Technology can be a great organizing tool! Now, you can find apps on your phone, your iPod, your iPad, your tablet, desktop and your laptop for almost anything!! However, most apps tend to keep you busy and pre-occupied! So, to help you declutter your life, we found some apps that will help bring relaxation and some extra time into your life! For more of...
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Well, in my last blog post, I wrote about what is stopping us from getting organized, being productive and loosing perspective of purpose and priorities. Although we do often hold ourselves back from achieving or having the organized life we want to have, it is important to trust ourselves. Without trusting ourselves, any system, especially an organizing system, will likely not last long. In her...
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The Jamie’s To-Do App is named after Jamie Mikelich. It is not only visually beautiful, but it’s simple to use and the features are incredibly useful. There are: Eight to-do lists in this app, so you can easily organize and manage your life. You can shuffle and prioritize the order of your to-dos, depending on what becomes most important in your day. Reminders to ensure...
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As we talked about in our last post, lowering stress can be a stressful task in itself! Author Carlow Cruz makes these suggestions for creating new habits to regain balance in your life: FAMILY TIME Spending time with your family brings great balance to a busy work-life. By spending at least one quality meal together a day will help everyone in your family feel...
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As we approach Spring, it is the perfect time to bring up STRESS MANAGEMENT! Spring is a busy time of year – new sports are beginning, the school year is beginning to wind down, not to mention… spring cleaning. Spring is a time of change – change doesn’t usually bring a sense of peace and relaxation to most of us. Change can often create emotional...
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Getting Organized Magazine is a new magazine that just launched in January, and we think it is a fantastic resource for all of our clients and friends! You’ll find many articles with lots of helpful advice, including “Where to Start: Step by Step Organizing Tips” to help you jumpstart the organizing process and “Eliminating the Avalanche” to help you learn strategies for clearing countertops and...
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The holidays always seem to fly by. We’re so busy planning parties, decorating our homes, attending school concerts and church programs, preparing meals and goodies, going to family gathering after family gathering, purchasing last minute gifts (the list goes on and on…). Sometimes we, especially moms, forget to take time for ourselves. And without that time to relax, reflect, and just breathe, we may miss...
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A long time ago, in a generation far, far away (OK, not so far) there used to be very clear boundaries between work and home. Remember Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy or Happy Days (now I have you guessing how old I am =). Dad came home when the sun was still out and never thought about work until he left the next...
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Does every day feel like a Monday with everyone in the family making demands on your time? “Mom, where is my homework? Honey, can you pick up my dry cleaning? Mom, I can’t find my Lego Hero Factory toy!” It is easy to allow yourself to get so caught up in everyone else’s issues and hover like a helicopter ready to land and triage every...
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