Happy birthday to my New Leaf organizing and productivity blog! Begun in January, 2008, it’s now four years old! I’m dipping into the archives to offer you, my readers, a few yummy posts from those past Januarys. You know, since I can’t serve you cake digitally. In case you thought that clutter and excess stuff…
Category Archives: Clutter
Clutter Can Be Funny? Just Ask Lois
Lois Morton is the Gilbert and Sullivan of professional organizing. Watch her music video, here: Lois Morton’s “Confessions of a Clutterholic” And she’ll make you laugh, make you wince, and give you courage. Can you ask for more?
Seven Ways to Make Peace With Email
Have you heard the term “email bankruptcy?” Here’s how it happens: when my email inbox reaches such a staggering load of messages that I can never hope to deal with them all and I just need a fresh start, I may choose to declare email bankruptcy. I delete everything, then send a message to my…
Worth Repeating – April posts from New Leaf News
Is April the cruelest month? The poet T. S. Eliot thought so. But the New Leaf archives from Aprils past kindly produced a fresh crop of relevant articles. I’ll share them in case you missed them the first time around. When you have a lot to do, you’ll want to hurry, right? Not necessarily. It’s…
White Space
When you look at your office or your calendar, consider the use of white space. What do I mean by white space? In graphic or visual arts, white space is the portion of a page left unmarked. In radio, white space is the space between channels that is left unused to avoid interference. Why do…
Three Dangerous Words
No, not “I love you,” though they, too, can start all kinds of mischief. The dangerous words I have in mind are words that are not a problem when used in moderation and with awareness, but dangerous when applied too often. I’m thinking of “just for now.” I hear it regularly. When I ask a…