Lately I hear a lot of endorsement for batching our daily work, meaning to collect a group of identical or similar activities and do them all at the same time. The claim is that – batching decreases procrastination (I’d love it), – increases our creativity (I can’t wait), – decreases distraction and boosts productivity […]
It is always a weird feeling I am right back in my old daily grind like the time in between did not exist as if all the adventures never happened As I mentioned in my last weeks post, I am in my home country Switzerland right now. Although I live in Canada since 2004 I […]
I am in Switzerland right now, my home country, and it’s 4.41am…. yes hello jetlag ! It’s always like this for me, the first night I sleep very well because I am exhausted from the trip and the time change. From the second night on jetlag starts to kick in, which means in my case, I […]
it was the first thing that had to go! We both agreed. It was fall 2011 and we just had bought our 4th fixer upper in 6 years. There was a lot that needed to be done in the house and on the 7 acres. But first and most importantly – we both […]
A lot of bad news is thrown at us every day when we open up a newspaper, turn on our TV or check out online news sites. To the extent that we all are (have to be) desensitized and immune to the tragedies of other people. We usually can only keep this up as long […]
My very first blog post about organizing and I write about Pizza! There was this idea lingering in my head about a blog post… and not just any blog post, no-no, we are talking about my very first blog post. Can you imagine? I tried to resist it, thought for sure I needed to write about a more […]