Marcia Francois's Blog, page 62

The Konmari method vs Capsule Wardrobing vs old-fashioned decluttering

As I mentioned on Monday, I bought The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up and I started listening today.

Since I’m not ready to write a review yet, I thought I’d give you a quick take on the book so far and then talk about other methods.

The short answer is – I already love a lot of it. Those who are Questioners will enjoy it too, I think

this photo is from last year – half those things I no longer own :)

The Konmari Method

If you search the hashtag #Konmari on Instagram, you will see amazin...

Are you a moderator or an abstainer?

If you look in my bin right now, you’ll see two empty chocolate wrappers (Cadbury’s Dairy Milk bubbly – mini!).

In my defense (and I need one!), the bin hasn’t been emptied for 3 days.

However, there’s another side to this issue – if I hadn’t bought them, I wouldn’t have eaten them.

I only eat what’s there – I would never drive to the shops just to buy a chocolate bar.

I’m a clear abstainer with chocolate. Gretchen Rubin talks about this inBetter Than Before.

It’s easier for me to totally no...

Half-year update on The 52 Project

This year I’m doing two main projects – The 52 Project – where I take a picture every week of my kids, and my #52walksin2015 project.

I’m updating today on the first project because:

it keeps me accountable helps me to keep my photos reasonably organised if I know I have to give you feedback

This Sunday will be number 30 for the year and I’ve only missed 1 Sunday – the weekend Dion and I went away.

I was also away this past weekend but I got Dion to take a pic with one of our other cameras....

How I get it all done

When people hear that I work full-time, am married, have twins, blog and coach time management, they often ask me how I get it all done.

Ha! I don’t.

Yes, I do a lot but the bigger focus should be on what I don’t get done.

Let me explain and help you to also get it “all” done:

1. Get very clear on your life’s purpose

I have my life mission typed out and I know my definition of success in life.

I also know my values. A quick secret – one of those values is not to have the laundry perfectly do...

My life in Instagrams – April

I spent the weekend in Port Elizabeth for my mother’s birthday and a Spanish reunion so to ease me into the week, an easy post.

From our holiday in Sabie

Most of these are from the Easter weekend

Kendra reunited after her first sleepover, and just one very important item on my daily to-do list!

that chair, Project Life, autumn walks and kid stuff

That’s Connor and me on a walk in the middle on the top. Do you like my lime-green handbag?

beautiful light everywhere! 20-year anniversary and lun...

{Creating} your ideal weekend

I’ve shared the components of my ideal weekend before but let’s talk more about how to create yours, and then how to consistently have a great weekend.

Define what an ideal weekend looks like for you and your family. Write as many words as you want – the main thing is to get clear on what you want Make categories. Mine are Out and About, House stuff, Computer stuff, Relaxing Make a list on a Friday evening (or earlier, if you like to get things going) for the weekend ahead Be sure to add i...

Favourite lists I use to manage my time

When you write things down, it frees your mind for the big picture thinking (important things) and you don’t have to worry so much about remembering the details.

If you’ve downloaded the Time Management Purpose Pack, you’ll notice that there are a lot of different forms. I give you all of those for options.

At some point or another, I’ve used each of them but there are only a few I use on a regular basis:

1. Master list

This is a place for my “brain dump”, a place for ideas I have or possibl...

An update on the Moment app

I wrote a post some time back about how shocked I was by the data the Moment app gave me about my phone usage.

You can read that post here.

I kept it going for awhile but then I deleted the app.

This screenshot was taken on my birthday last year, which is why the emails, messages, phone calls and whatsapps are out of control :)

I have data for March – mid-June which I thought I’d share with you:

Month Minutes Pickups March 131 29 April 146 28 May 116 29 June 104 35 Overall avera...

Organising with mini bags

I love the concept of everything in its place, and I find that this works really well in my handbag if I use a little bag for all the categories.

I used to use mesh bags before – still love them!

There are the obvious categories like the one for make-up but I have a few others:

technology – power bank and charger, phone charger and car charger nail polish pencil bag

This little bag was a gift from a friend and housed lip balms. I liked the lip balms but I LOVE the bag because it’s my new...

The twins turn 6… and outer order, inner calm

First up, my kids turned 6 yesterday. How did that happen?

To celebrate, you can use code KANDCTURN6 on page in the store to get 12% (2 x 6-year-olds) off anything you fancy. I suggest the Organise your Home course or Break out of Overwhelm as those are the first two things I think of when I think of the TWINS

The coupon code is valid for one week only.

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Now for today’s post.

I think there’s a lot of truth to the statement “outer order, i...