ARoundTuit Organizing & Productivity

Short answer: because your brain is wired one way, and in order to change that wiring, we need to create new connections and grow them.

This means choosing new habits and attitudes, and intentionally substituting them for old ones. Anyone who’s ever succeeded in losing weight and keeping it off knows what this is like.  Unlike resurfacing internal change takes consistent effort over time.

In The Four Stages of Mastery, Business Coach, Mastermind partner and friend Cindy Petersiel, of Design-Your-Success gives the best long answer … Continue Reading

If you’ve been following my blogging launch in 2008, you may have noticed a sudden nose-dive in posts. It’s disappointing, to say the least, to feel “left hanging”. I’m here today to tell you that I’M BACK! and to let you in some personal experiences I’ve grown through recently. Keep reading – this is to your advantage!

We all know someone who thinks the world would be a better place if only we (or they) could “fix” our weaknesses. True, in theory.  In reality, trying to “fix” ourselves or someone else often leads to disappointment at best, conflict, low self-esteem and  dissolved relationships at worst.

The hallmark of my organizing and … Continue Reading

“-then assist those around you”.  

Why so selfish?  Well, look at you.  You may be taking better care of your pets than you do of yourself.  That leaves you overtired, crabby (that’s the nice word for it), malnourished, forgetful to an extreme, and feeling like a pinball (remember those?) being flipped from bumper to bumper.  You might feel like you aren’t doing anything well these days, that you’re just treading water.  Career, family, friends, finances, future, my blood pressure rises steadily with each word.

Putting on your own oxygen mask first means taking reasonably good care … Continue Reading