This little secret of mine could have stayed with my Papers in their Place workshop group last night, but no. Here I am typing away for the world to see. It’s about a little fantasy I’ve had over the last year. “Would others enjoy it? Could I pull it off?” I’m talking about a workshop [...]
Also known as the popular “thank-goodness-it’s-no-longer-105-degrees-fall-organize-your-office special”, this offer will do a wham-bam-alakazam job on your office. By the time we are done, you’ll have a cleared off desk, your foundation containers set-up (Easy Access Station, reference binder, etc) and “defined”, a maintenance system, and a file map to whip your files into shape. On-site: [...]
This week’s letter to the Simplifier comes from Joe in St. Louis. He writes: “I was inspired by you to organize my office. It took 2 days, 8 double lattes, and 7 garbage bags—I thought it would never end, but it did and it looks great! Problem is, now I can’t find my computer. Where [...]
Getting to the heart of the matter. No matter how much circling around we do, when we finally hit spot on the bulls eye, a satisfying “a-ha!” is sure to follow. The other day at an initial client appointment, I heard plenty of circling. He was saying things like, “I’ve been working like this for [...]
Bad news and good news on this final evening of the Clean Desk Challenge. Now that I have my bluetooth sync-ing capability, the photos aren’t transferring to the laptop. Nor is a repaired or replaced Nikon back in these hands. That leaves me essentially camera-less as far as the blog is concerned. Which is bad [...]
That’s what “they” say, anyways. Let’s see what a Google search turns up, shall we? Search: clean desk symptom sick mind Lanfranco Muzi of Italy (and now of Oregon) uses the phrase, “A clean desk is the symptom of a sick mind…” as something of a tagline on his website. Mind you, this isn’t a [...]
Just for fun (is this what she does for fun?!?!!? Yikes!), in the spirit of the Clean Desk Challenge, I cleared off the digital desktop as well as the glass desktop tonight: What you can’t quite make out next to the phone is a bluetooth headset which got connected to the new Treo [...]
