“You’ve ruined my life,” my daughter told me, stiffly straightening up all four feet of her body. She was only 5 at the time, and I had said or done some minor thing that had unhinged her. She was really quite cute in her pint-sized rage.
We think this is laughable – yet, we do it […]

Support yourself in your personal and work spaces with a few quick
improvements from Julie Morgenstern’s “Organizing From The Inside
Out.” It’s  full of tips for your many organizing needs and styles.
Her step-by-step method breaks things down for you, making it easier
to gain immediate improvement. I love the “how long will it take”
estimates she includes. They allow […]

My dreams are the only places I ever have a perfectly neat office. For years I tried a variety of organizing methods to create the same picture in my awake life. Sometimes they would “take” for a while. (Read: I was reminded my desktop had lovely wood grain.) It never lasted.
My best run was many […]

For years I suffered from organization envy. I’d spot those women with long polished fingernails who, in a moment, could retrieve anything from anywhere. Want the name of someone they met 10 years earlier? No problem, they had it in their “5+ years Contact File.” Wondering where their notes are from an idea they had […]

On a recent call with a client, I was reminded of yet another way we sometimes auto-pilot. This one can be hard to notice as it sneaks up on us while we walk down our positive growth path.
There we are, strolling along, alert for meaningful signs, patterns- -anything that may stretch our self-awareness- when “poof” […]