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Capsule Wardrobe Essentials: How to Pack Light with a 10 Piece Packing List
Alexandra Jimenez - 2013
An invaluable resource to women who travel for leisure, for business, or for both, the book highlights the most versatile pieces and packing strategies for carry-on travel around the globe using only ten pieces of clothing. The book is the culmination of the author’s experience traveling the world since quitting her corporate job in 2008. Traveling 365 days a year, carry-on only, Alexandra has gained vast knowledge and experience to impart to women travelers who want to choose the best travel clothing while packing light. Combining a fashion-focused approach with the practical experience of world travel, Alexandra's unique vision and insight is unparalleled in the travel world. She shows women how they can create a capsule wardrobe for travel and never check a bag again. Featuring universal packing lists, tips to choose the most versatile travel wardrobe pieces, practical packing advice, and much more, "Capsule Wardrobe Essentials" gives women travelers everything they need to know to pack smarter and more fashion-consciously for every trip they take.
The Clutter-Busting Handbook: Clean It Up, Clear It Out, and Keep Your Life Clutter-Free
Rita Emmett - 2005
Clutter crowds our lives, is a chief source of stress, contributes to sidetracked dreams and opportunities, and can cause guilt and anxiety. If clutter is a problem in your life, then Rita Emmett-herself a reformed clutterer-can help you tame it.The Clutter-Busting Handbook is a concise, energizing guide giving readers insight and direction as well as proven tips, methods, and strategies that will change lives for the better. Emmett reveals: - the four primary causes of clutter - that cluttering is a habit that can be broken- the powerful connection between clutter and procrastination- how to help a pack rat part with unneeded objects- how to prevent clutter from returning, forever.As entertaining as she is helpful, Emmett offers practical advice on separating what you need or truly want from what you have been hanging onto for the wrong reasons. Her combination of experience and good humor-based on her hundreds of seminars and advice received from people all over the country-will win over the most reluctant convert.
The One-Minute Organizer Plain Simple: 500 Tips for Getting Your Life in Order
Donna Smallin Kuper - 2004
Donna Smallin offers innovative ideas and effective solutions to the busy person’s daily battle with both physical and mental clutter. This easy-to-follow guide includes 500 strategies that will help you make your world a more orderly place so that you can spend more time enjoying the things that really matter. Even if you don’t have time for a top-to-bottom organizational makeover, you can still unclutter your life . . . one short minute at a time.
The Messies Manual: The Procrastinator's Guide to Good Housekeeping
Sandra Felton - 1983
Reading it is not guaranteed to make you a professional housekeeper overnight, but it's a real beginning for overcoming procrastination and conquering the battle against messiness once and for all.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing) by Marie Kondo | Summary & Analysis
aBookaDay - 2015
Not Just on a Short Term Basis but for Life! Be Free of Clutter Forever, Once you Read this Book you will Know How! Are you are someone who is truly seeking to find a way that will work on getting your home in order? As well as getting other aspects of your life in order? Then, this book will offer you some great guidance on how to achieve these goals. Offering you not a quick fix, but a long-term solution to the clutter in your life. Starting with the basics—the clutter within your home environment. This is A Preview Of What You'll Learn…
how to tidy
how to aim for perfection
how to make tidying a special event, not a chore in your life
how to start discarding, all at once not a little bit at a time
how to visualize what your end result will be
how to reach the lifestyle that you want to have
Would You Like To Know More? Download your copy today! Available on PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. © 2015 All Rights Reserved
Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round
Myquillyn Smith - 2020
No matter what the world says, embracing the seasons doesn't require endless bins of factory-made decor or loads of time. In fact, your home can be festive, stylish, and cozy with minimal effort and a limited budget.With engaging how-tos and inspiring photos, Welcome Home will help you create a home that's fresh, meaningful, beautiful, and (bonus!) always ready for guests. Myquillyn guides you step by step through purposeful design decisions to cultivate a space where loved ones gather, meaningful connections are celebrated, and lasting memories are made.Myquillyn's realistic and down-to-earth design tips will teach you how to:Seasonalize your living spaces with simple, actionable stepsPay attention to the rhythm of your life in order to cultivate spaces that work for you and your family Incorporate the beauty of the natural world by paying attention to the five sensesFeel confident in volunteering your house for gatherings, parties, and impromptu get-togethersKnow what to focus on and what not to worry about as a relaxed and confident hostessTruly enjoy your homeWelcome Home will help you rise above the trends, discover your unique style, and usher in each season with more style and even less stuff.
