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    8/7/2010
    Tolerations- What's Draining You?
    Erin Elizabeth Wells

    The plug in my bathroom sink is broken. You know… that round silver thing in the bottom that allows you to plug the drain. It stays closed by default and will no longer magically lift when I pull on the lever behind the faucet. This unhappy fact become true a few weeks ago after several months of annoyingly trying to prop it, turn it, lift it to make sure that my toothpaste water would actually drain.

    Energy Management, Tolerations, Productivity and Time Management
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  • Running
    8/5/2010
    Learning How to Organize is Like Learning How to Run
    Amanda Darlack

    You know, organizing isn't just like eating.  Organizing is also a lot like running.

    I started learning how to run this past spring.  I've never been athletic but I wanted to find an excercise that I enjoyed and thought that it would be worth giving running a try.  During the past few months, I've noticed some similarities between the process of organizing and the process of running:

    General Organizing, goal, hard work, learn, process, reward, running, skill
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    8/3/2010
    Structure and Organization
    Amy Donnelly

    Many “creative types” latch onto the idea that to be a true artist, one must be care-free, free spirited, and unencumbered by rules or structure.  I have heard more than one such person say that structure of any kind impedes the creative process.  I disagree.

    And so do Drs. Hallowell and Ratey.  In their book, Driven to Distraction, they assert that “structure makes talent possible.”  For it is within the walls of order and discipline that true creativity has the freedom to express itself.

    creativity, organization, Organizing, structure, talent, Life Transitions & Insights
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    8/2/2010
    Task Management- Planning AND Spontaneity
    Erin Elizabeth Wells

    Have you ever had one of those days when the world aligned and you managed to find time and energy for tasks you had never planned to do that day?

    That has been my day today.

    Planning, Task Management, To-Do Lists, Productivity and Time Management
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    8/2/2010
    The Organizing Process: More than Just Throwing Things Away
    Amanda Darlack

    Have you ever tried to get organized simply by throwing things away? 

    Many people get fed up with the clutter in their homes and start chucking things, thinking that by having some space back they are more organized.  But in a few months, the clutter has returned.  It's not that their organization system failed; it's just that they were never organized in the first place.

    Yes, getting organized includes weeding your belongings, but that is just one step in a whole process.  Each step is key to establishing a functional and lasting system.

    containers, dumpster, garbage, General Organizing, homes, label, Organizing, process, purging, sort, trash, Weed
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