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Or packages offer a discount for multiple meetings.
All meetings held by telephone.
Solve one question at a time:
At the office:
Clear your desk.
Keep track of current projects.
Conquer a time waster.
Manage email.
Solutions for files & piles.
Scheduling/time.
Plan out a project.
Work with your ADD.
At home:
Organize a difficult space or collection.
Organize your house, one room at a time.
Work with your ADD.
Clear your kitchen counter!
Become your household's CEO.
Scheduling.
Plan a party, project or major expense.
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Blue Skies!
 | Sue West,
Certified Organizer Coach(R) |
Here in the Northeast, we had a few weeks in December and January when we had to ask ourselves: "Which days will it snow this week?" The gray skies threatening snow seemed to arrive daily. Not so in February ...
We appreciate the onset of blue skies more so because of where we were last month. Remember how that feels - the first wave of blue, or the first smell of Spring?
If your "gray skies" are your organizing challenges, what will your "blue skies" look like and feel like? Where are your gray skies and what can you do about them? Time to get rid of them and let the blue skies come into your life.
As you leave behind the unorganized gray skies and sail into the clear blue skies of a wonderfully clutter-free home/office/life, maybe you'd enjoy listening to Ella Fitzgerald's very inspiring rendition of Blue Skies.
Click the link below and turn up your speakers; she'll get you motivated!
Ella Fitzgerald sings & scats "Blue Skies"
My colleague, Sherrill St. Germain, independent financial planner, is writing about blue skies this month. And where she's focused on our financial world, blue skies sound pretty good to me! Check out her latest newsletter here.
To your organized life - with blue skies in the forecast!
email: Sue@OrganizeNH.com
phone: 603 765 9267
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 Change
is in the Air
"So what does it take to keep growing yourself? One prerequisite for success is a willingness to change. ...change comes in two different packages and it's necessary to tell them apart.
There's Imposed Change, which is the kind we can do nothing about. Taxes get raised, fashion designers insist we stop wearing willow green, or road construction makes travel difficult.
On the other hand, there's Instigated Change. That's the kind that we think of as improving our lives because we have chosen it. Best of all, we can instigate change at any time we want. " -- Barbara J. Winter
Are you choosing change? To get and stay organized, one of the keys is the route of Instigated Change. If it's someone in your family or a colleague who suggests you talk to me about organizing, how would it feel ? You're doing it primarily for someone else. Feels a bit more like an "imposed change," doesn't it? Even if it's the right thing to do ultimately.
Read the full article here
Getting more organized, feeling more organized -- this is a process, not a one time event. Take your time. Feel it when you're ready.
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10 Ways
to Get Started
Talk it out with someone who respects you. If you're a verbal type (me), this helps take that amorphous blog/cloud/hot air balloon out of the clouds, and brings it down to Earth, where you can deal with it.
Post it notes. Love them. I guess organizers are not supposed to but take a color that appeals to you, or get some in funky shapes. Fun is key here. Take your markers, your post its, and go somewhere away from your desk.
Brainstorm with yourself. Do NOT try to write things down in any order. Just get the ideas out of your head. Keep going until you've run out. One idea, step or question per post it. Step 2 is putting them in order to be done. Step 3 is take one post it and do it. (Index cards work or anything like these -- small, with one idea per card/note).
Mind Map.Go first to some of the websites and see what this is about. Then decide if the software is for you or you want to just get a big old white flip chart pad and bunches and bunches of colorful markers. I've even used stickers when it was a really tough challenge.
More ways to get started are at this link.
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| Good Stuff from Other Experts & Bloggers | Barbara J. Winter's blog about change
25 Quotes on Willpower Readiness for Change, from the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (Free Download) You Gotta Have Heart, from Wendy Thomas' blog Project Chickens Before the Eggs |
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It's all about moving on,
creating the physical and mental space
to allow new experiences to enter our lives.
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