If you are like many folks in the U.S., the 4th of July means turning a midweek holiday into a long weekend. Many of you will say you are looking forward to a BBQ with friends and family. Others are looking forward to an opportunity to tackle a household project. My...
Just like everyone, there are times I feel a little overwhelmed with everything I need (and want) to do. There’s meals to be planned and cooked. Relationships to tend. Clients to coach and articles to write. In the midst of the busiest of days, one of my best...
So many of the women (and men) I talk to regularly confess to feeling depleted, overwhelmed, and just flat exhausted. Like they’re living in the spin cycle of the washing machine or a good old hamster wheel. When we dig into how they’re living their daily life, one of...
A client told me she was looking for the keys to activate her super powers. You know those super powers. The ones that allow you to be faster than a quickly-filling in-box, more powerful than a never-ending to-do-list, and able to leap tall piles of laundry in a...
I created my first online course in 2012 focused on decluttering your physical world. In all the years since, I’ve studied how clutter affects how we feel about our life and who we are in the world. Physical clutter affects not just our environment, but our...
There is a sweet beauty to serendipity. We meet a new lover by chance. We cross paths with an old friend. We find the perfect dress for that upcoming event. We wander into a nifty coffee shop and discover the perfect writing environment. The spirit of serendipity has...
It seems like in recent years idealizing working from home has become the new American Dream. I certainly understand the allure. I’ve been working from home since 2003. And I think I have heard every iteration of why it must be so nice for me. The assumption is that I...