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What happened to Spring? It’s certainly HOT in Florida. It started long before the first day of summer.

You did get your Spring cleaning done, right? Did you know you spent 40% more time cleaning because of your clutter? Ooops, someone told me you have clutter, sorry.

That’s OK. With the kids out of school now and all the company…..nobody will notice your clutter. They realize it’s just the way it is at ‘your’ house. But when little Johnny asks his Mom, with you standing there……..Mommy, “WHAT IS ALL THAT STUFF?? ” I’m scared Mommy.”" Are there creatures or boogie men hiding in there?” Mom responds,” shhhhhhh Johnny, it’s OK, we’ll talk about it later.” But I’m scared Johnny keeps saying. You pretend you didn’t hear the bratty kid, right?

The problem however, is how many times have you overheard similar conversations & whispers.

I realize, you’re too busy to get to the clutter. Also have no idea how to begin.

It only gives you a headache when someone needs something out of that pile, or the other piles you have put in boxes. Then there’s daily stress it adds to your life. It’s tough, but just remember, you are not alone by any means.

There is a choice here. You can stop inviting the kids and your friends over. That would work. Of course the kids wouldn’t be happy, but they’d get over it after a while.

It doesn’t really matter nobody can put their car in the garage. With all the many, many boxes and piles out there. It’s better this way, nobody can hit anything in the garage backing out or in.

Remember the day Aunt Josie ran into the boxes and it took a week to get the pile off her car and get her out? THAT was the last day of using the garage. How embarrassing? Kind of a funny story. However, not one to be shared! For what my two cents are worth. You have some serious problems. Life’s not giving you enough time for yourself or your family. You can’t ever get time back.

Do you think anyone has an idea you have a storage unit? Just a couple of bucks a month….yeah right. It’s almost time to get another one. But instead you know you can get the mess cleaned up and get yourself organized. After all, you just read an organizing book. Not sure where it is now, but you think you can remember what it said.

Here are a few statistics for you:

The average working person spends less than 30 seconds a day in meaningful communication with their children. OK now, this one can’t be reversed!!

In the last 20 years, working time has increased by 15% and leisure time has decreased by 33%.

Not looking good for you folks out there.

None of those worked? I bet there were some butterflies in someone’s tummy. That’s all right, cause now I’m going to hit you where it hurts….

Let’s look at this in terms of dollars and cents.

Are You Aware…

The Wall Street Journal reports that the average American business person loses six weeks a year searching for lost or misplaced articles from messy desks and files. Six weeks????? {Dr. Donald E. Wetmore}

That translates into a loss of $3,125 for each $25,000 employee, when an hour a day is spent unproductively. Multiply that toward your hourly rate, or by the number of employees in your office. This unproductive time amounts to a significant financial loss for a business. But if turned around organizing can make you a better profit. {Dr. Donald E. Wetmore}

Thinking about all this has reminded me how often I run across people like you. Just as embarrassed as you, with even more clutter.

Now tell me again why you don’t hire Professional Organizer. We are there to help, not hinder. Work ‘with’ you and not make judgments. We’ll make you smile! Trust me.

Kyna Morrison Apt Organizing Owner - Author aptorganizing.com aptorganizing.com
Contact: mailto:kyna@aptorganizing.com kyna@aptorganizing.com

Continuing from my previous article: “Were Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Jews? - The Twelve Tribes and The True Church - Part 1.” I am staying with the subject of The Divided Kingdom and, how, when we do not understand The Truth of this subject it can cause catastrophic consequences in our lives, no more so, than in the life of a man by the name of Tom Paine. Tom Paine is probably better known in the USA than here in England and a more interesting person you would be hard pressed to find.

Tom Paine was born an Englishman, in Thetford, Norfolk, helped the Americans in their fight for independence and returned to live in England. Now how did he get away with that!? He then wrote a book entitled The Rights of Man which the authorities here in England considered to be seditious and/or treasonable. In it, he spoke out against hereditary governance and spoke for, equal political rights, whereby all men over the age of 21 should be given the vote. This was the equivalent of putting a stick in a hornets nest as he advocated the setting up of a House of Commons and the abolishing of the House of Lords. The book was banned and resulted in him being charged with seditious libel so he fled the country to France. There, he becomes a French citizen.

