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Category Archives: Productivity
Getting the Most Out of a Professional Seminar
Whether your attending a professional development seminar for your job or a presentation about a personal interest, I wanted to share with you some of the things I do to get the most out of my investment of time and … Continue reading
Posted in Helpful Tips, Productivity
Tagged Living Peace, notes, resources, seminar, take-away
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Cleaning Schedules: Maintaining sparkly surfaces with just minutes a day
I’d like to confess that although I love to organize, I dislike cleaning. My awesome husband usually picks up the slack or I pull marathon cleaning sessions before guests arrive. I don’t like either of these scenarios and right now hiring a … Continue reading
Creating a Home Mail Center
We may not be sending handwritten letters to our friends anymore, but there’s always something still in the mailbox. I wanted to give you three tips on how to create a home mail processing center. 1. Assign a home for incoming … Continue reading
Posted in General Organizing, Helpful Tips, Productivity, Recycling, Simple Ideas, Solutions, Time Management
Tagged Home Organizing, mail, organize, organizing mail, paper, recycle, trash
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Meal Planning Card System
My Meal Planning Story Many who know me well are aware that for years meal planning has been an achilles heel of mine. It always felt like it was too time consuming and burdonsome to make the effort. I’ve tried numerous systems and solutions … Continue reading
Create a Strategy for Meal Planning
Meal planning can be a challenge for many people. Do you start to think about dinner when it’s time to eat? By then, you don’t have any food on hand and don’t have time to go to the grocery store. … Continue reading
Posted in General Organizing, Helpful Tips, Kids, Productivity, Solutions, Time Management
Tagged creative solutions, Family, Home Organizing, kids, meal planning, Planning, time management, Tips
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Halting the Catalog Flood Starting Today
Is your mail box getting stuffed each week with a growing number of catalogs from your favorite stores to those you don’t remember signing up for? Are they mounding up on your counter/table because you think you might look at them or are theyfilling up your … Continue reading
Quantum Leap Celebrates Success
Quantum Leap is NAPO’s community service program, implemented locally by NAPO chapters. In New England, we work with the Women@Work Plus program at St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children in Dorchester, MA. Women@Work is a 16-week employment readiness and occupational skills … Continue reading
Posted in Books/Resources, Coaching, Money Matters, Motivation, Productivity, Time Management
Tagged information, NAPO-NE, paper, Quantum Leap, skills, time, volunteer, Women@Work
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New Job, New Desk, Whose System? Easy Office Organizing for YOU.
Have you ever started a new job and “inherited” a desk and its previous owner’s organizational system? It’s like wearing someone else’s glasses. Maybe you can get by for a bit, but then you get a really bad headache. When … Continue reading
Create more space in your kitchen
-Designate an area in your house to act as secondary storage for your kitchen. A shelving unit at the bottom of the basement stairs, a shelving unit in the garage, shelves in your pantry or even an extra closet are … Continue reading
Posted in General Organizing, Helpful Tips, Productivity, Simple Ideas, Solutions
Tagged extra space, food, function, kitchen, pantry, storage
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The Value of the Seasonal Closet Switch
The Boston Globe had a great graphic last week. It showed “time to put away/time to take out,” as in: time to put away flip flops, time to take out boots; time to put away tank tops, time to take … Continue reading
Posted in Donations, General Organizing, Giveaway, Helpful Tips, Kids, Motivation, Productivity, Solutions, Time Management
Tagged clothing, new, seasons, shopping, wardrobe, Weeding
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