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Four Ways to Refresh Your Closet For Fall

September 24, 2013/2 Comments/in Apps, Benefits of List Making, List Making, Saving Time, Shopping, Technology, Tool for Success/by Paula Rizzo

Clothes rack (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

To me, fall means leaves changing color, pumpkin-flavored everything (including M&Ms, they’re new!) and that exciting moment when it’s finally cool enough to wear my favorite blazer. If you’re like me and you have limited closet space (thanks NYC,) reincorporating those fall sweaters into my wardrobe means cleaning out my summer clothes to make extra room.

After you’ve regained some precious closet real estate, take advantage of the time it takes to put away all your fall clothes and try a modern technique to be more efficient with your time and closet space. Check out this list of tips and tricks that you can try when reorganizing your closet for fall. Who said productivity couldn’t have style?

How to get “Unstuck”

September 15, 2013/0 Comments/in Apps, Benefits of List Making, Decision Making, Increase Productivity, List Making, Reduce Stress, Relationships, Saving Money, Saving Time, Technology, Tool for Success/by Paula Rizzo

You know when you have a really difficult decision to make or a project to start and you just can’t seem to get it? Procrastination can be a debilitating thing and leave you stuck for too long. I recently got turned on to a life-changing (and free!) app called “Unstuck.” This amazing iPad app is like having a life coach in the palm of your hand! It can help:

set goals and make plans
make decisions
get help overcoming obstacles
deal with major changes
find motivation Read more

What are we to do about Orchestra to-do app?

September 6, 2013/6 Comments/in Apps, List Making, Technology, Tool for Success/by Paula Rizzo

The app will be shutting down today at noon Pacific time.

Sorry, loyal Orchestra users, the to-do app will be officially shutting down tomorrow at noon Pacific time. I know I turned many of you on to the app and now we are left in limbo.

A note from the company stated: “After tomorrow afternoon, all cloud services including sync, task delegation, access to the web app and customer support will be unavailable.”

What is a list maker to do when their favorite to-do app shuts down? Just in time to get you organized for the weekend, here’s a short list of my favorite to-do apps (in no particular order):

How to Know You’re an Obsessive List Maker

August 8, 2013/0 Comments/in Apps, Benefits of List Making, Books, Decision Making, Learning With a List, List Making, Movies, Saving Time, Travel, TV/by Paula Rizzo

A friend of mine shared a Buzzfeed list with me a while back: 27 Signs You Know You’re an Obsessive List Maker. As I read through the list, I realized that, as so many Buzzfeed lists uncannily do, nearly every item applied to me!

So, in true List Producer fashion, I decided to make a list of my own.

Use Lists to Cut Out Clutter

August 4, 2013/0 Comments/in Apps, Benefits of List Making, Books, Boost Memory, Fellow List Producers, Increase Productivity, Learning With a List, List Making, Reduce Stress, Saving Time, Tool for Success/by Paula Rizzo

I love meeting people who are just as organized as I am and getting the chance to learn something new from them. I went to the BlogHer conference in Chicago last weekend (more about the productivity tips and tricks on outsourcing that I learned there to come soon!) and met Andrew Mellen, bestselling author of Unstuff Your Life. Needless to say, he’s an expert at staying organized and keeping it together! So I thought he’d be the perfect “list producer” to feature:

Q: Why do you call yourself a compulsive list producer?

A: I don’t. I call myself a practical list producer.

Q: What do you make lists about?

A: Things I need to do that need to get out of my head, onto a page, then onto my calendar.

These are typically:

Errands

Home Projects

Work Projects

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