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Vol. 6 Issue 6
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Vol. 6 Issue 6
Publisher: Janet L. Hall mailto:janet@overhall.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
1. Welcome and Happenings
2. Events
3. OverHalling and Balance
4. Tips for Organizers & Feng Shui Consultants
5. Organizing Tips and Tools
6. Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes
7. Guest Article
1. Welcome and Happenings
This issue is dedicated to Corey Rudl (1970-2005), one of my
mentors. Corey died suddenly in a car crash, at the young age of
34, leaving behind a new bride. My heart and prayers go out to
her and his family. Corey will be missed by thousands of people
that he mentored and helped; however I can't help but wonder
how hard it must be for his new bride to sort through everything,
make decisions and if she even knew where he kept all his
personal information. Don't let this happen to you or your loved
ones. Check out our product If Something Happens to Me so
your loved ones won't be in left in the dark. Buy it, fill it out and
use it!
http://www.overhall.com/if_something_happens_to_me.htm
Thanks Corey for all you did and taught. You will not be
forgotten.
Our bullentin board is finally back in operation; however all posts
were deleted. Please visit our board where you can post
questions and tips related to organizing, feng shui and those
related businessess.
http://www.overhall.com/overhallit/
I was working in NY in May (and returning this month) and my
client said, "I don't know why I wasted my time on those other
two." From what I could tell no one had touched any of her
boxes of stuff before I arrived. One wrote her a report and one
had made some folders for her papers. Wasted time and money.
If you need help please call me and we can work out a working
arrangement that works for you so you can finally get organized.
I'll be in the WPB and Key West area July 8-18 if you want
hands on organizing help call and book me today. Limited slots
available.
Father's Day is upon us (June 19th) and it's a great time to help
your father or partner get organized in the garage at:
http://www.overhall.com/organize_garage.htm
If your father needs help getting his vehicle organized I found,
and use, some wonderful products from Duluth Trading Co.
Check them out at:
http://www.overhall.com/organize_car.htm
and if dad needs his home office de-cluttered and feng shuied
check out my home study course, Feng Shui Your Home Office
for More Clients and Prosperity at:
http://home-office-feng-shui.com
Happy Father's Day to all that work hard at being the best they
can be and for just being you!
Thanks for your support and for being a subscriber,
Janet L. Hall, The Organizing and Feng Shui Wizard
Now, on to the articles!
2. Events
June 18, 2005 - Saturday 1PM, LaPlata, MD:
Introduction to Feng Shui (FREE)
http://www.overhall.com/natureshealing.htm
June 23, 2005 - Thursday 7-9PM, LaPlata, MD:
Clearing Out Your Stuff & Getting Organized ($25)
http://www.overhall.com/natureshealing.htm
July 7, 2005 - Thursday 7-8PM, LaPlata, MD:
Clearing Out the Negative Energies - Space Clearing ($20)
http://www.overhall.com/natureshealing.htm
August 11, 2005 - Thursday 7-9PM, LaPlata, MD:
Clearing Out the Dis-ease Through Feng Shui ($25)
http://www.overhall.com/natureshealing.htm
November 4-6, 2005 FSII Conference (open to all). Feng Shui
and the Power of Intention, St. Augustine, FL. Please visit
http://fengshui-ii.org/fengshuiconference.htm
3. - Top Ten Organizing and Time Challenges People Face
Part 5
By: Janet L. Hall
1. Paper. Includes mail, reading material and files
2. Bedroom. Includes laundry, clothes, drawers and closets
3. Children. Includes their schedules and their bedroom and toys
4. Shopping. Includes food, gifts and cards
5. Kitchen. Includes organizing, meal planning and cooking
6. Spending time with family, children, friends and self
7. Appointments. Includes medical, school, parties and events
8. Tools
9. Car
10. Maintaining home systems and cleaning
Today we'll be addressing the number five challenge, kitchen:
Groceries
=> Take inventory of what you currently have in stock in your
pantry/cabinets and freezer/refrigerator. Write it all down on a
list. Remove any items that have expired or you find you never
use, like the special pretty little bottles of jam that you received
for your birthday.
=> If you still don't have enough storage after the inventory and
clearing of your pantry/cabinets look around your home and see
if there is a "different" place you can store your extra inventory.
For example: We have a small linen closet at the bottom of our
stairs. The bottom shelf is used for the downstairs bathroom
linens and the other four shelves are used to store any
canned/boxed/bottled goods - our pantry. When we lived in our
other house we had no extra closets so we purchased a portable
pantry, which I now use to store office supplies in. Click
http://www.overhall.com/organize_kitchen.htm for pantries and
other kitchen helpers.
=> Think about your workstations, how used and what's needed
in or by the workstation. Put back items where you use them and
put items on lower shelves that are used frequently.
