Hello friends! January here in Australia is pretty quiet. Schools and colleges have holidays, many workers take vacations, and the roads have relatively little traffic (relatively!). But the beaches are packed. Tomorrow’s Australia Day, a public holiday when BBQs all over the country sizzle with steaks and prawns. After that, it’s back to serious work […]
Do you get halfway through January and feel like you’ve already failed at your new year’s resolutions? Impossible! If you’ve ‘already failed’, then you’re simply not doing your goal setting, habit change, or new year’s resolutions right. But you can fix that. Here’s how. 3 Lessons for Achieving Goals, Changing Habits, and Making New Year’s Resolutions […]
Have you set new year’s resolutions to get better organized? Here are three strategies for starting off the year on the right track – and boosting your chances of keeping those resolutions beyond January. 🙂 1. Scrap The Storage If you’ve got stuff squirreled away in storage, the attic or the garage, then this is […]
Are you one of the thousands of people changing their lives with 52 Organizing Missions? See for yourself the inspirational success stories. To help turbo-charge your success, I’m excited to announce our brand new 52 Organizing Missions Workbooks to accompany the program. Here’s what you’ll get in these motivating, downloadable workbooks: Each weekly mission in […]
Thank you for being part of the Get Organized Wizard community in 2009. I’m very grateful for your support, comments and motivation. As a thank-you gift to start 2010 off well, I have a Family New Year’s Resolutions Planner for you. You can type into this template and save it to your computer, or print […]
By Popular Demand You asked for it, so here it is! I’ve put 52 of my best organizing, decluttering and simplifying blog posts from the past year into an interactive, easy-to-read e-workbook. Open at any page and you’ll find a fresh, motivating idea to help you get better organized and move from procrastination to action. […]
If you’re dreading the annual shopping ordeal at the mall, then you might prefer to check out our Christmas Gift Certificates from the comfort of your computer instead. Christmas Gift Certificates Our Gift Certificates can be printed out or emailed directly, and are instantly redeemable at any hour, from anywhere in the world, and […]
This can be a stressful time of year, no doubt about it. To help you to get things done, keep your cool, and have a good time, here are my top 3 happy-holiday tips. Getting Organized for Happier Holidays: My Top 3 Tips 1. Do less Doing less is your single best strategy for avoiding […]
Welcome to Mission #28 of our 52 Get Organized Missions. Last week we took stock of your business tasks, in order to improve time management at work. This week we’ll do the same for your home organization tasks, and find ways to be more effective with domestic time management. This will be our final mission […]
Q: Help! My child is so messy. What can I do? A: Try these ideas: Take her to Ikea & let her pick out bins, hooks, etc that she likes, so she’ll be more likely to use them. Get him to surrender an old toy, DVD, etc whenever he gets a new one. Model […]
Welcome to Mission #27 of our 52 Get Organized Missions. You may not be thrilled with the way you manage time in your business life. On the other hand, you may not want to invest precious money, energy, thought and – yep, even time – into finding a whole new time management system. If you’d […]
The most common organizing problem I hear is some variation of this: I need to get organized, simplify my life and clear the *?$^#* clutter. But all I can spare is 5 minutes a day. Help! So I set about creating a program to help meet this need. Here’s what I’ve come up with. Organize […]
Hoarders Season 2 starts in the US this week, so I thought it timely to revisit a couple of recent hoarding articles. If you have mild but unhelpful hoarding tendencies, you might identify the excuses that keep your life cluttered in this post: Hoarding: 7 Lies That Keep You Caught In Clutter If you […]
Last week the Wall Street Journal test-drove three time-management systems: Getting Things Done The Pomodoro Technique Franklin Covey’s Focus. The article concluded, unsurprisingly, that each technique had benefits and drawbacks. More interesting though, was author Sue Shellenbarger’s insights from focusing on time-management techniques. She found: An overlong to-do list was a set-up for failure To […]
Wow – we’re at the halfway point of 52 Organizing Missions! We’ve covered a lot of ground and made some major strides in decluttering, simplifying and getting organized. This week is a good time to pause and reflect on your achievements over the course of the program. And enjoy a little reward. Get Organized Mission […]
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Happy Thanksgiving To All My American Friends And Readers! I’d like to offer you a little gift that seems just right for a day of giving thanks. It’s an interactive Gratitude Journal Template: a downloadable, single-page PDF for listing all the things you’re grateful for – or at least 40 of them. The cool thing […]
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Use This Grocery List Template To Get Organized For Thanksgiving Doing your grocery shopping for Thanksgiving? Use this list to keep track of the items you need, by category. You can type into it and save it to your computer, or print out and write. Either way it’s re-usable. It’s available in my Holiday Planners […]
Organizing guru, Oprah regular, and fellow Australian Peter Walsh has some good advice for organizationally-challenged teens – and their parents. In a recent Good Morning America article (from which I’ve taken *these quotes) he countered some of the common excuses that lead to adolescent organizing angst. If your teen says: Peter replies*: But my stuff’s […]
There’s a report this week about a depressed woman losing her health benefits because of some happy snaps on Facebook. There are many similar stories, including an MI6 chief’s blown cover and a sickie faker busted by Facebook. How do you avoid this kind of conflict? There are two main ways. 1. Censor your online […]
Welcome to Mission#25 of our 52 Get organized Missions. Procrastination is a pain. Not only does it stop you from getting things done, it also drains your energy and leaves you feeling bad about yourself. No doubt you’ve been super motivated by last week’s mission Get Organized Mission #24: Create A Chore Chart. So […]