OverHall IT!
Vol. 3 Issue 11
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OverHall IT!
Organizing Newsletter for Your Life
Circulation 7,463
Vol. 3, Issue 11
Publisher: Janet L. Hall
janet@overhall.com
http://www.overhall.com
( C ) OverHall Consulting 2002
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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Welcome and Happenings
2. OverHalling your Office and Home
3. Guest Article
4. Ask the OverHaller
5. Computer Clutter
6. Feng Shui Tip
7. Products, Books, and Web Site Reviews
8. Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes
9. Tips for Professional Organizers
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1. Welcome and Happenings
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Welcome! Life is busy. Life is good. I'm revvin' up for the
upcoming women's retreat, Imagine, in Sedona, AZ that I will
be hosting the end of Sept. To read about it and how you
can attend please see
http://www.overhall.com/imagine.htm
Within in the next week my web site might not be available
for a few hours. This is because I'm in the process of
switching hosting companies, merchant accounts, and a new
shopping cart. If you try to get on the site to register or
purchase something and are having problems or the site is
not available, please call me and we'll take care of your
order personally. We have tried to make this process as
seamless as possible, without interruptions, but you never
know with the Internet.
Since we are changing hosts and things we decided to also
change our look a little and add some new things to the site
so you will want to be sure to check it out to see what's new!
You'll know you have the new site when you see a wizard at
the top of the site <g>. (You might need to click your refresh
button to get the new site).
I also want to thank all of you that have personally emailed
me with prayers and healing energy for my recent surgery.
I'm still healing and have some pain but life goes on and I'm
dealing with it the best I can; however it means a lot to me
when you write, although at times I can't get back to each
and every one of you I want you to know I appreciate you
taking the time to email me.
Well, on to some organizing, space clearing, and Feng Shui.
Thanks for your support and for being a subscriber,
Janet L. Hall, The Organizing and Feng Shui Wizard
***** Do Your Employees Need Organized? *****
Call the Organizing Wizard and let her cast her "spells" on
their clutter! Janet delivers a one-of-a-kind, customized
workshop or speech. Call 800/687-3040 and book her
today!
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2. Maybe You Are a Victim
By: Janet L. Hall
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If you've ever watched Oprah or heard someone speak
about her show - then you've probably heard of Dr. Phil
McGraw. For awhile on Oprah, every Tuesday, Dr. Phil was
conducting, along with 42 volunteers, The Get Real
Challenge. It was interesting to watch - when I could - the
volunteers challenge everything in their life. The goal was to
wake people up and have them start looking at their lives
through a different lens. They were asked to be honest and
specific while dealing with their INTERNAL feelings, or
internal clutter as I refer to it.
In one of the many exercises, Dr. Phil talks about the "tapes"
playing in our heads: " Think of a big tape player in your
head playing a continuous loop. The message that is
repeated over and over becomes so well learned that it
becomes an automatic belief. It's time to go into slow motion
for a few minutes and get in touch with what you've
been telling yourself. It's time to talk about your tapes."
Dr. Phil then asks, "What are your tapes playing?"
So I want to ask you:
=>What tapes are running through your head regarding your
clutter, possessions, and stuff?
=>What tapes are running through your head regarding your
hoarding or packrat of things?
=>What tapes are playing in your head that cause you to
continue to bring unnecessary items into your life?
=>What tapes are running through your head when you
continue to buy, buy, buy?
=>What tapes are playing in your head when you continue to
add more to-dos's to your list?
Maybe….
…You grew up during The Great Depression Era where a
piece of twine was as valuable as a piece of fresh fruit and
was told that you must save EVERYTHING!
…You were told to never throw anything away that still had
"life" in it, "just in case," or it's still good for something.
…You were told to NEVER part with a gift given to you - that
you must always keep that gift out where the giver will
always see it.
…You feel you're not good enough for anybody or anything
and your possessions temporarily fill your emptiness.
…You are buried in pain and sadness from the past.
…You feel shame, failure, or embarrassment from all your
clutter and hoarding.
…You feel unimportant or undesired.
OR MAYBE you were told you would NEVER have anything!
Then you're A VICTIM
Dr. Phil goes on to say that we need to name our pain,
reveal the pain so we can move forward. We have all been a
victim of something. Some wrong doing to our bodies. Some
wrong talk of our being. Some injustice to our way of thinking
or dealing with stuff.
