k
The
Gift of Time What Is It and
How to Get It
The
“Wasted” Time
Syndrome
The
Organized
Home How
Disorganization
Can Kill You
Freedom
from Stress Can You
Achieve It?
An ANTHONY K. Lifestyle Magazine
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The key to organizing an
alternative society is to
organize people around
what they can do, and
more importantly, what
they want to do.
Abbie Hoffman
Our Mission: To deliver quality of life.
We are seriously committed to enhancing
people‟s lives by creating awareness
through our professional organizers and
assistants on how your emotional and
physical well being can become balanced
and healthy by living an organized life-
style.
Our main goal is to provide THE GIFT OF
TIME with efficiency and dependability to
multi-career families, busy professionals,
seniors, new parents and many others so
they can be able to redirect their time and
energy to improve the quality of their life
by decreasing their levels of stress.
In this world no one rules
by love; if you are but
amiable, you are no hero;
to be powerful, you must
be strong, and to have
dominion you must have a
genius for organizing.
John Henry Newman
Disorganization and Stress In order to start living a more organized life,
it’s important that you don’t add to the existing mess.
Disorganization isn‟t the only cause of stress, but it can be one of the
biggest and worst. If nothing else being disorganized-losing your
keys, losing a file not knowing where you put your pen or notebook-
can trigger a whole bunch of stress you had been repressing, result-
ing in a disproportionately huge and explosive response. What‟s
more, being disorganized can easily lead to other sources of stress.
There are a lot of reason why we can get so disorganized.
Most of us, however, are disorganized for one or more of the
following common reasons; either we don‟t feel like we have enough
time to get organized or we feel like life is too overwhelming to put
together, or we fell like we just don‟t have enough space to properly
and neatly store everything we need and have, or we don‟t know
how exactly we‟re supposed to get organized because we‟ve never
been organized before, or because we have the ability to organized
our life but we just hate doing it. Which of these sounds familiar? Bet-
ter question, how many of these apply?
For a lot of us, it really comes down to feeling like we don‟t know
how to get organized, or we just feel so overwhelmed that we don‟t
even care to start. While both are good, understandable excuses,
they are just that-excuses. But when it comes down to it, it‟s just plain
easier and less stressful to be organized than to not be organized.
Disorganization creates chaos that just eats up your time and energy.
Instead of focusing on what you really want to focus on, you just get
distracted and lose time searching for what you need to get started.
Disorganization is like a tangible representation of all the things
in your life that you can’t or fell you can’t handle.
The more organized you have things, the more you have a handle on,
the more you can devote your
time and energy to the impor-
tant things, the better you feel.
It‟s a simple equation that most
people understand, organized
and disorganized alike.
Written by Stan Stieler
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Freedom
Imagine the freedom from stress if all of us were a little more
organized. Our homes would be less cluttered so we could
find our car keys more easily, which would allow us to leave
for work earlier, drive more slowly to our jobs and lower air
pollution in our cities.
Organizing is a process, not a one time event. Spend 15
minutes a day on the task of staying ahead of the clutter and
keep the following tips in mind:
When you buy something, get rid of something else.
Stay current. Open and sort the mail every day.
Leave the kitchen and bathroom tidy each night.
Hang up clothes or get them in a hamper as soon as you remove them.
Beware of “free” items or items given to you.
So remember: Keep sight of what matter to you. The goal is
to purge what does not work for you and organize the rest.
As you begin to apply these rules, you will make new
decisions about what stuff you want to devote time to
acquire and maintain. You will be examining your habits
and arranging your life to have more balance to enjoy the
items and activities you love.
Written by Kristin White
Residential Managers for
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& Vacation Homes
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The Organized Home An organized mind begins at home. Clutter causes brain overload. When you are carrying around all
the thing you need to remember, like appointments, where you
last left your keys, items on your grocery list, and work deadlines,
among other things, your short-term memory is maxed out, which
raises your stress and anxiety levels.
You have no mental reserve to think about more pleasurable
things, like the romantic dinner you want to cook on date
night, your daughter getting straight A’s, or the many other
things that make you happy.
You know how frantic you feel when you are running late to an
appointment or going to pick up your kids, and your keys are
nowhere to be seen. Think about how many times you‟ve gotten a
second notice on your utility bill because the original bill was
buried in the mess on your desk and you forgot to pay it. And
where is that appointment for your annual visit to the doctor?
“Disorganization creates stress because it reflects that there are
commitments in your life that you simply can‟t handle,” says Lorie
Marrero , CPO, professional organizer.
Bottom line. Getting organized will not only reduce your stress, it can improve the quality of your living space, relationships and life,
in general.
Excerpt from Michele Borboa, MS.
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Lifestyle Manager: A Personal Assistant for Everyone.
Ever wondered what the benefits would
be if you used a personal assistant/
lifestyle manager? Having a professional
assistant for only a few hours a week or
month could make all the difference in
your life. Here are some benefits you can
experience utilizing a lifestyle manage-
ment service.
Saving time. Rather than doing every-thing yourself. The personal assistant/
lifestyle manager expert can run er-
rands, pick up the dry cleaning or even shop for you.
Increased flexibility. When you have stretched yourself thin, you sacrifice the ability to do what tasks to maintain a produc-
tive life or business. Hiring a pro-
fessional frees you up to have the
flexibility to attend to the most
important areas of your life.
