Bottom line is, if you do not use it or need it, it’s clutter, and it needs to go. ~ Charisse Ward ~ 30 Days of Reducing Clutter It starts slowly. You have just a few things out of place. Then you have a few things you don’t put up. There are papers you plan to sort later. Slowly it grows...
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ Do You Need or Want The Cool Thing? You see the bright and shiny new object. It is something you want. You want it so bad you find some way to find a way to “need” it. Thus you will find a...
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires ~ Lao Tzu Reducing Your Life – Technology The modern age is almost impossible to skip. Smart phones, computers, mp3 players, game consoles, and many more pieces of technology constantly via for your attention and money. Yes, all that technology is good, but it comes as a price. You must...
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. ~ Shigeo Shingo ~ Reducing Your Life – Little Things It may seem contrary, reducing your life to get more from it. Yet this multi-part series is going to cover several ways reducing your life is going to make your life actually be better and...
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann ~ Reduce, Remove, Recycle Perhaps you have decided to clean your desk. The sad thing is as you open the drawers, and start digging around in the dark spaces you are often surprised by what you find. The clutter, the trash,...
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ~ Stephen Vincent Benét ~ Is your Schedule too Busy? You may enjoy helping people. There may be many things you love to be involved in and doing. Perhaps there are so many things happening and...
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. ~ Pearl Bailey Papers Everywhere. For the past 3 days you have read my writing partner discuss paper clutter. Indeed it is a problem that can quickly get out of control. Kelly has written beautiful lessons on what to do,...
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first. ~ Former President Harry S. Truman ~ Is Your Paper Clutter Burying You Alive? – Part 3 So today we are wrapping up our series on paper clutter. I saved the best for last. The...
Keeping the house together is the hardest thing I’ve ever done and the most rewarding. I handle it by putting one foot in front of the other. ~ Katey Sagal~ Is Your Paper Clutter Burying You Alive? – Part 2 So you are thinking about clearing some of the paper clutter out of your life… good for you! Keep...
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ~ Albert Einstein ~ Is Your Paper Clutter Burying You Alive? – Part 1 Most people have clutter in one shape or form. The clutter that often goes the most unrecognized is paper. It seems harmless enough… keep the...
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