In the fall of 2012, I finished and published my first book. It was a proud moment and allowed me to check a huge item off my Bucket List. In order to spread the word about my book, I decided to be daring. I wanted to do some hard-core marketing and PR. One of the […]
Mindset
I find clarity in the strangest places
There’s one surefire way for me to find clarity and that’s to go hiking. I get out in the forest among the trees and rocks and flowers. I suck wind as I trudge up the mountain trails. There’s not much calculated thinking happening when I’m forced to concentrate on getting air into and out of […]
Your cover story
Just out of curiosity, have you considered that being disorganized isn’t the real issue – that it might just be your cover story? That your supposed lack of productivity might actually mean something? Or that your procrastination is a message in disguise? What if all those things are your cover story? A way to keep […]
Doing it Wrong (Day 29 of 30 Days of Organizing)
I didn’t write yesterday’s Day of Organizing and immediately felt like I was doing it wrong. We spent Christmas up in D.C. with my family and had a long car-trip home on Saturday. My hubby is sick with a wretched chest cold. I have a sore throat. I found out my mom had a fever […]
The gift of time (Day 17 of 31 Days of Organizing
Recently, I heard a great interview on NPR with Chris Rock (the straight-talking, tell-it-like-it-is comedian). He was pretty funny, even for the fairly serious NPR format. At least, he was funny until the interviewer brought up a comment he made about being in comedy for 30 years. The interviewer pondered, “At this point in his […]
Be a Giver (Day 14 of 31 Days of Organizing)
Last weekend, my hubby and I watched a remarkable movie called “The Giver.” It starred Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline and was a based on a book by the same name. I know we’re talking about 31 Days of Organizing this month, and just for today I’m going ignore that. The movie was just SO […]