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Are you feeling adrift too?

By Hazel Thornton | May 25, 2020 |

              PLEASE NOTE: If your life is shipshape and full-speed-ahead, this post is not for you. Carry on! If, however, you’re feeling adrift, keep reading…

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Org4life: Puzzles & Games

By Hazel Thornton | May 18, 2020 |

Do you enjoy puzzles and games? If so, great! If not so much, allow me to remind you how many different types of puzzles there are! To name just a few: Logic Puzzles Math Puzzles Word puzzles Riddles Brainteasers Jigsaw puzzles Here’s a list of related Org4life blog posts, and the current status of my…

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Are you wasting your “free time”?

By Hazel Thornton | May 1, 2020 |

Which type of person are you? Are you spending your quarantine time at home, reading books, watching Netflix, doing jigsaw puzzles, and enjoying the heck out of it? Or maybe you’re industriously cooking and gardening, retooling your business to provide virtual services, cleaning and organizing your entire house, catching up on home repairs, learning a…

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Our Ancestors and the 1918 Spanish Flu

By Hazel Thornton | April 1, 2020 |

  So… we’re all locked down, to various degrees, in a worldwide effort to help stop the spread of the novel COVID-19 Coronavirus. And everyone knows that this 2020 pandemic is the worst thing since the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. From Wikipedia: The Spanish flu was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. Lasting from January 1918…

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5 Secrets of Truly Free 30 Day Trials

By Hazel Thornton | March 23, 2020 |

Life feels scary right now because everything seems out of control. We can’t personally solve all of the world’s health, financial, social, environmental, and political issues, but we can focus on controlling our own little corner of the world, bit by bit. Starting with “free” trials.

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Thriving in the Midst of Chaos

By Hazel Thornton | March 16, 2020 |

                  There’s nothing like a crisis to bring out the helpful spirit and creativity in people. Now that everyone’s stocked up on toilet paper, and hunkered down safely, the ideas are coming fast and furiously! One might think that my happily-introverted, self-employed, semi-retired, virtual-service-providing self might be…

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Social Distancing: Introverts, we’re up!

By Hazel Thornton | March 12, 2020 |

Almost overnight, social distancing has become a household term. If you haven’t heard yet, it’s a bona fide method of slowing down the spread of disease, namely the Coronavirus (COVID-19). And it has an entire Wikipedia page devoted to it! (If you look at nothing else on the page while you’re there, don’t miss the…

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The Worry Matrix

The Worry Matrix: How to Decide What’s Worth Worrying About

By Hazel Thornton | March 8, 2020 |

  The Worry Matrix is a handy, printable tool that will help you decide what’s worth worrying about, and what isn’t. In my previous posts — Clearing Mental Clutter and Why Worry? Take Action! — I covered the following concepts: Worrying is just a form of mental clutter. Worrying is like praying for something you…

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What do you love about your office? Here’s what I love about mine.

By Hazel Thornton | February 12, 2020 |

I think the key to being productive is to be comfortable and happy spending time in your office. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a corporate cubicle; a dedicated room at home with a door that closes; or another space you’ve carved out for yourself. If you love your office, great! Carry on. If you don’t,…

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Org4life’s 15 Best Blog Posts Ever

By Hazel Thornton | January 27, 2020 |

As part of my celebration of 15 years in the organizing biz, I’ve put together this list of my 15 best blog posts for you. (Oops, I already couldn’t resist sneaking an extra one in with a link!) What makes a blog post one of my “best”? Well, I chose them all for different reasons,…

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