My most recent client just downsized from a large, two-bedroom condo to a compact one-bedroom shortly after her husband passed away. She did an amazing job of reducing what they had owned and lived with for over 20 years in that condo, but once everything was moved into the new place, she felt like the …
In the long checkout line at Target yesterday morning, I watched as a toddler sitting in the cart in front of me started getting impatient. I could see him squirming, and it was only a matter of time, I thought, until he would arch backwards in frustration and cry and yell with impatience. His mom …
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On Friday afternoon, my friend called to ask if I could help her organize some files and paperwork. She’s had, by her own account, a nightmare year since a tragedy struck her family last year. Mail, files, and paperwork are the last things she really wants to deal with, and so of course I told …
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While I’ve never made a turkey for Thanksgiving, it’s always been a time for us to enjoy the company of family and friends. Sometimes we’ll have turkey (homemade by someone ambitious, or bought ready-to-heat and serve from someplace local), but we most often have other dishes that we all enjoy more. Fish, biryani, chicken, lamb, …
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Clients often ask me how to manage the 20,000+ emails in their inbox, a few thousand of which are unread, because they’re becoming afraid of missing something important, or they can’t find an important email that they know they didn’t delete. A couple of clients have even asked me how to get to Inbox Zero. …
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I can predict how I’ll feel at 2pm every single day based solely on how I slept the night before. Less than seven hours, I’ll be drowsy and I’ll crave a cup of strong coffee. Seven or more hours, and I’ll have energy until about 7pm, after which I start to slowly wind down until …
Ding! Tap. Scroll. Repeat. If you’re reading this, then you’re aware of how trained you’ve become to the sound and feel each of your devices. I’m sometimes guilty of looking at my screen when I feel it buzz. But I know how that screen can derail my day, increase my stress, and prevent me from …
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Some time ago, my days were full of appointments, work meetings, school meetings, kid drop-offs and pick-ups. I also had a long list of to-dos that I tried to check off daily, and I often ended up postponing some to the next day. With a schedule as packed as that, I believed that I was …
If you’re anything like me, your original time management and goal-tracking method was to put your appointments on a calendar, write a to-do list on a piece of paper, check things off as you did them until the end of the day, and move what was left to tomorrow’s list. But add husband, kids, job …
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A few summers ago, I had a feeling of freedom that I hadn’t felt since before having kids. They were all finally teenagers, my daughter was driving herself to friends’ houses and everywhere else, and she even helped to run errands and pick up/drop off her brothers! They were all finally quite independent, able to …
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