OverHall IT!
Balance Issue 6
Welcome to OverHall IT! Balance issue. All administration
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newsletter.
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April, 2001
Vol. 2, Issue 6
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Table of Contents:
1. Welcome Message
2. OverHalling and Balance
3. Tip of the Month
4. Guest Article
5. Events
6. Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes
7. Products, Books, and Web Site Reviews
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1. Welcome Message
With Spring beckoning to us to come outside and play, this issue
is dedicated to having some FUN! Remember, we are trying to
create balance in our lives, and we must not forget that we
sometimes need to stop what we are doing, and just go have some
FUN! So, enjoy this issue, learn from it, and go have some FUN!
Welcome and thank you to all new subscribers. This year
we have been working on * OverHalling * the spiritual area of
ones life in the Balance issue. (Last year we worked on the
health and financial area, see back issues at
http://www.overhall.com/issues_and_articles.htm
) In the
Computer Corner issue, we are starting to work on * OverHalling *
your computer skills and web site.
Okay, ready to start "OverHalling", and have some FUN?
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2. Have You Stopped Dancing?
By: Janet L. Hall
I want you to think back to the last time you really,
REALLY danced.
Who were you with?
What song was playing?
Where were you?
How did you feel?
Maybe you're still dancing BUT many of us get caught up in
the everyday things; we worry too much, we become too
serious about life, or we just grow tired or old.
Many believe that being a responsible adult means NOT
having any fun; unable to surrender to the music in their
life, without a care or thought in the world except for
that very moment, not them, they have too much
responsibility!
When did you stop dancing? When did you start marching to
a different "drummer?"
Were you a young child when the dancing stopped? When you
went off to college? When you got married? Had children?
Became a manager, business owner, or CEO? When you thought
you weren't allowed or suppose to enjoy your life anymore?
You can dance if you want to, and leave your cares behind.
Go ahead, the Universe gives you permission to let your
"hair down" and DANCE!
Today, right now at this very moment, I want you to promise
yourself to start dancing again. To become one with the
music again, with no cares, no worries, no inhibitions.
I want you to leave all your worries about debt, cleaning,
and yes, your clutter behind and out of your mind for just
one hour or one day.
Dance with the kids, your life partner, your pets, your
friends, or just dance alone.
Turn up the music, light some candles, maybe a few sips of
wine, and DANCE. Let your Spirit go, feel renewed energy
pulsing through you, and feel your Spirit start to SOAR!
Open the doors and windows . the birds are performing a
concert in your backyard today . just for you.
Look outside and you'll discover nature is in a constant
dance around you, why aren't you dancing?
Forget the dust bunnies.
Forget about the unmade beds.
Forget about the bills, the piles and the files.
Forget about organizing the photos, cupboards, and closets.
These things can wait one more hour or one more day until
you learn how to dance again.
Dance! Dance like there is no tomorrow!
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Organize Your Inner and Outer Self by scheduling a consultation
or coaching session for your life, call Janet at 800-687-3040 or
mailto:janet@overhall.com
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3. OverHall IT! Tip of the Month
While you're dancing this month, imagine how you would like to see
and live your life! What does your ideal schedule look like, your
ideal office or home feel like? Pretend, imagine, and DREAM!
I'd like this section to be yours! If you have a tip that you'd like to
share, please email it to: mailto:janet@overhall.com?subject=Tip
I'd love to hear from you so we can all learn something new!
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Dear Janet,
My friend recently experienced the death of her mother. My friend and her sister are now left to deal with all the business of settling an estate.
Could you point me in a direction on "How to organize an unexpected death."
I would like to help her and her family out, with a basic checklist of
items she would need to look into.
Thank you,
H. W.
Dear H.W.
I'm sorry about your friend's loss. This is the reason I wrote my little
booklet, The Little Red WHO, WHEN, and WHERE Home Management Guide to ensure whomever is left picking up the pieces would be able to
locate things.
First she will need MANY copies of her mothers death certificate and
probably her (your friends) birth certificate to show proof she is the
daughter.
Have you friend look for the following, make files or put the files and
information in ONE holding place:
1. Banking information-They will need to close out accounts and check if she had a safety deposit box. If she had a box, that is probably in a "lock
down" and will have to go through probate.
2. Notify all utility companies, any bills coming in, and charge account
companies. They will have to decide if the utilities need to be kept on
while they are going through her home. All charge accounts should be closed.
3. Any insurance records or policies, call them.
4. Deed to home
5. Notify mortgage company
6. Stop all newspapers and magazine subscriptions
7. Notify post office
8. Look for any burial instructions or last wishes
9. Look for a home safe or fire proof box
10. Look for any stock or bond certificates
11. Look for Investment records
12. Locate all keys to home and vehicles
13. Look for vehicle registration and title information
14. Look for any leases, and IOU's
15. Look for any birth, death, marriage, or divorce records
16. Look for military records
17. Look for any retirement plans or documents (if she was retired from a
company or career or might have had a 401 (k))
18. Look for past tax records. (She will need these while settling the
estate)
19. She might want to look into hiring a probate attorney since there was no will.
Certain papers will have to be filed and processes have to be
followed.
