Paper, paper everywhere and no place to put it. Or files; files for everything and we have no idea where the file is, what’s in the file or why we have it. Filing needs to be simplified as well as revisited to see what we have in our hidden drawers to cast out the old […]

Thomas Troward the 19th C. British judge and metaphysician declared that order is the first law of the universe. Without order there is chaos, there is disruption, there is no sense to life and its many things and how they fit together. With order, we have a rhyme and reason for how the planets revolve […]

At the end of each year, we have the opportunity to take stock of where we’ve been, what we’ve accomplished and where we want to go next. We also have a chance to look at what we have. By assessing in this way, we see what worked, what didn’t and what needs changing. So often […]

I’ve heard it said that “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”and there is great wisdom and truth in that saying. When we don’t know what our plans are, where we are headed, where we are going, we may very well doom ourselves to plans gone awry whether that’s in business, in creating […]

Our lives are filled with paths upon which we travel, literally and metaphorically. The path from childhood to adulthood; the path through various education levels; the path of marriage and creating a family; the path of healing from a serious illness; the path through a work career just to name a few. Our paths, sometimes […]

Oh, the American car. We use it to drive to and from work, to shop, to transport our kids and our things, to drop things off, to pick things up as well as we eat in our cars, we do business from our cars, we sleep in our cars, put on makeup, shave, brush our […]

“Wash your dishes” sounds like something our mother would tell us, though it’s something I told a friend of mine who said he hadn’t washed his dishes in 3 months! Now there’s gotta be something growing on them by now, right? He announced he had left his dishes for this extended period in the sink […]

Procrastination is a killer when it comes to moving forward with our lives, to getting things done personally and professionally and it debilitates us from living fully and creatively. I recently posted on Facebook that procrastination is the perception of fear projected into the future around some imagined thought that prevents us from taking action […]

Time is a precious commodity that we can’t get more of. Once it’s gone, that’s it. We can’t get it back. Being careful and mindful of how we use our time is key and scheduling our day is just such a way. Planning my day is a practice that I’ve struggled to instill and I […]

Photographs, memorabilia, a favorite sweater or a class ring, all hold memories that fill us with pleasant thoughts and feelings. Things we’ve held onto, items that have been given to us or things we’ve inherited are memory holders as well as potential clutter. Too often they become things that burden us rather than uplift us. […]