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Life Made Simple with CarlaRae

Inspiration and motivation to help simplify every aspect of your life... your home, time, to-dos, health, relationships, and emotional well-being. Since 2001, CarlaRae has been a Professional Home Organizer and Life/Wellness Coach helping families and individuals clear the chaos and clutter from their lives. After years of one-on-one consulting, she launched this podcast to help bring the freedom of simplicity to even more people. Each episode gives you practical tips and resources that you can implement in your everyday life to find balance while becoming happier and healthier. With no judgment and with complete understanding, CarlaRae will inspire you to let go of everything holding you back while focusing on what really matters to you. She offers plenty of free worksheets, guides, and other amazing resources to help you along the way. The Life Made Simple Podcast offers life-changing tips in home organizing, time management, personal development, priorities, productivity, motivation, family, relationships, positive thinking, diet and exercise, weightloss coaching, and so much more!
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Now displaying: January, 2018
#135: Why Some Organizing Systems Don't Work 0
Jan 29, 2018

When organizing any space in your home, you need to take into consideration you and your families unique needs.

Unfortunately it can be very tricky to find the right organizing method or solution for your unique space. It can take a lot of time, detective work, and even trial and error to figure out a system that works.

But, the fact of the matter is, some organizing systems just don't work. Some are ineffective.

Today I'm try to boil it down to two simple reasons as to why some organizing systems just don't work. I also give you two real life stories that are very similar and yet very different so you can begin to understand and hopefully apply it to your own life.

 

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Free Guide:  "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"  

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Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home" 

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#134: You Need To Be Part Of The Process (Ask CarlaRae) 0
Jan 25, 2018

Recently I received a message from one of our listeners. Jaime from Texas has considered hiring a Professional Home Organizer down where she lives and had a handful of questions about what it would be like. There was one in particular that I wanted to share with you.

In the past I've had a handful of other people ask the same question, "Do I have to be there for the organizing session, or can they do it without me?"

My response is always, yes... you FOR SURE need to be there for the consultation. On this episode I explain exactly why.

 

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Free Guide:  "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"  

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Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home" 

Or send a text to 44222 with the word ORGANIZE

 

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#133: Three Things You Can Do To Create A Life You Love 0
Jan 23, 2018

Today, I want you to dig deep.

I want you to ask yourself a question... if you could wave a magic wand and have anything you want in this coming year, what would it be? And I mean anything.

Sometimes it feels good to dream a little. We all get to the point when we're tired of the way things are, whatever it may be, and we're ready for a change. We think to ourselves, "I'm all in!"

But then, once you start moving forward to achieve whatever it is you want to achieve, it gets HARD.

It gets tedious. It gets overwhelming.

The excitement fades. Your motivation fades. And then you find yourself practically giving up.

So, when you make a big commitment to yourself to change something in your life to create the life you've always dreamed of, and then you lose momentum because it gets hard, how do you stay motivated?

On today's episode I share with you 3 tools that you can implement today in order to stay motivated to accomplish any goal you might have for life. Three things you can do RIGHT NOW to set yourself up for success so that you can begin to build the life you've always wanted.

 

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode #51: A Must-Have Tool To Stay Motivated Everyday

Episode #9: Why You Must Make Personal Development a Daily Habit

Episode #8: How to Make a "Perfect Day Itinerary"

 

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Free Guide:  "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"  

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Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home" 

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#132: When Worry & Anxiety Get The Best Of You 0
Jan 19, 2018

I am on a quest to not only simplify my home and my schedule, but I also want to simplify my mind because sometimes it gets a little cluttered... actually, it can get VERY cluttered.

My mind (and I'm sure many of you can relate) sometimes gets over-cluttered with worry.

On today's episode we look at how we can relieve ourselves from unnecessary tension caused by worry.

 

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode #111: How To Declutter Your Mind (PART 1)

 

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#131: Here's Your Closet Clean-Out Master Plan! (ENCORE EPISODE) 0
Jan 16, 2018

Since I've had a couple listeners recently send me questions about organizing their closets, I thought now would be a good time for a little review. This Encore Episode was from a show that we released on Life Made Simple back in October of 2016.

 

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Free Download: "Change Worksheet"

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Free Download: "Nutrition Guide"

Or send a text to 44222 with the word NUTRITIONGUIDE

 

Free Download:  "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"  

Or send a text to 44222 with the word 9SIMPLIFY

 

Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home" 

Or send a text to 44222 with the word ORGANIZE

 

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#130: Use The "2-Minute Rule" To Tackle To-Do List Debt 0
Jan 11, 2018

A long list of to-dos can be so overwhelming! On today's episode we take a look at one strategy that can help you get more done during the day while not adding to your to-do list debt.

 

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Episode #127: Your Must-Have New Year's Resolutions For A Simplified Life

 

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Free Guide:  "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"  

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Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home" 

Or send a text to 44222 with the word ORGANIZE

 

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#129: A Little Psychology Behind Letting Go 0
Jan 10, 2018

Show Notes:

How do you simplify your life? Well, you first figure out what really matters to you, focus only on those things, and then somehow let go of the rest, which is not always easy.

On today's episode of Life Made Simple we dive deep into the psychology behind letting go of things that we don't need, don't use, and don't love yet somehow have a hard time parting with.

I share with you a specific example from my own life when I asked myself a series of important questions that helped me let go of something that I thought was special, but really wasn't.

 

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode 91: A Unique Strategy To Help You Let Go Of Keepsakes

 

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Free Guide:  "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"  

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Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home" 

Or send a text to 44222 with the word ORGANIZE

 

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#128: Too Many Good Intentions (CarlaRae Confesses) 0
Jan 4, 2018

Sometimes less is more.

On today's episode I confess that I sometimes have too many good intentions. I share how I was recently reminded that sometimes I need to just keep it simple.

 

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode #74: I Collect Too Many Ideas & Good Intentions

Episode #10: Can You Have Too Much of A Good Thing?

 

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Free Guide:  "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"  

Or send a text to 44222 with the word 9SIMPLIFY

 

Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home" 

Or send a text to 44222 with the word ORGANIZE

 

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#127: Your Must-Have New Year's Resolutions For A Simplified Life (ENCORE EPISODE) 0
Jan 1, 2018

Happy New Year!  Today is the first day of the year 2018.

For today's special encore episode we are going to go back in time to January of last year. Back in episode #41 I shared with you my must-have New Year's resolutions for all year long. The truth is, they are pretty much the same resolutions that I will continue to have this year as well.

 

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Share this Episode: CarlaRaeArneson.com/episode127

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Simplicity University: SimplicityU.com

 

Free Guide:  "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"  

Or send a text to 44222 with the word 9SIMPLIFY

 

Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home" 

Or send a text to 44222 with the word ORGANIZE

 

Website: CarlaRaeArneson.com

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