The irony isn’t lost on me that in scouring my Evernote for a particular article that I saved, I came across a gem of an article that a client sent to me in 2013 that I had never shared on how when we save too much, what’s truly save-worthy gets shadowed by what’s not. 

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.