Paula Eder, The Time Finder Expert

Here's a de-cluttering conundrum that one of our e-zine subscribers recently wrote us about. The solution may be helpful for you, too!

I’m sharing an exercise today that will really help you with letting go of clutter.

Do you sometimes feel like your life is riddled with competing priorities, impossible to-do lists, feelings that intrude and keep you up at night, and distracting information overload? You'll find practical help here!

I worked with the exercise you shared in your last e-zine but found that, no matter what I tried, I was not able to step beyond my feelings of overwhelm. Help! Can you give me some more detail about where I can go with this?

How you experience your time is affected both by your feelings and by your circumstances. While you may not be able to change or directly impact your circumstances, you are always making choices about your feelings. So, in today’s exercise, I am going to walk you through a brief scenario and then offer some questions to help you recognize your feelings and then affirm your power to make conscious choices about them.

When you’re overwhelmed, it’s hard to let go and stop working to overcome it, even for a second. But the reality is that as your efforts become more and more frenetic, you’re behaving like someone who’s drowning.

Time is an enigma. It is concrete. It is measurable. It is finite. We have the same 24-hours each and every day. And yet how those hours feel to us is powerfully subjective – so much so that their duration seems to vary.

In this podcast I’m enlarging our exploration of rituals with an exercise to help you shape a ritual for yourself — one that’s grounding and sustaining, no matter what.

Rhythm and repetition keep us going – and they can be comforting in their predictability. Rhythm and repetition also offer a platform for developing uniquely personal ways of interacting with time.

In the last Finding Tine E-zine podcast I walked you through an exercise for creating your own template. Did you try it out? Well, one listener did, and she ran into an interesting challenge from an unexpected source.

I recently heard a story that shines light on the cost of perfectionism in a new way, so I decided to extend our series on perfectionism with an additional podcast today.

Fear very often lies at the heart of Perfectionism, and more often than not, our knee jerk reaction to fear is to try to move away from it. But that impulse is precisely the opposite of what’s needed.

Seasonal chores have a rhythm to them. Rituals of work and productivity, they mark transitions and deepen your experience of time with each passing year. These chores also offer excellent opportunities for using time-saving templates. And today I’m sharing an exercise to get you started on creating your own!

As you’ll see in today’s podcast, when you make the choice to meet your perfectionism head on the results are surprising and powerful.

In this season of new beginnings, I’m excited to start an exploration of this insidious poison called perfectionism. I know it’s always been my nemesis, and it keeps so many people from realizing their potential.

One thing that's a universal, when it comes to transitions, is that they are often quite disorienting. And there are aspects of transitions that are predictable. So the more you hone in on the foreseeable and manage that, the more in charge and empowered you'll feel!

When you're facing a challenge like clutter, how do you get yourself going? And once you're going, how do you maintain your focus and momentum? And what if it's not your mess to begin with?

Does your clutter feel like an invasive weed that appears and proliferates overnight, taking over your office or living space? We might like to think that we are victims here, but the truth is that we always have a hand in the clutter that accumulates in our lives. And that's actually the good news!

Clutter, is a big and firmly entrenched challenge for many of us. And I don't just mean clutter in your living or working spaces. Your time and energy and emotions can also become cluttered. And no matter what the venue, clutter makes your life a lot harder than it needs to be.

Childhood lessons about time can turn into time myths that we carry into adulthood. If you don't explore those beliefs, you find yourself thwarting your own efforts and not understanding why. You do the same things over and over, working against yourself and not knowing how to stop!