CLUTTERFREEREVOLUTION

I am so grateful for the recent feedback I’ve gotten about my work. The funny thing about it is that I’m not telling anybody anything they don’t already know...

It’s apparent that the ‘powers that be’ are not telling us everything there is to know. Our history is filled with horrific examples of the depths to which h...

I’m an efficient guy, so when I expend effort and energy I like to double down on results. That means I tend to look for simple methods that leverage benefit...

Allow me to introduce the working mommy. You think you know her but I assure you, she is running circles around us, and it’s time we give her some due credit...

What if the human brain evolved to sabotage our own thinking in order to keep us safely on the sideline and out of harm’s way? That is one premise of Jonatha...

Collectively, we have become obsessed with our happiness, or lack thereof. Like a single-serving dark chocolate square of fleeting fulfillment, happiness exi...

Twice a year my family takes an inventory of our immediate assets. I don’t mean our investment portfolio. I’m talking about immediate access to life-preservi...

I’m writing this from a partially reclined hospital bed on the lavish fourth floor of Valley View Hospital – on Thanksgiving Day. As I lay here with an intra...

Early in high school, I remember a writing assignment that required an in depth narrative for why and how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as if ed...

As humans, most of us don’t take action until our pain becomes intolerable. Any of the following caricatures sound familiar? The stuff in your space has take...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and ...

My favorite picture is a photo of myself on my first day of kindergarten, standing at the bus stop with my arm around my big sister. I’m wearing Magnum P.I. ...

Sooner or later, we will have a great idea worthy of sharing with someone else. When marketing products or services, it’s called content. People presenting t...

I recently saw a woman wearing a t-shirt sadly affirming, “I can’t brain today. I have the dumb.” I can relate, but at the time, I couldn’t decide if I was a...

Sometimes I catch myself wanting things that others have. People do this. It’s called envy. The problem with fantasizing about what others have, is we tend t...

As a holistic organizer, I focus on four primary areas of life: spaces, systems, time, and content. My tag line reads, “Who we love, what we do, how and why w...

In business, if our work is anything, it should be honest. People should feel a depth of sincerity that resonates in their bones. Musicians get this better t...

If you’re in business, know this: people talk. That’s the good news. Here’s the bad news: if people have a bad experience at your business, they’ll have a lo...

I’ve always been a world-class eater. As a military brat in my formative years, I literally ate my way through Europe. In the course of four years, I travele...

This year my friend Angus decided he was going to have the best summer of his life. Without any real plans, he worked his way across the country – making fri...