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What I really want to know is: Are you happy? I came upon two articles recently that got my attention. Maureen Dowd reported in her New York Times Op-Ed piece Blue Is the New Black that [...]

“There is nothing either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet Have you ever stopped whatever you were doing to simply observe your thoughts? Yes, to do nothing else but [...]

“I had no idea that lots of things housed in a tiny space could result in space feeling clear.”–sbv I received an email query from a friend the other day, who, like me, is sending her [...]

It seems that many good books these days are made into a movie. At four minutes long maybe my movie isn’t Hollywood or Sundance material, but it does have a soundtrack and it is designed to [...]

The power of one is the power to do something. Anything. Not so long ago, a little girl in Alabama wanted to go to the same school as everyone else. And a gentle man from India wanted to raise [...]

Part 5 of 5 Why is it that whenever someone catches us doing nothing, we immediately jump to our feet so that we’re not perceived as total time-wasting deadbeats? If that is something you [...]

Part 3 of 5 Here is a wonderful remedy to help you integrate deep clutter clearing work – or any time you feel jangled, stuck, or plain fried after a long day. This remedy came to me from a [...]

Part 2 of 5 “Go slow to go fast.” Slowing it down is the second way to ease the side-effects of clearing clutter.* Anytime a task becomes too overwhelming and threatens to stall your [...]

Part 1 of 5 There couldn’t be a more perfect way to introduce the first (of five) ways to ease the side-effects of clearing clutter, than to share a question I received from a reader: [...]

“Pain happens, suffering is optional.” –Alberto Villoldo It took me years to discover that every time I cleared a drawer or a closet I would come away feeling more congested and [...]