"Where do I start? My life is so disorganized!" Start with just five minutes a day. "But I can't accomplish anything in just five minutes!" Five minutes a day is more than nothing, it's a containable time period, and by the end of one week - you'll have dedicated more than 35 minutes to your de-cluttering goal. Here are some road rules to follow, five minutes at a time. Today's 5 Minute … [Read more...]
A Stitch In Time Saves 99!
Throughout my career, I have done a LOT of training! I worked with managers, supervisors, employees and leaders across organizations and delivered all kinds of really interesting classes and content. During one of my assignments, I was responsible for customizing our "Quality Training" across the organization, in which each employee was asked to identify their work as singularly important to … [Read more...]
4 Sanity Dimensions – Where Do You Fail?
One of the beauties of having teen boys is the fact that they LOVE to expose me to funny, absurd and teenager-ish stuff... The most prevalent pasttime most recently is their addiction to FAIL Blogs. Being the savvy mom that I am, of course, I was unaware of what a Fail Blog was. So my sage and wise sons sat me in front of their computer for an hour clicking through endless tragically funny … [Read more...]
Re-entry: Avoiding the Burn
I just came back from my national conference for organizers... and despite my best efforts to stay connected, organized and somewhat productive while away, there was still that darn sense of re-entry... that feeling of plummeting out of control with heat shields blazing on fire that happens to spacecraft when they re-enter the atmosphere. Why do I feel so unproductive after being away? WHY … [Read more...]
What’s Your Perspective?
As I watched video clips of huge vessels being flushed down rivers, and cars tumbling over dams in Japan, I am struck by how "fake" everything looks... as if they are toys in a post-storm rushing stream! How can this be? In pictures and video - it all seems so unreal this far away. If I were there, in the thick of it, I can imagine my feelings would be entirely different... shifted by my … [Read more...]