Discovering who or what victimized you can be a powerful
release for you, but how do you find it?
Try answering the questions below honestly and to the best
of your ability. Write your answers out. Let the pain and
sadness pour out on the paper. Cry, scream, let it out, and
let it go!
=>Who might have hurt you or what deep sadness have you
been carrying around?
=>What are you keeping locked up deep down inside you?
=>What secrets are you carrying around with you and
possibly using your "stuff" to hide behind?
=>When are you going to open up to yourself? Will today be
the day?
=>When were you a victim?
=>What was done or not done to you?
=>What was given or not given to you?
=>What was said or told to you over and over again?
=>Where is all the anger, fear, and pain coming from? Is it
something you've never dealt with?
=>Why won't you talk to yourself or someone about it?
=>How are you going to deal with it?
To gain control of your life, your stuff, and the tapes running
through your head you MUST STOP playing the victim! You
will have to get emotionally closer to your sadness and pain
before it can be released or dealt with. You must give your
sadness and pain a voice. One day you must make a turn in
your life and deal with it. Why not today?
Don't let your tapes eat away at you silently - deal with it
today and stop hiding behind your stuff. Allow yourself to go
forward with your life and become clutter free.
Dr. Phil told the volunteers of The Challenge that they
needed some new tapes to start running, and that if they
couldn't do it alone to please get some help! He also told
them they can't change what happened but they can change
what will happen. You choose!
Isn't time to stop feeling or acting the victim because of what
might have happened to you in your past? As long as you
live in the past and have an "oh poor me" attitude you will
NEVER be able to move forward. You are in CONTROL of
your life NOW! You get to decide and take responsibility for
your actions. Not the people that might have done you an
injustice. Not the people that couldn't give you what you
wanted or needed. Not the people that might have given you
too much or too little. Not the people that have hurt you in
some way. If you feel you are lacking something in your life
then just visit any shelter, without judgement, and just see
what lack really is. What do you have that you can give to
others?
Release, unwind, and let go of the tapes that tell you you are
not worthy, you have to keep every gift, you must hold on to
items that are still useful, that you must keep just in case, or
that you must buy, buy, buy.
You need to:
=>Address your clutter problems to find the solutions.
=>Stop believing what you've been telling yourself; "one day
I'll get organized," or "I'll keep this just in case," or "It's
too
good to throw away," or "My best friend gave this to me."
=>Declare this a new day with new thoughts.
You NEED to get some new tapes in your head!
Today I'll start to get organized.
Today I'll start to sort through the clutter.
Today I will DECIDE for myself what I should keep.
Today I'll look at my stuff differently, through my eyes.
Today I'm willing to let go of items that no longer serve me,
make me unhappy, have bad memories, or are no longer
wanted.
Once you start releasing (giving) the things that might be
causing your pain, anxiety, or sorrow then get ready to start
receiving (getting) the things you really need, want, or have
been dreaming or wishing for.
The Universe is very powerful and will quickly replace the
things in your life that you've let go of freely with those of
your true needs or desires.
Victim of something - probably.
Freedom to change and make choices - ABSOLUTELY!
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be
made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define
yourself."
--Harvey Fierstein
*****************Mentorship Programs *****************
September we will be starting three mentorship programs
that will be open to only five people in each of the following
programs: Office clutter and management, Home clutter and
management, and Web sites/Internet Marketing.
If you are serious about gaining more control over your life,
your clutter, or your business and would like to learn more
about these programs or register, call me at 800-687-3040
or
mailto:janet@overhall.com
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3. Excerpted from "Believing in Myself"
By Earnie Larsen and Carol Hegarty copyright 1991
available at:
http://www.hazeldenbookplace.org/store/product.asp?sku=6114
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Procrastination means paying twice the price when you
eventually must act.
-T. A. McAloon
The relationship between procrastination and self-esteem is
not coincidental. The reason is that self-esteem slips
whenever integrity is sacrificed, and procrastinating always
demands the offering up of a tiny piece of our integrity.
Heavy-duty procrastination is also a first sign of depression
in many people.
Suffering people say that when they are depressed they feel
overwhelmed, overburdened with so much to do there's no
hope of ever getting it done, of feeling powerless in the face
of insurmountable odds.
