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Aug 20
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Productive Things To Do While You Wait

By How to Organize Your Life Blog

We’ve all experienced those moments of waiting. It can be truly frustrating to think that you’re spending this valuable time twiddling your thumbs. You may be waiting in line, waiting for an appointment, or waiting for a friend to arrive. It’s easy to let this time slip away, lost in the void of anticipation. But fear not! There are plenty of productive things to do while you wait. Here’s a list of things to make the most out of those waiting moments: 1. Read a Book  Keep a book handy in your bag or on your phone (eBooks or audiobooks)….

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Jul 23
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How To Restart Your Routines After The Summer

By How to Organize Your Life Blog

Summer has a pace of its own. The weather is hot. I’m in Atlanta and the heat is often accompanied by lots of humidity. So, we move more slowly. I think this is probably true for you, too. Even volunteer organizations and associations take time off. The ones in which I’m involved take a break during the month of July. All of this is to say July is almost over. Some schools here in Atlanta are starting the first week in August. It’s time to restart your routines now that summer is ending. To me, it feels like summer has…

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Jul 16
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Small Steps Towards Change

By How to Organize Your Life Blog

I am updating this post for a second time because the information seems to be particularly pertinent now. I first published it in 2011 and updated it in 2021. In our post-covid world many of us want to make changes both personal and professional and we want them now. We spent several years spinning our wheels staying at home suspended in limbo. Now we have a new normal, we are ready for action, but we sometimes forget that to make sustainable growth and change we must take it slowly. Incremental changes are the ones which last. When we take small…

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Jul 09
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Teach Your Children How To Use Free Time

By How to Organize Your Life Blog

Do you ever think to yourself that you are bored, that you have nothing to do and no way to pass the time? I didn’t think so. We all have so many things to do. Things we want to do and things we don’t want to do. I even have things to do to keep me busy so I can avoid the things I’m supposed to do, how about you? When adults have free time available to them, they know how to fill it. How much free time do you need? Cassie Holmes in her book, Happier Hour, states that…

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Jun 23
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8 Hacks To Make Household Chores Easier

By Control Clutter, How to Organize Your Life Blog

It doesn’t matter where you live or how big or small your home is, there are chores to do. Chores can be simple and take just a few seconds or more involved. It seems, though, that many of us tend to procrastinate when it comes to doing our household chores. No matter the size of the chore we all want to make household chores easier so that we are more likely to do them. What is it about chores that make them so hard to do, so easy to put off? First, let’s find out where the word ‘chore’ comes…

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Sep 18
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6 Gifts For The Organized Person In Your Life That They Will Truly Appreciate

By How to Organize Your Life Blog

Have you started your holiday shopping? No? With the holidays looming (as of the writing of this post there are 98 days until Christmas) it’s a good idea to begin now. Some people are harder to buy for than others. I did a little searching online and came up with these 6 gifts that the organized person in your life may truly appreciate. I bet you will like one or more of them. Here are 6 gift ideas for the organized person in your life that they will use and truly appreciate. 1. Keep your car organized There’s little worse…

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Apr 06
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Paper Calendar: Two of the Best Reasons to Use One

By Be A Better Version Of You

Do you use a paper calendar? I do. In the past, I tried to use a digital calendar but found the process frustrating. I could only see dots indicating there was something scheduled on the day in question when I looked at the month view. It took a second step to see the details. Every now and then I enter a date in my phone but frankly I never think to look in my phone for appointments. I always check my paper calendar. Why is that? It’s because I can easily see the appointments for the day I’m curious about…

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Mar 06
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How to Make Progress Towards Your Goals

By How to Organize Your Life Blog

Here we are in March the last month in the first quarter of the year. I am talking about this for several reasons. This is the time to take a hard look at what you have indicated as your goals for the year. Are you making progress towards your goals? Have you hit any of the benchmarks you set out for yourself? If you haven’t, is it because you haven’t started working towards your stated goals? Perhaps it’s because your goals have shifted. Whatever the reason, now is the time to revisit this conversation. This very thing happened to my…

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Feb 13
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The Best Way to Conscientiously Organize Your Stuff

By How To Organize

If you follow me, you may have noticed that I have been absent from posting for the last few weeks. It feels like a long time to me. Have you missed me? While I would like to say I have missed writing and posting my thoughts here, the truth is I have been so busy I haven’t given posting my blog a second thought. I have been unpacking and spending time to conscientiously organize what I intend to be my forever home. Even though I am a professional organizer, setting up my home, unpacking boxes, and finding new homes for…

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Oct 03
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Want To Be More Productive? Use Task-Layering Not Multi-Tasking

By Be A Better Version Of You

Everyone wants to be more productive. We want to get more done in less time, so we multi-task. But do we really get more done when we’re multi-tasking? When we’re busy doing so many things, do we truly accomplish more? We like to think that we can do multiple things at once. Multi-tasking has become a buzz phrase of sorts but are you really more productive when you multi-task? Research says that you are not. This article from the Cleveland Clinic in March 2021 reports that multi-tasking can reduce our ability to focus intently on one task and our ability…

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