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I let go of some crafting dreams - and that's ok.
I just made a difficult edit - my old, thick decoupage folders! It must have been twenty years ago when I was making small decoupage projects: boxes, small Ikea drawer sets, pencil cups, etc. For these, I collected beautiful magazine tear-outs of luscious green imagery.
The little things ARE the big things!
One of my favorite moments as an Organizer was when my client exclaimed, “The little things ARE the big things!” This was as she realized we had spend much of our office organizing time that day clearing off the top of her bedroom dresser.
I just hit an Evernote milestone! 7000 notes!
I’m a proud Evernote user and Evernote Certified Consultant. I too once was mystified by it until my friend and client @cassmetz taught me how to use it.
Try a pile cart instead of a file cart
If I still had this file cart in my possession I would have done a video to explain a novel way I used it recently. I don't, so picture this:
Watch & Listen: A mini-roundup of productivity advice
How am I such a big fan of author Cal Newport and only just discovering his podcast now? His books include Deep Work, A World Without Email, and Digital Minimalism.
My Covid corner in The Washington Post
Our "Covid corner" mini-makeover was recently featured in The Washington Post! About a year ago we put up a shelf that I had bought years ago from an antique shop in VA and promptly buried it under the most unsightly collection of Covid paraphernalia.