How To Organize Your Routine For Good Sleep Hygiene

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As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. How’s your sleep hygiene? No, I’m not referring to cleanliness, although clean sheets are definitely a priority! The Oxford dictionary defines sleep hygiene as, “habits and practices that are conducive to sleeping well on a regular basis.”    When I start working with a new client, one […]

Five Questions to Ask Yourself to Tame Your Monkey Mind

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Monkey Mind is a Buddhist term to describe a restless, unsettled or confused mind. Sometimes I head to bed at night wide-eyed alert, but tired. My mind is still going even though I desperately need sleep. I play a hypnosis app that usually works well to talk me down and into sleep, but there are nights […]

Supercharge Productivity with Smartphone Reminders

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Supercharge Productivity with Smartphone Reminders Did you set some New Year’s resolutions that you have yet to take action on? Well, dust off those goals and start making real progress with smartphone reminders! Your smartphone comes with a default reminders app that can help you build habits and routines. If you ask your phone’s personal […]

Downsizing Books: To sell or donate?

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Downsizing Books My clients were downsizing books and had 11 boxes to get rid of. Here’s what happened when we tried to sell them to a used book store. Recently, I helped a brother and sister purge their late mother’s collection of books. They had lived abroad in the 1960s during their father’s foreign service […]

The Sh*t We Keep: Frugal Clutter is Still Clutter

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Clusters Handcrafted Popcorn in New Hope, Pennsylvania is the guilty pleasure I enjoy when visiting my parents. I sample their seasonal flavors but always leave with a couple of bags of their fluffy white cheddar and wasabi standards. If you visit, get a bag and ask for it to be left open. They’ll fill it […]