=> Common workstations are: Cooking Station (stove/oven),
Cleaning Station (sink/dishwasher), Prep Station (near stove or
sink), Beverage Station (coffee pot, tea pot, blender drinks),
Storage Stations (canned/dried goods, serving goods and
perishable goods). Example: Near or around your Cleaning
Station you might have the following: drying racks, towels,
soaps, scrub brush, sponges, and lotion.
=> Post an inventory list inside each cabinet with what is on each
shelf.
=> Double your shelf space, contain your condiments,
wraps and more. Check out these kitchen organizing helpers at:
http://www.overhall.com/organize_kitchen.htm
Meal Planning and Cooking
Besides a disorganized kitchen I've found that many clients don’t
ever have meals together, choosing instead to get fast food or
carry out which can be a waste of money and become unhealthy.
=> When my children were infants and toddlers, while they were
finishing up their breakfast or playing in their seats or banging on
the pots and pans I would prepare the evening meal and get
everything I could ready to go, i.e. peel potatoes, slice and dice,
etc. So prep your evening meal during breakfast or lunch. Keep
refrigerated until needed.
=> When other activities are scheduled for the day or evening
make one pot or pan meals. A crock pot is great for this.
=> You really don’t want to be slicing and dicing when the
children are out of control, need your help or attention or have to
be picked up or dropped off. Those days - plan simple meals.
=> When I know I'm going to have a very busy week I cook all
Sunday morning, such as a turkey, ham and spaghetti. Then all I
have to do is heat up and make a salad or steam a veggie or
two. You can also cook and freeze ahead. One day of cooking
can free up a lot of time during the week.
=> Before you do your food shopping, do your meal planning.
Check your recipes, check your inventory, make your list and
then go shopping. Check out
http://www.overhall.com/menuplanning.htm for some fabulous
links for meal planning.
Once you have everything gathered and organized for ease of
use then its time to accessorize or decorate your kitchen. Be
careful- don’t clutter the areas with unnecessary “stuff” that
would get in your way or impair you from the task at hand.
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Janet Hall is a Certified Professional Organizer,
Certified Pyramid Feng Shui Practitioner, Speaker, and Author
and can help you regain control of your life, your time, your
stuff, and your environment. Organizing By Phone and in person
at http://www.overhall.com
Copyright (c) 2005 OverHall Consulting
P.O. Box 263, Port Republic, MD 20676
All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce, copy,
or distribute so long as this copyright notice and full information
about contacting the author is attached.
Are your home papers still in drawers, piles and boxes? Can't
find something when you need it? Not sure what to keep and
what to toss? Sign up for my email course, 35 Days to Sorting
and Organizing ALL Your Home Papers at:
http://www.paperclutter.com
4. Tips for Organizers & Feng Shui Consultants
Father's Day is a great time to connect to your male clients.
Take time to send out an email card or better yet a personalized
hand written card. Let them know they are not forgotten.
It's also a great time to partner up with a complimentary
business, such as a garage company that installs workbenches,
flooring, customized cabinets or shelving or a painting company.
5. Organizing Tips and Tools
OverHall Special:
Check out our special and save on our Tickler File. Check out
the secret organizing tool that ALL organized families
and successful people use on a daily basis at
http://www.overhall.com/organizing_special.htm
(Please refresh your screen if you have visited this page in the
past).
Don't forget to visit our bookstore at
http://www.overhall.com/books.htm Here you'll find
recommended reading on topics for organizing your home,
children, classroom, photos, scrapbooks, documents and Feng
Shui, Space Clearing, Time Management and Change. I even
located two books on staying organized and informed for cancer
patients, click the Health section.
A must have for every home: If Something Happens to Me.
Check it out at:
http://www.overhall.com/if_something_happens_to_me.htm
E-books and Books:
Got clutter and debt?
Check out my ebook I co-authored with
Paula Langguth Ryan, Effortless Freedom From Clutter and
Debt: Your 20 minute Roadmap for Creating a Perfectly
Balanced Life, at:
http://www.clutteranddebt.com
Having a garage or yard sale this summer?
Before you do check out this ebook, Money Making Garage
Sales by Angela Smith at
http://hop.clickbank.net/hop.cgi?overhallit/garage
Organizing Products:
Got bedroom clutter?
Check out my newest web site
http://www.bedroom-clutter.com
This site is dedicated to Master Bedrooms that contains tips,
articles and products to help you get your most sacred place
finally organized.
Software and Downloads:
Get this inexpensive Spam Filter at
http://spamarrest.com/affl?930907
Need a web site?
If you've been wanting a web site and aren't sure how to build
one check out my latest multimedia CD, FrontPage Show and
Tell. You will see my screen and hear my voice telling where and
why to click to build your web site. Introductory Special at
http://www.frontpageshowandtell.com
6. Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes
~~ Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
--Gloria Naylor
~~There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa
Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.
