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Goal Setting Success for the New Year: Reward Yourself

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

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

Save Time and Make Your Holiday Shopping List Now

  This time of year, the key to holiday shopping success is to spread it out.  You can save yourself a lot of time and stress by making your shopping list now and carrying it with you!  Once you’re out and about you can easily stop into a retail store nearby and cross a few things off… Read more

What’s Your Relationship With Time?

Do you know of someone (or maybe it’s you) that has a “unique”, “special” or “different” relationship with time? Some people notice (or don’t notice) the passage of time differently. Sometimes people run late, not because they mean to upset those who are waiting for them, but because they didn’t plan properly or time “slipped by”. Other… Read more

Save Yourself from A Stressful Melt-Down

We know stress can influence productivity.  The next time you’re experiencing counterproductive stress, consider using Christina Marie’s suggestion below.  Please enjoy her guest blog post: A Simple Tip – Save Yourself from A Stressful Melt-Down.    A Simple Tip – Save Yourself from A Stressful Melt-Down  We use vision boards as triggers.  Try a fresh spin… 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

How to Create and Maintain the Perfect Study Zone

With the start of a new school year, that also means homework will be starting very soon!  Do you have a designated study zone in your home?  For older kids, it might be a desk space in their bedroom or in your home office.  For younger kids, we recommend having a study zone in a… Read more

How to Create Email White Space

Some of you have heard me talk about one of our most popular classes or individual consultations, the Email Intervention. We know (and perhaps you agree) that a lot of people out there are addicted to email. Others may not feel addicted, but are stressed out by the sheer volume they receive and overwhelmed by the… Read more

Need an Email Intervention?

If you don’t feel like this woman when you think about the emails in your inbox, let’s chat. Have you or someone you know ever experienced a day like this? … You come into the office and open your email to see what’s come in since you left the previous day. You essentially stay in… 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

All Work & No Play = Lower Productivity

This week when I flipped my calendar forward to the month of May, I happily saw the little palm tree I had drawn a few months back signifying my vacation to Maui! While I am beyond excited to escape this damp, dark weather, I realized I only have a little over a week before I leave. Far… Read more

Don’t Wait – Plan Your Summer Now!

Can you believe that summer is just a few months away?  I know if you’re in the Puget Sound area it is hard to imagine with all this rain, but the countdown for summer has definitely begun.  It may seem crazy, but if you haven’t already, it is time to start making your summer plans.  Minimally, this will… Read more

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