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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“Reactionary Workflow” – Ideas for Breaking the Pattern

Where do you really draw the line on your “to do” list? Some of the things we assign ourselves really are necessary; get our teeth cleaned, answer the jury duty summons, pick up the kids. Another category might be negotiable, and yet another list usually contains all those things we actually WANT to do. And [...]

Keeping Up While Fending off Overwhelm

It’s like flossing your teeth…. a job that never really ends. So how can you figure out how to manage it without making it a big deal?