When you think of spring cleaning, I bet you think of your kitchen, your home office and your garage, right? All those areas are important to organize and clean seasonally. Another important spring cleaning spot is your vehicle. Have you ever made yourself a spring cleaning schedule for your vehicle? ...
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How To Streamline Your Social Media Experience
To help cut out the noise of unhelpful content that does little to motivate and inspire you, streamline your social media experience. While there are many different ways that you can optimize your experience on different platforms, it’s a good idea to think about the ways in which you’d like to be influenced. Productivity is never an accident. It's the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.Paul Meyer Many people spend a large portion of their time ...
Must-Haves in my Spring Cleaning Toolkit
With warmer weather heading our way, I'm getting ready for some spring cleaning! I stick to the most important cleaning tasks and only use the best tools for the job. Some days it's rainy and kind of dreary feeling, but I still feel hopeful for the future because I know spring is right around the corner! It's incredible how much dust and clutter has built up in my apartment during the winter months. When the sun shines or peaks through the clouds I can see all the dust bunnies and piles of ...
8 Steps To Organize an Elementary Theatrical Production
Let's pretend you just got hired to be the new theater teacher at the local elementary school. Where do you start when producing your first show? Here are the eight steps that can help you get started. 1. Choose the Show If possible, contact the previous theater teacher and get their advice on what shows have worked well in the past. Find out what your budget is and determine the number of students that will participate. Choose accordingly, then sign all the necessary contracts, pay the ...
Tips for Staying Motivated with your Spring Cleaning To-Do List
Gorgeous spring weather and an increased amount of hours of sunshine makes me want to spend more time outside and less inside. Even as I do plan on being out of the house more often soon, I love to come home in the evenings and relax. It's not very restful to come home to a messy or disorganized home, though. ...
Back to School – Dorm Room Tips
For students going away for school, staying in a dorm room, it can be really easy to feel overwhelmed with choices, thinking they need or have to have everything when they see in back-to-school sales displays and flyers. That's why it's important to have a list and really think about what essential items to purchase and bring along. These dorm room tips will help you figure out what you need for a dorm room and what other things are also nice to have. ...
Get your Car Organized for Summer Adventures
The mention of the word summer conjures up all kinds of wonderful associations—beaches, fields to run through, yummy food, road trips, and time spent with friends and family. Summer is a time of spontaneity for me. I like to keep my schedule light so that I can throw a few things in the trunk and be off on a summer adventure on short notice. I like to think that I'm a fairly organized person, yet every summer, my trunk ends up looking like a disheveled mess! I recently spent some time ...
5 Key Ways to Get your Ideas off the Ground
You've got the ideas. Now make 'em happen. If you're like me, you have no shortage of ideas floating around in your head. How many of those ideas do you actually end up acting on/making happen? Maybe it's shiny object syndrome, or. . ."squirrel!" Whatever it is, it's time now to start moving forward on some of your ideas. Here are five key ways to get your ideas off the ground: 1. Write down all your ideas To clear up some mental space, write down all your ideas on one big list. If you have lots ...
DYMO LabelManager 160 Review
Want to get more organized in your office, kitchen, and the rest of your home? Have a messy tool shed or garage? The DYMO LabelManager 160 can help you with your organization. The label maker prints sticky labels to attach to file folders, bottles of nails, boxes, food containers, electronic items (great for when you're taking charging cables and chargers on a trip or to work/school), and so much more! ...
Home Office Essentials
Despite having an online business and only working with people virtually, I do like to have all the essentials in my home office—physically. Here's a secret to start off the post: I really like paper. I've tried to go paperless, and still do scan in everything important, but I find that things stick in my mind more when I write them down. Every single instrument or product I use in my home office is carefully chosen. I have an open-concept living room/home office/dining room so there's no ...