Fear is a funny thing. Sometimes fear is healthy and keeps you from making bad decisions or doing something that’s truly dangerous. Like when you follow the speed limit because you’re afraid of getting a ticket, or you take the medication your doctor prescribed because you’re afraid of getting sick. Those are good things to do and examples of ways…
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10 Big Reasons You’re Afraid to Get Rid of Stuff (and How to Do It Anyway)
How to Clean Up Your House for a Fresh Start
Sometimes a day just gets away from you. As a matter of fact, sometimes a whole week – or even a whole month or more – just seems to slip through your fingers. And before you know it, your house is a disaster area and you aren’t even sure what to do about it. Piles are everywhere. The kitchen…
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Calm the Chaos and Simplify Your Life
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was my twenty-fifth birthday, and I was sitting on my front porch fighting back tears. I thought that by the ripe old age of twenty-five, I shouldn’t be such a mess. I always figured I’d have it all together by then. Instead, I felt completely overwhelmed. I couldn’t keep up with…
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15 Ways to Have More Energy Today
I’ve been tired lately. No, I’ve been really tired lately. I’m not sick or anything like that. I’m just the wife of a man who’s in a busy work season and the mom of teenagers. Teenagers need a lot of sleep, but they don’t seem to need it during the same hours that I do. Go figure. Unfortunately, life doesn’t…
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How to Schedule Your Mornings So You Can Get More Done
Of all the things I do to keep up with the business of running a household (and keeping it from turning into a complete mess!), my Morning Routine is the most important. My Morning Routine gets most of the must-do home keeping tasks taken care of early in the day so I can focus on other people and projects in…
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4 Easy Ways to Fight Clutter Every Day
One day last week, when I rolled out of bed at a ridiculously early hour (because I like starting my morning routine while my family and most of the sane world are still asleep), I walked into the kitchen and immediately got a knot in my stomach. The same thing had happened the day before…and a couple days before that,…
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What to Do When You Have a Bad Day
A couple days ago, I cried. A lot. Like six-times-over-the-course-of-a-day kind of a lot. I still don’t know why or what was so messed up inside of me, but everything just felt “off.” It was like Murphy’s Law was out to get me, and it seemed like everything was going wrong. And I was pretty sure it was going to…
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