Whatever the specific cause of a depression, however,
procrastination often helps to set it up. Many of us have
procrastinated until there really is an unmanageable logjam
of undoable tasks. Or we allow terrible pressure to build up
around a decision that we've put off time and time again. In
these ways, procrastination invites depression just as
honey invites ants.
Conquering my procrastination may eliminate the need to
conquer depression.
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4. Ask the OverHaller
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A letter to my subscribers:
Dear subscribers,
I have to ask YOU something today. Many of you write me
everyday and some of you even phone for help with your
organizing challenges and situations. Many of you have
been subscribed to OverHall IT! for a long time and
KNOWING you need help and have even asked for it I put
together specific inexpensive organizing teleclasses but no
one is signing up for them. I audio tape them in case you
can't make it so you can get the tapes BUT no response to
that either (actually I had two responses). Here are my
questions: What am I doing wrong? Am I scheduling them at
the wrong time, wrong night, or wrong topic? Is the cost to
attend them too high? Is the cost of the audiotape too high?
There are over 7,000 of you on this list and only TWO
people signed up for a couple of the teleclasses I recently
offered on home organizing, yet I continue to get emails and
phone calls all day for help. Am I not being specific about
what the teleclass is about? Do I not give you enough notice
to sign up? Please let me know what I'm doing wrong, if
anything, so I can better help you.
Thank you, Your Organizer, Janet Hall
P.S. If you want to read about the teleclasses that was
offered or have questions about them see
http://www.overhall.com/home_organizing.htm
or call me.
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5. Computer Clutter
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Dispose of your old computer properly. Check out these
places to find out how and where:
Dell asset Recovery Services
www.dellfiancialservices.com/solutions/asset_recovery.asp
EIA Environment: Consumer Education Initiative (CEI)
www.eiae.org
Gateway.com: Recycle/Donate Your Old PC
www.gateway.com/home/programs/tradein_recycle.shtml
HP Environment: Return and Recycling
www.hp.com/hpinfo/community/environmental/recycle.htm
IBM PC Recycling Service
www.ibm.com/ibm/environment/products/pcrservice.phtml
International Association of Electronic Recyclers
www.iaer.org
National Safety Council (US)EPR2 Project Electronic
Equipment Recyclers
www.nsc.org/ehc/epr2/cntctlst.htm
[Source: What Your Computer Consultant Doesn't
Want You to Know by Joshua Feinberg
www.smallbiztechtalk.com
]
AND More places to recycle computers:
The National Cristina Foundation
http://www.cristina.org
The Computers for Schools Association
http://www.pcsforschools.org
http://www.kisource.com/kidsource/pages/donation.html
PEP Computer Recycling
http://www.microweb.com/pepsite/Recycle/recycle_index.html
*********** Clean Up Your Computer TODAY***********
Running out of space on your hard drive?
Don't know how to do backups?
Want to save your documents to a different media?
Get the ebook everyone is talking about:
How-To Clean and Organize Your Computer is
available at
http://www.overhall.com/clean_computer.htm
52 Pages with Screen Shots so you can easily see where to click.
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6. Feng Shui Tip
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Are you a victim of your own decorating style, or lack of?
Every item in your surroundings affects you; how you feel,
act, and even accomplish or don't accomplish. Check out
Feng Shui Master Nancilee Wydra's newest Homeowners Kit
at
http://windwater.com/bkstore.html
It contains 4 videos, a
book, and a color wheel, all this for only $49. Please tell
them Janet sent you!
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7. Products, Books, and Web Site Reviews
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E-Books and Books:
My Internet Marketing buddy and friend, Rick Butts has just
started a fabulous new site, Ebook Source where he offers
many different e-books to choose from:
Internet Marketing, Management and Leadership, Self
Help/Personal Development, Fiction, Entrepreneur, Sales,
and Too Cool to categorize. Please check them out at
http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/aftrack.asp?afid=45217
Jeffrey J. Mayer, president of Succeeding In Business, and
author of many books, has an E-Book, "Winning the Fight
Between You and Your Desk," that I highly recommend.
