Goal Setting Success for the New Year: Stay Positive

This year, we’re sharing our tips on goal setting success for New Year’s Resolutions. This is the fifth post in our series. So far we’ve posted tips for rewarding yourself, visualizing success ,  focusing on goals that are important to you and  sharing your goals. Today’s topic is staying positive about your goals by removing the negative aspects and focusing on… Read more

Goal Setting Success for the New Year: Share

This year, we’re sharing our tips on goal setting success for New Year’s Resolutions. This is the fourth post in our series. So far we’ve posted tips for rewarding yourself, visualizing success and focusing on goals that are important to you. Today’s topic is sharing your goals with others and building your own support network. Tip #4… Read more

Goal Setting for the New Year: Focus

This is the third post in our series about goal setting success for your New Year’s resolutions. Its also tied in to our Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge. Double dip! Our second tip was about visualizing success. The road to achieving your goals can be a long journey, especially if you have big goals. In Goal Setting Success for… Read more

Goal Setting Success for the New Year: Visualize

This is our second post in our new series about goal setting success for your New Year’s resolutions. Our first tip was about rewarding yourself along the way. Achieving your goals is a long journey, in Goal Setting Success for the New Year: Reward Yourself we suggested celebrating your small achievements along the way. Today,… Read more

Goal Setting Success for the New Year: Reward Yourself

The time for setting New Year’s Resolutions has come again.  Do you have lofty expectaions of what you’ll accomplish each year, but find it can be challenging to follow through and stick to it? It can be hard without a plan. Let Simply Placed help. This is the first in a series of posts about how… Read more

Are you ‘Good to Go’ for 520 Tolling?

Its here! After many announcements over the past year about “upcoming” tolling on the 520 bridge connecting the Eastside communities with Seattle, today is the day that tolling officially begins. The Washington State Department of Transportation is encouraging drivers to get their Good to Go pass.  Buying a pass will save you money when you need… Read more

Make the Most of your Post-Holiday Season Lull

The post-holiday slow down is here. Can you feel it? Does it seem hard to get things done this week? Lacking of motivation? Maybe you’re ready to check some things off your list, but you can’t reach anyone or get calls or emails back.  Difficult to focus on “normal business” this week when it seems as… Read more

Toss Tired Decorations: Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge

Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge!  RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing your old, broken and tired decorations while you’re putting them away for next year.  Ten minutes is plenty of time to sort through your holiday decorations while you’re boxing them up for storage until next winter.  Are some of your wreaths faded to an unacceptable shade… Read more

Toss Old Candles: Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge

Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge!  RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing out your old used candles before you have your extended family over for that candle-lit holiday meal.  Ten minutes is enough time to identify those long tapers with cracks, toss those candles that are so over-used you can no longer light… Read more

Toss Unused Toys: Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge

Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge!  RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes on your child’s room clearing out broken or unused toys to make room for new gifts from the holiday season.  Ten minutes is enough time to sort out gently used toys that can be donated to charity, discard broken toys and roughly… Read more

Give the Gift of Less

We recently blogged about several ways you can eliminate all kinds of unwanted mail in 6 Easy Ways to Eliminate Junk Mail.  Now we have a tool to share with you that will do all the work for you!  It also makes for a meaningful gift that everyone needs this time of year when our mailboxes are filled with… Read more

5 Tips for Organized Holiday Travel

Traveling during the holidays can be downright stressful, especially if your plans include a few stops at our nation’s airports.  So to make your season more organized and joyful we have complied the best tips for holiday air travel. Wrap gifts after you arrive at your final destination.  Don’t wrap gifts and packages if you’re planning on carrying them on board.  All… Read more