10 Tips to an Organized Mind
August 27, 2008
By organizing your mind, you get rid of clutter that fills the brain, which causes stress and anxiety. We all have enough things in our lives that are uncontrollable that can create problems, so why not organize the things that we can control, giving us a true feeling of accomplishment and stress free living.
These 10 tips will help you to keep your mind on-track and help you organize your life: Continue Reading
Let Your Life In!
August 25, 2008
Knock Knock…
Who’s there?
Your life… let me in!
Lamenting how you’d like to have more room for your life? Perhaps you’d like to entertain spontaneously or actually enjoy a weekend without thinking about how much you need to get organized or even find everything you want with out frustration. Sounds good, doesn’t it?
Catalog by catalog and shoe by shoe, your clutter is stealing your space from you. Want to let your life back in? Then lighten your load!
When you’re trying to trim your stuff, instead of thinking of it as “letting your things go”, think of it as “letting your life in”.
With every square foot of stuff you move out, there is the possibility for more breathing room. You’ll have easier access to the things you really love and efficient use of the things you need.
Space-tacularly,
Erica
Tips to Getting Your Child Organized for School
August 22, 2008
Today’s children have the overflowing paperwork and bulging day planners of pint-sized CEOs. And organizing those activities and assignments takes capable assistants: Mom and Dad.
“Without parental intervention, virtually all elementary school children, and many middle and high school youths, will be unable to manage the flow of information from school to home and back again,” said Dr. Anne Rambo, associate professor of family therapy at Nova Southeastern University in Florida and author of the book “I Know My Child Can Do Better!”
Institute a daily backpackunpacking ritual, she advises. Sit down with the child after school and sort through all the contents, putting them in one of six piles: trash, supplies, books, things to keep such as graded papers, longterm assignments such as instructions for a book report due next month, and shortterm assignments such as homework due the next day. Continue Reading