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PSSimplify Newsletter April 2009

This month check out some of our favorite ideas for simplifying your life.

Welcome Julie Huneycutt!

PSSimplify is now adding event planning to our services offered. Julie joins PSSimplify as our events and catering professional! With Julie’s help, any event becomes simple and elegant. You do not need to spend hundreds of dollars to entertain. Julie and her team will plan the party for you from set-up to clean-up. Our goal is to exceed your expectations with 100% customer satisfaction.

Coming Soon – PSSimplify’s ONLINE STORE – www.pssimplifystore.com!

One of our specialties is helping people downsize. As we do this, it is our goal to recycle items no longer needed by our clients. To do this efficiently, we are in the process of creating an online store front. Check back often to find great deals on bags, clothes, shoes, household items, furniture, etc. (www.pssimplifystore.com) Local shoppers will not have to pay shipping. We will deliver the items in Lexington for free.

Simple tricks to simplify your life:

Three-box decluttering. If you’re trying to declutter a room, drawer, shelf, desk … use three boxes to quickly sort everything. Just quickly go through each shelf or drawer or flat surface at once, putting things into three separate boxes: Trash, Donate, Maybe. The first two boxes are obvious … the Maybe box is for stuff you’re not too sure about — you can put this in storage for a few months and decide later. Put everything else — the stuff you love and use — back neatly.

Deflect all requests for a week. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, make the decision that you will not say “yes” to any new requests this week. If you get a new request, politely decline. If it’s a request you can’t decline, tell them you’ll get to it next week because you have some projects you need to finish this week. Then pick one or two or even three projects (depending on their sizes) and focus on finishing them this week. You can worry about new stuff next week. Repeat this trick when needed.

Start your day with peace. This one is so easy to implement and yet it can have such a powerful effect on your day. When you first rise, do something that is calming and peaceful. That might be running or walking, having a quiet cup of coffee with a book, watching the sunrise, prayer, meditating or yoga … whatever works well for you. It can be 10 minutes or an hour, but find some peace in the morning and use it to calm you throughout your entire day.

Eat only 7 things. If you’re trying to be healthy, but are having a hard time navigating complicated diets, try this trick to simplify things. Limit yourself to non-packaged foods. Eat only seven things: fruits, veggies, whole grains, lean protein, lean calcium, beans, nuts, good fats. Nothing from a box. This will require that you cook your food, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. More on this topic coming soon from PSSimplify.

Go media free. If your life is filled with information overload, and you find little time to do the things you love to do, consider eliminating media from your life, at least temporarily. This includes cable TV, DVDs, newspapers and magazines, Internet news and the like. Now, I’m not saying you should eliminate the things you love. You might love a certain TV show — in that case, eliminate everything else. You can go media free for a week to see if it improves your life.

Limit yourself to 3 tasks. If your to-do list is long and overwhelming, pick three tasks you want to do today — important tasks that aren’t just urgent but actually have a long-lasting impact on your life. Focus on getting these three tasks done before anything else. If you finish early, you can either call it a day or get some bonus tasks done.

Limit yourself to one project. How many projects are you juggling right now? If there are too many, you might be limiting your effectiveness. Instead, focus on one project right now, and put the others on the back-burner. Try to get that one project done as quickly as possible, and then work on the next one

30-day rule. This is a fantastic trick for those who have trouble with impulse buying — that great enemy of simplifying. The rule is that if you want to buy something, you have to write it on your 30-day list, with the date that it was added to the list. After 30 days, if you still want it, you can buy it. This will help you distinguish between wants and needs, a great skill for simplifying.

One in, two out. When you bring something into your house, you have to get rid of two things. The normal rule is one in, one out, but somehow that never seems to work — things still accumulate. Instead, get rid of two things and things will stay simple.

Limit storage space. Do you tend to save everything? Have tons of stuff in storage, in closets or attics or garages or cupboards? The less storage you have, the less stuff you’ll save — which will save you the stress of having to go through all that storage to find stuff, to organize stuff, to maintain stuff, to get rid of old stuff.

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