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Tuesday Treasures: 15 Organizing Resources to Inspire You

March 16th, 2010 | 3 Comments »

“Tuesday Treasures” is a weekly series. Each Tuesday, I highlight information and inspiration related to a specific topic. This week’s topic: Organization Inspiration. With spring officially starting in just a few days, the spring cleaning bug is about to spread. Be prepared by bookmarking the list below.

Fresh

  • New video is live on Spring! During the month of March, we are talking about one hot topic: MONEY! The second video (of four) is focused on this question: How do you determine your worth & be comfortable charging it? Personally, I find this question difficult and really enjoyed the conversation about this topic – a true, authentic discussion. I hope you’ll watch the video and chime in with a comment!
  • New article on the Huffington Post: 5 Lessons Children Can Teach Us About Joy
  • Be sure to check out some of my personal favorite organizing books in my Amazon Book Store. I recently added this store to my blog and want to mention that I do earn a tiny referral fee of 4% if you purchase a book from my store. I have personally read every book that I include in the store so it’s a genuine list of “favorites.” [Note: I will always disclose if I'm an affiliate for a product.]

Organization Inspiration

  1. Real Simple - Check out the organizing section for categorized organization tips
  2. Creative Organizing – The Simplify101 blog recently named Best Organizing Website or Blog at the Organizing Awards in Los Angeles (for even more organizing solutions and ideas see the Simplify101 Organizing Tips and Articles section
  3. Organize It – An author’s blog on organizing (a treasury of information neatly organized)
  4. The SheBang – The Smart Woman’s Guide to Doing it All!
  5. Kevin Sharkey – Kevin blogs about all parts of the home, but his section on closets is wonderful for organizing tips
  6. Jeri’s Organizing and Decluttering News – A professional organizer points you to cool products, good books, interesting concepts and much more – daily tidbits to help you organize and declutter.
  7. Mint – Organize your money and accounts
  8. How to Organize Mental Clutter – Fabulous post from blog, Think Simple Now
  9. Organizing Junkie – A mom and professional organizer blogs about living a life of simplicity and order
  10. Complete Organizing Solutions – Organizing the way you live, work, and play
  11. Organize.com – An emporium of organizing products to make everything clean, neat, and easy
  12. Success Magazine – a series of online articles from some of the most well known organizing and productivity gurus
  13. Sasha Sews (Etsy Shop): Stylishly Organizing Busy People
  14. See Jane Work – The destination for office style and organization (I am slightly addicted to their products – extreme eye candy for the organized obsessed!)
  15. Russell + Hazel – The ultimate store for stylish organization (I use many of their products for my office organizing + everyday work)

Inspiring Words

“Spring cleaning is all about personal satisfaction. It is the time of year that triggers homeowners to revive their home and renew their lives.”

- Peter Walsh

Do you have any organizing resources/tips to share?

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Posted in: Balance & Simplicity, Creativity & Inspiration, Goals & Productivity, Treasure Chest

Tuesday Treasures: Truisms

January 19th, 2010 | 5 Comments »

“Tuesday Treasures” is a weekly series that I launched in December. It is such a fun uplifting title that I couldn’t resist using it! I have a few treasures to share with you today. I hope they add a little sparkle to your week!

  • New & Exciting
    • Brand new Spring video posted today! It’s a short video that continues our conversation on Intentions, Goals, and Resolutions.
    • On Friday, I published a new article on the Huffington Post: The Tweet for Haiti Heard Across the Blogosphere. It’s been inspiring such a beautiful ripple effect – please be sure to read the post and COMMENT! For each comment posted, I am donating $1 to Haiti Relief. AND — my donations are being matched by another blogger! Please comment and spread the word! Comments close on Friday, January 22nd.

What’s adding a sparkle to your week?

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Posted in: Creativity & Inspiration, Treasure Chest

Blogging Adventures: An End of June Update

June 30th, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.

- Rosalia de Castro

Spring Landscape

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I have been on quite a blogging adventure! I’ll share all the details below and sincerely appreciate your support.

It’s a fun and scary time. I’m trying to enjoy the ride and focus on the fun (more so than the fear) — easier said than done!

End of June Updates…

–> Unfiltered Thoughts and Emotions

My book, Perseverance, will be officially released in exactly 6 weeks – YIKES! The whole journey from start to finish will be almost exactly four years. What I’ve recently realized is that I have a tremendous fear of asking for others’ support. I’m getting better at it – in terms of emotions – and knowing when I need emotional support; however, I have become so accustomed to the “giver” role that it feels incredibly strange to market something for others to purchase. And so I’ve been feeling as if I’ve given my entire life to others and essentially that no one is here now to give to me – this book (it’s a difficult struggle that I’m working to deal with). But I think the reason for the book not doing so great in pre-sales may be because I haven’t asked for support. I haven’t said, please pre-order my book today! Because that doesn’t feel like me. But I need to find a happy balance and learn to advocate for something new. I didn’t plan to write about this issue in my “end of June updates,” but I guess it just had to come out on here for me to honor this blog as something deeply personal to me. So those are my unfiltered thoughts and emotions right now. If you have any tips or suggestions for how to better cope with this, I am all ears! And please do pre-order Perseverance — you will not only be supporting my vision and goal to share with others how to truly live in the now, but also will be donating directly to CCC and the Chordoma Foundation (where all of my proceeds are going). Okay, I can breathe now!

–> New Blogging Adventures

  • I am excited to be a regular contributor for the Huffington Post (Living Section) and Psychology Today. I plan to post once a week on both sites. My first posts are up on both sites! I would love for you to check them out and leave a comment. I haven’t decided yet how to best organize the different posts on this blog, but am working on that now (will likely have that figured out by this Friday).
  • A Beautiful Ripple Effect will remain my personal blog at this domain (rather than move it to my main website). However, I will be moving servers which may cause the blog to go down for a bit of time or not have all the posts, etc.. Not sure what may happen, but the transition will take approximately 48 hours. So I won’t be adding a new blog post until Thursday or Friday. Just a pre-warning that things may be a bit off, but I’m still here! The blog design will be a bit different, but very clean and simple. The design is still a work in progress – so I’ll be making tweaks over the next couple of weeks.
  • I will be posting updates for The Next Chapter: Wreck This Journal on my tumblr account in the meantime. I have made a lot of wrecking progress recently!

–> The Day to Day Stuff

As usual, I am behind with my emails. If you’ve sent me an email recently (recently = within the last month — I know really bad!), I will be responding sometime later this week.

However, I am on twitter so you can say hi :). You can follow me @clrsimple2

And just a reminder that I am a full time graduate student — so that is why it’s a bit difficult for me to stay on top of everything. Summer means no classes, but major research time – it’s a bit different from most graduate programs (e.g., business or law school). Thank you to Aby for reminding me to mention that! I don’t get the old-fashioned summer vacation!

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Have a wonderful end of June! I will be back with a fresh post and a fresh look in July!

Do you have any fun plans for the Fourth of July?

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