20. Look for her driver's license and social security cards
21. Call social security
22. Talk to her friends. When my mother - in -law died, her best friend was able
to tell us where she hid money and keys!
23. If she had a business, that's a whole other can of worms.
24. If she had a computer with Internet service, call the Internet
provider. BEFORE getting disconnected, look in her favorites (bookmark)
site to see if she was a member of anything. Check her computer for
anything
she might have written about where she kept stuff.
25. Locate her address book
26. Call her church
26. Look for hidden money or items above. Mom hid her stuff in the ceiling in
the basement, in the backs of closets, inside gloves and books.
27. Notify any organizations she might have volunteered for.
28. Call the newspapers to include obituary (write it first)
29. Decide on type of service/donations
30. Keep adding to this list as you think of other things
If you need more help, please let me know, and please check out my booklet at: http://www.overhall.com/wwwh1.htm
Smiles, not Piles,
Janet L. Hall
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4. Resiliency, How to bounce back
By: Dan Johnston
Welcome to Lessons for Living. Common sense information
to make life go better.
Today's lesson is on, "Resiliency." Resiliency is the ability to
bounce back from the ups and downs of life. How resilient
are you?
How resilient you are "today" depends on how you were
taking care of your resiliency resources yesterday.
Resiliency is the energy that allows you to enrich in life. It is
something we all have. We are born with resiliency, but we
can lose it.
Your resiliency energy is like a reservoir. So, picture a lake
and a dam. All of the water in the lake behind the dam
represents your life energy. You use this energy to handle
the daily stresses and strains of life. Whenever change or
stress comes into your life the floodgates of the dam open
and some energy flows out into the world. This is the energy
that helps you cope. If the stress is small then the floodgates
open a little and some water or energy flows out. If it is a
bigger stress or a series of stresses then the gates open
wider and more energy flows away. If it is a major crisis or
chronic, continual stress and change then the gates open
very, very wide and all of your energy can flow out into the
world. The lakebed is now dry and you have no energy left.
What is this loss of energy like? We have two main words to
describe it. In the work place it is called "burnout." This
means that you have done the job a little too long and just
cannot do it anymore. Outside of the work setting we may
call it depression.
In either case you have lost energy or motivation. There is
no "get up and go" left. You experience a general lack of
interest in both people and tasks. Sadness, irritation, and
frustration are present. You become hard to live with both for
yourself and for others.
When you give out of resiliency energy, the challenge is to
put some back into the reservoir. In fact, you should have
been refilling it all the time.
What do you do to fill it up again? The answer is simple. You
just do something you enjoy, everyday. Have some fun,
everyday. Do this and you will be refilling the reservoir.
This sounds simple and it is, however, it is not easy. Simple
and easy not the same.
To confirm this for yourself, take the resiliency test. Get a
sheet of paper, pen or pencil, and quickly make a list of 20
things you like to do. Anything at all as long as you like it.
If you are like most people you will start to give out of items
by the time you reach number ten. This is a quite a shock
because life offers endless possibilities. When you can
hardly think of ten, it is rather sad and pathetic. You must
add to your list of things you enjoy if you want to be a
resilient person.
Once you have a list of 20 things, you must test the list you
have. Read each item and put the letter "W" by each one
you have actually done in the last week. The more things
you have done the better life looks. The more things you
have done the more energy you will have. If you are not
doing things you enjoy everyday then you are not
replenishing your resiliency energy. You are heading
towards burnout or depression.
There are some resiliency secrets. Resiliency secret #1 is,"
Do something you enjoy everyday."
Resiliency secret #2 is that the things you enjoy should be in
two major categories. One will be those items, which are fun
(that is why you like them) and the second category are
items that may not be fun. You enjoy them for a different
reason. You enjoy them because they give you a sense of
accomplishment - things like, maybe, cleaning the toilet. It is
not much fun but you feel good when it is done and the toilet
is sparkling clean.
Life will challenge your resiliency resources everyday. You
must replenish them everyday by taking time to do things
you enjoy. Each night when going to sleep, ask yourself two
questions. First, "Did I have any fun today?" The answer
should also be yes to at least one thing. Second, "Did I get
anything done today?" The answer should be yes to at least
one thing. If you can answer both questions positively then
you have had a good day and are on the road to resiliency. If
you can answer with more than one item so much the better.
So, everyday do something you enjoy. In fact, do several
things you enjoy. The more you do the more resiliency you
create and the more energy you have to invest in life.
Dan Johnston is a clinical psychologist in Macon, Georgia, USA,
who has been providing counseling and teaching for over twenty-
five years. He works in a medical center and is on the faculty of a
medical school.
