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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Oct
Oct
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 ÂŁ30 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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Sep
Sep
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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Sep
Sep
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 […]
I had all kinds of plans for today, but instead I’m spending it fighting a fluey bug. I’m not up to working (too foggy) or going to the gym (no energy). So I have to be still. And that stillness is producing interesting realizations all over the place. Just little, personal observations about why I do […]
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Aug
Aug
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan sums up three things you must do to be successful at anything. […]
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Aug
Aug
How good is your computer filing system? Can you find what you need quickly? Does it help you feel productive and motivated? I’ve now completed my computer-organizing project. What a challenging, but ultimately rewarding, project it has turned out to be! More about that in a later post. For now, let’s look at files and […]
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Aug
Aug
How do you manage your daily to-do list? How do you organize your ideas and notes? Diary? Notebook? App? Software? Other? Over the past week I’ve been getting frisky with Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion. And I’ve discovered some cool productivity tools. My favorite features so far (there are plenty more here, here, and here) include: […]
A few years ago the Washington Post reported that one in four adults read no books at all the previous year. Does that surprise you? Do you like to read? Do you wish you had more time for reading? I love to read and always have several books I’m in the middle of. Fiction, biographies, memoirs, science, […]
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Aug
Aug
Have you been following along with me as I’ve decluttered, streamlined and organized my inbox and desktop? Feels pretty good, huh? Today I continued my computer-simplifying project by cleaning up my computer applications. I was going to do folders and filing today, but I realized it made sense to know what software programsI’d be […]
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Aug
Aug
How Do You Use Your Computer Desktop? Today I continued with Day 2 of decluttering, streamlining and organizing my computer and technology. Yesterday’s ninja inbox-management was gruelling – and I’m exhausted! If you launched an all-out assult on your inbox too, then I bet you’re hoping for an easy day today. Relax – it is. 🙂 I’ve spent much […]
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Jul
Jul
Today I started my project of decluttering, streamlining and organizing my computer and technology. In the spirit of Eat That Frog I began with email. Ugh! I can still taste that slimy frog skin! Anyway, here’s what I did. How I Decluttered, Streamlined and Organized My Email – With Organizing Tips For You 1. I Moved To Gmail I […]
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Jul
Jul
This month I’m simplifying my technology life. I used to be a techo-princess – totally on top of my inbox, files and all things computer-y. But since moving from PC to Mac I’ve allowed stuff to fall between the cracks, gotten slack with my systems, and let email make me her bitch. And not […]