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Balance Boosters!
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Dietta L. Stewart
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Jan 05, 2003 16:30 PST
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Balance Boosters
“The monthly e-zine for busy women who want to balance their lives
and reach their full potential.”
January/2003
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***What’s Inside***
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Notes from Dietta
Feature Article: 5 Ways to Win the War on Clutter
Further Reading
Books for Balance
Ad Swaps
Subscribe/Unsubscribe Info
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“The most balancing thing we can do for ourselves is accept the joy of
feeling balanced when we do, recognizing that the balancing and
rebalancing of ourselves is an ongoing process that offers us a
minute-by-minute opportunity.”
Anne Wilson Schaef
Meditations For Living in Balance
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Notes from Dietta…
Hello and welcome to the New Year! Call me crazy but I love New Year's
Day. I love the thought and the opportunity to start over. The chance
of a new beginning inspires and motivates me.
I am blessed each year to have a full two weeks off of work during the
Christmas and New Year’s holiday. I look forward to this time and have
come to depend on it for a chance to regroup and refocus my life. One
of the big things I like to do during this time is clean.
Balance Boosters will now become a monthly e-zine, so you will receive
a new issue on the first Monday of each month. In an effort to maintain
my own balance, I have to scale back a bit. I also felt that this would
be easier for everyone’s schedules. I hope this works for you.
In this month’s feature article I will share with you some
things I have learned about clearing the clutter out of my life. I have
avoided an article about New Year’s resolutions because I just don’t
think they work, at least not for me. And I am guessing that they don’t
work so well for a lot of you either. Instead, writing our goals down
and reviewing them needs to take place more than once a year, and it
needs to become a regular part of how we manage our lives.
Please be sure to visit the Balance Boosters website
http://www.balanceboosters.com as I have made a few changes. I am also
offering “52 Ways to Balance Your Life” to new subscribers. As a
current subscriber you are eligible to receive this report as well. To
receive your free copy send a blank email to:
52waysto-@getresponse.com and it will arrive in your mailbox
automatically.
Dietta
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Feature Article
5 Ways to Win the War on Clutter
By: Dietta L. Stewart
I had probably walked past that closet a hundred times, each time
telling myself
how badly it needed cleaned. But each time I had an excuse. A good one
too,
I’d get to it next weekend. Finally, after many weeks of putting it off
I opened
the door to my youngest daughter’s closet. It had been declared a
hazardous
area, I would need special equipment before moving in. Armed with my
13-gallon
trash bag I took a deep breath and ventured in. What a mess. A half
hour into the
task I wondered if there was an end to the mounds of Barbie shoes,
jewelry beads,
crayons, (hey, these are brand new crayons!), Barbie clothes, doll house
furniture…
You get the idea.
About 3 hours and 5, yes 5 trash bags later, I was finished. The closet
had been
seized and conquered. I had won one more battle over clutter. I
wondered if I’d
ever win the war. I decided that I could. I’m going to show you how
you can too.
Clutter is a monster that grows and multiplies without warning and
appears when we
aren’t looking. Clutter is a thief of peace and balance. It takes up
space in our homes,
and our hearts. Clearing the clutter out of your life is surprisingly
liberating. Even after
cleaning a small space like a drawer in your kitchen you will suddenly
feel lighter.
Choose today to restore energy and vitality to your life by clearing
away the clutter.
Here are 5 easy ways to get you started.
1. Define Clutter. What does clutter mean to you? In order to defeat
something you
have to know what it is you’re fighting.
2. Take one area at a time. Sort through your stuff, clean and dust as
you go. Get
rid of things that no longer fit who you are.
3. Do regular clutter maintenance to keep it from getting out of
control. Create a
a schedule for major clutter clearing, like spring and fall, or every
New Year’s day.
4. Create a space for everything.
5. Decide what areas won’t be clutter free. Unless you live by
yourself or with
someone who is very neat, you have to deal with other people’s clutter.
If we
let it, clutter can cause many the argument, heartache and headache. To
alleviate the stress of trying to control someone else’s clutter accept
that some areas
will always be cluttered unless the person or people creating the
clutter changes or
cleans it up. This is okay. Every where we have lived my husband has
created a
spot where he puts everything he brings into the house and leaves it
there. Magazines,
mail, tools, you name it. In the past I would let this frustrate me and
I tried my best to
change it, after over ten years of marriage it still hasn’t changed. I
don’t think it ever
will, so I have learned to live with it. When I’m in the mood I clean
it up. When I’m
not, I leave it.
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Dietta L. Stewart is the Editor of the monthly newsletter Balance
Boosters and the author of
The Balanced Woman: A Christian Woman’s Guide to Balanced Living. To
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Further Reading
Having it All
mailto:having-@sendfree.com
Getting From Burned Out to Pumped Up
http://www.balanceboosters.com/getting_from_burned.htm
Books For Balance
Start the New Year Reading. Visit below for books to help you balance
your life.
http://www.balanceboosters.com/books_for_balance.htm
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your ad here and you put one of my ads in your newsletter or on your
website) with me? If so, please contact me by email at
mailto:die-@balanceboosters.com
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SEE YA NEXT MONTH!
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