Dealing with Clutter - August 2002

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Dealing with Clutter- August 2002

Volume I, Issue 8

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1. Welcome to Live Your Best!

2. Dealing With Clutter: 5 tips in 5 minutes

3. Opportunities & Resources

4. Invitation to Live Your Best!

5. Quotable Quote

6. Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information

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Dear Live Your Best Subscriber,

Welcome to our August issue. Thanks for joining us.

I'm thrilled to write you this month, as I celebrate the

one year "official" anniversary of my coaching practice.

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passed this "first year" mark, and look forward to

making this next year better than the last.

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Oh, and before I forget, this month's issue focuses on

dealing with clutter. Take a few minutes this month to

get rid of all that stuff you don't need anyway.

I look forward to your contest entries and I'll see you

again in September.

Warmly,

Rachna

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Dealing with Clutter: 5 tips in 5 minutes

By Dr. Rachna D. Jain

Clutter sometimes seems to be a household word. We have "junk"

drawers or "clutter" drawers- where we hold onto stuff we might

need on some random day that we might need it. Entrepreneurs are

especially prone to clutter, as they often have a great many ideas

and projects "in the works", and everything starts to pile up.

This month's issue offers 5 tips for dealing with clutter:

1) Decide

First, decide that you want to manage/get rid of clutter in your life.

This can be actual things, or even "ways" of approaching various tasks.

So you might want to recycle old newspapers, or to find a more efficient

way of managing your bills. In both cases, you must, first, decide to

get rid of the "clutter" and find a new way of doing things.

2) Are you the best person to handle this?

The next step in managing clutter is taking some time to figure out

whether you, yourself, must attend to this particular item. Is it something that

is highly specialized? Fun? Something you really want to do? If so, keep it

with you and create an action plan for dealing with it. If you don't

have to handle it….

3) Dump or delegate.

Dump it means you throw it away or recycle it. Delegate it means you

hand it over for someone else to take care of- AND that you hand over attachment to the outcome. It does you no good to hand something over and then worry about how it will be dealt with.

4) Small steps.

It can often be overwhelming to deal with clutter all at once. Like any

other task, it's easiest to do when you break it down- shelf by shelf or

drawer by drawer.

5) Consistency.

Once you've created some way of reducing your clutter, make a

small commitment to attend to this regularly. Again, by keeping

track of it on a consistent basis, you will be less overwhelmed in

dealing with it.

Now…I'll end here and go clear off my desk. See you next month!

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Invitation to Live Your Best!

This month, I invite you to clean up, clean out, and

have fun doing it!

Have a problem you'd like to solve? Have a great

life already and want to make it even better?

Learn how coaching can help- email me to

arrange a complimentary consultation.

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Quotable Quote:

People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were

the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the

practice, practice, practice.

- Ted Williams

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