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Last week I ran into one of my neighbors on my daily walk around the neighborhood.   We decided to walk together.  Now, I’m a pretty social gal, but I normally like my solitary walk time.  It’s my chance to talk to myself, commune with nature and gather my thoughts and intentions for the day.  But…

I’m a huge fan of creating and working action plans.  It just fits for my personality, and is a tool I rely on for so many aspects of my life.  For two years in a row I’ve taken on the organizing of a neighborhood Yard Sale.  I like having yard sales.  It’s a great way…

Oh my… here’s a tough topic.  Focus is such a personal thing.  And some folks are so damn good at getting focused, keeping focused and not letting much of anything interfere. Here’s a thought… the more we like something, the more focused we are capable of being. Case in point:  I love to cook.  I…

I’m no professional organizer… I have a colleague who is a member of the Professional Organizers Association of North America, mind you and she’s amazing.  Makes me look like jello.  But in most circles I’ve traveled over the years , I’m known as a pretty organized person.  Apparently it’s in my genes. Here are 5…

Serendipity At It’s Best Call it a coincidence, ‘meant to be’, a ‘woo woo’ moment, pure chance, serendipity, or any other name you care to use, here’s a very recent story I think you’ll like. 35 years ago, my Dad built a small cabin in the woods on a farm we owned on PEI. It…

I think one of the hardest but most obvious lessons I’ve learned and continue to learn in my life is really ‘getting’ the mind-body connection.  How many times over the years, have I needed to get ‘hit over the head’ by some physical experience- usually painful- before the light would dawn and I’d say to…

What’s a mindset?  It’s a habitual pattern of thoughts, feeling and behaviours.  It provides us with a frame through which we see and experience the world.   It helps shape our limitations and our possibilities, and helps define our choices and our outcomes. Learner or Judger… do you know how to tell the difference? We’re not…

For years before he died my Dad used to say to me; “what’s the big rush?  What would it be like if you decided to just BE instead of DOING all the time?”.    And honestly, for the first 10 years of hearing that, I’d laugh and say… “it’s fine for you to just BE, but…

Did you know that close to 75% of North Americans eat 2-3 of their weekday lunches at their desks? The place I used to work, that statistic was more like 95% of staff eating at their desks 4-5 days a week.

We’ve all come across someone whose attitude is so positive, you almost want to throttle them! Here’s one of my favorite Attitude is Everything stories, written by Francie Baltazar-Schwartz.