We know first-hand how trips can breed clutter. Travel receipts, souvenirs and your unworn, still-packed clean clothes can trip you up big time if you don’t un-pack. Having just returned from a few days in the Poconos mountains we know what it’s like to come home … Continue reading
Organize Your Email Tips from this year’s NAPO Conference Pam Holland teaches how to organize your email so you can identify what’s important, take action and easily find information. She recommends using: • folders • flag • tags When you think about how you … Continue reading
Four D’s to Manage Email: Tips from fellow organizer, Pam Holland at this year’s NAPO Conference. 1 DELETE Don’t just get rid of emails. Make sure subscriptions with no interest stop arriving in your inbox. There are hosts of apps to help … Continue reading
At our 2016 NAPO Conference, fellow organizer, Pam Holland shared Five Strategies to Get Down with Digital Clutter 1. Identify your “prime working time” or best brain part of the day and check email AFTER completing important tasks 2. Use a timer … Continue reading
Advice from a NAPO 2016 conference course about becoming more flexible. If we are too rigid in our expectations, we block our ability to bend toward a solution. We can all stretch toward our goals when we accept change. Being open to suggestions significantly enhances the … Continue reading
When you operate from a position of “I am enough“ and “I have enough“ everything opens up. You can see possibilities far grander than when your situation is viewed as “wrong.” Break the cycle of thinking that everything is broken and your fault and allow peace into … Continue reading
Using yoga as inspiration, this conference course taught organizers techniques to enhance our client relations. Modeled like an exercise class — with a warm up, stretch session, intense (mental) work out and cool down — there were some stand-out lessons worth sharing: Achieve Balance … Continue reading
Ever divide and conquer? As parents of toddlers (years ago!) Kelly and her husband strategized bed-time and getting out the door on time with a “divide and conquer” attitude. Joy and Kelly used this strategy at NAPO’s conference to maximize our … Continue reading