Overwhelmed by paper? Stop fearing your growing mail pile and start taking control. My three step method will help you create simple processes with lasting results (works for email too!).
Clutter is unmade decisions. Projects are left to linger because you made a choice to do something else. Papers pile up because you think you need them but you aren’t sure. So, you say: “I’ll decide later” and set them aside. Pretty soon all the decisions you didn’t make have spread around the house and […]
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What’s complicated right now? Taking the time to evaluate your stuff and processes might seem like one more thing to do, but can skyrocket your overall productivity. Putting it off will only take more time later. So, think about it, where can you simplify what’s complicated right now? Start there. Have you ever had one
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Wishing you could maximize your time doesn’t change anything. Taking some actual steps to change your approach to time will. Get your mindset right and leveraging time gets much easier. It happens to people all the time. You get to the end of the day and think, “I worked hard all day and didn’t get
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Squeezing in one more thing never really works out. It’s a time and space thing. Only so much can fit in any given space or time. Adjustments must be made. A little preplanning can help avoid real problems later. Squeezing in one more thing leads to complications. What’s complicated? Actually it is a complex composition
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Ever wondered why some people have easy and effortless systems in place and why you don’t? I heard it again just yesterday, a potential client saying they hadn’t had time to set up a system. Was it you? I say you don’t have time not to set up a system. A system is a set
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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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