Setting organizational priorities

10 tips to vacation right where you live

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How much do you know about the town you live in? What can you do there for fun that you’ve maybe never done before? If someone was coming to visit you, what would you recommend they do? Then why not do that yourself!?

Taking a vacation is important as a way to reset your brain and is a great way to add energy to your life. With Covid rampant again, airlines unpredictable, and gas prices making even car travel expensive, taking advantage of all your town has to offer is a great way to take a break without breaking your wallet or your sanity!

In this talk, I’ll give you 10 tips for ways to vacation right where you live. I hope you have fun with the content. Happy summer!!

Getting in sync with your core self

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You were born with unique gifts to share with the world. When those gifts sync up with what you do on a daily basis, the positive energy of getting to your best work makes you productive and joyous – and we all benefit from that!

This talk challenges you to figure out what your unique gifts are, and to compare that to how you spend your time. Is there stuff in your core you never get to? And/or are you spending time on fun or work that doesn’t touch you at a core level?

More thoughts here!

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“Grow wild according to thy nature.” – Henry David Thoreau

What do you want to be known for?

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I recorded this short video before taking off to travel for a couple of weeks. Traveling tests your mettle – it takes your brand and shakes it up! But more to come on that in my next post.

In the meantime, here are some thoughts and questions about who you are and what you stand for. Are you 100% guaranteed?

How can you get more done without stressing out?

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This video gets to the heart of feeling in control of your time and destiny when you’re ready to get more done and bring more peace into your life. A small amount of planning each day will take you a long, long way!

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What takes up the most time in your life?

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If you can’t seem to get to the good stuff in your life, doing a Time Audit can help you visualize how to allocate your time in a new way.

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Tip to Prioritize Your Best Work: Write Your Ideal Obituary

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We have a limited amount of time on this earth. When you go, what would you like to leave behind? And how would you like to be remembered?

Writing an Ideal Obituary for yourself helps you prioritize on a daily basis. If you’re faced with a task, favor, short-term goal, or long-term goal that doesn’t support your Ideal, what could you do instead that gets you closer to the life you want to live and the memories you want to leave behind?

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A stack of rocks can help you prioritize the best things in your life.

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What are the top priorities in your life? And how are you going to get to them? Creating a visual image can help you picture ways to make choices that get you to your best, most heart-happy work. That, plus a little time thinking, of course.

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I’m back!

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It’s been almost a year since Covid bounced me off my writing path and I ended up back in Portland, Maine. It’s been an insightful year despite the restrictions of a pandemic. Before I left to travel and write, I got divorced, sold my house, and quit my job. So when I came back to Maine, I had no responsibilities and no agenda. What’s an organizer to do with no agenda?

I wrote – not the book I intended to write based on history and travel – but a book called Organizational Zen (which has the fun nickname of OZ!). OZ captures the essence of what I write about in this blog. How do you get to your best work? How do you stay calm amidst chaos? How do you remain joyful in the face of life’s many challenges and uncertainties?

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Same dream; new plan

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I’m a planner, as you may know. I like to keep things organized and to get a lot done each day. This year, I decided to put aside a busy life and have just one thing on my list: write a sequel to my Gunny Malone novel. In order to clear my list, my plan was to travel and write-in-place. To be inspired by the places I was writing about including rounding Cape Horn on a ship. To write as I followed the trail west from Virginia to San Francisco. To write as I spent time in Alexandria, Virginia, Washington, DC, and Charleston, South Carolina. And to write while living for a month on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland.

I had worked on my plans for about a year. I had an over-sized map on my wall with places I wanted to go, things I wanted to see, and people I was going to stay with. I got camping equipment and a new car for the journey, one I could sleep in if necessary. I quit my job. I sold my house. And I hit the road on February 26th. Continue reading →