By Patty Gardner Planners are extremely effective tools for helping you keep your ducks in a row. I’ve been using a planner for 20 years. Before that I had a calendar and a to-do list. My family knows that if I don’t use my planner, bad things happen. In case you’re skeptical about the benefits …
7 Steps To Get Ready For A New School Year
July 30, 2013
Before you know it the kids will be heading into a new school year. Yellow buses, backpacks, and lined paper will be part of your daily routine—coupled with a little extra stress. Stress is a part of every healthy person’s life, but a little back-to-school planning can keep it to a minimum. Here are 7 …
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Easing Your Child’s Transition to High School
July 25, 2013
There’s a saying about being a big fish in a little pond. The best understanding of this phrase comes when your child transitions from junior high to high school – they go from being a big eighth grader to a small freshman, with new schedules, classes, and pressures. Help make the transition easier with these …
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6 Ways to Use a Planner To Do Page
July 19, 2013By Patty Gardner I’m pretty sure that all time management experts recommend using a personal planning system of some sort. It can be anything: an electronic planner, your smart phone, a paper planner (my personal favorite), your computer or tablet, or even notebooks, steno or legal pads, or index cards. It doesn’t matter what you …
Choosing The Right Planner For A Successful School Year
July 9, 2013
Choosing a planner that will get you through the rigors of the school year is a personal decision. What works for one person will definitely not work for another. We won’t begin to prescribe the perfect planner for you. Some people find a planner that works for them and they stick with it religiously, while …
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Changing a Lose/Win Mentality to a Win/Win Mentality
June 27, 2013One of our Facebook followers asked us how to turn a Lose/Win mentality into a Win/Win mentality. That’s a great question. We live in a very competitive world. We’re all clamoring to get ahead and meet our agendas. Nobody likes losing. But when we’re working with other people, we need a little give and take. …
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We’re approaching the end of June, so that means that we’re almost half a year away from our New Year’s Resolutions. How have your goals held up this year? June is the perfect time for reviewing your goals, celebrating your successes, and recalibrating your plans for the rest of the year. As you go over …
Crossing Off Your To-Do List
June 13, 2013There are few things in life more rewarding to me than crossing tasks off of my to-do list. In fact, if I am busily working on a Saturday morning and complete something that isn’t on the list, I’ll immediately write down the completed task just for the pleasure of crossing it off. I’m easily distracted, …
Let’s Welcome Back: The Biggest Sale of the Year!
June 3, 2013It’s summer, and that means we’re having our Biggest Sale of the Year. We’re offering a wide range of deals, including some brands that don’t normally allow discounts. You can browse by how you want to save: Under $20 SAVE up to 20% SAVE up to 30% SAVE up to 40% SAVE up to 50% or …
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Regular Office Cleaning Makes The Job Easy
May 28, 2013I once worked with an engineer who had used the same office for his entire career and was near retirement. His personal mode of organization: Piles. He had a wrap-around desk covered with stacks of paper three feet high. Along with that, he had commandeered a long folding table and placed it near his office …
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The Basics of Organizing
May 7, 2013You can say a lot about organization specifics – the best way to organize a junk drawer, great strategies for handling bills, or the proper order for your medicine cabinet. Sometimes, though, it’s just handy to live by basic organization principles and apply them where needed. Try applying these basic organizing rules to your daily …
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
April 24, 2013Every now and then we take a minute to simply show off a few of our favorite things. We call it Eye Candy because it’s so visually appealing. With Mother’s Day right around the corner, we felt this was the perfect time for a few gift ideas. We’re thinking someone is going to have (or …
Take Charge of The Garage
April 18, 2013Now that the weather is warmer and the days are longer, you’ve finally got time to clean out the garage. If that doesn’t exactly excite you, think of how nice it will be to finally be able to park cars in it again. The biggest problem most of us have with cleaning out the garage …
Take Charge of The Garage
April 18, 2013Now that the weather is warmer and the days are longer, you’ve finally got time to clean out the garage. If that doesn’t exactly excite you, think of how nice it will be to finally be able to park cars in it again. The biggest problem most of us have with cleaning out the garage …
Welcome to the Beginning
April 3, 2013Graduation is one of those strange endings in life where everything begins. Now that you have that degree, it’s time to apply the things you’ve studied your whole life, right? Well, maybe-if you’re patient-patient with the job market, patient with your co-workers, and patient with yourself. Maybe my own experience can help explain what I …
Spring Cleaning Motivation
March 20, 2013As the cold, dreary winter months start fading away, the beauty outside starts to highlight the messes inside. It’s easy to notice, but it’s also easy to procrastinate your spring cleaning tasks with each new opportunity to get out of the house. Here are five tips to help you tackle your spring cleaning: 1. Plan …
Spring Cleaning Checklist
March 14, 2013Everybody has their own methods for Spring Cleaning—we aren’t going to dictate what you do with your home, but this checklist should give you plenty of things to cross off as you go. (And who doesn’t like crossing things off their list?) Click Here to Download our Spring Cleaning Checklist in Classic Size Click Here …
Taking Control of Your Time
March 7, 2013Time Management Skills to Help You Prepare for this Year How many times have you started your day with a mental list of the things you wanted to accomplish, only to fall onto your pillow at night with precious few of those items actually done? It happens to me all the time, even though I …
On-The-Wall Organizing
February 28, 2013If you ever attend a junior high school dance, you’ll learn a lot about organizing. First: People sort automatically. The “popular” girls will be huddled in a corner away from the speakers giggling over their shoulders. The athletic boys will have their own section with a convenient wall to hold them up while they pose. …
Tackle Tax Organization Today
February 13, 2013Now that it’s February and you have all of the documents you need to complete your taxes, there’s no excuse for not getting your finances squared away. Here are three steps to streamlining the process: Manage Your Paper: even though we live in a digital world, doing your taxes still requires large piles of paper …
