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Dec
Note: This post originally appeared as a Featured Article in the Get Organized newsletter. We all have goals that seem out of reach. Things we’ve wanted for a long time. Plans that never seem to come to fruition. Desires that we can’t fulfill, no matter how hard we try. Some of the things people chase, sometimes for years or even decades, include: Following a career dream Writing a novel Getting [...]
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Dec
Wow!! What a fabulous response to the 52 Weight Loss Missions logo survey! We’ve had around 650 votes – many of them wonderfully detailed and insightful. Thank you so much for the time and thought you’ve put into helping me choose a logo for my new product. I’m so grateful! I’m also ridiculously excited about this product. It’s the culmination of everything about losing weight I’ve learned in my psych [...]
Last September I turned 44. I was deeply relieved, as my year of being 43 was my. worst. ever. But for all the rich suckiness that those 12 months contained, there was lots to be thankful for. Thanksgiving seems like an apt occasion for reflecting on the good that comes out of the bad. So here are my little thank-you notes. Dear Fatty Bits Thank you for sticking around so [...]
The following post was an article in a recent issue of the Get Organized newsletter. I received so much great feedback on the article that I thought I would reproduce it here. I hope you find it helpful! There are people who love the process of cleaning, decluttering and organizing. These are the Monica Gellers of the world. They’ll happily spend Saturday afternoon filing or cleaning the kitchen, and they [...]
Oct
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On December 1 I’m releasing a very exciting new product called 52 Weight Loss Missions. I think this is my best product yet. 52 Weight Loss Missions: A Radically Different Approach For most of us who struggle with weight loss, the problem isn’t what we don’t know, it’s what we don’t do. This is where 52 Weight Loss Missions is unique. The program: Includes 52 action-based missions Focuses on actions [...]
Procrastination is one of those perennial problems. It seems everyone suffers from it at least some of the time, and there’s no one solution that always works. But there are a few solutions that are pretty reliable at breaking you out of the procrastination rut. In fact, I think these are about the best procrastination busters there are. Procrastination Buster #1: Do Anything Often we procrastinate because we want to [...]
Do you feel like clutter is taking over your life, and sapping your once-great determination to get organized and be tidy? It might seem inevitable that clutter should overtake your space over time – but it’s not! There are things you can do – simple, but life-changing things – that can insulate you from clutter creep. Here are 7 easy ways to arrest the overflow of stuff and keep your life [...]
Aug
It seems everybody wants more time. We read books on getting things done. We stress ourselves out with multi-tasking. We complain to anyone who’ll listen that we’re so awfully busy. And we wish we had more energy. We load up on caffeine and sugar to get through the day. We don’t let ourselves stop for fear we won’t be able to start up again. But there’s a simpler way [...]
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ~ Thomas Carlyle Have you been putting something off? Maybe you’ve been meaning to: Begin working toward a goal? Get organized at work? Declutter your home? Start a project? It might be tempting to wait until some mythical perfect time. Perhaps when: You have more time (yeah, that’ll happen) [...]
Jul
Wonder why you don’t see updates from some friends in your Facebook feed? You can easily change a setting and fix this. Here’s how. How To See Updates From All Your Facebook Friends Go to your Home page in Facebook. Click the blue down arrow shown by the green arrow in the image at left. This will reveal a drop-down menu. Click [Edit Options…], shown by the red arrow in [...]
Jun
Looking your best is a great way to boost your confidence. You may argue that it shouldn’t, but the reality is that your grooming and dress style can make a big difference to the way people respond to you. Perhaps more importantly, it can change the way you feel about yourself – adding a little spring to your step and twinkle to your eye. If you’d like to make a [...]
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People in my Facebook Community will know I’m a big fan of Brian Tracy’s Eat That Frog. How To ‘Eat That Frog’ For Greater Productivity Eat That Frog is a time-management idea that encourages you to: Identify the most important task you could be doing each day (your frog) Do this task first, before you do anything else Continue doing this task until it’s complete (eat your frog). I love [...]
Clearing Clutter Can Increase Success Jack Canfield points out that a cluttered physical environment can undermine success in several ways: Clutter drains energy Clutter hides problems Clutter blinds us to opportunities and ideas. If you feel held back in your personal goals or career goals, could clutter be part of the cause? Get Rid Of Clutter To Get Ahead On Your Goals To get rid of clutter and clear the [...]
Jun
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Are you always looking for time-management tricks as a way to get more done each day? You can also increase your productivity by improving your focus, so that you get more done and more effectively, with whatever time you have available. One way to become more focused as you work is to pull up the drawbridge – my metaphor for cutting off distractions, online and offline. And an important part [...]
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