Are you ready to get your home organized?

Get started with my simple formula for getting it done!

Watch here for my tips as shown with Rebecca Cressman on BYU TV Living Essentials

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Time Tip #7 — Communicate

Communicate. The greatest plan in the world will not be effective if it is not communicated to everyone involved!

Sharing your plan will help get others on board and let them help in the plan. You cannot do it ALL by yourself! No matter how hard you try! No matter how smart, how fast, how good you are. So, whether you communicate by using calendars, lists, notes, email—whatever—share the plan!

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Time Tip #4 — Multi-task Selectively

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Be very careful with multi-tasking. Although there may be some tasks you can overlap, such as doing dishes while you talk on the phone, there often is a negative pay-off for trying to do too many things at once. How many times have you let something over-cook on the stove because you left the room just to “grab one thing?” Or, how many conversations with a child have not really heard because you were really planning your next two hours or what was for dinner? Learn what things work well for multi-tasking and what things do not.

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Time Tip #3 — Be Patient.

Be patient. This may seem like a strange term to use. Sometimes patience is mistaken for sloth. But, patient people are typically more effective time managers. This is because they generally think things through before they act and focus more on the results than the constant movement! Here are a few characteristics of patient people:

Patient people know they will accomplish their goals and that it won’t happy overnight. They are realistic in their time planning and use time as a friend.
Patient people “roll with the punches” as inevitable delays arise. They use their “idle” time by working on another task, such as setting the table while waiting bread is toasting, rather than peaking in the toaster every few seconds. Or, they may read a book while waiting for an appointment rather than watching the clock.
Although patient people are able to use “waiting” or “idle” time well, they rarely perform two “high attention” activities at the same time. They don’t apply makeup while driving or read the paper while eating with their families or read a book while listening to a speaker.
Patient people do not exude a sense of urgency—pushing elevator buttons over and over, interrupt others while they’re speaking, or tailgate!

Because patient people plan before they act, think before the talk and check things out before reporting, they make up for anything they may lose in speed with mental dexterity.

So, practice being patient! Drive a little slower, pause before your answer, let the dryer run the full cycle! Slow down. Change your routines. Take a break. And, realize that a lost minute does not lead to a lost life!

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Donna’s Kitchen Nirvana (or) How I Organized My Kitchen and Gained Back My Culinary Sanity

Thank you, Donna, for posting the pictures of our great kitchen projects in your home! These are a few great examples of you can create more organization and function in your home in generals, and your kitchen in particular!

Donna is a food blogger and author of several great cookbooks! She posted our story on her own blog, FabFrugalFood and on The Utah Hive, a state-wide blog. Our goal was to make her kitchen more streamlined and user-friendly. I think we did a great job!

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Great fun with the ABC 4 team this morning!

Thank you so much to Don Hudson and Angie Larsen of ABC 4′s News Team. It is always fun for me to talk about my passion–getting organized!

Just a little information to let you know how things work at Harmony Within!

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Preparing Your Business for Natural Disasters

Planning ahead for a natural disaster may make the difference between your business being shut down for a few hours or for several months–or possibly even forever. Creating a plan NOW for your company will make the difference. Business disaster preparation should be a priority–not an afterthought!

IMPORTANT STEPS IN CREATING YOUR PREPARED PLAN

1. Create a flowchart showing the lines of authority and organizing communications

2. Define your unique hazards and risks:

Document storage
Computers and other equipment
Employee safety
Financial security (including information)
Communications
Company size, location, neighboring businesses and production materials

3. Identify priorities for essential business operations.

4. Organize employees and resources

Chain of command
Calling tree
Email updates
Make ALL information and resources available to everyone
CERT training
Encourage at-home prep for employees
Get employee input and answer questions

5. Plan for evacuation and shelter options

6. Build emergency supply kit(s)

7. Evaluate your insurance coverage. Being under-insured an lead to the greatest economic loss

8. Protect vital records and create a recovery system

9. Enjoy focusing on your work because you know you are prepared.

If you live along the Wasatch Front in Utah, you may be interested to learn more about a full-scale emergency earthquake drill that will be held in March of 2012 to test readiness in the area.

You can learn more at ksl.com.

You can also learn more about a great resource for organizing, managing and protecting your vital documents and business information.

Please visit efilecabinet.com for more information.

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DropBox–Online document storage and sharing for free!

So, today I was trying to decide the best way to share and store some large files to make the available to several people. I’m frugal, (as opposed to cheap!) so I wanted it to be free! I was looking around for the best option, and what do you know? I got a email from my awesome brother, Andy, with a link to try DropBox. Always a skeptic, I expected to find it complicated and probably not really free.

Guess what! I was wrong, It was simple and free. Can’t beat that! So I wanted to share it with you. It makes it possible for you to access the files you select from any of your devices. And it works for large and small files, making it a much better way than email for sharing large files.

You don’t have to take my word for it! You can check it out and have it for your very own–FREE! Let me know what you think!

You can click here to learn more!

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Cooking Without Clutter Event with Dream Dinners!

It’s 5:00 p.m. — any idea at all what’s for dinner? You know you’re going to get home and find hungry people and not much time to deal with it!

Harmony Within Professional Organizing is teaming up with Dream Dinners in Orem to create a fun-filled party at Dream Dinners where you will find out how you can turn dinnertime challenges into dinnertime success. In about an hour, not only will you taste some of Dream Dinners delicious dinners, you’ll hear how Dream Dinners will give you back hours every month, saved you money and make dinnertime less stressful.

Plus, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite tips for keeping your kitchen clutter free! It’s going to be a night to remember! Please feel free to invite your friends and family–just have them each RSVP so we will have enough yummy stuff for everybody!

RSVP

You can RSVP to attend as an observer for free OR even better, you can RSVP to make a dinner to take home with you.

DATE

Thursday September 30

TIME

7:00 PM

LOCATION

845 N 100 W Suite 105

Orem, UT 84057

STORE PHONE

801-225-7655

YOUR HOST

Danielle and Laura

danielle.mahoney@dreamdinners.com

laura@harmonywithin.com

RSVP at Orem Dream Dinners

SESSION PASSWORD: clutter

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