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Eliminate clutter. Clutter is stagnant time wasting energy. Unclutter your space by getting rid of unwanted, unused items. Unclutter your mind by dropping time wasting activities. It’s better to sit staring at a wall than to sit staring at a television. TV clutters the mind. Stillness does not.

To unclutter simply isolate an area of focus. Make the contents visible by laying out the items outside the space, group similar items by use, containerize, and store accessibly.

As you sort, identify items that are broken, unused, unwanted and sell, give away or trash. Failure to purge produces ruinous negative energy.

See the Ocean State Job Lot sale flyer for deals on Closet Maid organizing gear. Items include cabinet pull out racks, shelving and organizing units and drawer pulls. Ocean State is a liquidation retailer with continuously changing merchandise.

Take Exit 12 off the Expressway to Newport Ave Quincy or the Redline to Wollaston, exit on the Newport Ave side,  Ocean State is about a 1/4 mile to the right on Newport Ave.

Minimalist advantages of folding tables:

• Quick, compact storage.
• Lightweight, easy to carry.
• Versatile work surface or desk.
• Cheap. Easy to find on craigslist.

Folding tables and folding chairs make one room so versatile it’s like a suite. When you’re done with the chairs and tables, fold them down, put them away behind other furniture or in a closet and you have a wide open room.

Turn on some music and dance. The power to minimize, maximize and minimize is huge!

Getting organized saves time. Disorganization is a momentum killer. You go in circles because you can’t find things, appointments are missed, bills don’t get paid on time and life feels out of control. Good organizational systems instill confidence in yourself and your abilities.

Organizing is challenging because it requires behavior changes. Action is the key. Anything is better than nothing. Planning and action is better than doing just anything because preparation before action produces motivation.

Taking control of your life begins with sorting through everything that uses your time and occupies your space. Determine what’s important and let the useless go.

Start small. Organize one small space at a time. Clear the space. Pick up each item, ask what it is. Put it with similar items. Remove the unnecessary. Group similar items and put back into the space in a way that makes it easy to maintain the space.

Become a minimalist and your organizing problems will be much easier to solve. The problem with organizing is that you have too much stuff. The bad news is you may never get really organized until you learn to focus. Let go, get rid of items that you don’t use.

You won’t believe how good it feels to release yourself from the stagnation of too much stuff until you actually do it. If you’re overwhelmed and going in circles, can’t get anything done, you probably have too many choices. And do you even know what they are?

Define yourself with less. Take away until you find your essence. Use books as an example. Pull them off the shelves, sort them into similar piles, put aside those to drop at goodwill or recycle. If you’ll never read them, why own them? Put the books back onto the shelves grouped by category and notice the difference. Can’t wait to read them can you?

Let’s use tools as an example. Tools and hardware mixed together on shelves are frustrating to work with. Pull the bins and containers off the shelves, sort the tools and hardware into piles. Hand tools, power tools, paint and supplies, fasteners and adhesives, cleaning supplies, etc. Sort, containerize, put the items back on the shelf and notice how much easier the job is next time you need to fix or do something with tools.

The less there is to organize, the easier it is to do.

Setting up web sites is just like moving into a new home. There’s so much to do, you just run out of time. It’s almost 12:30, a half hour past midnight, and I’m just finishing up.

It was a long day with little problems that kept me going in circles but here at the end of the day,  I feel good. My three websites expressDeliveryVan.com and this one bostonWebCrew.com and w3z.com all look the same. That’s important because they’re related. The challenge was to combine Wordpress and Joomla. Artisteer made it possible. Since on one who may read this is likely to care, enough said.

The blogs are just about ready to roll.

For me, the hardest part about blogging has been getting ready to blog. My main site is about furniture moving. Now I have this site for organizing and spacemaking furniture. And there’s another blog for minimalists.

Three sites for one minimalist blogger?

It looks like I’m just about ready to start blogging. It’s been a long day but I finally have my Joomla sites up with blogs attached and link directories (PHP Link Directory). There’s bound to be more tweaking but I’ve been playing with these sites off and on long enough now that I should be just about ready to rock.

We’ll see.

How to run a Wordpress blog on a Joomla site? It took forever to figure out. Ultimately the solution was so simple.

• I bought Artisteer which makes templates for Joomla and Wordpress
• I created a subdomain on my server for Wordpress, then installed Wordpress using Fantastico selecting my subdomain: blog.bostonwebcrew.com
• I opened up my Artisteer template  for bostonwebcrew.com which is a Joomla template
• Two clicks later it’s exported as a Wordpress template
• Both sites now look the same
• I’ll configure Wordpress, link to my menu items on Joomla from Wordpress
• I’ll link to Wordpress from Joomla and put an RSS Feed on the Joomla side
• Voila, I have the best of both worlds in about the same amount of time it took to edit Hello world!