This one is from 43 Fold­ers. It is a great feel­ing to have zero mes­sages on your inbox at the end of every day. So as a New Year’s res­o­lu­tion, I sug­gest you go for Inbox Zero this year.

In the words of the great Lucas Jack­son: “Yeah, well, some­times nothin’ can be a real cool hand.”

The begin­ning of every year is a dif­fi­cult time for so many of us mainly because we are bat­tling lethargy and lazi­ness. The long break kept us in a mood for party, reunions and eat­ing and it’s so much more dif­fi­cult to wake up from it and start our engines again.

Our life can be a wel­ter of dead­lines, to-do’s and events, so that it’s so hard to breath easy or take a step back and take stock of the things hap­pen­ing to us. But there are more impor­tant things in life than the urgent. The urgent allows us to get by on a day to day. But just doing the day to day makes us lose focus on the more long term and the more last­ing things.

This arti­cle is a good reminder that there are more long last­ing activ­i­ties that we need to do as well–for our peace of mind, for our wholis­tic growth, for the things we really love.

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Money is a major sore spot in most rela­tion­ships. And to be mature about it, cou­ples have to plan ahead–before mar­riage and not dur­ing it because it might be too late then– and do their “money talk”. It is a hard and awk­ward topic to talk about I’m sure, but there is wis­dom in being mature about it and plan­ning ahead.

How do you unclut­ter your life? Here’s a step by step, day by day guide. I love game plans, and this is one of the best game plans I’ve found on unclut­ter­ing so far.