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This time of year everyone is making resolutions, setting goals, and all that. If you aren’t a resolution lover (like me), you will love this resolution Top 10 list.
Jenny Isenman of the Suburban Jungle Blog gives us her humorous take on New Year Goals.(If you like this, you’ll want to subscribe to her blog)
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Allison Carter is featured on 11 Alive/NBC Atlanta.Just in time for Get Organized Month.And that’s my real home office. Lots of color for me makes it work.

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Lots of people I organize with say they are “visual” and want to have the fun, pretty things out where they can see them and enjoy their space.Yesterday, working with a client, this became a slight sticking point because the area was utility shelves in her laundry room, which can be seen from the kitchen [...]

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During my Creativity Consult with author SARK, I took the opportunity to ask her about her own organizing habits.When she was in Atlanta on book tour I found out she was not only organized, she confessed to being ultra-organized, something that is hard for a creative person to own, because creatives are supposed to be [...]

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I drank from the SARK water tonight and I’m on a high!I won a creativity consultation with the author in a blogging contest and I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect prize. See I’ve been hesitating to promote my book “Color Me Organized” because my evil lizard self keeps sending me “not good enough” [...]

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Part 1 - The StuffIt’s me. I admit it. I’m a gadget junkie. It started out as a kid. I wanted a calculator (can you guess my age?) They were expensive and were the Bar Mitzvah gift of choice. It grew as I collected walkman after walkman, cd players, tape recorders and cameras. Then came [...]

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There is a lot of great advice on the internet about how to be creative, get inspired, start when staring at a blank page….This is one of my favorite lists - from Gaping Void’s Hugh Macleod.Here is a sampling to whet your appetite:
15. The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally [...]

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Coming up with ideas is difficult for so many people.
Not for us creatives!
Ideas come bubbling up all the time for me.
I had so many more activity and how-to ideas that I had to update the activity-play-book for the clutter challenged.
I’ve uploaded the newest version on lulu.com (she said relieved - as if going through childbirth.)
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Marketing advice is everywhere these days.But everyone in business has a lightbulb moment - a favorite piece of advice that gets your wheels turning in a new direction.The best piece of marketing advice I got was to stop doing my own marketing.Us creatives think if we’re visual we are certainly going to do work [...]

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Creative people couldn’t be living at a better time.Our techie counterparts have made it soooo easy for us to take our ideas and make them into interesting and memorable products that can be used for ourselves, shared, and sold.I’m talking about books. Picture books. Word books. Work books. And play books.The internet abounds with places [...]