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Remember when you were a kid and Mom set you down with a stack of thank you cards after the holidays and you dutifully filled out cards to family and friends, thanking them for their gifts?  To expedite the process, I bet many of your cards included the same phrases, substituting a couple specifics to personalize the message.  This exercise …

The art of a decluttered life includes ALL spaces, including your resume.  For you job seekers out there and for anyone anticipating a change in employment in the future, take some time to remove the clutter and improve your resume.
Why you should remove resume clutter
Head hunters and human resources departments are overloaded with a deluge of job applications and resumes, …

Today you have an assignment: clean out your junk drawer.
We all have one.  A space in your home or office that becomes a landing space for small items on counters that get tossed in there “for later” during a cleaning frenzy.  Junk drawers and cabinets are nothing more than an excuse for not putting items where they need to be, …

I thought I’d share with you an organization method for scrapbooking that I stumbled upon last week.  I recently became a fan of scrapbooking as an outlet for my creative energy and a way to memorialize my photos and keepsakes from special moments.  But my problem has been managing the materials I’m collecting when I don’t have the time to put …

You’re on the train heading to work and a brilliant business idea invades your daydreaming.  An unexpected wait at the DMV leaves you with half an hour to kill and no outlet for your thoughts.  Then an unexpected downpour confines you to your car for 10 minutes while you wait to dash into the store.  But in all these situations …

This past weekend, I embarked on a scary, yet fulfilling, decluttering and organization project: the cleaning out of my car.  It was a several hour affair but has made a world of difference for my sanity, and it will for yours too.
Before I started, I imagined my 9 year old car and my vision for what I wished it to …

Some of the most highly productive people that I know practice one simple habit: identifying the high energy times during their day.  How can we be highly productive or tap into creative energy if we haven’t determined the moments in our schedule where we have the most potential for success?
If we look at our to do list everyday at 3:00pm …

I have a bold suggestion that might draw fire from thifty money-savers out there (don’t worry — I’m one of those too): make travel easier by creating a travel toiletries bag constructed with a seperate set of the essentials.  Yes, it requires purchasing two of each one of your personal grooming supplies, but it will save you a lot of …