Life Skills We Hate

There are other things that we love to avoid! One of them is really a basic life skill that few of us were really taught as kids or even young adults. Taking care of financial paper and filing in general. Sorry. You can use a body double for these tasks, but my tip for the [...]

Mind Mapping Might Help – April 2011 Newsletter

Being an April Fool has a certain appeal these days. Especially if it means I get to laugh at myself. This is a new skill, one I have cultivated by fighting decades of seriousness. As a kid, being caught unawares was one of the worst things I could imagine. Any sort of joke played on [...]

The Tyranny of Receipts

Another Reason to Break Free! Keeping receipts is probably one of the most classic and avoidable clutter problems there is!! There are only a few real reasons to carry these bits of paper around in our  wallets, pockets or purses. What is worse, once we get them home they litter the desk top, accumulate in [...]

Personal Organizing and Clutter Clearing – Bellevue College

2 Thursdays  August 2012, the 2nd and 9th  7:00PM – 8:30PM Find that letter, reclaim the counter tops and feel at home in your world! Come and create strategies for change and discuss concrete methods for tacking clutter and chaos. Learn clutter clearing and simple organizing principles to help you break old patterns, learn new [...]

David Allens “Blended Stacks”

I just read this on David Allen’s Newsletter and tried to “share” it, but could not find a way…. so I am passing it on to you via my blog. His systems might be the answer for you, or not, but the concepts here are right on: The Numbness of Blended Stacks You will experience [...]

Paper & Your Relationship with Information: February 2010 Newsletter

Everywhere I look this week I see hopeful signs, bulbs starting to come up and the harbingers of light and warmth! One less than exciting appearance however.have been the 1099′s and tax worksheets in my mailbox. Never one to focus on the negative I’d like to offer some encouragement and tools for getting your taxes [...]

Paper Management for the Filing Resistant

Learn how to design a business file system that you will actually USE. By bravely facing the sea of paper you have right now, you can create systems that reflect how you think. Learn what paper matters to you and your business, how long it matters, and ways to manage it. Start now and set [...]

Record Keeping: January 2009 Newsletter

Greetings from The Composed Domain The snow is finally melting and as the final days of 2008 approach I’d like to wish you all a new year filled with inspiration, serenity and balance! Thanks to all of you The Composed Domain has continued to flourish. Many of you have discovered the power of claiming and [...]