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De-clutter

Clutter Control: Conquering the Paper Pile Up

March 28, 2009

The best defense is a good offense when it comes to handling papers. The key to getting a handle on paper is to deal with it starting at the front (or side) door. Daily when you get your mail, start by sorting it before you get too far into the house: Pull all the advertisements [...]

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The Hazards of Clutter

March 24, 2009

Physical and mental clutter can: • Burden your mind. • Make you feel tired. • Keep you in the past. • Confuse you. • Affect how people treat you. • Make you procrastinate. • Cause disharmony • Put your life on hold. Clutter causes anxiety. It distracts you. And it does cause stress. This can [...]

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Why Do We Keep Clutter?

March 21, 2009

My last post began by defining clutter, but let’s also look at the dictionary’s definition of clutter: clut•ter 1. a confused or disordered state or collection; a jumble, 2. a confused noise; a clatter. 3. to fill or spread over in a disorderly manner, 4. to make disorderly or hard to use by filling or [...]

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Spring Is In The Air…Is It Time To De-clutter Your Life?

March 17, 2009

The approach of spring has many people thinking about spring cleaning. Are you one of those people? Being brought up in a household that believed strongly in spring and fall cleaning this process became a ritual for me as I was growing up. At the end of the process I remember that I definitely felt [...]

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De-Clutter Your Life

March 3, 2009

In your pursuit of finding more time, have you considered your mental clutter and how it may be stopping you from achieving your dreams? Mental clutter is all the stuff you have swirling around in your head including personal and professional obligations, beliefs, goals, to-do lists, should-do lists and worry. Is your mind filled with [...]

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Card Clutter

December 27, 2008

So what did you do with this year’s holiday cards? What did you do with that anniversary, birthday or Valentine’s Day card you received in 2008? Did you throw it out, throw it in a box, scrapbook it or add it to one of your piles? Trying to figure out what to do with all those [...]

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To Regift or Not- That is the Question…

December 9, 2008

 I know people who think that regifting is tacky or means that you don’t think much of the recipient if you regift to them. As a life coach, encouraging individuals to clear clutter from their space, I personally think that regifting is great if done with the the best of intentions and as long as a few “rules” are followed. For those that may be [...]

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Clutter Blog Talk

December 2, 2008

I had the pleasure of recently being interviewed on CoachVille Caffeine which is a weekly blog talk show in the coaching community. The show is hosted by Coach Dave Buck. It was an honor and privledge to be a guest of this show.  CV Caffeine is a talk radio show featuring interviews with coaches, thought leaders and [...]

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Five Quick Clutter Cures

November 22, 2008

Yes, I know that Thanksgiving is just around the corner and that you have been busy planning and preparing. So I am thinking that some of the clutter might have reappeared in your day-to-day life. Here are five easy and quick clutter cures that can calm the pre-holiday chaos right now: take all the paper [...]

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Are Your “Incompletes” Draining Your Energy?

June 17, 2008

I think the activity of evaluating the “incompletes” in your life and dealing with them is so important that I will share one other perspective with you today. In assessing your list of “incompletes” did you identify anything that required support from another person or group? Did you determine if you had their support or not? [...]

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