Dealing with Heirlooms

Dealing with Heirlooms

Those of us fortunate to have acquired heirlooms passed down through family generations are also plagued by the modern day inconvenient truth: our heirs don’t want it all. Young people these days are too mobile, resourceful, frugal and practical to envision...
Maintaining Momentum

Maintaining Momentum

You got off to a good start this year, with your resolutions, new habits, projects. . . and now it’s March. Say you started going through the 28 bins of junk that have been sitting in your attic for the past 10 years. How can you maintain the momentum? Here are...
Teaching Kids (and Adults) to Organize

Teaching Kids (and Adults) to Organize

Being organized is an important life skill. Many organizing clients tell me they never learned how to do it. Either their parents were extremely, chronically disorganized, or they did all the organizing for their children. Although kids learn a lot by seeing what...
Developing a Mindfulness Practice

Developing a Mindfulness Practice

What is a mindfulness practice and why is it important? The VIA Institute on Character* says, “Mindfulness is about seeing things as they actually are—with openness rather than bias, acceptance rather than judgment and curiosity rather than disinterest. It’s a...