Quote of the Month
“God created company so the house would get cleaned.”
~Rita Emmet
in The Procrastinator's Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now
Previous Quotes of the Month
“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.”
~Brendan Francis
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness
for responsibility.”
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Maintenance becomes a way of life built on a package
of alert attitudes and action.”
~Sandra Felton
in Smart Organizing
“If decision-making is not your strength,
accumulating things will be your weakness.”
~Judith Kolberg & Kathleen Nadeau, PH.D.
in ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
“Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”
~Thomas A. Edison
“The true test of whether a space is organized is not how it looks but how it functions.”
~Jamie Novak, Professional Organizer
“Nothing is so fatiquing as the eternal hanging on
of an uncompleted task.”
~Williams James
“Attention is like money:
If we don't watch how we spend it, we waste it.”
~Edward M. Hallowell, MD
in
Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap
“On machines used to measure energy output (vibrations
emitted by color) manila registers nearly a flat-line. If you
want to kill action on anything, putting it inside a manila
folder will do the trick.”
~Judith Kolberg
in Conquering Chronic Disorganization
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember,
you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to
reach for the stars to change the world.”
~Denis Waitley
“Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite
of the roadblocks that lay before you”
~Harriet Tubman
“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”
~Logan Pearsall Smith
“Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.”
~Paul J. Meyer
“Is what I have what I really want, or is it what I've settled for because it was easy, safe, or not as scary as what I really want?”
~Phil C. McGraw, Ph.D.
in Life Strategies
“Don't fight against your ADD; work with your ADD to
take charge of your life.”
~Judith Kolberg & Kathleen Nadeau, PH.D.
in
ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
“There is a difference between striving for excellence and striving for
perfection. The first is attainable, gratifying, and healthy. The
second is unattainable, frustrating, and neurotic. It is also a
terrible waste of time.”
~Edwin Bliss
“Avoiding the phrase “I don't have time...”, will soon help you to
realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you
choose to accomplish in life”
~Bo Bennett
“When organization is done well, it fades into the background,
allowing you to have a life.”
~Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
in
The Well-Ordered Home: Organizing Techniques for Inviting Serenity into Your Life
“All you need is a vision of yourself as a person of worth and dignity
living in a way that reflects those qualities.”
~Sandra Felton
in Messie No More: Understanding and Overcoming the Roadblocks to Being Organized
“You'll always pay a price when you choose to keep a Thing: the time,
money, or energy needed to house and maintain it.”
~Cindy Glovinsky, M.S.W., A.C.S.W.
in Making Peace with the Things in Your Life: Why Your Papers, Books, Clothes, and Other Possessions Keep Overwhelming You and What to Do About It
“If you don't know you have it, or you can't find it, it is of NO value to
you!”
~Barbara Hemphill
creator of Taming the Paper Tiger
“You create your own experience by and through the choices you
make every day.”
~Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.
in Life Strategies
“That which you cannot give away, you do not possess. It possesses
you.”
~Ivern Ball
“Remember that every item you leave out in the open creates one
more piece of clutter, which results in difficulty in finding things,
which results in lost time, which results in frustration.”
~Dorothy Lehmkuhl and Dolores Cotter Lamping, C.S.W.
in Organizing for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Styles for Conquering Clutter, Mastering Time, and Reaching Your Goals
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60
minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
~C.S.Lewis
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small
stones.”
~a Chinese Proverb
