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Thoreau said it more than 150 years ago: "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" If that advice was needed before railroads had even spread across the country, how much more do we need it today? Simplify Your Life . . . We have more choices today than ever. More communication channels, more ways to entertain...

The holiday season always pulls my attention in too many different directions. It's not that I attend a thousand parties or engineer an award-winning display of lights. But the socializing and shopping and travel seem to put just enough extra on my plate that I find myself frazzled. What I'm doing about...

Nobody wants to think about it, but as humans we all face the same end to our life stories. As the novelist Annie Dillard put it, "We are all terminal patients." Since that's the truth, I suggest that you think about your life balance by taking on the unusual task of writing your own obituary. Give Yourself...

Download a Free Spending Journal Is it working? Is 2011 working for you in terms of life balance? If not, there's still time to get on track -- not just for the rest of this year, but for every timeframe from the rest of this day to the rest of your life. Think about these sets of categories and pause...

Repeat after me: What will I do differently in 2011? Say it again. Get in a quiet room by yourself and say it out loud. Say it ten times if you need to. Grab a pen and a notepad and start writing down some answers. Your answers can be anything: little tips and tricks, serious changes of habit, pipe dreams...

Let's get started with two quotes from Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life , by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau -- a useful book even for those of us not diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder: 1. "If decision-making is not your strength, accumulating things will be your weakness."...