OPTED Magazine

It occurred to me that almost everything that I read can be read digitally.  Then I realized just how much space, money and time I would save by doing so!  This culminated in some reasearch and ideas about why reading content digitally would declutter and streamline my life, and a conclusion that in two particular situations reading in a digital …

If you have a long list of commitments in your life and a number of goals you are striving to achieve, one piece of paper could be all that you need to keep you on track.  A comprehensive list and visual representation of what you want your life to look like can go a long way to directing your energy …

I’ve pondered this out loud, as I imagine you have: there are not enough hours in the day.  With the pressures of work, family, social lives and other commitments to ourselves and others, the 24 hour day races by with a seemlingly endless list of tasks yet to be accomplished.
We’re given 24 hours in each day, but after the necessary …

We all have dreams: the visions and lofty aspirations that we hope to achieve in our lifetimes.  It’s important that despite the everyday, mundane tasks that we are required to plod through that we don’t lose sight of these dreams, and in an ideal world, we aspire to dedicate time each day to work towards those visions.
As promised in our …

You may be the reminder guru, with your calendar outlining the important birthdays, anniversarys and holidays that you need to remember, but it’s all for nothing if you don’t have the supplies to facilitate a timely acknowledgement of those important dates!  After making sure I had text and email reminders of important birthdays, as well as documenting them on my …

So, you’ve purged your closets, cleaned off shelves, and paired down your belongings.  Many things have gone straight in the trash, some were recycled and others donated.  But decluttering can produce a number of products that are reusable and valuable enough to be resold.
The final step of decluttering  almost always includes selling some unwanted items, but we also need to …

Sometimes you just don’t feel like going to work, so you call in sick.  The feeling might be triggered in the morning as the day begins and you feel so overwhelmed that the thought of spending a day in the office when there are a million things on you personal to do list seems impossible.  But what if you planned …

For a few months, our household had a terrible track record of making a trip to the grocery store several days during the week, despite using a batch task system to combine this errand with others.  Even despite a weekly meal plan to plan for dinners and a leftovers schedule, we lacked a system to have everything we needed available …