--Author Unknown
7. Taming the Motivation Monster
By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
Advisor to key executives
© 2005 All Rights Reserved.
One of the greatest mysteries we face is how to get,
and stay, motivated. But some new research into how our
brains work has provided exciting clues about how to
tame the "motivation monster."
Recent research has proven there's a direct route from
your eyes to a unique part of your brain called the
amygdala (ah-mig-da-la). So what? This happens without
going through the conscious portion of your cerebral
cortex (your thinking brain.)
Here's how it works, and why it is so important:
Suppose you are in your garden, you pick up a rock to
move it, and a rattlesnake crawls out. That image is
propelled directly into your amygdala to initiate an
immediate life-saving response.
You leap out of reach of the snake before you are even
aware of what you saw, or why you reacted.
Interestingly, this powerful direct pathway can also be
"trained" to carry images of anything of critical
importance to you - such as your master goals.
The secret is this: The more emotion tied to those
images, the more likely they are to be rushed directly
to your amygdala. And once they're there ... the more
likely they'll cause an automatic positive response in
support of your goals.
This is why packing your goals with hot desire and
emotion builds and sustains motivation. The more
intense your emotion, the more likely you'll notice
anything in your field of vision that relates to
reaching your goals - even if you are focused on
something else at that time!
Building "Motivation Power"
We humans are motivated by basically two things -
gaining pleasure, and avoiding pain. Anthony Robbins
claims that that pain is a greater motivator that
pleasure, and I tend to agree with him.
Here's a little exercise that could help you fire up
your emotions, and get your "amygdala shunt" working
for you:
Imagine walking into a room and meeting the "you" of
ten years from today. What will you look like? How will
you be dressed? Where will you be living? What will
your lifestyle be like? What car will you be driving?
Will you be running a business? If so, how successful
will you be? What will your net worth be?
You really only have three choices about how your image
of the "you of the future" will look. Your choices look
something like this:
Choice One: Somewhere between how you are today, and a
totally broken mess. Here's where the "avoiding pain"
motivator could kick in.
Choice Two: An exact duplicate of how you are now
except ten years older. Absolutely nothing will have
changed in a decade. Again - not a very satisfying
picture for most of us, and perhaps a strong "avoid
pain" motivator for many.
Choice Three: A happier, healthier version of the "you
of today." This will kick in the "gain pleasure"
motivator.
Selecting Your Best Motivator
Obviously, no one would choose to visualize choice
number one. But in doing so, you may in fact create a
hot and intense "amygdala shunt."
So every time you see some image that reminds you of
NOT moving ahead, your amygdala shunt will spur you to
take automatic action. "Make that phone call NOW," it
will insist - and you will have the telephone in your
hand before you even think to procrastinate.
If you choose option number 2, you are effectively
saying that nothing will change over the next ten
years. You will be older - but your lifestyle will
basically remain the same as it is today. That is - the
"you of 10 years in the future" will be identical to
"today's you."
You will still face today's problems and frustrations,
but will have ten more years of them piled up. This is
an active decision to remain in your comfort zone -
which is actually only an illusion of safety.
It's an illusion because in today's rapidly changing
world, what you call your comfort zone is being eroded
beneath your feet as you read this.
That leaves option number three. This is the arena of
dreams and wishes. If all we had to do was have a
dream, and if would then automatically come true, none
of us would ever have to set goals ...and try to build
the motivation to achieve them.
But the fact is - dreams only come true if we wake up
and go to work. And unless you are a most unusual
person, you usually find that the problems and
challenges of everyday life take priority over working
to manifest your dreams.
So - obviously holding a happy picture of some future
life may NOT build the intense fire and desire required
to create that desired lifestyle!
If your motivation is NOT adequate to overcome
procrastination, you might want to take a good hard,
look at what you DON'T want in your life. If you can
fire up some intense emotion about NOT continuing to
have that in your life, you may well find your amygdala
shunt pumping some new action-energy into your life!
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Jill Ammon-Wexler is a doctor of psychology, former
consultant to the Pentagon and a Presidential
Commission, and a peak performance advisor to top
executives and entrepreneurs. Her powerful "Take
Charge" personal achievement ecourse is being used is
27 countries by thousands of individuals seeking the
ultimate in personal empowerment.
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Harmony and Balance to all,
Janet L. Hall, CPO/CRMS (tm), FSII/FSIA
The Organizing and Feng Shui Wizard
Let me work my "magic" on your Clutter, Life, and Environment!
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Janet L. Hall is the owner of OverHall Consulting, and
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and can be reached at 800-687-3040 or 410-586-9440, or e-
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Janet can "OverHall" your office, home, and computer clutter
and can deliver a customized speech or seminar for your next
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