Sometimes you just need to start small. While yesterday we covered strategies for motivating oneself to do stuff, today I shall further attempt to get you to do stuff by giving you an offering of small, easily executed projects. Begin. 1. Make a decorative match jar Use a glass mason or apothecary jar rather than the standard matchbox to hold your flame ignitors. Cut the striker from that old box first, and affix it to ...

Lest you find yourself lacking the motivation for organizing, I've compiled a few helpful suggestions to propel you to action. 1. Invite houseguests or visitors. The prospect of hosting guests or visitors can act as motivation for people who might otherwise procrastinate on organizing. While you may be resigned to living amidst clutter, yourself, the realization that an outsider will be privy to your space leads you to newly consider how it appears. This evaluation ...

The most foolish thing you might possibly do (not really) would be to underestimate the importance of a power strip. It all starts with the strip, see. I know this as a result of having wrestled at least three dozen cord tangles. Bad power strips (made so by inefficient design, incorrect number of outlets, or just plain in-sight ugliness) leads to messy cord habits, leads to webs so thick one must hack at to get through, ...

What you look for you will inevitably find. What you believe will inevitably be confirmed. What you expect you will inevitably meet. What you send out, the world will inevitably--and obediently--echo back to you.   With that in mind, why not seek out the good in all people and situations? Why not believe that the universe wants you to succeed, to find joy, and to be prosperous? Why not expect that opportunities you can't even ...

As I do, I'm taking advantage of my birthday today, and sharing 10 wishes with you: 1. That each one of us know, with an unfaltering certainty, that at our core we are good, capable, and worthy, and moreover, we have been brought here for a purpose, which the whole universe wants to support us in carrying out. 2. That we would more readily admit to ourselves that we can't go it alone, that no ...