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Makeover your Mac Menubar
The Mac menubar is prime real estate that, if carefully populated, can be quite the powerhouse of daily tools. Two of my favorites are WeatherBug and Menubar countdown. Sadly, Menubar countdown is no longer available, but there are many other similar options under “Time Apps” at www.macmenubar.com. I know people who love and use the Thyme app.
2 must-see videos - Why donating and recycling is simply not enough.
I love/hate a good journalistic piece that gets me fired up about rampant and environmentally damaging consumerism. The Atlantic delivers with the 6 minute America’s dopamine-fueled shopping addiction. It explains the double dopamine hit we get with internet shopping: the moments of purchase and delivery.
The best way to organize clothing in a trunk.
My client has two gorgeous, huge heirloom trunks in her bedroom. They held clothing, but not well… Like I’ve said a thousand times before, “We should have taken a before shot!” You can probably imagine though what a stuffed trunk full of clothes typically looks like; Like strata, the closer to the bottom we got, the more folded (though more forgotten) items of clothing were. She couldn’t see what she had and therefore was mostly using the top few items.
How to break inertia: undo years of clutter in just hours.
A big thing my clients struggle with is inertia - for all sorts of reasons. What I love about my job is that we not only break it, but sometimes get results like this in 3 hours when it had been put off for YEARS!
Really stuck with sorting? Scribble today's date to help out your future self.
Just this week I came across the box pictured here in a client’s home. That’s my handwriting from December. We had run out of time in our session and I knew I wouldn’t see her again for probably a couple months.
How to let go of materials from a past career or job.
It can feel anticlimactic that the physical remains of a decades-long career sometimes fit neatly in a stack of boxes. Some of my clients have multiple boxes that they brought home on their last day of work, even if that last day was many, many years ago.