Today begins the discussion of Gretchen Rubin's fourth foundation, Unclutter. Rubin describes the Four Foundations as the Pillars of Habits.
As a Professional Certified Organizer Coach® and Certified Organizer Coach®, this foundation of Unclutter is especially dear to me so I've decided to spend several days…
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Before I focus on the foundation for today, Eat and drink right, I want to share one item from yesterday's foundation, Move, that I forgot. It's a comment from Michael Lara about sitting. He believes that "sitting is the new smoking" in terms of risk to one's health.
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Yesterday I said I would discuss the next two foundations, Move and Eat and Drink right, explored by Gretchen Rubin, but I've changed my mind. I'm going to focus only on Move because it's a topic I've wanted to talk about for some time.
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The focus today is the Foundation for habits or what Gretchen Rubin refers to as the Pillars of Habits. As both an organizer coach and a professional organizer, I really connected with the four pillars she proposes:
Sleep
Move
Eat and drink right
Unclutter (especially this one)
Rubin chose these four as the foundation from the perspective that "it's…
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Different Solutions for Different People is the next focus in Better Than Before.
One of Gretchen Rubin's other books is The Happiness Project. In that book she invites readers to identify the overarching principles by which they lead their lives. From this perspective she offers a number of questions to…
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Yesterday I introduced what Gretchen Rubin refers to in her book, Better Than Before, as the Four Tendencies she has observed that impact how people develop habits.
Today on Day 2 of my commitment to develop that blogging habit, I want to share more details common to individuals with these tendencies.
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