I’m buying a house, and I’ve already had two days of house hunting under my belt. Watching the home staging shows on HGTV, I could see how home staging could be important, but I always thought people should be able to look beyond whatever is in the house to see the true beauty and potential of it. I was wrong.…
Author: janice
Get Busy Living
Scott McKain, author of Collapse of Distinction, wrote a beautiful posting on his blog about how the recent spate of iconic celebrity deaths should remind us all to treat each day as a gift. Read Scott’s post here: What will YOU do with the gift of a day? Michael, Farrah, Ed & Billy will not receive what we will: http://budurl.com/ju28 Scott…
A Closet Disaster
I was eating breakfast and drinking coffee this morning when I heard the loud crash. I thought for a moment that something hit my apartment building, but I quickly realized the crash came from my apartment. I opened my closet and was stunned to see a pile of clothes and boxes on the floor. The screws of the shelf/closet rod…
Fearless Tossing
As I deleted thousands of e-mails from a client’s inbox, she stood behind me, directing which ones were good to go. She said, “Why can’t I do this without you? You make me less afraid of deleting e-mails.” I’ve come across this with many of my organizing clients. When organizing by themselves, they’re more afraid of throwing things away, more…
Can You Really Multi-Task?
Know the saying that someone can’t walk and chew gum at the same time? It’s actually true. Research shows that productivity decreases 20% to 40% every time you “task switch,” i.e. multi-task. Each time you struggle to do several things at once, it’s no wonder you may feel like you’re spinning your wheels. Ironically, most job postings ask for someone who can…
Get Inspired!
Okay, so you have a goal — losing weight, saving money, buying a house, or flying to Europe. How do you get inspired to reach your goal? We’re going back to junior high and making collages! Since we’re now mature adults, we don’t do collages of our Hollywood crushes, such as Rick Springfield, Duran Duran, and Shaun Cassidy. Instead, we…