Yesterday, we explored how to use CliftonStrengths to shape the way you naturally approach tasks. What energizes you. What drains you. And what might keep you stuck. But awareness isn’t enough. You still have the list. The pressure. And the uncertainty of where to...
We’ve all been there. Staring at a massive to-do list, not knowing where to start. Everything feels urgent. Nothing feels doable. We close the folder. Or the notebook. Or just quietly panic. That’s to-do list paralysis. And it has less to do with laziness than we give...
I’ve been thinking about the things around the house lately. Specifically, why does it always seem there is a long list of things to do? As I thought more about why, I realized there are three different types of “jobs”. Manage, Maintain, and Modify. Manage This is the...
My website has a program called WP-Optimize. Yesterday, I got an email that said, “updates have been made”. Specifically, “WP-Optimize – Clean, Compress, Cache”. As soon as a saw the message, I chuckled and thought about how this applies to life. I love finding...
At work, we manage our time and calendar carefully. We see when meetings overlap. We know when we don’t have enough time set aside to work on a project. We shift and rearrange. At home, we know the commitments. Picking up the kids. Dinner with friends. The calendar....
We all have closets. Cupboards, pantries, and other spaces to store our things. Yet, many of us have a challenge getting and keeping our closet organized. I thought I would look to CliftonStrengths to see if there are ideas that might keep us on track. The next four...
Yesterday, we discussed keeping personal information personal. If we are working for someone else, we need our own computer. A place to run our life. Household papers. Personal projects. Professional resume and case studies. Budgets. Vision boards. An email of our...
When life is busy, we are striving to keep all the balls in the air. A common way to create efficiency is to manage “life” from your work computer. There is ease and comfort in having everything in one place. Yet, we need to push away from this. Work is work. Personal...
My son moved home a year ago when he graduated from college. It’s great to have him around, BUT….. I realized how hard food decisions become when he is back home. When he was away at school, my husband and I would cook what we wanted when we were hungry. With my son...
Several years ago, Gretchen Rubin selected the word infrastructure as her word of the year. Before that, the concept never really crossed my mind. Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational systems needed to operate businesses, cities, nations, and even...
We have made it to our last dimension of wellbeing – environmental. This does mean nature and outdoors. However, it also means the spaces in which we spend our time. Our rooms, desk at work, or even that corner of a coffee shop we choose every time. Having spaces we...
A new co-working space opened in Detroit called The Creators Nest. I love the name. And the concept of the creator space. The founders, Adam & Stephanie Vaught developed the co-working space for creatives. A place where they could come and be inspired to do their...
Sometimes we just need an organizing day. Something has become overwhelming, and we need to get things back in order. This could be a physical space that has become cluttered or needs maintenance. This could be digital files where we can’t seem to find what we need....
Last year, I embarked on what I called my 15-minute curation project. The journey began with the post Start by Starting and was summarized at the end of the year with all my lessons in the post titled 15 Minute Project - Q4 Progress. My intent was to take on some...
The organization and productivity worlds are full of processes and systems. Those systems manage physical things as well as digital information. Both can be overwhelming. And, sometimes, so can the recommended solutions! My Perspective With everything I’ve read and...
There was an episode of Little Happier recently that talked about desire paths. The grass worn shortcuts people create when constructed paths take longer, less convenient routes. The short, 3-minute episode suggested we look for other desire paths in our lives. My...
Today, I listened to an episode of the Lazy Genius podcast. The host suggested we shift our perspective on a to-do list and instead create two lists: The have-to and hope-to list. This helps us realize what is not optional and yet we don’t lose sight of what we want...
I’ve read articles from Forbes to small companies that cover the topic of being the CEO of your Home. Lisa Woodruff also talks about this concept on her podcast – Organize365. The concept is interesting and underlines how our responsibilities at home mirror those in a...
With college far in the rearview mirror, there were classes I never wanted to consider again. One of those was Thermodynamic…right up there with Differential Equations. Anyway, in my sustainability class last week, the title of the section in the module caused panic:...
Yesterday, we talked about how flexibility and autonomy come into play at work. The relationship between employer and employee varies based on the time and place structure of the organization. In addition to considering flexibility and autonomy at work, we can...
The daily food cycle has an impact on our overall wellbeing. When our lives seem to have more to do than time to do it, meals become a challenge. We spend money on carryout. We start to eat less healthy foods. We struggle to find ways to get things back on track. My...