This inexpensive ebook is filled with humor; Are you a
Pilamaniac? to step-by-step instructions on Creating Master
Lists, Master Files, and Your Master File Drawer. I urge you
all to download this inexpensive but very informative ebook
at:
http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/aftrack.asp?afid=25003
Web Sites:
Oprah's site has The Get Real Challenge online FREE
workbook available for you to work with at
http://oprah.com/phil/grc/challenge/challenge_your.jhtml
Office for Victims of Crime:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
http://www.irct.org
National Violence Against Women has a ton of links for help
http://www.nvaw.org
Victim Assistance Online: A Comprehensive Resource
Center-If something has happened to you in one form or
another you will probably be able to locate help here.
GREAT resource!
http://www.vaonline.org
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8. Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes
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>>Somewhere along the line of our development we
discover what we really are, and then we make our decision
for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily
for yourself because you can never live anyone else's life.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
>>Your capacity to say "NO" determines your capacity to say
"YES" to greater things.
--E. Stanley Jones
>>Sign at the crossroads in a southwestern state: "Be
careful which road you choose--you'll be on it for the next
200 miles."
--Unknown
>>One of life's difficult choices is picking the supermarket
checkout line that will move the fastest.
--Unknown
>>Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important
quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the
"ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.
--T. Boone Pickens
>>Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man
who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave
of his action.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
>>The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a
falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
--Sun Tzu
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9. Tips for Professional Organizers
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Do you have a web site? Are you making any contacts or
money from it? Whether you answered yes or no you MUST
check out Tom Antion's Internet Marketing BUTT Camp that
might be coming to your area!
Many of you have heard me talk about Tom Antion and I
have learned sooo much from him and his invaluable
seminar, BUTT Camp. Tom's seminar is packed with good
quality information that you can put to use that day for your
web site. He tells you so much, step-by-step, and the ideas
that will fly through your head of what you can do is truly
unbelievable! One of the many generous things he offers
are that once you attend one as a paying attendee, you can
attend others for FREE forever AND you can bring your
teenager for FREE! If you're serious about your business
and web site OR plan on getting a web site then this is the
ONLY seminar you should be attending this year! Here's his
upcoming schedule:
Sunday Sept. 15, San Francisco, CA, (special follow up
TeleSeminar included because some attendees must leave
early for Yom Kippur.)
Sunday, Oct. 13, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Sunday, Oct. 20, Norfolk, VA
Sunday, Nov 10, Ann Arbor, MI
Sunday, Nov 17. Lakeland, FL
Register now for early bird discount.
Attend Tom Antion FAMOUS BUTT Camps by clicking the
link below:
http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/aftrack.asp?AFID=44499&u=www.antion.com/buttcamp.htm
*****Would You Like to Be a Professional Organizer? *****
Secrets of a Professional Organizer and How-To Become
One is now available as an electronic downloadable ebook.
If you'd like to become a professional organizer and learn
what it takes to be a business owner, then check out my new
book. You can get it TODAY as a downloadable ebook and
start working on becoming a business owner and a
professional organizer. Check it out at:
http://www.overhall.com/become_an_organizer.htm
Read what veteran organizer Kathy Paauw had to say
about this ebook:
Janet,
Wow! I just reviewed your eBook,
and it is packed with some great
information. I have not seen a more comprehensive and helpful
resource anywhere else for those who are getting an organizing
business established. Your eBook is so comprehensive that I may
recommend it to some of my non-organizer clients who are
starting
a business. Congratulations on a job well done! You've obviously
put
a lot into this.
I'll be recommending your eBook
to the Professional Organizers I am
coaching in their start-up businesses.
Best wishes,
Kathy Paauw, Paauwerfully
Organized
Organizing/Productivity Consultant & Certified Professional
Coach
www.orgcoach.net
www.orgcoach.net
orgcoach@gte.net
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********** Home Organizing Audio Tapes**********
Need help with your bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, garage,
paper, time, children, or attitude?
Wiz Through Your Clutter:Home Organizing Audiotapes
http://www.overhall.com/home_organizing.htm
Stop saying you are going to get organized one of these
days and start doing it today!
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We want your Organizing, Space Clearing, Feng Shui, and
Computer tips, techniques, products to review, and
jokes in 2002,
mailto:janet@overhall.com
or send to address
below.
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Smiles, not Piles,
Janet L. Hall
The Organizing and Feng Shui Wizard
Let me work my "spells" on your Clutter, Life, and
Environment!
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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, and
Organizing By Phone, 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
Janet can "OverHall" your office, home, and computer
clutter and can deliver a customized speech or seminar
for your next event.
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