A client who has made great strides in changing her work habits to be more sustainable made a great observation yesterday. Her day had been one of the busier ones she’d had in a while. In exploring ways that she could have mitigated some of the craziness, she realized that she had done something differently. […]

“We just send info back and forth–it never seems to get finished” Frustration written all over client’s face. He was referring to a QuickBooks report given to him from his bookkeeper that he had written an additional request on and given back to her. She gave it back to him…. and he vaguely remembered her […]

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 […]

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 […]

The little things that make a difference…
If you were going to cut a good friend’s hair, would you use a pair of dull-ended kid’s scissors? Not likely!
If you had to move a pile of compost from one side of your property to the other, would you use a hand trowel? Of course not!
If […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about obstacles lately. Why do we let things get in the way of what we really want? Conversely, why can it be so easy to accomplish seemingly big things? These ponderings have been showing patterns revolving around action.
Starting with kinds of obstacles:
Some obstacles are physical–I haven’t learned to play the […]

This morning at Toastmasters, one of the speakers emphasized the importance of this concept when mountain biking:
focus on where you want to go and not on what you want to avoid.
Yes! A wonderful concept for so much more than mountain biking! It gets right to the point of creating what you want. I see […]