Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 3, 2015

" Having great tools is wonderful, but they don’t automatically bestow the skills needed to use them. In an interview with CIO Insight magazine, David Allen said, " If you are unproductive to begin with, technology will add something else you are unproductive about." Go ahead and get the Blackberry if you want it.

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Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

" Having great tools is wonderful, but they don’t automatically bestow the skills needed to use them. In an interview with CIO Insight magazine, David Allen said, " If you are unproductive to begin with, technology will add something else you are unproductive about." Go ahead and get the Blackberry if you want it.

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2015 Interviewing Promotion Skills 100

Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 18, 2014

There’s a companion blog that will record the successes of the app users as they build a skill, try something new, stick to a plan or whatever it is they choose as a goal over the coming year. It’s called 52 Wins. Sounds inspiring!

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Clutter Coach

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

It’s pretty straightforward to practice a skill like that. Review them and see if you can identify a skill to practice and make part of your life. If you learned how to tune up a bike, find a friend and tune her bike up. If you learned to knit a hat, knit another one and another one.

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Clutter Coach

JANUARY 11, 2016

" Having great tools is wonderful, but they don’t automatically bestow the skills needed to use them. In an interview with CIO Insight magazine, David Allen said, " If you are unproductive to begin with, technology will add something else you are unproductive about." Go ahead and get the Blackberry if you want it.

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2015 Interviewing Promotion Skills 100

Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

by When I taught organizing skills at adult school, I devised this matrix to bust some myths about organized people. I did it because I realized that many students, although they’d paid money and were attending the class, had some negative ideas about what being organized means.

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Clutter Coach

JANUARY 19, 2016

by When I taught organizing skills at adult school, I devised this matrix to bust some myths about organized people. I did it because I realized that many students, although they’d paid money and were attending the class, had some negative ideas about what being organized means.

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2015 AT&T Promotion Skills 100

Clutter Coach

OCTOBER 11, 2018

These critical life skills are seriously eroded by the habit of giving in to distractions. Even if you’re really good at it, you must take breaks in order to keep your skill honed. Please, don’t be that person! Really, you can’t think without focus. We already know that focus diminishes over time anyway.

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Clutter Coach

JANUARY 11, 2018

You are already on that journey because you’ve identified places where change is needed and you’re pursuing knowledge and skill to do that. It involves mastery and mastery involves practice. Here’s a quotation from George Leonard. Every time you get back on the horse, you’re doing it. That’s what I want for you.

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Clutter Coach

JANUARY 11, 2016

One of my clients told me that her cleanie mother tried to teach her organizing skills and she just didn’t get it. Whatever your experience was, you have the capacity to become a cleanie, or at least move in that direction. She felt hopeless and dumb. Her story brings up another aspect of being organized. Isn’t that great news?

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2015 AT&T Promotion Learning 100

Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

However, if you can quickly weigh alternatives and reprioritize on your feet, I think it’s a valuable skill. If multi-tasking sucks you away from important-but-not-urgent work into urgent-but-not-important work, it’s not so productive. Once you do that consistently, you can multi-task to your heart’s content.

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Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

I get compliments all the time on my listening skills. This is the real reason you shouldn’t do it: it’s really bad for your relationships with people. People can tell when you’re not listening to them. And they don’t like it. That’s delightful, since it’s a big part of my work.

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Clutter Coach

JUNE 6, 2017

You may find yourself leaning naturally more toward one role than the other, but it’s important to be able to do both, so spend some time improving your skills in your lesser realm. In the morning, the employee gets started on that list of tasks and just does them, knowing that they are correctly prioritized.

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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I like this technique because it involves an organizing skill that can be used in other ways. Some examples Winston gives are switching from bedspreads to duvet covers to speed up bed making, laying out clothing the night before and gathering needed items near the front door in advance. . Inventorying.

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Clothes AT&T Skills UPS 100

Clutter Coach

JANUARY 19, 2015

One of my clients told me that her cleanie mother tried to teach her organizing skills and she just didn’t get it. Whatever your experience was, you have the capacity to become a cleanie, or at least move in that direction. She felt hopeless and dumb. Her story brings up another aspect of being organized. Isn’t that great news?

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2012 AT&T Promotion Learning 100

Clutter Coach

MARCH 25, 2016

I don’t accept clients with this issue because I don’t have the skills to handle them. Are there poorly maintained pet areas, i.e., pet waste not cleaned up? Have hallways been narrowed due to boxes and clutter? Update 7/2014: I do work with people into Level 3 on the scale.

