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{Goals} Preventing overwhelm while still setting goals

Are we supposed to set goals in all the areas of our lives? How do I keep the balance across multiple areas without getting overwhelmed and STILL set goals? First of all, there’s no “supposed to” or “should” about the goals you set. If you feel like there’s only one or two areas you want […]

Re {Organising} girls’ hair accessories

I’ve blogged many times before about the never-ending war with the hair accessories! Our system is still working but it just needed some tweaking and adding to. I still hate the Alice bands and decided to separate them from the material headbands. The metal bucket now only contains Alice bands and the headbands lay loose […]

the principles ALWAYS work if you work the principles

Seems like there are extremes all over the world – in South Africa, there are some heat waves (thank goodness I’m on holiday at the coast because I don’t think I’d cope back home!) and in the USA, based on my instagram feed, looks like there are lots of extremely cold weather with the blizzards […]

{Mission} Try 25 new recipes

Last year I set myself a goal to actually try 25 new recipes from Pinterest and old-fashioned clippings from magazines, instead of just pinning them. The project was a huge success. I tried 32 new recipes. There may be a couple more that I forgot to write down. I think the reason this project was […]

{Time management} A different perspective

I recently took 5 days’ leave from work. If you think about it, that’s not a very long time so I reframed it in my mind by counting days out of the office instead of days on leave and then it felt much better. You see, that period inclusive of public holidays and weekends amounted […]

When was the last time you gave yourself a treat?

The picture is of some physical treats I bought myself over the last couple of months. But that’s not really what I mean. A treat for me is sitting with a mug of tea DURING THE DAY just reading (while the dishes are in the sink). Or last weekend, taking 45 minutes to finish up […]

{Mission} Declutter physical books

One of my goals for the past couple of years has been to declutter my physical books by reading and then passing them on. It’s far too easy to just buy Kindle books (one-click purchasing, anyone?) and not bother to get through the physical books on the bookshelf. I first got my original 7 shelves […]

473 days or 15 months, but who’s counting?

Remember this post? Well, I didn’t get it done in November but I got it done before the new year And do you know how long it took me to do? A measly 35 minutes! And then I tacked on another 25 minutes analysing a set of numbers while tossing some papers to make everything […]

Word of the year 2014 and a few goals

First off, have you read this post on my closing out 2013 process? If not, go have a read – I’ll wait! Last year was quite honestly a beast of a year and towards the end of it, I started getting a sense that it was now time for something different – time for me […]

{Everyday organising} to ease us all into the weekend

To ease us all into the New Year, I thought I’d post a few photos of some everyday organising going on around these parts the kids’ art supplies in my study – needed an organising tweak so I used a cutlery caddy a bucket of crayons new notebook and pen (one pen of a pack […]