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July 18, 2014
#67 minutes for #MandelaDay | Before and after {Organising} High-traffic areas
Well friends, today is Mandela Day in South Africa and for my #67minutes, I’m about to do an audio recording of the 5 love languages. I’ll have to speak slightly faster because this is at best a 90-minute workshop If you’d like to contribute to the cause, pop along to my site and read some […]
July 16, 2014
7 weeks with my Fitbit Flex: what I like and don’t like
I heard about the Fitbit for the first time on a blog. Since the blogger and I are very similar with regard to goals, I immediately paid attention and thought that I should get one. When I investigated further, I figured out that I could use some banking reward points and save nearly 30%. Sold! […]
July 14, 2014
{Mindset} How to make your chores more pleasant
I’ve written before about how laundry is my most-hated chore. I do like seeing a row of clean laundry on the line though. With things I don’t like doing, I like to make it as pleasant as possible. So I bought packs of gorgeous, bright, happy clothespegs. I also hate filing. So I keep as […]
July 11, 2014
{Organising} Office odds and ends
Years ago I had this nice, new pink shoe bag I bought in the kiddies section of Mr Price Home that I used in my study for cables, chargers and such. Office odds and ends, if you will. It had shoe bags on both sides so when the one side started looking too grubby, I […]
July 9, 2014
Free printable, picking my brain and community
Three quick things today: ONE There’s a free printable waiting for you in your welcome pack when you sign up to the newsletter. It’s a lovely planning tool for you to choose just three organising tasks/ projects per month for the rest of the year. I think I’ll create one for 2015 too Have fun […]
July 7, 2014
My babies are 5
Today Connor and Kendra turn 5. 5! I can’t believe 5 years have passed. On that last day of being pregnant, I had a coaching session with a client; Dion and I went to ante-natal classes, had supper and watched Survivor, and went to bed. And then all the drama happened at exactly midnight and […]
July 4, 2014
{Organising} CDs… for those of us who still use them
Happy 4th July to all my American readers! Enjoy the long weekend ****************************************************** This lovely pink suitcase holds my CDs in my car. I used to have an even lovelier little box but that one was stolen WITH all the CDs a few years ago. I really hope those thieves enjoy Praise and Worship, Air […]
July 2, 2014
5 questions to ask as you do your half-year review
As you know, I do a goals review every month before I set goals for the new month ahead. I find that it helps me take stock of what went well and why, and what I need to work on. So now that we’re 6 months into 2014, technically I should be half-through my goals. […]
June 30, 2014
{Time management} How I’m eating my frog
A couple of weeks ago, I found myself getting very frustrated because I was not getting to everything I wanted during a day. When I looked back through my notebook to see which items I kept moving, they were things scheduled for the afternoons when my kids are at home. AHA! I then realised that […]
June 27, 2014
{Some reading for the weekend}
I’ve got some great links for you today: I like this idea about making sure your 3 spaces/ places are always organised. It’s a very J thing to do, by the way. I’m ESTJ. What are you? How to handle feeling overworked and overwhelmed Scroll down for the infographic on the big money wins/ small […]