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Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

One of my clients told me that her cleanie mother tried to teach her organizing skills and she just didn’t get it. Whatever your experience was, you have the capacity to become a cleanie, or at least move in that direction. She felt hopeless and dumb. Her story brings up another aspect of being organized. Isn’t that great news?

2012 100

2012 AT&T Promotion Learning 100

Clutter Coach

APRIL 6, 2014

I get compliments all the time on my listening skills. This is the real reason you shouldn’t do it: it’s really bad for your relationships with people. People can tell when you’re not listening to them. And they don’t like it. That’s delightful, since it’s a big part of my work.

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2011 Gifts AT&T Facebook 100

Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s a critical skill for being more effective and getting things done. Google Play You can leave a review here! This is Podcast 108 and it’s about passive attention. Back in podcast 83 I talked about paying attention, about mindfulness. It’s related to focus, but it’s a little different.

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AT&T Google Stress Phones 100

Clutter Coach

JANUARY 22, 2017

One of the skills she practices is space clearing, which means cleaning out stagnant energy and replacing it with new vital energy. I was familiar with her work, but hadn’t read her book so I went and bought it after the conference. . Although she’s not an organizer, her work ties in quite well with organizing.

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Clothes Forms Skills UPS 113

Clutter Coach

JULY 26, 2018

It’s one of those very simple, yet essential, skills you need to prevent and fix clutter. But when pressed, they realize that they haven’t put things away because they don’t know where they go. In podcasts 15, 25 and 61, among others, I talk about figuring out where to put things.

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Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Becoming skilled at triage (AKA, ruthless decision making) means more of your time and energy goes to the important stuff. Care is denied to those who will probably not live, so that those resources can help more patients who probably will live. Triage breaks down into three categories, according to our friends at Wikipedia.

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Filing Business Cards Calendars AT&T 100

Clutter Coach

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Anyone who works with people in situations where they feel vulnerable needs to have empathy and people skills to truly help them. Sometimes I joke that I’m a marriage counselor and a personal trainer and an organizer all rolled into one. But it’s kind of true.

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Clutter Coach

APRIL 5, 2016

Becoming skilled at triage (AKA, ruthless decision making) means more of your time and energy goes to the important stuff. Care is denied to those who will probably not live, so that those resources can help more patients who probably will live. Triage breaks down into three categories, according to our friends at Wikipedia.

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Filing Business Cards Calendars Medical 100

Clutter Coach

MARCH 31, 2016

But do be smart and realize that you need to learn some new habits, skills and super powers to deal with the realities of the 21st century. If you find yourself living among clutter, working harder not smarter, or running around like an energizer bunny gone mad, your life is running you, instead of you living it.

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2015 International AT&T Promotion 100

Clutter Coach

MARCH 16, 2015

But do be smart and realize that you need to learn some new habits, skills and super powers to deal with the realities of the 21st century. If you find yourself living among clutter, working harder not smarter, or running around like an energizer bunny gone mad, your life is running you, instead of you living it.

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International AT&T Promotion 2009 100

Clutter Coach

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But do be smart and realize that you need to learn some new habits, skills and super powers to deal with the realities of the 21st century. If you find yourself living among clutter, working harder not smarter, or running around like an energizer bunny gone mad, your life is running you, instead of you living it.

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International AT&T Promotion 2009 100

Clutter Coach

APRIL 8, 2016

Decision making is a skill you can learn. I'm almost ready to publish my new info program about decision making and habit building, where I teach you both those vital skills. When you boldly make decisions, you stir up positive energy. You take action. You pull it off. So, stay tuned, or drop me a line in the comments.

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2012 Promotion Skills Learning 100

Clutter Coach

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Once you master the daily paper, you'll be able to start working more effectively on the backlog with your new skills. Each day, make time to open and sort your mail, make decisions and route the paper where it needs to go if you can't act on it right away. Spend a few weeks making this a habit. No related content found.

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2008 Promotion Skills 100

Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I distinguish between taking personal time and actual procrastination (which is an essential skill for solopreneurs), but procrastination does happen. by Why do I procrastinate? Yes, I do it too! When I'm procrastinating it's usually because I think I won't do a good job or I think I'll outright fail at something.

2012 100

2012 AT&T Promotion Skills 100

Clutter Coach

JUNE 15, 2013

The problem with doing that is that you don't spend any time incorporating that reading into your life by practicing the new skill, trying out the new idea or using that important thought in your thinking. You think you learned something valuable today because you have the thing, but you haven't actually listened/watched yet.

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