of weeks and make a deeper connection between your things and what you want. Your organizing efforts don’t last because
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How to Use a Checklist Do you feel like you could do more if you only had the right tools? You’re not alone. According to a recent study, the average person spends about two hours each day on tasks that could be automated with a checklist. That means there are 40 hours every month where
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