Through his own continuing personal journey towards
psychological and spiritual maturity as well as in his work with a
wide variety people caught in life's suffering, Dan has learned
some lessons for living. These lessons have usually come as an
"awakening" experience of gaining a new insight into life. Such an
awakening changes thought, emotion, and behavior and brings
the possibility of growth towards greater psychological and
spiritual maturity. Hopefully, his pages will stimulate "awakening"
experiences for others. To read more of Dan's lessons, please
visit: Awakenings, Simple
Solutions for Life's Problems.
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5. OverHall Events
LOOK and SEE-I might be coming to your town!
Paula Langguth Ryan and I are kicking off our 2-week Spring
2001 tour in April-May (OverHall Your Life for More Space,
Time and Money & Break the Debt Cycle-For Good!) and
will be speaking in the following towns:
May 1st and 8th
7:00 - 10:00 PM (MST)
Center for Expanding Consciousness Center
6345 N. 15th St.
Phoenix, AZ
May 2nd and May 9th
7:00 - 10:00 PM (MST)
New Vision Spiritual Growth Center
11050 N. 96th St.
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
May 6th
1:00 - 4:00 PM (MST)
Unity of San Marcos
12870 N. State 123
San Marcos, TX
Here are just a few of the benefits you'll gain:
*Tame the demons that cause you to "get backed up, piled
up or cluttered up."
*Explore the "5 W's of Organizing" and put them to work in
your life today.
* Master the chaos in all areas of your life using proven
tools and techniques.
*Release the envy and jealousy that keeps you in debt to
others.
*Build up savings using the Penny-A-Day Savings Plan even
if you've never saved before!
*Create a DebtBuster strategy that fits your income without
sacrificing your family's life.
* Develop a vacuum in your life that will cause more money
to flow to you, effortlessly.
If you know of a church or organization that would like to
provide us with a space in your area (we tithe back 20% of
whatever is collected at that seminar in return for the use
of the space), please let us know. We gratefully accept
locations that seat 50-500 people (or more!).
For additional information, please see:
http://www.overhall.com/enoughisenough.htm
To get these seminars on audiotape, give us a jingle!
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AUDIO Organizing Tapes now on SALE!
http://www.overhall.com/Tapes.htm
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Dear Janet,
The tickler is working well. I sometimes forget to check it, but
it is the perfect place for me to put all of the things that will
be needed in the future and I'm bound to lose otherwise. It
has worked great for directions to birthday parties. Those
were forever getting lost before the tickler.
Thanks,
Janet Scruggs, Family Manager from Annapolis
Have you gotten your * tickle * for the day? Check out the
secret organizing tool that ALL organized families and
successful people use on a daily basis at
http://www.overhall.com/tickler_file.htm
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6. Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes
>>[There] is a need to find and sing our own song, to
stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that
nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for
solitary voyage.
--Barbara Lazear Ascher (384BC - 322BC)
>>I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have
never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself.
I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them
around.
--Fred Astaire (1899 - 1987) US dancer, actor
>>This search for what you want is like tracking something
that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a
dance right, to create something memorable.
--Fred Astaire (1899 - 1987) US dancer, actor
>>I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try
to dance better than myself.
--Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948 - ____)
>>You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance,
movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's
coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you
don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach
yourself a lot of stuff.
--Jacqueline Bisset (1944 - ____)
>>When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping,
carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and
precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food
with the dexterity of a croupier.
--Craig Claiborne (1920 - ____)
~~ If you have a joke, quote, or anecdote that would fit
well into OverHall IT!, please feel free to email it to me at
mailto:janet@overhall.com?subject=newsletterjokes
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7. Products, Books, and Web Site Reviews
Books:
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is a rich and well
written book that you will NOT want to put down! I'm reading
it for the second time. A book of Toltec wisdom that explains
how our belief system has us trapped and how and what we
need to do to change our behavior and the way we think.
Experience an ahhh of awakening.
Alan Cohen, A Deep Breath of Life contains a different
inspiration, affirmation, and prayer each day.
Organizer Link of the Month:
Betty Aponte, president of No More Office
Clutter, offers office organizing.
She specializes in office organization, filing systems, and paper clutter.
1C-14B Lomas Verdes Ave., #188; Bayamon, Puerto Rico 00956
(787) 799-8023;
bettyaponte00@hotmail.com
If you're an organizer and you'd like to be considered for the
link of the month, please contact me!
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That's it for this issue. I'll be back shortly with
the Computer Corner issue of OverHall IT!
Smiles, not Piles,
Janet L. Hall
Professional Organizer, Speaker, and Author
http://www.overhall.com
Organizing for your Inner and Outer Self
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If Your Current Systems Aren't Working For You...Get an "OverHall"!
Janet L. Hall is the owner of OverHall Consulting, which is
based out of Southern Maryland and can be reached at
800-687-3040 or 410-586-9440, or e-mail her at:
mailto:janet@overhall.com
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Janet delivers one-of-a-kind, customized seminars and
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