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What Does Your Stuff Reveal About You?

What types of items are you most attracted and attached to? You keep buying these things, even though you already have so many. And you just can’t bring yourself to get rid of any of them. We are defined by our stuff. In just about every home I’ve decluttered and organized, I have discovered one…

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Live a better life by just being better to yourself.

We are a nation of doers. And yet, no matter how much we accomplish, we feel we are just not doing enough. If this resonates with you, you are not alone. When clients call me for time management coaching, they seem startled when I tell them I can’t help them do more, because I don’t…

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Letting Go

The other day, I was having a conversation with my wise friend Sue and she said to me that holding on to negative emotions is like having a clog in your drain; the water still flows but not as freely as it would if the clog was cleared. But if we ignore the clog, more serious problems can occur…

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Out With the Old

On a rainy day in August, 2003, I decided it was time to do a complete office purge. I had been running my business for just over 2 years at that time, and the small filing cabinet I was using was so full, it was becoming too much of a chore to file new documents.…

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