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Find Time to Deal With All the Paper!
Posted on March 10, 2010 by Paula, under Time After Time.
Finding time to deal with clutter is a challenge we all face … and for many, paper is right at the top of the list! As someone who accumulates paper, I keep coming back to that question – “How Do I Deal with All the Paper?”
Here are 3 tips that I have found very helpful, as I work to let go of the paper that can sometimes build up and clutter my workspace.
- I’m a big recycler, and I’ve learned that recycling can be a very helpful intermediate stage in letting go, for me. I put paper that I’m finished with it my recycling box by my desk. There it usually sits for a couple of weeks, until the box is full enough to dispose of. If I haven’t needed one of the pieces of paper that’s in my box in those two weeks, I feel much more comfortable letting go. And if I do need it, in the interim, I know right where to find it!
- A second step that I am considering as an aid to letting go is the idea of scanning certain key documents. Being able to categorize and store things on my computer is new to me, and I’m exploring it with some trepidation! I can see the potential, though. The key here is to make sure that you’ve got a really good backup system. You certainly don’t want to throw out any key documents unless you’re sure that you’ve got them saved and secure and well backed up.
- A third tip that has been helpful for me in letting go has been to remember that even small accomplishments “count.” I try to get rid of a few pieces of paper a day and validate my choices each and every time I let go! This slow, steady progress builds on itself. I am gratified by the results, and am gradually creating new habits for myself!
Is letting go of paper a challenge for you? Are there systems that you have in place to help you with it? Any tips you’d like to share? I know that I, for one, would love to hear!
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Find Time for February’s Time Finder Favorites!
Posted on March 1, 2010 by Paula, under Time After Time.
Finding time for Time Finder Favorites is one of the ways that I mark the beginning of a new month. This year, as March comes in like a lion, bringing snow and wind and wintry temperatures, it’s nice to be in my cozy office, reflecting on February and planning ahead for the new month. (And speaking of the new month, don’t forget to sign up for the next installment of my FREE Finding Time EducationRich & HeartBased Interview Teleseries … more information below!)
Time Finder readers were drawn to a pretty wide mix of posts, with the two top vote getters marking an interest in managing change and transition. They are Finding Time by Being Flexible-3 Timely Tips and Find Time for Agility and Nimbleness.
Not far behind was a post written in answer to a reader’s request for more information. It focuses on “the over-ambitions goal” and is titled Find Time to Give Your Dreams Some Landing Gear.
Fourth on our list was another post written in response to a reader’s question. It offers tips to help you use the lists that you create, and is titled Find Time to Remember to Use Your To Do List – Just Ask Paula.
Find Time to Cut Through Clutter and Chaos with Inspiring Insights came in a strong 5th among the Time Finder Favorites for February. This post offers all the information that you’ll need to join me for the next installment of my Finding Time EducationRich & HeartBased Interview Teleseries.
I’m thoroughly excited to be interviewing Certified Life Coach and Professional Organizer Maggie McCauley, LICSW about ways to move yourself “From Chaos to Peace—Creating an Inspired Workspace.” You can read all about it by visiting the post … or you can just go ahead and grab your free seat here!
When? Wednesday, March 3 at 7PM ET.
Where? From the comfort of your cozy home!
Imagine how you’ll fly once you’re unshackled from chaos and clutter. Picture what you’ll accomplish once you create the space for your inspiration to soar! Please feel invited to sign up here and join us at 7PM (ET) on Wednesday, March 3rd!
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Find Time to Deepen Your Relationship with Time This Valentine’s Day!
Posted on February 9, 2010 by Paula, under Time After Time, Time and Values.
Finding time to deepen our relationships is always time well spent – and what better day to focus on relationships than Valentine’s Day!
I’d like to invite you to do something a little bit different, and take a moment to reflect on how you relate to time this Valentine’s Day. Do you approach it as a friend in your life’s journey? A difficult, sometimes cranky and critical relative? An enemy?
For many, I think the latter is the case, and time becomes an entity that we are in perennial struggle with. And yet, I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be that way. Not at all!
We each can choose how we relate to time – and how we frame that relationship will, in turn, affect everything else in our lives. Indeed, HeartBased Time Management is about learning to redefine our relationships to Time, Meaning, Money … and ourselves!
Here’s a passage from a recent interview that Michelle of Taming Time recently did with me. We discussed how important and basic one’s relationship with time is:
“The way you use your time is the way you live your life.” I certainly apply that to myself and to my own unique relationship with time.
I know, in the core of my being, that time is finite and concrete, and that on some level, every choice that I make is a time choice. Every single time choice that I make, no matter how small or large it may seem, shapes my relationship with time. In the same way that the quality of one’s personal relationships is shaped by the quality of choice that one brings to them, so, too, the quality of the energy one brings to making time choices affects one’s relationship with time (and therefore with life)!
