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    Archive for 2007/08


    The Simplifier #45 is Online

    The forty-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 Immensely complex Burning Man offers lessons in simplicity 2. Our Featured Quote by Michael Althsuler 3. Article: Taking Inventory, Part 1 by PS Head [...]

    The Simplification Binder

    Collecting your thoughts helps you stay focused on your goals. Let’s set up a Simplification Binder to collect your thoughts. The current series of articles in this newsletter includes information that may trigger ideas and solutions for your situation. Organizing these discoveries and thoughts in a simplification binder creates a toolbox to support you on [...]

    Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui

    If you have more things than you know what to do with, or feel like you spend an inordinate amount of time rearranging too many things in your space, I highly recommend feng shui expert Karen Kingston‘s book: Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui. I feel the title is a bit misleading because she focuses [...]

    The right person for the job

    Say you have an assistant. She runs errands, does light cooking, makes phone calls, places orders, and will water the plants if needed. You are happy with her work. She’d like more hours, and you have paperwork tasks that you’d like to delegate. Sounds like a solution is at hand. Except…. that she doesn’t take [...]

    Freelance Office Help Wanted

    We just posted an ad for freelance office assistance for the Nevada County area. The Simplifier training program is in the works and slated for completion in the not too distant future… in the meantime, clients are wanting help! They love that their offices are now organized, but realize that maintaining is easier with some [...]

    NMBPW talk follow up

    For the archives. The Northern Mines Business and Professional Women submitted this blurb to The Union newspaper about my talk there in July.

    An unorthodox use of a business card

    Have you ever found yourself in this situation: you are out on the river boulder hopping at Edwards Crossing on a beautiful August morning the leather of your well-worn sandal is ripped from use, which was fine for the first 30 minutes of walking and jumping at approximately 35 minutes a blister begins to form [...]


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