Bullet Journal: The Ultimate Bullet Journaling Guide, How to Use Bullet Journaling to Master of Your Life, Experience Effortless Success, More Free Time ... Task Management, Bullet Journaling)
Jack Harrow - 2018
Sometimes, Life is hard. You have a lot of things on your plate. You have a lot of tasks to do and goals that you want to accomplish. Work or school, social life, and everything else that is a part of your lifestyle demands your time and it can be very hectic trying to balance everything and keep a sane mind at the same time. Therefore, it is essential that you acquire a task management system that works to ensure that you become the master of your life and that you experience success, more free time but ultimately deep inner peace. This book gives an ultimate guide on how to start using bullet journaling to ensure that you finally get in the driver’s seat of your life and to thrive while you’re in there. You will learn about this topics:
What is Bullet Journaling
Organizing Your Bullet Journal
Task Management
Making New Habits Stick
Motivation
Taking Action
Accomplishing Tasks
Personalizing Your Bullet Journal
Ditch your old to-do list and start bullet journaling now to experience the success that you’ve earned everyday.
In the Spirit
Susan L. Taylor - 1994
When Susan L. Taylor rose to editor in chief of Essence magazine more than a decade ago, she began writing an editorial column in which she shares her thoughts and feelings about how developing one's inner awareness ensures the wisdom and clarity needed to create a deeply satisfying and fulfilling life.The monthly column called "In the Spirit" is one of the most popular in the magazine.Susan L. Taylor connects with the reader in a personal and meaningful way, in a voice that is sisterly, informed, and motivating. She challenges her readers to transcend their fears, to face inevitable challenges in their lives courageously, and to use change as an opportunity to grow. "We limit ourselves because change may well mean dealing with the disapproval of the very people we rely on for support. Often words of inspiration and motivation, but she also suggests specific methods for working through problems and improving our emotional and spiritual health."We are not powerless spectators of life. We are co-creators with God, and all around is are the gifts, the clay, that we can use to shape our world," she says.Susan L. Taylor writes passionately about what she has seen and learned in the course of her travels throughout the United States, Caribbean, and Africa. Her essays have helped many to balance the demanding world of work and business with the personal world of family and friendship. She shares bits of her own life--her loves, her trails, and triumphs--and the lessons she's learned.Many of Susan L. Taylor's readers already collect her editorials and find in them a source of encouragement, self-affirmation, empowerment, and peace of mind. Now they can have new essays and a few previously published favorites elegantly bound in a gift-sized paperback edition to keep for themselves or to give as a gift of love to those who are special to them.
The Mindset of Organization: Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time
Lisa K. Woodruff - 2016
• Get rid of everything that doesn’t spark joy. • Color coordinate your wardrobe.
Um, yeah. I print emails, keep kids’ school papers, and my wardrobe is anything that fits and isn’t too revealing.
And yet, I’m organized.
There really is no denying that as you move through the various stages of your life, your organizational needs and the demands on your time will change.
What phase of life are you in?
I am 44 and in the survival phase of life (40–55). I’d be more organized if I didn’t live in my car and spend every other minute working or taking care of the house. Maybe you are in the accumulation phase of life (21–40). Every time you get an organizational system working, you add something new. A new spouse, a new baby, a new job, a new house . . . You’d be more organized if things would stop changing every three months. What about the baby boomers (55+)? The kids are gone, but now you’re left with a house full of memories—and lots of stuff. What do you want? What do the kids want? And what about what’s left over? Most organizational books on the market profess to have a one-size-fits-all solution to home organization. This one does not. I’m a former teacher, professional organizer, and productivity coach, and I know that organization is more than just 15-minute daily tasks or cute ways to use fun containers. As a generation translator and problem solver, I have been able to help hundreds of women in Cincinnati, Ohio—and thousands of women around the world—get their homes organized and keep them that way. Understanding which phase of life you are in will enable you to: • Identify the unique organizational challenges you’ll face. • Implement lasting organizational solutions. • Acquire and develop the skills you need to get organized. • Deal with the emotional clutter in your storage rooms. This is the home organization book that will make the rest of the books in your collection make sense.
New Order: A Decluttering Handbook for Creative Folks (and Everyone Else)
Fay Wolf - 2016
Here, Wolf outlines her basic rules for saying goodbye to the stuff crowding up your space and hello to new habits that free you up for the things you’re passionate about. And it can all be done in as little as a few minutes a day. Learn how to:• create productive to-do lists• stem the flood of paper • downsize digital clutter and social media • arrange your space to spark creative juices • curb your desire to accumulate • collaborate and connect with others for support • embrace imperfection• keep up the momentumWolf also shares her favorite productivity apps and resources for donating your many, many items. From the outer clutter of your home to the inner clutter of your chatty mind, this handbook will help you make room for artistic inspiration and invite you to treat yourself to less.
