Monthly Archives: April 2010

Favorite Books for Creating Peace, Order, and Connection in Daily Life

By Viv | Published: April 24, 2010
These books are on this list of favorites because they are easy and fun to read. They help me establish a sense of focus and direction, and they teach me how to better organize my time, my space, my money, and my life. I refer to them again and again and share them with others. [...]
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Professional Coaches: Building a Supportive Community

By Viv | Published: April 22, 2010
Dedicated to the Wild Women: Jennifer, BJ, Karen, Paulette, Jan, Mo, Sigrid & me. It was 10 years ago I began coach training with the Academy for Coach Training (now Invite Change). The training itself was supportive from the start. Coaches are trained to take a good hard look at our own “stuff” and deal [...]
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Collected Pearls

By Viv | Published: April 22, 2010
These collected pearls of wisdom come from random notes I jotted down one spring day in 2005 while perusing Fortune Magazine. Don’t trust the common wisdom.  Base knowledge on facts and analysis and not on “what everybody knows.” when things are chaotic and out of control, do your triage; stop the bleeding.  Then figure out [...]
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The Next Step

By Viv | Published: April 17, 2010
The Next Step:  A process to help you take small steps forward on projects, tasks and other things – with built-in time to enjoy yourself. Objective: to break down projects into short doable tasks, creating as much joy and interest as possible. The Situation: you have a lot of things you want to accomplish during [...]
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Meal Planning Made Easy

By Viv | Published: April 16, 2010
A household with two teenagers and their wacky parents can be hectic especially when it comes to planning and preparing meals.  I’ve come up with a solution that has served us well.  It requires about 2 hours of up front thinking, but then meal planning only takes 10 minutes a week from then on.  Here’s [...]
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Virtue in Yard Waste

By Viv | Published: April 16, 2010
Have you ever stood at the refrigerator, its shelves crammed full of opaque containers, squishy plastic bags, and mysterious-looking half-filled jars?  If your fridge is anything like mine, the melange includes covered bowls housing cuddly particles of biology and other flora and funghi. Did you ever wonder why you waited so long to toss that last bite [...]
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Parenting Challenging Teens

By Viv | Published: April 3, 2010
Resources for Families with Challenging Teenagers Changes Parent Support Network , Seattle, Washington This is a structured, self-help program for parents with destructive, out-of-control or violent children. This program focuses on the parents, not the child.Supported by a large group of parent-peers, all of whom have “been there,” most of whom are still “there,” you [...]
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Clean Up Your Room!: 10 inspiring ways to declutter a space

By Viv | Published: April 3, 2010
Some people can just walk in the room and start picking up without fanfare.  I can’t do that. I need a fun method.  Make that 10 methods.  I have at least 10 tricks I regularly use to clean up the clutter in my home and life.  Sometimes I’ll use 3 or 4 methods for one [...]
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