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Automating Family Calendars With Cozi

Posted on April 27, 2011 by LJ Earnest

One of the hardest things I have had to keep track of is the family calendar. Not because of my daughter’s activities, but because my husband wouldn’t give me the information. I tried everything. I asked for hard copies. I asked for him to write his activities on the family calendar. I even wrote an Outlook macro that would send his calendar to me with the push of two keys. Nothing worked.

Until I found Cozi lurking on my new computer.

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Simplifying Your Computer

Posted on April 20, 2011 by LJ Earnest

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. Let me start out by saying that one of the most life-complicating things I have ever done was to replace all the home computers at the same time. And after confessing that to a very good friend and former IT co-worker, she looked [...]

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2 Basics for Getting Things Done Faster

Posted on April 4, 2011 by LJ Earnest

I am taking two weeks off from blogging. Enjoy this article from the archive! This article was originally published on 19 June 2007. One of the ways to get things done faster is to set a tight deadline…and then pare down the task at hand to the bare essentials. The [...]

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Organizing Papers on the Go

Posted on March 30, 2011 by LJ Earnest

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. There are a lot of different aspects to managing my Brownie troop right now, and all of them seem to involve paperwork. (The Girl Scouts thrive on paperwork, but that is another story…) I found that if I dumped everything into my Girl [...]

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How To Simplify Zone Cleaning Lists

Posted on March 23, 2011 by LJ Earnest

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. I recently wrote about how I converted my cleaning system from Flylady’s original 5 zones to 13 zones. A reader asked me to share my cleaning lists for the zones. Since I don’t want to get into providing my lists to the world, [...]

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Simplifying Your Social Life

Posted on March 18, 2011 by GuestPost

This is a guest post by Mariana Ashley. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guest post guidelines. For some of us, keeping up with a social calendar seems more like a chore than a preferable pastime. If you sometimes feel forced to keep up [...]

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Repurposing Decorations: St. Patrick’s Day, Easter and Beyond

Posted on March 17, 2011 by GuestPost

This is a guest post by Rebecca Chelsey. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guest post guidelines here. There are so many major holidays in a year that by Christmas your storage room (or in my case, the attic) is stuffed with boxes of [...]

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Simplify Laundry by Wearing Clothes More

Posted on March 16, 2011 by LJ Earnest

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. What’s the easiest way to do less laundry? Have less laundry to do. That’s not a flip answer. It really does simplify laundry. Cut down on the number of things that you need to wash, dry, iron, fold and put away, and laundry [...]