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Right Brainers Rule Month #2
Try out a Right Brain approach you haven't tried before.Organize books by color insted of by subject or alphabetical.This is my shelf of organizing books - I still like to keep them by category.Other...
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Right Brainers Rule #3 - Doodle Doing
Ideas don't always come in neat sequential lists. In fact mine hardly ever do.The folks at Lobotome know this too and they've made a nifty list maker just for Righties. The List Me ,Doodle Me notepad...
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Creating Books
Creative people couldn't be living at a better time.Our techie counterparts have made it soooo easy for us to take our ideas and make them into interesting and memorable products that can be used for...
View ArticleCreatives do your own marketing?
Marketing advice is everywhere these days.But everyone in business has a lightbulb moment - a favorite piece of advice that gets your wheels turning in a new direction.The best piece of marketing...
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Creative way to get kids to clean up
I've got to tell you I nearly fell off my chair laughing when my wonderfully sarcastic friend Amy told me this story of how she got her 10-year-old son to pick up his room.Amy said, Jay, come up to...
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Color Me Organized is even more colorful
Coming up with ideas is difficult for so many people.Not for us creatives!Ideas come bubbling up all the time for me.I had so many more activity and how-to ideas that I had to update the...
View ArticleHow to be creative
There is a lot of great advice on the internet about how to be creative, get inspired, start when staring at a blank page....This is one of my favorite lists - from Gaping Void's Hugh Macleod.Here is a...
View ArticleGadget Junkie Confesses
Part 1 - The StuffIt's me. I admit it. I'm a gadget junkie. It started out as a kid. I wanted a calculator (can you guess my age?) They were expensive and were the Bar Mitzvah gift of choice. It grew...
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Alternate to Filing
Filing is a great way to store paper. But let's just face the fact that Righties often take issue with it.1. if you don't do it regularly you get a pile.so2. why not just pile in the first placeand3. I...
View Articleon a SARK high!
I drank from the SARK water tonight and I'm on a high!I won a creativity consultation with the author in a blogging contest and I couldn't have asked for a more perfect prize. See I've been hesitating...
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Organized Artist/Author SARK
During my Creativity Consult with author SARK, I took the opportunity to ask her about her own organizing habits.When she was in Atlanta on book tour I found out she was not only organized, she...
View ArticleEither ON or OFF
Are you a creative person who operates in ON or OFF mode, but not much inbetween?That's me in a nutshell... and I have been off for a few weeks.I started a project around the training/mentoring in my...
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Did I wear that last time??
Do you ever worry about wearing the same outfit to an event with the same people, but cannot remember what on earth you wore the last time you went?I actually tried writing my outfit down on my...
View ArticleRe-Gifting Rules for the Season
As a professional organizer, and rampant de-clutterer, I asked my followers on Twitter and facebook friends about re-gifting to see if people are all in agreement these days.Our opinions are about the...
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Zappos Creative Environment
Would you want to work here?I would! I would probably work for less too just to be in a fun environment.See more about this workplace here:Zappos Offices
View ArticleAbout Organizing for Visual People
Lots of people I organize with say they are "visual" and want to have the fun, pretty things out where they can see them and enjoy their space.Yesterday, working with a client, this became a slight...
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Re-Gifting gone wild
I've blogged about decluttering by regifting but I never expected to find this: The Regift Kit!!!I couldn't be more proud. (sniff. shedding tears of joy)For just a few bucks, you can get stickers that...
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Recycle Holiday Gift Cards
It's been a good year for my husband, who is a High School English Teacher. Every year at this time we get a flood of gift cards (happily accepted).Up to now, after they were used up, I would struggle...
View ArticleHoliday Wrap Up
The new year is upon us. So that means it's time to put away all the goodies from the holidays, eat all the cookies that remain, and make the last latkes for a while. (They're good all year round).But...
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2009 Word of the Year: "Essentializing"
The recent shift in the U.S. and world economy has had a remarkable effect on the human psyche.It's as if we got a re-boot in our thinking and could start fresh like our ancestors.We have entered the...
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