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101 Things in 1001 Days
As promised, here's my 101 Things in 1001 Days list. My intent is to begin it on January 1st, although ...

Review of Peaceful Progression Wake-Up Clock
Update: Unfortunately, the Peaceful Progression Wake-Up Clock appears to have been discontinued. :( I finally remembered to put some "smelly ...

Taking a Page Out of the Corporate Manual
Our homes often don't run as efficiently as they could, largely because we don't treat them very "professionally" -- we're ...

Organizing – Make it Easy
Nowadays, you can get a number of medications in patch form - nicotine patch, birth control patch, even a diet ...

How March Madness is Like Goal-Setting
While the college basketball season is just getting started (or so hubby tells me), I'm sure the players are all ...

Preparing for the What-If’s
For whatever reason, I periodically find myself thinking, "What if something happened to me?" We don't have life insurance on ...

Habit List (A Habit Tracker)
Updated 1 Jan 2022. Originally published 17 Sep 2007. In my last post, I talked about several "extra pages" that ...

My Day Planner – Redux
The purpose of this post is to encapsulate - again - what I include in my Day-Timer, now that my ...

More About Day Planners – Getting Things Done (GTD)
Right after I began my Day Planner series, I read David Allen's Getting Things Done. It caused me to immediately ...

My Day Planner – part 4
Well, I thought this post had already been done; I'm not sure what happened. (Browser crash, perhaps.) Anyway... Previous posts ...

My Day Planner – part 3
In the last two planner posts, I talked about my daily pages. Today I'm going to talk about the monthly ...

My Day Planner – part 2
Let's start with the photo from the last post as a frame of reference. (Larger pic.) Appointments: The upper left ...
My Day Planner – part 1
I don't know about you, but I have great difficulty really grasping the concepts when someone tells me how to ...

It’s Not My Thing
We have a friend who would like to homeschool his children. The difficulty is that he will have to do ...

Home Management Binder
I used to have a "control journal," a la FlyLady. I ended up dismantling it, though, as it really didn't ...