When you stumble, make it part of the dance. What a great antidote for perfectionism! If you’re human, you’ll make mistakes – so you might as well embrace them. Don’t waste your energy trying to hide or cover up your missteps. Just laugh – and keep moving. And don’t let your fear of being imperfect stop […]
Author Archives: Michele | Get Organized Gal
I’m not a good decision maker. Actually I’m not a confident or fast decision maker. I hesitate. I ponder. I vacillate. When I look back, most of my big decisions have been easy, and excellent. Marrying Craig. Leaving corporate life. Eschewing reality TV. For medium-sized choices, however, I’ve often felt as though I may as […]
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Imagine this. You’ve just got back from a great vacation. You’re feeling relaxed and dreamy and blissed out. You sit down at your computer, a happy but slightly dopey expression lingering on your face, when suddenly–DUN DUN DUN!!–you see 4,679 new messages in your inbox. If you relate to this, you might like to re-consider […]
This week… Popular posts were about staying up all night to finish a book, not being afraid of what could go wrong, and Danielle’s loss of 40 pounds. Generating discussion were the iris I saw on my getaway to the Blue Mountains and sedating your inner thin person with chocolate cake. We laughed over someone yelling stop and life giving you, um, melons. Tips included choosing […]
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Here are some recent articles I’ve written for other business sites. They may be helpful for your business and career goals, so I thought I’d mention them here. 5 Social Media Activities You Should Be Doing Of all the things you can do on social networks, these are 5 of the most important: Listening Replying Speaking in your own […]
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People ask such great questions on my Facebook page. Here’s an extract from a recent one from Jennifer: I do a lot of long term planning and while the paper planner works just fine there are also advantages to using a digital planner such as outlook or calendar (for mac). Right now I get frustrated as I […]
Thank you for the lovely feedback that you like the idea of a weekly Facebook round-up. This week… Popular posts were about starting wherever you are, keeping your sparkle, and doing what makes you come alive. Generating discussion were scents that brought back memories and our love of notebooks. We had some laughs about having no idea […]
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Did you know you can now have a header image on your Twitter profile? It’s a bit like the cover photo on your Facebook profile. How To Add A Twitter Header Image Adding a Twitter header image is easy. Here’s how: From Twitter, click the settings icon Choose Edit Profile From the left-hand menu, click Design Go […]
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman What makes you come alive? Not sure? Here’s how to find your passion in about 30 minutes. Come on now – the world is waiting!
Feeling overwhelmed? Time-poor? Drowning in clutter? Here are 12 easy things you can do to simplify your life. 1. Don’t Bring In The Mail Accumulating piles of mail can make you feel stressed. Instead, make it a habit to open snail mail over your recycle bin. Ditch everything – only take inside those items you […]
Facebook only shows a small fraction of the activity from the pages you like. So I thought I’d share some cool stuff from this past week, in case you missed it. Let me know if this is helpful. 🙂 My most-shared post this week was about coffee and chocolate… and beans. Generating discussion was a […]
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Here are some cool tips and ideas for organizing your home. 1. Storage Solutions For Organizing Kitchen, Closet, Bathroom, Laundry, Garage, Craft, Home Entertainment Looking for neat ideas for making things tidier? This article from Buzzfeed offers 52 clever solutions covering every room in your house. Some are not exactly pretty, some will take more time than they’re worth, […]
Well, my Get Organized Wizard website has. What do you think? Why Change? This site has been around for a few years now. Over that time I’ve added products, changed focus, and adapted to what I’ve learned about you, my customers and readers. As a result the site had started to look, um, disorganized. Not good […]
There’s an op shop crisis in Australia. More families are turning to thrift stores for clothes and other essentials. At the same time, donations to ops shops, thrift stores, and charity-operated stores are falling. Yet most of us have closets full of clothes we never wear. It’s estimated that UK wardrobes contain £30 billion worth of […]
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I call the artistic life, if each day you […]
Do you beat yourself up for not being better organized? Tell yourself off for poor time management? Self-flagellate over household clutter? It’s time to step away from the whip. There’s a better way to motivate yourself to do the things you wish you did more of… Shoulds And Procrastination Few of us rush headlong toward […]
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Back from holidays and facing hundreds of emails? It’s overwhelming! Where do you even start? Resist the temptation to press [Ctrl-A] and [Delete]. Instead, use my strategies to slay the inbox dragon. You might even be able to hold on to some of that precious post-holiday serenity. But first, a quick backtrack. I’ve written previously […]
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There’s a lot happening here at Get Organized Wizard. At the moment I’m busily: Updating the logo (as you can see above!) Revamping the website – with a new look and a brand new store Refreshing my products – some will be retired, others repackaged, and in the months ahead, cool new products will be […]
Got a goal to get rid of clutter and organize your home? Here are three smart strategies for home organization. 1. Scrap The Storage If you’ve got stuff squirreled away in storage, the attic, or the garage, then this is the time to get rid of it. You probably don’t even know what’s there, do you? […]
When you attend a business seminar or college lecture, how productive is your time? Do you take copious notes – but never get around to taking action? It costs time and money to educate yourself – so it pays to get organized. Here are my top three tips for getting organized so you get great value. 1. Know Your Objectives To Focus Your Attention […]