I am in a constant process of looking at this, and developing ever deepening self-intimacy as I do! My relationship with time becomes increasingly organic and internal, and I am better able to place myself in the moment, being fully present, and feeling and expressing gratitude for my environment, my choices, and my life.
It’s an ever-expanding process of going deeper, and seeing the ripples move out, through time!
You can read the whole interview here … and please feel invited to check out Michelle’s blog here! (I’ve added it to our sidebar, too.)
What is your relationship with time like? I invite you to find time, this Valentine’s Day, to celebrate and deepen it! It will enrich you in unexpected and meaningful ways … I promise!
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Finding Time for January’s Time Finder Favorites!
Posted on February 2, 2010 by Paula, under Time After Time.
Finding time to review the Time Finder posts that caught your eye during the previous month is always an interesting window on readers’ time choices, priorities, and challenges. January’s favorites seem to reflect the excitement and resolve of starting a New Year, along with some of the concerns and realities of our current economic situation. Here are the details!
At number one we have a perennial favorite: Finding Time by Being Flexible-3 Timely Tips! Do you sometimes feel challenged when you need to shift gears? You might want to check out these 3 tips and try approaching flexibility in a new way in 2010!
The second most popular post was one titled Find Focus by Culling Your Basket of Time in 2010. It built on this sage advice from Sidney Howard: “One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.”
Have you managed to cut back? Is your basket of time still overflowing? Maybe you’ll want to take another look at this post!
Find Time to Find Your Financial Baseline and Take Charge is another perennial favorite and a reflection of our precarious financial times. “As with so many other things, taking the time to pause, pay attention, look around, and find your baseline is the necessary first step. Also imperative is that this be done, not with self critical eyes, but with fully open, compassionate eyes.” This is great advice, no matter what you’re looking at – and especially helpful with something as important and as laden as money!
Fourth on our list of January favorites was a post that’s timely as we launch into 2010: Find Time to Strive for Excellence … Not Perfection! Is this a challenge for you? (It can be for me!) I particularly love this quote from Harriet Braiker: “Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.”
Rounding out our list of favorites was a post for busy times: Finding Time When You Are on Overload-3 Tips. You’ll want to review these tips for getting back on track when your stress level gets high and overwhelm begins to take hold!
What was your favorite Time Finder post this past month? Is it on the list? Something different? Let me know … I love hearing from you!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for The Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and it provides you with key tools for your time success! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!
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Find Time for Success and Abundance!
Posted on January 20, 2010 by Paula, under Time After Time, Time and Energy.
Finding time to succeed, prosper, and experience abundance in your life … especially in today’s economic climate … may sound like an out-of-reach aspiration.
But I encourage you to take another look.
Many of us carry outmoded and self-limiting ways of thinking about things like time and money and success. These are the small but persistent messages that tell us we CAN’T – when, quite likely, we CAN! They are the inner voices that sap our energy and creativity … hobbling our efforts and diminishing our dreams.
In my work as a coach and teacher, I work with my clients as they become familiar with the negative thoughts and habitual snippets of self-talk that undermine their confidence and drive. That’s because, once you’re able to see what’s happening, you can develop positive, inspiring and validating messages to counter the negativity.
I am not talking about being unrealistic. Not at all! It’s important for your dreams and goals to have roots, as well as wings!
But believe me, you are probably much closer to success than you imagine!
For some inspiring and proven tips on finding time for success by creating a healthy relationship with money (one free of fear and doubt, and rooted in a confident trust that you will always have enough), I am very excited to invite you to attend my FIRST FREE EducationRich and HeartBased Interview Teleseries!
Next Tuesday (that’s January 26th at 7PM) I’ll be interviewing one of my mentors … EnergyRICH® Entrepreneur Success & Master Coach Heather Dominick. I am so excited to have Heather as my first guest! She is an incredibly insightful, warm, experienced and engaging person. She knows all about success, too – and I just know you’ll gain TONS from the call!
The interview is on Tuesday night, January 26th – from 7-8 PM ET.
Heather and I will be exploring topics like how to become an energy magnet, so that you can become successful in life … and Heather will also describe how she tripled her business and income three years in a row.
Are you ready to open to success and prosperity? Ready to start exploring your full potential … setting aside the negative self-talk that holds you back? Then join me on this great, FREE call!
What keeps you stuck? Can I help? Drop me a line … I’d love to hear your experiences and thoughts about abundance and success!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for the Finding Time Success Kit starting with The New Finding Time Personal Boundary Template. It’s FREE, and when you sign up you will also receive (if you don’t already) my FREE, weekly Finding Time Tips and my FREE, monthly Award-Winning Finding Time E-zine … key tools for your time success!
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Find Time for December’s Time Finder Favorites
Posted on January 4, 2010 by Paula, under Time After Time.
