Susan has seen a few good lantern lampshades around and wanted to make her own. This seems really simple to do but the effect is quite something. Love the glowing coral look.
As we talked about in the post Ask Unclutterer: How can I change someone into an unclutterer?” we get many emails asking how unclutterers can live with clutterers. It reminds me of one of those light bulb jokes: How many Psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? One, but the light bulb has to want to change.
If you’re a Mac based freelancer, you’ll be interested to head over to our sister blog Mac.AppStorm where David’s run up a list of 12 Mac Apps for Running a Freelance Business:
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While “How to Get Over a Breakup” was the number one requested article topic I’ve written on, it’s not surprising that a close second is the topic of “How to Find the Ideal Relationship”. Here’s an email from one reader:
It’s a sad day here at Rosings Park (as Kris and I call our half-acre). We have a big old English walnut tree that acts as the centerpiece of our yard. Unfortunately, it’s become diseased over the past few years, and is now mainly a playground for woodpeckers. Because one limb was in danger of falling onto the house, we paid an arborist to come in and lop it off.
Every Wednesday is Tip Day.
This Wednesday: 5 tips for getting a little kid to take “no” for an answer.
My three-year-old hates being told “No” and “Don’t,” and she’s also one of those kids who immediately does exactly what you ask her not to do, so I’ve had to develop some strategies to get the “No” message across without unleashing the very behavior I want to stop.
In a society where success is often associated with long hours of work, some things that were never considered by previous generations of Americans are now becoming very prominent. One of these is time management. While working longer hours and weekends is something that most of us consider relatively normal, scientists have taken a look at the effects of sleep on cognitive ability.
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A lot of us get stuck in inaction –procrastinating, doing a lot of unimportant tasks to avoid the important stuff, worrying about failing or about being perfect, having a hard time starting, getting distracted, and so on.
It’s time to start forming the Action Habit instead.
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The beauty of organized cablesPictures of organized cables make an Unclutterer’s heart go pitter patter.
Preparing for tomorrow’s work dayFive to 10 minutes of organization at the end of the work day will have you on your best footing tomorrow morning.
For those of you who might be visiting The Simple Dollar via the … suboptimal web browser on their Amazon Kindle (or otherwise own one), The Simple Dollar is now available in periodical form on the Kindle, meaning you can download it and read it like any other book or magazine on the device.
This is a guest post from Carl Richards at Behavior Gap. It’s based on one of my favorite posts at his site, and is a terrific complement/counterpoint to my article on how much the stock market actually returns. As he points out, average returns are not normal.
Your fingers hover above the keyboard as you stare blankly at your empty document. You have an assignment, a topic, a project that you need to work on.
And you have no idea where to go from where you are.
It isn’t burnout. You aren’t exhausted, or sick of writing and wishing everyone who wants you to write something would just go away for a week
