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Does Your Life Need a Defrag?

{This piece originally appeared on my previous blog, in 2011.} Excuse me while I get all technical for a moment. As a computer hard disk nears capacity, it gets fragmented.  That means, it starts to...

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Pin Up a Picture: 7 Tips to Muster Motivation

{This post is based on a version which originally appeared on my previous blog, in 2011.} Even for things we genuinely want to do, motivation can be a tricky horse to harness.  Here are seven...

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Life is a Dance, not a Hike

I’m pretty sure that the incredible brains who are working on the discovery of Higgs boson knew from an early age exactly what they wanted to do in life, and for this, I applaud them heartily. Others,...

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Time Management Secrets of Serene Women

Each of us has just 1440 short minutes in every day. Into that, we must cram work, family, friends, sleep, home, hobbies, and health. Why is it some women glide along serenely and apparently in...

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2013: Be Kind to Myself

I do admire those who can find a single word to act as their mantra for the coming year. In recent days I have seen less, ease, team and focus discussed online. Well, I haven’t been able to pin down a...

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Making Time to Smell the Flowers

I’m fascinated with time management. Since long before I was a Professional Organizer and years before my current struggles to fit novel-writing alongside a day job, I have loved to read ideas from...

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Unplugged

If by chance you noticed my silence on social media for the last couple of weeks, fear not. I’m happy to say it was for a simple holiday/vacation, and a deliberate decision to unplug during that time....

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In Praise of White Space

I recently watched some videos on basic graphic design techniques, hosted by the talented team at Before & After. Although I don’t consider myself at all skilled in this area, I loved seeing...

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No Such Thing as Ready

I was going to title this post “Life lessons from NaNoWriMo” but I realised that people who didn’t take part in National Novel Writing Month are sick of hearing about it, and those that did are either...

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Even Sweeter Next Year

Since I recently announced my third novel, Sweet Pursuits, is in the final stages of editing, I want to update you that the anticipated release date will now be January 2017. I was keen, originally, to...

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Glide More, Flap Less

I have a new mantra: Glide More, Flap Less. As of this moment, I’m making a public commitment to go a little easier on myself. I’ve already blogged about the pressure I put myself under to publish...

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