“Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.” Mason Cooley Sometimes we’re in the mood to do things, and it’s easy- we absorb ourselves in our passion and can work for days or months and it never feels like work. We have energy, we laugh...
“Man is free only when he can realize and accept his limitations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Most of you reading this article are familiar with the biblical Passover story of the Jewish slaves escaping (or being released) from their Egyptian captors. Observant Jews...
Yesterday I had 2 appointments after a full workday. Following my own Joumor rules, I scheduled what felt like an absurd amount of time between them, which gave me 1.5 hours to get from 14th St./5th Ave to 52nd St./8th Ave. Any New Yorker knows this can be...
Lately people are mentioning the Japanese professional organizer Marie Kondo and her book, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up*. I absolutely agree that there IS life changing magic when one tidies up. It’s great that her book has helped many people, and anyone who...
You know what’s easy? Punishing ourselves. Setting ourselves up to fail. Making the same choices and being disappointed in the same results. Blaming others. Being overwhelmed. Not finishing things….and all that other unjoumorous stuff… Last week my new client wanted...
Organizing your abandoned paperwork is one of the most stressful, exhausting and tedious things you can do. So the Joumor (joy + humor + relief) payoff waiting for you on the other side of dealing with it is fantastic. Want to take it up a transformational notch?...
