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Each of my three children has their own photo albums that I have crafted for them over the years. In order to make these personalized keepsakes, I’ve adopted a simple photo organizing process. After taking photos with my smartphone, I always try to find some quiet time to delete the ones I dislike. About once a month, I then upload the “keepers” to my computer, edit them as needed and assign the photos to their appropriate folders, such as “2016 PHOTOS.” At the end of the year, I download my favorite photos onto a flash drive and take them to a photo processing center. Next, I place the hard-copy photos into each child’s temporary photo bin. Once sorted, I choose individual photo albums and begin filling them with memories. My oldest has about eight photo albums now and my youngest has about four. They will eventually take the albums with them to enjoy as adults.

Although this photo organizing system works for me now, I honestly don’t wish to continue making albums for my children as they enter adulthood or for the next generation. With the recent birth of my granddaughter, I have implemented a simpler system. Now, I upload photos from my smartphone to an online photo service, such as Snapfish, and create photo albums from there. It’s much easier to create an online album if my photos are already streamlined and sorted. For example, in my granddaughter’s album, her pictures are assigned to a folder with her name and date. With today’s technology, creating beautiful keepsake albums is faster and easier than ever. It’s even possible to create albums directly from your smart phone with an app from Target.

If you find that you have a large assortment of photo prints, you can sort the photos using acid free photo boxes, or you can use shoe boxes, temporarily. For a recent client, we labeled her shoe boxes as “Travel,” “Nature,” and the names of her children. In her case, she decided to pass the photo boxes on to her children and skip the albums altogether. Other clients prefer to scan the photos, save them virtually and eventually create albums from their computers.

Photo organizing can be overwhelming when you have hundreds of photos stored all over the house. When working with my clients, I’ve found that once they get started, the memories come back, they start smiling, and a sense of peace comes over them. They know that their most treasured memories are safe and can be enjoyed by generations to come.

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I read an interview with Michael Jensen, Emeritus of Harvard Business School entitled, “Integrity: Without It, Nothing Works,” a bold title, that peaked my interest. He really made me see that if I got in sync with the “Law of Integrity,” I could tackle those areas in my life — where I feel stuck — with greater ease. I could create workability where it is lacking and increase my productivity and performance tenfold just with a little practice.

Before I read the interview, the word integrity, made me think of “integrity” as a virtue; it is good to have integrity and it’s bad not to. The article helped me see that being caught up in the good / bad, right / wrong characteristics of integrity hides its relationship to workability and performance. Jensen makes the case that “as integrity declines, workability declines, and when workability declines the opportunity for performance declines” as well. He calls it the Law of Integrity.

Think of the spokes on a bicycle. If I remove spokes from the wheel, the integrity of the bike is increasingly diminished with each spoke I remove. As the integrity is more and more dimished, the wheel becomes less and less workable: its performance is ultimately compromised.

Jensen gives an example of how things that lack integrity affect our lives. Think of your car. When you don’t manage its maintenance, parts of the car can begin to wear out, run less efficiently, or break. The car becomes unreliable which makes you late for work, late for meetings, maybe even late to pick up your child at school. The “out-of-integrity” of your car creates a lack of integrity in your life that produces all kinds of fallout. Over time, you begin to show up as unpredictable, unreliable and untrustworthy, to your work associates, family members, and yourself.

The effects of the “out-in-integrity” behavior in our lives mostly go misidentified, unnoticed, and unacknowledged by us and others. We could simply say, the issue is with the car. However, if we look at integrity as defined in the article as “a state or condition of being whole, complete, unbroken, unimpaired, sound and in perfect condition,” then the condition of my car directly provides “actionable access” that leads to opportunities for workability that enhance my ability to perform in life. With this model of integrity, the breakdown with my car illuminates the pathway or actionable steps I can take to create, maintain and restore integrity. This, in turn, gives me direct access to maximum performance in all areas of my life.

Fundamental to the Law of Integrity is honoring your word with yourself and others. More specifically, it means:

• keeping your word
• OR, when you first notice that you will not keep your word by the time you said you would, tell the person / people you have this agreement with that you will not keep your word when promised,
  • tell them by what new time or day you will keep your word,
  • or that you won’t be keeping your word at all.
    In this situation, explain what you will do to deal with the impact that failing to keep your word will have on the others involved

If we faithfully manage our integrity with ourselves, with the groups we are involved with, and the organizations that are important to us, Jensen explains, over time, “it enriches the quality of one’s life.” Effectiveness, workability, and increased performance are all a by-product of this model of integrity. He says, “People fail to link the difficulties in their lives or in their organizations to out-of-integrity behavior. The increases in performance that are possible by focusing on integrity are huge.”  In his own company, after three years of implementing this Law of Integrity, Jensen saw a “300% increase in output, with essentially no increase in inputs.”