Finding time to review the Time Finder posts that caught your eye during the previous month is always an interesting window on readers’ time choices, priorities, and challenges. December was an eclectic month, with Twitter topping the list of the top 5 posts, exercise rounding it out, and flexibility, focus and reflection finishing strong, too. Here are the details!
At number one we have a post titled The Time Finder’s 10 Top Time-Saving Twitter Tools of 2009 that was written as part of a group writing project sponsored by Daniel Scocco on Daily Blog Tips. In the post we explored our 10 favorite Twitter Tools, and the project brought lots of traffic and new subscribers to The Time Finder. Were you one of them?
Second on our collection of December’s top 5 posts is a perennial favorite: Finding Time by Being Flexible-3 Timely Tips! Do you sometimes feel challenged when you need to shift gears? You might want to check out these 3 tips and try approaching flexibility in a new way.
Finding Time and Focus Even When Internet Distractions Call! advises, among other things, using a timer to help set time parameters and stay focused while on the internet. Did you make any New Years’ resolutions that had to do with on-line time? This post will be of interest to you!
Number 4 on our list is a post titled Find Time to Remember and Move On. It offers some thoughts about anniversaries and is a timely post as we begin a new year and new decade:
This acknowledgment of the events of our lives honors our stories (and ourselves) in a very real and healing way. Each time we “go deeper” we forge an ever-stronger connection with ourselves, and this allows us to move forward in our lives with strength and dignity. We accept and celebrate our stories, but are not necessarily bound to them self-in limiting ways.
Last, but certainly not least, is Find Time to Exercise, Whatever the Season – 3 Tips! – a post that will help many of us stay on track with at least one of our New Year’s Resolutions!
What was your favorite Time Finder post this past month? Is it on the list? Something different? Let me know … I love hearing from you!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for the Finding Time Success Kit starting with The New Finding Time Personal Boundary Template. It’s FREE, and when you sign up you will also receive (if you don’t already) my FREE, weekly Finding Time Tips and my FREE, monthly Award-Winning Finding Time E-zine … key tools for your time success!
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Find Time to Ring in the New
Posted on December 31, 2009 by Paula, under Time After Time.
Finding time to welcome newness into our lives can be a wonderfully expansive, deepening, and, yes, renewing experience.
Our entire culture celebrates the coming of a new year with reflections on the previous 365 days and then with hopes, plans and resolutions for the coming year. This year the transition feels even more momentous because we are marking the end of one decade and the beginning of another.
While these benchmarks and touchstones are, in some sense, manufactured (Have you noticed the cottage industry in “Best of the Decade” lists?), they also provide us with wonderful opportunities to pause, get our bearings, think about our values and priorities, and make new beginnings.
And what I’d like to remind you of today is that we each have the capacity to do that … to pause, get our bearings, think about our priorities, and make a new beginning any time that we want to. We needn’t wait for the passing of a year, or a decade.
Each morning, we could choose to enter the day in that way. Or each night as we go to bed. Or every Saturday afternoon.
It’s in each of our hands to live as deeply and as consciously as we want to. We don’t have to wait ’til New Year’s rolls around, or the next blue moon!
So here’s to ringing in the new, whenever our spirits move us to renew our energies and commitments. Do you have rituals of reflection and rejuvenation in your life? Would you like to include them in your repertoire in the coming year? Why not begin today? And let me know how it goes – I’d love to hear!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up and download The New Finding Time Personal Boundary Template. It’s FREE, and when you sign up you will also receive (if you don’t already) my FREE, weekly Finding Time Tips and my FREE, monthly Award-Winning Finding Time E-zine!
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Find Time to Sort Through the Gifts and Wrapping Paper
Posted on December 29, 2009 by Paula, under Time After Time.
Finding time to reflect, especially during busy times, can be difficult. But the rewards offered by moments of reflection vastly outnumber the challenges of finding them!
The holiday season is an excellent case in point. For many it is an extremely busy, emotionally laden, and sometimes interpersonally complicated time of year. Your moments are packed and layered, and there is often little time to simply breathe, let alone savor or explore each one as it passes. The time can look like a busy blur as you arrive at the other end of this string of days.
That’s why finding moments to reflect is so important. It brings the blur back into focus. This is vital, first for fully savoring and appreciating the times of your life, and second, for making adjustments and taking care of yourself as you navigate your days.
Finding time to reflect during the holidays is especially important because it can be such an emotionally laden time. Holidays past often affect everyone’s perceptions and expectations and can heighten feelings in sometimes unexpected ways. Past experiences can deepen and enrich our days. When we are unaware of their impact, they can also affect things in ways that are mystifying at first. Pausing to reflect can help illuminate past experiences that may be affecting our present enjoyment.
