Do you constantly feel like time is your enemy? I often feel this way on a busy day. I’m racing the clock to make it to a meeting from a late school bus pick up or trying to get 10 tasks done before I have to leave work for the day. Why do working parents…
If you want to organize your home, experts usually recommend decluttering first. You go through each room in your house and really think about your possessions. Which ones are serving you well and which have reached the end of their useful life? Once you decide which items are no longer useful to you, you can…
One minute. Sixty seconds. You can do anything for one minute. Right? I initially learned about the value of one minute from a decluttering book. The author’s premise was simple: if the task will take you less than a minute to complete, do it now. Don’t wait, because soon those one minute tasks pile up…
One of the most frequent questions I get about professional life is how to handle being overloaded at work. When you have too many tasks to finish, it can be hard to ask for direction. You might be afraid that you’ll “out” yourself to your boss. “She’s been doing this a lot longer than I…
Do you still get that flutter in your stomach when you think about the first day of school, even as an adult? I do. When I was a kid, summer break was fun but I loved school. The blank slate offered by a new year of school was always exciting and a little scary at…