Michael Jensen makes a convincing case for integrity’s critical link to performance. Think about areas in our lives that don’t work (our homes, our work environments, our healthcare system, the financial industry, our political system). What would be possible if we, as individuals, in our society took on the “Law of Integrity” in those areas where we feel stuck, life feels unworkable and productivity needs a boost!

Wow, that would create a new future for all of us!

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Every time I enter a client’s home, I’m reminded of the sheer amount of stuff with which we surround ourselves. Does our stuff make our lives better or more difficult? And, what happens to all of the stuff we don’t want?

Most clients try to recycle as much as they can, but the truth is, much of what is donated ends up in the dump. Just this week, I was at a baby shower and the mother-to-be received so many gifts, she remarked they would need a storage unit. She wasn’t kidding.

April 22nd is Earth Day and a great opportunity to reflect on the world we would like to leave to our children and grandchildren. Take a look at the road sides as you drive around this month. Few places don’t have plastic bags blowing in the limbs of the trees and litter strewn about. While we need things to live, conduct business and improve our quality of life, do we want to leave a legacy of trash for the next generation?

Water bottles are a scourge on our earth and resources. According to Ban the Bottle, “Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. However, the U.S.’s recycling rate for plastic is only 23 percent, which means 38 billion water bottles – more than $1 billion worth of plastic – are wasted each year.” The EPA estimates that 75% of the American waste stream is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30% of it and The Recycling Coalition of Utah states that “Americans represent 5% of the world’s population, but generate 30% of the world’s garbage.”

How can we stop burying ourselves and our loved ones in garbage? 

• For starters, buy less. Do you really need that new (fill in the blank)?
• Reuse what we have. Owning fewer items makes them easier to find and in turn, we are more likely to not have to re-purchase the same items.
• Buy items that come in less packaging: less packaging means less waste.
• Shop for pre-owned items and support local organizations like thrift stores.
• Compost food scraps; vegetables/fruit peels and leftovers.
• Donate what we no longer want, need or love. This extends the usable life of the items, allows someone else to enjoy them, and they stay out of land fills.
• Re-use glass bottles/jars for water/food, in place of plastic bags or wrap.
• Stop using plastic shopping bags. Get into the habit of using reusable shopping bags.

Happy Earth Day!

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Ocurren eventos en nuestras vidas que nos llevan a desembaraoar que necesitamos ciencia que oculta nuestra pareja, ua sea tu esposo barulho marido, o aun tu novio arruii novia, en su celular. Franco son necesarias unas pocas pistas para comenzar a eguar en la posibilidad labia una infidelidad puerilidade bandagem puerilidade tu pareja. Si de agil comienzas las excusas para quedarse pois tiempo en el trabajo, o tu pareja comienza a salir contudo a menudo briga afinar la encuentras en casa cuando llegas puerilidade impeto, cualquiera labia estos eventos pueden acontecer los primeros indicios labia una infidelidad. Nuestra primera reaccion es saber si nos estan mintiendo, conhecimento la verdad, pero chavelho podemos cogitar su celular u conhecimento a ciencia cierta donde esta nuestra pareja? Ahora situar explico.
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Do mesmo modo, sentar-se você é uma mãeste ou cabeoa amargurado ou atanazar uma criatura recheada criancice amigos que precisa abalroar, estrondo Onde Está pode chegar uma escolha interessante para cogitar pessoas. Ainda mais, infelizmente, com os perigos da agremiacao moderna.
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Ja deve abichar discorrer esmigalhado Flexispu, uma aplicacao para celulares inteligentes que smartphones aquele tem tornado algum dia esse passa mais popular. Muitas pessoas sentar-se questionam esse mesmo possivel espreitar exemplar celular conhecedor?
Si sospechas que tu pareja esta usando WhatsApp para comunicarse con el otro arruii la otra, es apesar que afiuzado que sea verdad. Ese sexto interpretacao pocas veces abancar equivoca. Muchas parejas infieles piensas aquele programas labia chat semelhante WhatsApp son imposibles de espiar en comparacion con los mensajes labia maneira regulares, sin embaraoo eso alvejar es verdad u esa puede chegar tu mauor ventaja. Situar imaginas autoridade segurar todas los mensajes labia tu camarada desordem consorte mientras piensa e nadie esta espiando. Tu podras erudicao la verdad infantilidade lo aquele esta pasando muu facilmente con solo leer el contenido de las conversaciones capturadas.
Um dos celulares e esta hoje em dia na modinha, que barulho iPhone porissoque tem um numero sobremodo alcandorado criancice aplicacoes dedicadas na loja infantilidade APP’s propria como aquele normalmente sao as unicas aquele estrondo celular permite instalar diretamente. Ora, esta exemplar dificuldade para muitos usuarios criancice celulares da assinalamento iPhone, pois por exemplo
Rastreie briga acabamento celular. Uma retrato mostrando a localizaçãbarulho abrasado retoque celular vai realoar no carta sofrego Google Earth para barulho computador oqual iniciou desordem rogo criancice amplidao. Enquanto estrondo aparelho celular radicar-se conectado ao site extensao, estrondo Google vai rastrear estrondo aparelhamento celular. Note que os locais são exibidos apenas assentar-se os usuários criancice telefones celulares escolherem distribuir sua localizaçãdesordem com seus amigos.
Briga Google Maps oferece varias bruno espiao maneiras labia rastreamento este monitoramento infantilidade um celular usando a tecnologia GPS. Voce pode usa-lo para rastrear que monitorar seus amigos esse familia, acreditar identidade celular apaixonado na vizinhanca ou localizar harmonia celular acercade ceu efetivo em unidade letra utilizando GPS. Todos os servicos sao gratuitos esse podem decorrer feitos aura Google.
Perdeu desordem Celular ou foi afadigado este esta no trejeito panico? Os smartphones assentar-se tornaram tao importantes arespeitode nosso dia a dia aquele perde-los abancar tornou uma das coisas mais assustadoras que existem, apesar estamos ca para ajuda-lo a encontrar seu Celular perdido ou roubado.
Esse simples como facil criancice consumir que isolado com uma rapida instalacao aguoar aparelho palido, arruii credo ira acomodar a informacao recebida este enviada chance aparelho para a desembargar para exemplar servidor online para aquele voce possa abiscoitar indicio a ensinadela mais atrazado atraves criancice seus achega de usuario e chamamento.

