Our society has come to a rude awakening of sorts in the last couple years.  So many people had been brought up to think that more is more.  We buy huge houses, cars we can’t afford and fill our homes and offices with stuff we don’t need.  Abundance for abundance sake was an overriding theme, [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ?Spark an Idea Thursday?. Each week we?ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to?grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know where [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post [...]

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When you’re organizing your space or your calendar, did you know that “white space” is important?  Take a look at a garden or museum.  Are there things crammed together everywhere, or are there places on walls and rooms that give your eye a place to rest?
When I’m planning out my calendar, [...]

Can you really find what you’re looking for?
Have you ever spent time on your computer trying to find a file you’re looking for?  Did you ever find it?  Maybe it’s time to simplify a bit so you can find stuff.   If you’re not a librarian (and I know I’m not) it makes sense to [...]

Just did a great interview with Peter Walsh on my podcast/radio show, The O Myth.  If you missed it, no worries because you can still listen to it…
Quote of the show: “The things you have in your home should be beautiful and useful.  What you have in your home should be honored and respected.”
Wanna take [...]

I started feeling it other night: a heavy, nauseated pain growing in my stomach.  It was time to step away from the laptop and have some downtime.  It’s easy to do, and working from home makes it dead simple to overwork and overwhelm yourself.  Even when you love what you do. 
There’s a couple [...]

Life and work are full of stuff we feel we “should” do. But, what would happen if we chose to do, say, live or work on what we felt was most important?
Have you ever found yourself saying, “I should…. “?  It gives a little twinge of guilt in your head and weighs on your [...]

Do you feel suffocated by the thought of organizing, well, anything?  What about changing the way you think about it?
I heard Peter Walsh give an outstanding keynote speech at the National Association of Professional Organizers‘ Conference in April of this year.  There was on visual that has stuck with me since that presentation.  Peter described [...]

Are you making things harder on yourself?  Do you subscribe to the “more is more” when it comes to organizing your home office?  Is it possible there are things you are doing that are just fine they way they are?
There are so many filing systems, products and methodologies out there.  I’ve used many of them [...]