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Simplify your Thanksgiving Planning for a Calm and Fun Holiday

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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A Simple Guide to Reducing Inbox Overwhelm – Here’s Exactly What I Do

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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How to Simplify Your Schedule (and still Conquer your Goals at Work and Home)

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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5 Things to Simplify Right Now so You Can Easily Adapt to Any Change

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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