Moving... a word that generates a whole range of emotions from excitement and adventure, to dread and overwhelm. What do I do? Where do I start? When do I start? How do I do it? The questions can be endless. But it doesn't have to be overwhelming, you may just need a little bit of help getting started and staying organized. This book simplifies the moving process with tips, various checklists, worksheets, and an in-depth moving timeline which is not only a big overview of the entire moving process with things broken down into steps, it is also a convenient checklist for you to mark off each task as completed. Some topics included are: moving supplies needed packing tips budget sheets moving timeline contacts inventory sheets and more These checklists, worksheets, and moving timeline were a tremendous help for me with my own move and I hope they serve you well too. Happy moving!
Moving house from place to place is an inescapable part of life in our mobile society, but it is nonetheless a source of stress and anxiety for most people.The Simply Essential Home Moving Kit provides you with the means to manage your move in an organized and timely manner.The kit deals with short, in-town and city-to-city moves, as well as long-distance moves and international moves.Packed full of information and handy checklists, the kit includes:Budgeting the move Creating a timeline for packing Keeping the move on schedule Who to notify and when to notify them Packing for efficient unpacking Evaluating profiessional movers Moving your pets Moving with small childrenThe kit includes numerous forms, checklists and worksheets. An included 3-1/2'' floppy disk contains duplicate forms in MS Word format.
A comprehensive, upbeat guide to help you survive the moving process from start to finish, filled with fresh strategies and checklists for timing and supplies, choosing which items to toss and which to keep, determining the best place to live, saying farewell and looking forward to hello. Moving is a major life change—time consuming, expensive, often overwhelming, and sometimes scary. But it doesn’t have to be! Instead of looking at it as a burdensome chore, consider it a new adventure. Ali Wenzke and her husband moved ten times in eleven years, living in seven states across the U.S. She created her popular blog, The Art of Happy Moving, to help others build a happier life before, during, and after a move. Infused with her infectious optimistic spirit, The Art of Happy Moving builds on her blog, offering step-by-step guidance, much-needed comfort, practical information, and welcome advice on every step of the process, including: How to stage your home for prospective buyers How to choose your next neighborhood How to discard your belongings and organize your packing How to say goodbye to your friends How to make the transition easier for your kids How to decorate your new home How to build a new community And so much more. Ali shares invaluable personal anecdotes from her many moves, and packs each chapter with a wealth of information and ingenious tips (Did you know that if you have an extra-large welcome mat at the entrance of your home, it’s more likely to sell?). Ali also includes checklists for packing and staging, and agendas for the big moving day. Whether you’re a relocating professional, newly married, a family with kids and pets, or a retiree looking to downsize, The Art of Happy Moving will help you discover ways to help make your transition an easier one—and be even happier than you were before.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way... It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the “shefault” parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family—and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was...underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it. The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With 4 easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore, from laundry to homework to dinner. “Winning” this game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space—the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Stop drowning in to-dos and lose some of that invisible workload that's pulling you down. Are you ready to try Fair Play? Let's deal you in.
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2O16 PICK IN BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER A BUSINESS BOOK OF THE WEEK AT 800-CEO-READ Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.
Say goodbye to mess and stress with The Most Organized Man in America's foolproof guide.Moving sucks. But getting smart about your approach to the process can save you time, money, and heartache from the start. One of the pioneers of professional organizing, Andrew Mellen knows a thing or two about sorting, packing, and finding more joy in less stuff. The Most Organized Man in America's Guide to Moving offers conversational, step-by-step guidance for getting rid of the stuff you don't want before you go to the trouble of packing it along with simple instructions on what to do each week to make your move a stress-free success.This handy book also demystifies topics like insurance, changing your address, and how to decide whether to hire a pro to transport your belongings or DIY.The guide includes:* A foolproof checklist to keep you on track right up to moving day* Easy-to-follow instructions on how to sort your belongings once and for all* Tips and tricks for moving with kids and pets* Suggestions for moving with disabilities* Access to a printable library of useful resources and free bonus materialsWhether you're headed across the country or just across town, following this comprehensive, practical guide will help you walk into your new home less frazzled--and so much more organized--than you ever thought possible.
Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
A Detailed Roadmap for Companies at Various Stages of Development on How to Get to the Next Level. Leaders and employees of growing firms want ideas and tools they can implement immediately to improve some aspect of their business. Verne Harnish, serial entrepreneur, advisor, and venture investor, brings to business leaders the fundamentals that produce real wealth—the same habits that typified American business magnate John D. Rockefeller’s disciplined approach to business. Harnish masterfully intertwines the legendary business philosophy of Rockefeller with lessons to be learned from ten extraordinary organizations. Aiming to empower present-day business leaders, this remarkably successful book includes invaluable lessons from real-world case studies. A treasure trove of practical situations teeming with insights and actionable recommendations, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits will help you unlock the secrets to scaling up your enterprise while simultaneously sidestepping the pitfalls that plague new ventures. From seasoned industry titans to ambitious start-up founders, anyone can swiftly implement these teachings for immediate impact.
Do you know the biggest mistake seniors make when downsizing their lives? 'Thoreau's Downsizing Planner for Seniors' will help make sure you avoid the mistakes that cost seniors time, possessions, and money, and cause heartache. The biggest mistake seniors make when downsizing is a lack of organization. Items can get lost or damaged, important documents and records are often misplaced, bills can go unpaid, mail not received, and an overall sense of confusion can add to the stress of moving. Moving is considered a high-stress life event: This relocation for seniors can be mixed with uncertainty, loneliness, possible illness, and a loss of independence. Due to the many additional decisions to be made for many seniors, downsizing can be more complex than just moving. Whether you or loved ones are moving across town or across the country you will likely be: Tackling major living decisions. Dealing with belongings; sorting through decades of family history, organizing, selling, giving way and discarding possessions. Hiring a moving company. Packing and unpacking. Organizing and cleaning. Selling, donating, and discarding items. Shutting off and turning on utilities. Stopping services and starting services. Changing addresses and notifying everyone. Gathering, organizing and keeping important documents and records. And with a myriad of other tasks all on a schedule, this is a formidable challenge for anyone and even paralyzing for many people. Thoreau's Downsizing Planner for Seniors is designed to help seniors, empty nesters, children or relatives of seniors, and caregivers make this move easier through guiding information, organization and planning. If you are a caregiver or adult child helping your parent downsize, use this planner to help you be supportive, assist with choices, and have an efficient plan.There are easy to use lists and worksheets for: How to get all your documents and records in order . What to do with vehicles. How to downsize your wardrobe and still have all the clothes you need. How to downsize your belongings and what to do with each item. How and where to donate items. How to dispose of any household hazardous waste. Every one you need to notify of an address change. The list of things you need to shut off or transfer when you move. And there are inspirational quotes by Henry David Thoreau throughout the book. This is a big 8-1/2 by 11 inches book with 124 pages! There are LARGE PRINT worksheets, checklists, and easy fill forms designed for each step of your transition. Keep this planner with you from now and throughout your move and then as a collection of records if ever needed. Complete the to-do lists, calendars/timelines, 'notes to self', and anything you might forget. Get your copy of 'Thoreau's Downsizing Planner for Seniors' now or send one to someone that will be downsizing. Organize your downsize!