The huge and pervasive cultural expectations that the holidays carry can also affect our experiences of them. If you emerge from this time with a vague feeling of disappointment, it may be a good idea to slow down and take a look at what you were expecting. Are you comparing your holiday to that warm Hallmark ad that you saw on TV? Chances are good that that’s a set up to leave you feeling let down!
So, as we pause between the December Holidays and the start of the New Year, I invite you to reflect on your days so far. Not the whole year (that will come later) but just how you navigated these holidays.
- What gifts did the time bring?
- What challenges?
- Are there things you’ll do differently next year?
I’d suggest writing these brief reflections down and saving them on your computer – or someplace where you can easily retrieve them for next year’s holidays. Then, when the time comes, you’ll be able to build on them.
Is this something that you already do … or would like to try? Drop me a line – I’d love to hear how it goes for you!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up and download The New Finding Time Personal Boundary Template. It’s FREE, and when you sign up you will also receive (if you don’t already) my FREE, weekly Finding Time Tips and my FREE, monthly Award-Winning Finding Time E-zine!
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Find Time for the Gift Of Time this Holiday Season
Posted on December 22, 2009 by Paula, under Time After Time.
Finding time may be at the top of nearly everyone’s list of priorities.
Whether it’s finding time for a project or solitude or sleep … finding time for a cherished goal … or finding time to relax with family and friends, TIME is highly valued – and often extremely scarce.
Not only that, but as scarce as time is, money may be equally so during these difficult days.
Scarce time and scarce money are just a couple of the MANY great reasons to be creative with your gift-giving during the holidays, at birthday time, and on other occasions. I highly recommend that you consider giving a unique and personal gift of your time to a loved one (or two) this year. Try it and see what kind of response you get!
Gifts of time are wonderful because they can be so individualized. Do you have a friend who needs help with household chores? You could give him or her 2 hours of your time, to help out.
How about your Cousin Amanda who has trouble relaxing? If she lives nearby, you could give her a certificate good for dinner and a movie with you. Yes, you’d be paying for her meal and entertainment – but it’s really the time together that makes it special.
The possibilities are endless, and can be as specific or as general as you like. You can also make them things that you enjoy and seldom give yourself time to do. I had one friend who gave the gift of 3 hikes in New Hampshire’s White Mountains to a good friend of hers. It was a wonderful gift to both of them!
For some creative gift ideas to jump start your own thinking, check out my article at ezinearticles.com titled “Time Management Tips – 3 Ways to Transform Free Time Into Valuable Gifts.”
Have you given gifts of time to friends and family? Have you received them? Which was your favorite? Do you have any planned for this year? I’d love to hear about it!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up and download The New Finding Time Personal Boundary Template. It’s FREE, and when you sign up you will also receive (if you don’t already) my FREE, weekly Finding Time Tips and my FREE, monthly Award-Winning Finding Time E-zine!
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Find Time for 3 Important Holiday Reminders!
Posted on December 16, 2009 by Paula, under Time After Time.
Finding time for what matters most is a challenge year ’round – and can be even more daunting during the holiday season. Here are 3 pieces of helpful advice for this very special time of year:
My friend and colleague Wendy Battles, The Clean Eating Coach, advises pacing ourselves in her post titled Make Your Health a Priority During the Holidays. Her questions are right on the money:
What are you doing to make the holidays joyful and fun yet a chance to wind down a bit and take care of yourself? What would need to shift for you to put more focus on yourself and getting some rest as you prepare for 2010?
Next up, Melissa McCreery addresses the challenge of making helpful food choices during this tempting time, and offers 7 Ways to Avoid Overeating When the Holiday Treats Are EVERYWHERE! Here’s Tip #3, for example:
Don’t go hungry. You’ll eat more and have less impulse control. Make sure that you have healthy and filling options around. I know you are busy, but take the time to pack a healthy lunch.
Last, but not least, I wanted to reprise a Time Finder post from last year about the importance of being fully and warmly “in” each of your moments and letting yourself experience the depth of what I call Strong Time.
Anything that causes us to pause and contemplate, I think, offers an opportunity to connect with strong time – with the deepest experience of a moment. Strong time is not about duration but about depth. Getting to strong time often involves some form of tradition or ritual – and these can be family rituals, rituals involving religious traditions, or simple, personal practices, like meditation, that connect you with your heart and the deepest parts of your life.
Here’s the full post, which is titled Find Time to Experience Strong Time.
As the holidays draw closer, I encourage you to set some priorities for yourself and then develop plans that will help you realize them. What challenges will you face? What are your goals for this time?
I’d love to hear about what you discover as you explore this!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up and download The New Finding Time Boundary Template. It’s FREE, and when you sign up you will also receive (if you don’t already) my FREE, weekly Finding Time Tips and my FREE, monthly Award-Winning Finding Time E-zine!
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