When I teach time management and productivity to groups I always poll the room to see when throughout the day people think they operate at their peak.  On average, 9 out of 10 say morning.  I’d choose morning, too, but have always wondered a few things about this: - Do I think my magic hours are in the morning because this is what the studies show?

The title says it all.  The same goes for offices and just about every other room we occupy.  Any organizer (or reformed clutter bug) could have told you this, but we now have research to prove it!  NPR’s A Cluttered Kitchen Can Nudge Us To Overeat, Study Finds sums up a recent study published in the journal Environment and Behavior. 

It’s pretty simple: I received a piece of mail from the county Board of Elections notifying me of a change in polling place. I captured it with my camera via the Evernote app and tossed the document. Here’s why this ultra simple act is something I have to share: this is exactly the type of document that stumps my clients. It doesn’t really warrant its own file.

This week my digital organizing advice appeared in a very comprehensive post on MarthaStewart.com: 10 Housekeeping Tips to Declutter Your Digital Life. As I was compiling all of my ideas for the article, I wondered why I had never written a post like this for my own blog! Here you’ll learn how to:

Digital Organizer friend Lilli Weisz of www.simplified.life recently reminded me of the effectiveness of using DMAChoice.org to eliminate junk mail! I had completely forgotten that I entered my information on their site years ago and absolutely noticed a decrease in junk mail in the weeks to follow and even to this day. 

I don’t think I could either, but I’m incredibly humbled that any American can. Last week my client sent me home with the print edition of the Washington Post’s All My Trash For a Year Fit Into Two Plastic Bags: Here’s How I Did It. Author, and ultimate walker of the walk, Darshan Karwat, went to great social and consumer extremes to only fill two plastic bags of trash...