Navigating the Whitewaters of Change with M.J. Ryan

Change can be unwanted and upsetting. Life gets hard when too many things change at one time or when something we love exactly the way it is, something we have depended on forever, is yanked out from underneath us. Author M.J. Ryan in her book 

Riding the Elephant: Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Imagine you are trying to get to a destination and the only way to get there is by elephant!  There you are, sitting atop the elephant, headed down a path.  What will influence your progress?  According to Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Switch: How 

OCD Profile: Howie Mandel

Of all the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) profiles, the “germophobe” is the one we probably think of the most often. This person’s greatest fear is that things are unclean, contaminated or may cause illness. While we all may wonder how someone gets to this extreme, we 

Ruly Bookshelf: A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of a Misspent Life

To give the contrarian perspective on this month’s cleaning theme,  I was intrigued by the title of Mary Randolph Carter’s latest book,  A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of a Misspent Life. Unexpectedly,  this is one of my favorite organizing books of all time! 

Ruly Bookshelf: Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More

I did not make my Wednesday posting schedule yesterday and you won’t get the September summary until tomorrow but I have a good reason . . . I was reading! Recently, a publicist for Stever Robbins, a.k.a. the Get-It-Done Guy, contacted me. Would I be