Working as a professional organizer has taught me a lot about possessions. I’ve learned that physical belongings serve a variety of purposes, including: Connecting us to our past (e.g. a varsity sport jacket) Embodying dreams for the future (e.g. a book on how to buy a boat) Keeping us healthy in the present (e.g. workout […]
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Have you ever heard of the law of diminishing returns? I heard about it back in my Introduction to Economics class in college. In simple terms, it means that the incremental output/benefit you get from an incremental increase in the amount of input/work tapers off over time (holding all other variables constant). For example, imagine
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“I shouldn’t have spent so much money on this.” “Why did I ever pick this? It’s not my color.” “I shouldn’t have signed up for this class. It’s too time consuming.” “I thought she would like it but she never plays with it.” “This looked good in the store, but it is way too
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We’ve all been there. Something needs to get done, but we aren’t sure if we have enough time to do it before we need to be somewhere else: Can I run to the grocery store before picking up the kids? Is there time to stop at the post office before class? Is it better to
Recently, a group of organizing and productivity professionals formed a book club to discuss the “hot organizing books” our clients are reading. We decided to start with The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margaret Magnusson. This little book, released in early 2018, garnered a fair amount of attention, perhaps initially because of the
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