How many time have you geared up to work on an important project…. and then someone walks in and starts chatting? Do you ask them to leave? Why aren’t they reading your body language? Maybe you are actually glad for the distraction? Here is a page of easy to use tips to keep distractions, of [...]

Sales & Development “guru” Paul J. Meyer wrote a book (many books, actually) called “Attitude is Everything.” What may become his legacy to the world of goal setting, was an acronym within this book: SMART goals. SMART goals are Specific Measureable Attainable Realistic Timely [side note: there have been some variations on what the acronym [...]

This article was originally published in The Simplifier #21. Use it or lose it.  Systems can give you peace of mind and relief—if you use them properly. Happily, systems get easier and fade more “into the background” the more you use them. Do you think about the system of checking your voicemail and recording messages? [...]

By Shawn Tuttle Imagine if every evening when it started getting dark, you had to pull wires from the junction box and run them to your lamp for light. After 20 or 30 times you’d be pretty fast, surely. But… aren’t you glad you don’t have to? Instead, you have a hard wired system that [...]

I heard from a very reliable source that this exchange actually happened many moons ago (about 184,690 moons, actually): Someone admiring the statue of David asked Michelangelo: How did you see David in that block of marble? Michelangelo’s response: I just took away the parts that weren’t David. According to Squidoo, he actually said something [...]

The twenty-fifth issue of the Project Simplify newsletter The Simplifier is now archived on our newsletter archives page. Here is a brief summary of the contents: 1. A Note From Shawn A Day of Gratitude 2. Our Featured Quote by Spencer Johnson 3. Article: Sustainability—Good for Business, Good for the Environment by PS Head Simplifier [...]

We now have simple reminders of nature’s beauty to simplify your space! Be it a sticker to put on your reference binder, a new journal for your thoughts, a mug for your maté or double lattes, a sticker for your filing cabinet, or even a mouse pad. You’ll be stylin’! (You’ll recognize the images from [...]