by Karen Brown | Dec 28, 2015 | Decluttering, Mindset practices
Benjamin Franklin famously said: If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! So it is for this reason that day 1 of my declutter challenge is all about planning. However, before you make any plan, you need a start point and end point. In my free declutter challenge...
by Karen Brown | Dec 21, 2015 | Decluttering, Mindset practices
Once you have made the decision to let something go, then the next big decision is how to get rid of your stuff. Strictly speaking there are actually only three ways to do this: Throw it away. Some items such as old newspapers, magazines and things that are quite...
by Karen Brown | Dec 20, 2015 | Decluttering, Mindset practices
I don’t know about you, but I find it really hard to let go of stuff. I guess that’s why my house has got to the point it is now. Let me give you an example. My 17 year old dress Soon after I met my husband, his sister got married. It was going to be a...
by Karen Brown | Dec 19, 2015 | Goals
On my coaching course, when we looked at goal setting, we were reintroduced to SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely). We were then shown a couple of variations on SMART: SMARTER = SMART + Energy/Enthusiasm + Reward SMART CAR = SMART...
by Karen Brown | Dec 18, 2015 | Decluttering, Mindset practices
Whilst I absolutely love Marie Kondo’s Magic of Tidying book, there are a number of different decluttering methodologies out there. In this post, I’m going to look at the ones that I’ve come across during my research. You’ll know which method...
by Karen Brown | Dec 17, 2015 | Goals, Mindset practices
Over the last year, anytime I had too much change in my purse, or found any change lying around, I’d pop into into a large bottle-shaped piggy bank. This bottle was full of 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c etc coins, and started to be quite heavy. As the Irish government...
