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

Less is More

TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a set of global conferences dedicated to “ideas worth spreading.”  This talk, given by Graham Hill, discusses how we can edit our lives. Its less than 6 minutes and well worth the time to view. It will get you thinking about your “stuff”. Want to see if less can… Read more

Office Organizing & Productivity Tips for Summer

For many businesses the summer season brings a different pace to the office. Anxious to get out and enjoy the nice weather, spend time with kids out of school on summer break, and take a vacation, we seek ways to get our work done faster. For some companies, the summer months also bring a slow… Read more

Soles for Souls

Some of you may have heard us discuss our involvement with NAPO.  Sound ominous? It simply stands for our professional organization: the National Association of Professional Organizers.  We have a conference once a year, and a couple of us just spent a few days in San Diego, soaking up information on organizing methods, new organization… Read more

Fun as a Motivating Factor

For many of us, it is the same routine day in and day out. We get up, get ready, head to work, work for 8 hours (or more), drive home, eat dinner, try and throw in a workout somewhere, and go to bed. It’s like they say, rinse, wash, repeat. But what is lacking here?… Read more

I’ll Show You Mine, if You’ll Show Me Yours

I’ve been asked recently about my personal philosophies on setting New Year’s Resolutions. While I don’t think they’re for everyone, I DO think goal setting is. Anyone can set a goal. Everyone can be successful in achieving SMART goals if they follow some simple tips. Since tip # 6 is all about sharing your goal with others,… Read more

To Resolve or Not to Resolve?

That is the question. What’s your take? I know some people that have made their last resolution ever … the have resolved not to make any more resolutions. Are you in this camp? For others, this time of year is a popular and optimal time to set goals, to look ahead, to create an action… Read more

Reflect Before You Project

As you think about the year you’d like to have in 2011, begin by reflecting on the year that is coming to a close. What went well in 2010? What were your wins? Proudest moments? Times when you felt your best? What was the most fun? Brought you joy? Made your heart sing? Made the… Read more

First Things First

How do you start your day? Do you hop on email and then never get off? Many people do and then wonder where the day goes. What can you do first, to jumpstart your day? To pave the path to maximized productivity? I love to exercise in the morning. Let me clarify – I don’t… Read more