I am not a neat freak nor is that required to achieve grand things in life. But if you, like me, periodically stare at a stack of dishes that could have, should have, made it into the dishwasher the night before it’s worth considering how much time and energy goes into repeating “I need...
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Posts Tagged ‘ getting organized ’
The No Excuses Project: everyday chores
The No Excuses Project: Moving towards a perfect garden
I’m trying to be realistic with this one – there’s only so many projects that can fill up the available free time. The goal of the no excuses project is to stop putting off the possible, not how to become a superhero! While a garden is very important to me, it’s not a critical...
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Approaching deadlines
There’s a big gap between where I want to be in two weeks for that first craft show and where I am right now – which has had me in a bit of dither all week. Of course, that means that solder is refusing to melt and silver is not which leads to having...
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The natural order of chaos is to organize
There are days when I feel like the Queen of Starting New Things. Particularly this last year as I’ve tried to find the right entrepreneurial threads to tug. From blogging (now up to six) to jewelry to the brief bread enterprise and so on. I’ve filled out online profiles for contract jobs that never...
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Doing instead of thinking
It’s funny how a certain message can come at you from many different sources in a short span of time. It’s a synchronicity of sorts although I find that these messages are usually telling me something I’d rather not hear. The phrase ‘thinking isn’t doing’ has come up in a phone conversation, a book...
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Out of practice
I spent the weekend and most of Monday rounding up the things I need to go gem hunting in Oregon (sunstones). I am appalled at how long it takes me to find and assemble what I need for what is essentially a weekend camping trip. I know what I have but is it in...
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Letting go of what isn’t working
I was checking out other blogs this weekend and found myself relating with some chagrin to the latest post on Zen Habits, Productivity tips for people that hate GTD. The chagrin was due to having recently re-added my tattered copy of Getting Things Done to my to-do pile because not much of it stuck...
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