Stress reduction mean more
productivity. You will have less stress trying to juggle everything
at once. You won‟t have to fret
about getting it all taking care of by yourself. You will no
longer feel overwhelm.
There‟s only so much you can accomplish by yourself without
feeling overworked or pressured. If you are a busy profes-
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Written by Phillinda Roy
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Custom tailored requests.
The “Wasted”
Time Syndrome
With today‟s busy lifestyles, many
working professionals don‟t have time for
even basic errands, such as picking up dry
cleaning, taking Fido to the groomer or wait-
ing at home for the furnace
repairman.
No longer a luxury for the ultra-wealthy,
shopping and errand services are sanity sav-
ing necessities in the lives of busy people
wanting to maximize their
personal time.
A professional shopper and errand
runner will help you focus on the
relationships and activities that you
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Professional shoppers and errand
runners are often referred as “time
savers” who are entrusted with delicate and
special tasks you simply do not have the time
to tackle. You will not be
struggling any more with the never-ending
errands.
Simplicity
Move away from the clutter and
overcomplicated life and start
living a simpler, more focused
and effective lifestyle.
What is The Gift of Time?
We need to use the time we have now, to live in the now.
Time cannot be contained.
Time denotes our existence here on earth, the dash-between the dates
of our birth to the last day of our life contains a personal history of who
we were, how we lived, who we knew and what we did with our lives.
In the midst of our living, time continues on the endless journey. Time
is a gift, though we rarely stop and acknowledge it as such.
We can spend our time wisely, or worthlessly, we can squander it, or
invest it, we can enjoy it, or abuse it, we can live it, or retreat from it,
but it moves on regardless.
“Time stands still for no man.”
Time does however; gives us opportunities to make changes within
ourselves that would empower us to be better human beings. To seek
forgiveness for wrong we‟ve incurred, and seek to forgive, to change
how we see others, how we view ourselves, to add value and build our
self-esteem, which will ultimately have a positive effect on those
around us.
It is filled with memories of love, joy, laughter, pain, sorrow,
anger, forgiveness. Within the sphere of time we have the ability to do whatever we want, but using time to be effective is time well
spent. Unconsciously, we make the decision daily as to how we‟re
going to spend time, let‟s spend it wisely
creating memories that will benefit you
and those you‟ll touch.
We need to use the time we have now, to
live in the now, to embrace good and to
love ourselves.
Time is too precious of a gift to waste, so
make the decision to use the time given
to you wisely, and you will not only find
fulfillment, but enjoyment in the process.
Written by Diane Dutchin
A Gift of Time
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More of What We Can Do For You.
Our main goal is to provide THE GIFT OF TIME with efficiency
and dependability to multi-career families, busy professionals,
senior citizens, new parents and many others so they can be able
to redirect their time and energy to improve the quality of their
life by decreasing their levels of stress.
Special Senior Assistant Services for Independent Living
A special program designed for those special persons in our lives for
your peace of mind. If you are leaving away from your aging parents, a
professional assistant can check on them and will follow with you on
their state of well being. Monthly service includes:
House cleaning.
Meal pick-up and delivery.
Bill payment assistance.
Grocery shopping & errand running.
Weekly visits to check-up on their welfare.
House sitting with them to wait for repairmen.
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Check your household.
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Perform all the necessary tasks to make your home ready when you need it.
Wait for repairmen, service reps, deliveries, etc. at your while you stay productive at work or while away.
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EMPLOYEE LOYALTY Program.
Our program is designed for high usage by your
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corporation‟s commitment to employee well-being.
We can support your company and your employ-
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We can help you create an environment within your
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A Lifestyle for Modern Times
Affordable lifestyle managers, assistants
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When You Need Another You.
Today, some busy two-career families are turning over virtually every
aspect of their existence to lifestyle managers. These hired hands, who
charge a monthly fee or per the hour, become like an extra member of
the family.
Lifestyle managers have searched for a reliable used car for a client‟s
16 year-old or taken over their scrapbooking project. One wrote an
online dating profile for a client/ “People are ceding more and more of
their lives to others,” said Glass, a Potomac native. “it‟s going to be a
huge trend around here. Our clients are mostly suburban families be-
cause they have a whole range of problems to deal with- kids, car-
pools, dogs, houses.”
Once, lifestyle managers were a perk for celebrities and profes-
sional athletes. But now, families are hiring managers to help
them through their busy lives, or at least the boring parts. Experts say the industry is on the rise because people are overwhelmed by
basic tasks, their increasingly fragmented lives and long commutes.
Personal concierge services and errand running, industries that have
grown exponentially in the past decade, are embracing lifestyle man-
agement as well, said Katharine Giovanni, chairman of the Interna-
tional Concierge and Errand Association.
“Recently, the terminology of „lifestyle management‟ has come across
the pond, and concierges have embraced it because it‟s better termi-
nology for what they do… Originally, concierges were errand runners.
Now it‟s „let‟s me do everything for you so you don‟t have to,” Giovanni
said.
Such personal helpers are often hired by mothers who want to ap-
pear as if they’re doing it all and don’t want their neighbors-or
husband-to know otherwise. “I don‟t mean to brag, but I am very effi-cient person,” Maureen Coleman said. “But even with this highly effi-
cient multitasking thing I‟ve become in life these days, there is still
more. How do you let it go? Am I going to miss out?”
Excerpt taken from The Washington Post written by Annie Gowen.
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