“Academic Decluttering for Your Calendar System”

If your calendar seems much too full for a quick class, then may I suggest you sign up for the first stand-alone webcast in the academic decluttering series. We will get to the learning, the actions, and the mindsets about your calendar quickly. You will receive actionable suggestions to get you out of calendar chaos today. You may expect straightforward strategies to help you maintain peaceful, predictable productivity tomorrow, next week, and next year. 

“Let’s Empty Some Buckets”

Take an authentic look at your “stuff” in the stand-alone class, “Let’s Empty Some Buckets!” The subtitle for the class is, “Shed some of what you’re schlepping around.” To step more lightly and move more nimbly through the next year, join us real-time or via recording for “Academic Decluttering – Let’s Empty Some Buckets!” Having less “stuff” to schlep around gives you more freedom. Life is easier.

“Hostility Hurts – What to Do When the Energy Cost Is Too Great”

Anger is new. Anger is directed at something immediate or relatively current. Hostility is old. Hostility is rooted in something that happened in the past – often many years ago.

• If you are currently a tenured professor (or you’ve left the academy) and you are “mad” at your major advisor or about something that happened 5, 10, or 20 years ago, that’s not anger. That’s hostility.

• If you wrote an article with someone 5 years ago and it never got submitted because your co-author fiddled around with it so long that she missed the deadline, and you’re still stewing about it, that’s not anger. That’s hostility.

• If your former spouse has a graduate degree and yours is unfinished because you stopped to work and support your spouse’s goal, and you have his framed graduation announcement on your wall and you say you’re using that as a reminder about how glad you are he’s out of your life, that, my friend, is academic clutter.

How many examples do you need because I’ve heard hundreds of them. If you think you might have some anger that has gone past its expiration date and would be appropriately labeled as hostility, plan to join us in February.

This unique experience will give you ways to recover energy you may not have known was missing.

“Declutter & Destress – Getting Rid of Stuff That Is Stressing You Out – Whether You Acknowledge It Or Not”

If you are stressed and ready to reduce your stress (NOW!), then you are going to love the ideas presented in this straightforward and practical webinar. You’ll learn a dozen specific strategies to start reducing your stress by dealing deliberately with your clutter. Expect to be inspired to take action on what you learn.

In this Academic Decluttering class, you’ll learn:

• How stress and clutter are related;
• Guidelines for answering, “Do I really need to keep this?”
• The best time of day to declutter (and this will surprise you);
• Where to start the process;
• The “M” word you’ll stop using;
• And much more!

“The Goldilocks Strategy – Getting Yourself to ‘Just Right’ ”

You know when things are out of whack. You know the feeling when there is too much (too much work, too many demands, an overabundance of responsibilities). And you know how it feels to have too little (e.g., sleep, resources, support).

Let’s spend a session together applying the Goldilocks Strategy so you can authentically, truthfully, and courageously establish an academic life that is “just right.”

“Declutter Your Academic Life – Setting Personal & Professional Policies”

Policies are strategically crafted statements that establish boundaries for your time, energy, and attention, which are your most precious assets as an academic.  If your attention and focus feel fractured, if your energy is spread across too many projects and people not at the top of your priority list, and if you feel overwhelmed with too much to do and too little time, then let’s help you craft some policies.  You’ll be more confident in your many roles when you position yourself with strategically-crafted policies.  This class will teach you concepts that will carry you through the rest of your career.

“Being Ruthlessly Focused & Aggressively Efficient is Much Easier with Less Academic Clutter”

You probably hear people say, “I really need to focus,” or “We need to get more efficient around here,” as well as other similar statements. But have you ever heard someone say, “I want to be able to ruthlessly focus and be aggressively efficient!”? Did you even know this was an option? It is! In this focused and efficient webinar, you will learn super specific tactics for setting yourself up to focus ruthlessly when you need to and be aggressively efficient when that’s called for.

When it’s crunch time, it’s time to clear the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual clutter that is distracting you. You’ll gain insight and internal resources for how to do so in this concise class.

“When Who You Once Were…Is Not Who You Are Now – Part 1 & 2”

You change from one day to the next. You know that. And, most academics make at least one significant change during their career – and likely more. Each stage of your career has “stuff” that goes with it. In this class we will talk about the physical, mental, and emotional baggage that you may still be carrying around from a previous part of your life. And know this…

We might talk about pain in this class. Not physical pain but the pain that results from sadness or even grief about what used to be true but is no longer true.

If you’re willing to examine what’s true, expect some healing and some relief. It will be my honor to help bring that to those who attend.

“Delegating for Academics – You Have to Turn Loose – Part 1”

“Delegating for Academics – A Deeper Look – Part 2”

Delegation – how do you do it and do it effectively? This is a BIG pain point in our academic lives that we can all relate to. Think about it…

• How much is it costing you when you don’t delegate at all or to the extent that you could?
• Not knowing how to delegate well is costing you a helluva lot. It costs you time, relationships, excellence, completion, satisfaction, expansion, sleep, impact, and ____, and ____, and ______ (I’ll bet you can fill in some of the costs).

In this class we will look at the specifics of what it means to delegate in the academic environment. You will examine some of your mindsets and some of your practices to see what can be adjusted so you can do some academic decluttering of your tasks, projects, responsibilities, and commitments by using the delegation ideas you’ll learn in the class. I invite you to join me and discover how to turn loose of things and actually delegate. Yes, it can be done. Your peace of mind will thank you for joining in with us.

“Resolving the Dissonant – Untangling the Undecided, Unsettled, and Unsolved”

In the 12th stand-alone class in the Academic Decluttering collection, you will explore the tangle of undecided, unsettled, and unsolved situations in your academic life. This tangle of dissonance, discrepancy, and discord drain time, energy, and attention that could well be invested in other places. You will learn where to look, how to find, and what to do to bring resolution and peace to areas that have been “bugging you” on some level. As always, let’s get together for some truth-telling.