It seems, though, that wherever this man went, trouble followed him like a cloud for, whilst in France during the time of the Revolution he spoke out in defence of King Louis XVI and opposed his execution. Not the wisest of actions you might think, needless-to-say he ends up in prison and is sentenced to death. His luck holds out though when James Monroe, an American minister, negotiates his freedom by putting pressure on the French Government. This though does not quench his thirst for controversy because, whilst in prison he pens another book entitled The Age of Reason based on the subject of the Christian Religion. This book had a huge impact because it questioned the truth of Christianity and, in particular, he criticised The Holy Scriptures, especially the Old Testament for being untrue and immoral. He also criticised the Gospel accounts because of their ‘inaccuracies’ and ‘contradictions.’

The Bible ‘Contradiction’ issue is as old as the New Testament itself, so therefore nothing new. This contradiction issue is caused by a combination of several things: corrupted English translations, Spiritual blindness, the wrong approach, impatience and a lack of belief. However, this is subject matter for another article. Suffice it to say, Tom Paine turned his back on the Christian Religion because of what he perceived to be untruths and contradictions in Holy Scripture, especially in the Old Testament. Now what were these purported untruths and what were the factors that created them? Why, they were his inability to square the supposed facts that the Jews were the inheritors of the birthright blessings. It is only when we read Holy Scriptures from a position of Spiritual blindness, i.e. that each reference to Israel and Judah is a reference to the Jews alone that ‘contradictions’ appear, in reality though they are not contradictions at all. It is only when we remain under the impression that each statement refers to one and the same people that confusion sets in or alternatively we have to get into huge programmes of intellectual explaining away.

Tom Paine failed to see the two common errors, the common error of not understanding that the Twelve Tribes were to become twelve nations and looking at the Jews as the House of Israel instead of just being the House of Judah. This is just a simple acknowledgement of the fact that Israel became a divided nation of two separate individual nations, before finally becoming twelve nations. He states unflinchingly in his writings that he was led into unfaithfulness because he saw that the Jews could never verify the promises given to Israel; he therefore gave the Holy Bible up as a myth. This is a very sad story indeed and all for want of understanding the true identity of The House of Israel or the Ten Tribes i.e. that they were not Jews - Israelites yes, but not Jews.

Charles Crosby

Every successful business owner wants his or her business to be number one. Being out in front or being the first to market with a product or a service or being the winner of a race all have the common characteristic of leading or of being in the lead. If you want your business to be a leader in its field, it makes perfect sense to have Leadership Skill Development as one of the top items on your organizational strategic agenda. This is why it is such a critical area of Business Process Consulting.

The reason that highly successful companies value high performing leaders is because they consistently deliver outstanding results, they concentrate their effort on developing value-based cultures, and they develop and bring along the people around them.

Successful leaders are clear about their personal mission, vision and values and they love what they do. This is what makes them champions in their fields of endeavor – they always ensure that their goals are aligned with those of their organization.

Leadership Skill Development is critical because it drives the leadership mindset into every part of the organization. Leadership is one of those abilities and gifts that is evoked or called forth from that part of the organization or from that person who can step up to the plate in a specific and particular way to lead at a given point in time based on their situational maturity or their specific knowledge base.

Sometimes this is a part played by the business owner or manager, from within their span of control, but equally, it can be a staff member or another manager who can “show the way” in a specific circumstance.

When we talk about leading people, it is not something we do to them, but something that we engage “with” and “through” them by way of conversation, discussion, debate, disagreement and resolution. This notion of leadership has the obvious counterpoint of “followership”. This interaction and dynamic is part of an ongoing dialogue within an organization, and it has both its formal and informal elements. This style of leadership delivers innovation and adaptive behavior, and it creates flexible and responsive companies.

Everything that is done in organizational life is undertaken and accomplished by people. Leadership Skill Development, in that sense, is everyone’s business and everybody’s responsibility.

My assumptions, analysis and experience bear witness to the fact that the kind of organizational environment we design and create is fundamental in calling forth and developing leadership. The formal organizational structure must be built in a manner that nurtures and facilitates the development of leadership within its confines. Also, shared leadership must be exercised within the framework of Mission, Vision and Values and Strategy Formulation.

Successful business owners see the investment in Leadership Skill Development as being an imperative because it is building the “bench strength” of their organization both for today and for tomorrow in terms of succession, ongoing profitability and the legacy that they will leave long after they have gone.

Peter McLean is a highly experienced Coach, Senior Manager, Consultant, Business Owner and Company Director. He successfully coaches top Executives in some of Australia’s leading multi-national companies. One such Senior Executive recently won an International Award for Excellence within his particular field. In addition, Peter works extensively in the Public, Private, Commercial and Not-for-Profit sectors, delivering outstanding results for his clients. To learn more of how you can benefit from Peter’s experience, visit the