Real Simple: The Organized Home
Kendell Cronstrom - 2004
Building upon the incomparable world of the magazine, it provides valuable step-by-step advice on everything from organising kitchen shelves and cleaning out the refrigerator to setting up a versatile living room and creating a peaceful bedroom. A celebration of the liberating pleasure that comes from a clean, well-organized living space, "Real Simple The Organized Home" will help readers find the time for the things that really matter-making it the perfect gift for anyone who wants to do a little and live a lot. It includes rich advice on choosing room essentials, from furniture, window treatments, pillows, and DVD players to dishes, clothes hangers, candles and plants. Practical and imaginative solutions for new uses of old objects are provided.
Cheat Sheet: Master Getting Things Done...In 2 Minutes - The Practical Summary of David Allen's Best Selling Book
2 Minute Insight - 2014
To get the book's methods to work for you in real life, research shows it takes an average of 66 days of consistent practice for a new skill to become a habit. Cheat Sheet: Master Getting Things Done ...In 2 Minutes... is a fast reference tool that captures this organizational system in a concise, step-by-step format that help you embed the concepts while providing rapid refresher when you need it most. It is designed for:
1.) The busy individual familiar with the system and serious about habit change 2.) The newcomer who values time spent on EXECUTION, not reading.
Key Benefits: • Excellent compact summary of the basic principles of the Get Things Done system in a fast, convenient format. • Saves you precious time from re-reading the book to re-absorb, remember and categorize concepts. We did all the work for you. • Contains illustrated work flow map to follow during THE critical 2 hour weekly review.
• Keep the topic relevant and in front of you for times you fall off the program. More than just a book summary, pull up this organization tool to coach you through the entire process. Life just got easier as you cross off tasks after task; achieve multiple goals and milestones, all the while functioning with a clear mind and a sense of relaxed control.
This reference summary is designed to be purchased along side the reviewed title Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity.
Unleash the Warrior Within: Develop the Focus, Discipline, Confidence and Courage You Need to Achieve Unlimited Goals
Richard J. Machowicz - 2002
A ten-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, he was trained to complete whatever mission was handed to him, under any condition, because failure was not an option. Now, in Unleash the Warrior Within, Machowicz takes the winning attitude and mental skills he mastered in service and shows readers how to use combat mentality to reach their goals in everyday life. Using his seven principles of combat—which include Create an Action Mind-Set, The Critical Keys to Conquering Anything, and Guarantee the Win—Machowicz shows readers how to master the arts of focus, discipline, and determination under any circumstances, giving them the tools they need to conquer fear and turn their ambitions and dreams into reality. A new preface is included in this paperback edition of this inspiring guide. "Machowicz gives you the tools necessary to ensure that you win in the battle of life."—Jim Rome, host of the nationally syndicated radio show, The Jungle, and FOX television's The Last Word
Time Tactics of Very Successful People
Eugene Griessman - 1994
Johnnetta Cole, and Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus. Dr. B. Eugene Griessman has interviewed hundreds of contemporary peak performers (and researched dozens of historical high achievers) to unearth the secrets of their success. He presents their time management tactics in short Bites designed to inspire today's time-starved reader-- whether they're over worked managers, working moms, entrepreneurs on the go, or even newly unemployed people who must suddenly learn to structure their own time.
Unstuff Your Life!: Kick the Clutter Habit and Completely Organize Your Life for Good
Andrew Mellen - 2010
Mellen has created unique, lasting techniques for streamlined living, bringing order out of chaos for the chronically overwhelmed everywhere. Acknowledging that it's often the "stuff behind the stuff" that holds people back, Mellen offers a surprisingly simple, yet effective solution in his step-by-step guide, guaranteed to help achieve organizational bliss for everyone from perpetual key misplacers to hard-core hoarders.From basement to bedroom, kitchen to car, and into every corner of life, Mellen’s system yields lasting results. Discover how to:Never lose your keys or wallet again Stop mail, magazine, and paper pileups for good Feel empowered to tackle bills and budgets Reclaim space and time once dominated by clutter Built on the principle that we must distinguish ourselves from our possessions, Unstuff Your Life! starts with truly achievable goals and works toward the nightmare projects everyone tries hard to avoid. With humor, honesty, tough love, and foolproof advice, Mellen makes it easy to finally let go and embrace the decluttered life.