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Perfectionism or Death

Clutter Coach

This New York Times article describes how being a perfectionist can lead to mental health problems and even suicide, not to mention garden variety unhappiness and stress. The article mentions several aphorisms that perfectionists live by, such as, "Never accept second best." " Baloney!

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Perfectionism or Death

Clutter Coach

This New York Times article describes how being a perfectionist can lead to mental health problems and even suicide, not to mention garden variety unhappiness and stress. The article mentions several aphorisms that perfectionists live by, such as, "Never accept second best." " Baloney!

2015 100
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How to Optimize Space

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So, today I’m sending you to an article I wrote about using your space. If I rewrote that article today, I would add this bullet point: Use Your Stuff as a Guide. However, there’s some valuable content on the sites that people aren’t seeing as much because my traffic is coming here rather than there.

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Podcast 103: Focus and daydreaming

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When you do make time to read an actual article online, you have to wade through a barrage of ads that zoom across the screen or slide down and block half the screen, videos that autoplay, and flashing banners. Plus, those hateful popups that you MUST click to turn them off because they are blocking the article. It makes me tired.

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Is Being Neat and Organized Overrated? Costco Wants to Know.

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Being an organized piler meant that he could meet deadlines and have fun reading obscure articles about incunabula that could inspire future writing. The Costco article quotes David Freedman, author of A Perfect Mess , who proposes that you have to be messy to be creative.

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Perfectionism or Death

Clutter Coach

This New York Times article describes how being a perfectionist can lead to mental health problems and even suicide, not to mention garden variety unhappiness and stress. The article mentions several aphorisms that perfectionists live by, such as, "Never accept second best." " Baloney!

2007 100
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Podcast 004: All you can read buffet

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Here are some highlights: Can I clip articles to read later? In this episode, I’ll talk about how to deal with reading material that inevitably piles up. What about scanning things and getting rid of the paper copy? But I can’t get rid of books! Subscribe: iTunes â‹… Stitcher â‹… Soundcloud â‹… YouTube.

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