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Monday Morning Motivator-"Land The Plane..."

"LAND THE PLANE..." That's what our younger daughter (one of the funniest people I know) says to me when I go on and on and on (and on) about something - it could be anything - from a meeting I had,  to an outfit I'm thinking of wearing for a speech, to a movie I watched. Sometimes she follows it with, "You didn't realize that I stopped listening five minutes ago, did you?" So I've gotten into the habit of making myself cut straight to the chase - usually just a split second before her eyes…See More
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Monday Morning Motivator-"PAUSE/RESET"

"PAUSE/RESET"  I was working out in a gym on a treadmill the other day and spotted those words. Wow, I thought. I need to do that - not in my workout - in my life... like on a daily basis. You know what I mean: Life has a way of momentarily getting the best of us - we flip out because the traffic's so bad that we're going to be at least 15 minutes late to a meeting it took six weeks to schedule. Or, the flight that we killed ourselves to make, was canceled - twice - thanks to bad weather and we…See More
May 14
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Monday Morning Moticator-"I'M GLAD I'M HERE..."

"I'M GLAD I'M HERE..." Those are the first four words of the mantra my mentor, the late Dorothy Sarnoff - arguably the best speech coach in the country - taught me. Dorothy knew how to capture and move an audience. She was the second female lead in the original Broadway production of "The King and I" (among numerous other shows) and eventually created her own firm to help many great people, like Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin and the "Great Communicator" himself, Ronald Reagan, "own the room."…See More
May 6
Shelley L. posted a status
"Threw out about 80 cardboard coasters from the dining room along with the basket they were sitting in for the past 4 years."
May 4
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What happened when I threw out my fifty...

I am a "stuff person" to the core. And so, initially, Gail's call to throw out fifty things scared the crap out of me. But after hearing her speak, I was inspired to buy her book, and then... I heard the "throwing out" calling! My personal throwing-out story:I did a major purge.  First, there was the clock.  I'd bought it for a friend's bridal shower.  I missed the shower after I was up all night crying over a breakup with a boyfriend.  Somehow, I never got around to giving it to my friend, and…See More
May 3
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Scorpion Equniox Radio Show at Radio

May 2, 2012 from 5:45pm to 6:15pm
click on the following linkhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/scorpion-equinox-/2012/05/02/guest-gail-blanke to hear my interview at 5:45 EST.See More
May 2
Paula Hurtt posted a status
"I just found this website. Boy am I glad it's out there. I really need the kick in the butt!"
May 1
Gail Blanke posted a discussion

Monday Morning Motivator- OWN IT!

OWN IT!Sometimes I think we treat ourselves like we're one of those little wood-burning stoves. You know what I mean: Something good happens - our  presentation gets great reviews, somebody says they love our outfit or our hair - or that we look, uh, "younger..." Or we run into our favorite teacher from high school who tells us that we were his "best" student. Or a guy on a bike whistles at us. (Yeah, baby.) And for a moment, we smile, nod, make a hand gesture like the golfer who sinks the long…See More
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Apr 24
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Monday Morning Motivator-NOT THIS LIFETIME...

NOT THIS LIFETIME...Okay, it's time to clear the decks - time to actually decide what we're going to do - and what we aren't. It's time to actually finish the unfinished business of our lives. Past time, actually. Because here's the thing, if we don't, if we allow all the "incompletions" of our lives to continue to build up - like plaque - we clog the vital arteries to our minds, our hearts, our futures... So here's a really simple process to follow; it won't hurt, it won't even be hard. And…See More
Apr 23
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AMY'S TABLE: A GUIDE TO LIVING at Radio

April 23, 2012 from 5:45pm to 6:15pm
Gail will be on AMY'S TABLE: A GUIDE TO LIVING Monday April 23rd at 5:45 PM EST to listen please click on the linkhttp://tunein.com/radio/Amys-Table-p129234/  See More
Apr 20
 

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Monday Morning Motivator-"Land The Plane..."

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Monday Morning Motivator-"PAUSE/RESET"

Started by Gail Blanke May 14.

Monday Morning Moticator-"I'M GLAD I'M HERE..."

Started by Gail Blanke May 6.

What happened when I threw out my fifty...

Started by Elura Nanos May 3.

Monday Morning Motivator- OWN IT!

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Finally at my wits end!... And I mean it this time! XD

I have never been able to say no easily.  Especially to accepting bag after bag of hand-me-down items.  I have a hard time getting rid of things anyway.  "But it's so pretty" or "So-and-so gave me that".... excuse after excuse led to pile after pile.  I started cleaning out while reading the book, and have had multiple spurts afterwards as well.  I've done a pretty good job, but keeping the momentum for the task at hand is proving difficult.  I typically get busy running around and forget to…

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Posted by Kayla Alexander on January 26, 2012 at 3:00pm

Area 1 - Bedroom

Master Bedroom (Weekend, January 21st - 22nd)

  1. Tarnished metal bookmark, from "personal items" box by bed, into garbage.
  2. Half melted stick of lip balm, from "personal items" box by bed, into garbage.
  3. Misc. hair clips and ornaments from container in closet.  Old, worn, and defective into the garbage; ziploc'd newer, still clean and pretty items for donation at Value Village (unique locally, in taking very small items and rebagging them as small collections, eg.,…
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Posted by DJ Wight on January 22, 2012 at 1:00pm

Enough, already.

I have spent most of the last 8 years of my life fighting STUFF.

First my own STUFF, for a year.

Then my late mother's STUFF, for most of three years.  That's because she was exposed post-mortem as what I would now call a Class 1.5 hoarder (basically a Class 2 without pets) whose tastes unfortunately did not run to much that could simply be kicked to the curb or into recycling.

Then back to my own STUFF (including inherited) for three or four years.  Long periods of near…

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Posted by DJ Wight on January 22, 2012 at 12:00am

Thanks for the inspiration!

I'm new to 'Throw Out Fifty Things" and finding the website, checking it out, reading the posts, articles, all... has been just the motivator I've needed to get my butt in gear. Situations beyond my control wreaked havoc on my home. I've been dragging ass for several months. Gail, and all of you are exactly what I need right now. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Posted by Beth Holmes on January 8, 2012 at 3:02am — 3 Comments

The Tupperware Avalanche...

Does everyone have "that" cupboard? It's similar to "that" drawer in the kitchen that everyone has... The one with the dried Krazy Glue, the dead batteries, cords from 9 cell phones ago, instruction manuals to thinks you don't remember owning, twist ties, single screws, calendars from 1998, keys that go to nowhere... you know "that" drawer that acts as an orphanage to anything that will fit, even if you have to push it down with your foot before you close it. I have a cupboard. For all the…

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Posted by Christine Arsenault Josey on November 3, 2011 at 1:33pm — 3 Comments

 
 
 

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