Author Archive
Organizing Paperwork for Your Bookkeeper
by Janet Barclay and Jennifer Kubilis
When starting out, it’s not uncommon to personally handle all the work involved with running your business, but if all goes well, you’ll reach a point where it makes more sense to pay someone else to perform some of the administrative functions, so you can devote more time to serving [...]
How Simplicity Can Be Perfection
by Celeste Varley
Do you ever wonder if you have a perfect work of art in you? You know, when you feel a really juicy inspiration coming over you…
So everything is going along swimmingly. You’re in fine form, just painting, carving, or potting up a storm. But then you start to get giddy [...]
Teaching Your Child to Clean
by Pamela Cole Harris
When you call 911 because there is a distinct and suspicious odor in the neighborhood and the culprit turns out to be two pairs of sneakers, three pairs of underwear and a dozen or more hotdog remnants of unknown origin and vintage found under your child’s bed, it’s past time to get [...]
How to STOP Wasting Time
by Jan Hayner
How many times have you said, “I just don’t have enough time” or “I wanted to get more finished today, but I ran out of time”? We seem to start the day off great in the morning, and somehow by midday, we feel like we are ‘behind’ and are constantly play catch-up the [...]
When Your Get Up And Go Just Got Up And Went
by Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE
Five Tips to Refresh and Renew Yourself in the New Year
Let’s face it: new years are not always “new”. Too often it feels like nothing more than a new calendar in which to write down pages of non-stop activities, project deadlines, social obligations, and commitments made by someone other than you.
SO [...]
Organizing Students: The Cure for Morning Mayhem
by Susan Kruger
It is 6:00 AM…you have already hit the snooze button twice and are dreading the morning marathon that lies in front of you. Making sure everyone is dressed and ready for school is enough of a process, especially when everyone is bleary-eyed (and oh-so cheery) at the very beginning of the day. Soon [...]
Get Rid of Clutter the Easy Way
by Jan Hayner
A woman that I recently worked for had a real mess in her home, at least SHE though so. She woke up one morning and could not find anything that she was looking for. By the time that she placed the call and I answered the phone, she was a jumble of nerves, [...]
Can Multitasking Ruin Your Work Life Balance?
by Bill Lee-Emery
When my daughter was very young, she would wander into my office and want to chatter, see what I was doing and generally get my undivided attention. In the early days I tried to multitask and distract her while I continued to write that very important letter, or finish the project I was [...]
Job Search Secrets: Make An Organizer
by Virginia Bola
None of us ever feel that we are going to be out of work for very long. We jump into looking for work in as many directions as we can think of, confident that we will find a suitable position quickly, and move on with our lives.
A few weeks pass and we see [...]
You Can Have an Organized Day in 4 Easy Steps
by Jan Hayner
Sometimes don’t you feel like you are running around in circles and have lost control?
You will get a lot more accomplished and have less stress in your life if you follow four steps to organizing your time. Most of the stress and ‘running out of time’ that we experience, is due to a [...]
