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What I’ve Posted – Blog Summary
This week was 100% focused on clutter. The energy of the new year is a great time to organize and restart the clutter clock. These posts provide tips and ideas to minimize the clutter in your life.
What Can We Learn from Clutter Spirals? The first post of the week focuses on the cycle of anxiety that can be caused by all the types of clutter in our lives.
Daily Clutter. Everyday, clutter builds in our life. This post encourages us to recognize when clutter is being added and to deal with it right away rather than waiting until it’s a big challenge.
Clutter Zero. While we can strive for clutter zero, it’s a fleeting feeling. As soon as the clutter is gone it starts to build up again. This post introduces two systems to keep clutter at bay.
Decluttering. This is a really short post reminding us of the importance of decluttering and why it can sometimes be so challenging to complete.
10 AI Ideas to Organize Digital Clutter. Likely we all have a fair amount of digital clutter in our lives. This post provides some interesting AI generated ideas for dealing with it in new ways.
What I’ve Listened To – PodList
This week, the posts span the topics of careers, leadership, and wellbeing. I really like the last one outlining the difference between self-care and self-work – they aren’t interchangeable.
The Career Advice You Really Need. 16 minutes. The Next Big Idea Daily. This episode provides tips and advice from the book “Job Moves: 9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career”.
The Best Advice Ever to a Teenage Daughter Who Needs to Make Money. 11 minutes. Optimal Work Daily. If you are a freelancer, side hustler, or parent of a teen that wants to make money, this episode provides tips and ideas on supplemental or main income sources.
Do You Have Productivity the Wrong Way Round? 10 minutes. Optimal Living Daily. This episode challenges the traditional approach to productivity by shifting the focus from activities and tasks on a to-do list to the desired outcomes.
How to Lead in a Fast-Changing World. 11 minutes. The Next Big Idea Daily. Steve Dennis provides a summary of his book “Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption.”
Self-Care vs. Self-Work and Why Knowing the Difference is so Important. 14 minutes. Optimal Living Daily. I loved this episode explaining how self-care replenishes our energy and self-work requires effort and intention. Knowing the difference and using both creates balance.
What I’ve Been Up To
This week, I’ve continued to refine the personalized branding program. Thinking through the challenges that we face in our career development, creating an “intake” questionnaire, and taking activities that were grouped together in a prior program and splitting them to be building blocks for the unique needs of those I coach.
Outside of work, I am tapping into my creativity and reimagining spaces at home. Leverage existing furniture, I’m creating a drink station along an unused wall in our family room. Coffee, tea, water, and a small beverage refrigerator will all be integrated into something that I hope will be both functional for us and cool to look at. Right now, I’m in a debate with my son about painting the wood pieces I’m using – my point of view is that we should paint them. He says, “why would anyone paint real wood?”. We will start unpainted, but I reserve the right to paint in the future!
What Do You Think?
Which podcasts and blog posts resonate with you this week?
What one idea do you take away for the week ahead?
Have you started any projects around the house this new year?