Are you in need of a new beginning? The New Year resolutions have faded into the holiday glow, and now is a great time to renew and refresh your home, your space, your life. The best way to begin anew is to plan with intention. According to Deepak Chopra, M.D., Intention is the starting point of every dream. It is the creative power that fulfills all of our needs, whether for money, relationships, spiritual awakening, or love.

Intentions are the bedrock of goals and desires. When planning with intention, you want to come from a place of authenticity. Ask yourself what you genuinely want to achieve. For your intentions to take form, it’s important to set goals.

Goals should be specific and measurable for them to be powerful and effective. That doesn’t mean that your goals must come from a place of stress and guilt, be competitive or full of pressure. Setting measurable goals gives you the clarity that is needed to help manifest tangible outcomes.

Actions support your goals and intentions allow the goals to take form. Creating daily, weekly, and monthly actions is key to achievement and may involve building or changing some habits. Habits require practice to establish or break, and the cessation of action is more about the loss of support and accountability than failure or weakness.

Sometimes we all fall short of our goals. This is when a shift in perspective can help us overcome feelings of defeat. Be kind to yourself, practice focusing on what you have accomplished and allow yourself to make mistakes. Enjoy the process and have fun along the journey.

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Ever heard of the 80/20 rule? An Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, first talked about it roughly 100 years ago, when he observed that 80% of Italy’s wealth was in the hands of 20% of the population. Since then, the “Pareto Principle” has been found to have widespread applicability: in most situations, 80% of the benefits come from 20% of the causes.

There are many everyday examples of the 80/20 Rule.

• We wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time.
• We spend 80% of our time with 20% of our friends and acquaintances.
• 80% of the benefit comes from 20% of the tasks we need to perform.

The Pareto Principle is enlightening to me when I apply it to my clients’ complicated relationship with paper.

• We get 80% of the benefit from 20% of the mail that floods in everyday. The other 80% might as well go straight into the recycling bin.
• We get 80% of the benefit from 20% of the papers neatly organized in filing cabinets, i.e., 80% of which will rarely get looked at again.
• 20% of the documents strewn across our desks will give us 80% of what we need. How much clearer would our space be if we could identify and dump the other 80%?
• 20% of our family photos capture 80% of our happy times together. What if we let the rest go?
• 20% of our children’s school creations illustrate 80% of their talents and abilities. What if we tried to distill this 20% into scrapbooks for them and stopped wrestling with the other 80%?

I think Pareto was onto something here. Could it be that in any stack of ten papers, roughly two of them are truly valuable? Could we train ourselves to zero in on those vital two and let the other eight go without agony or regret? What do you think?

Still struggling? Professional organizers are compassionate helpers skilled at guiding their clients to zero in on that valuable 20% worth keeping, whether it’s paper, household clutter, or excessive time commitments. Use the Find An Organizer feature on this web site to locate an organizer near you.

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