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New Year, New Organization System

By Sherry Onweller

Are you always juggling a million different tasks, spinning your wheels and getting nothing done? Being organized helps you have time to focus on what is most important in your life. Use the New Year as an opportunity to create new processes in your life to keep your personal life running smoothly.

Successfully making changes is about more than resolutions; it is about creating new habits cultivated by clearly defined steps and measurable outcomes. The key to managing all that you have to get done is to put systems in place for navigating daily tasks. By putting as many simple tasks and processes on autopilot, you will simplify your daily life.

Take a step back and think about the two or three most challenging areas of your life as far as processes. They can be simple activities, but ones that take up a lot of brainpower. List the tasks, and think through how to do them in a simpler, more consistent way each day.

Some examples of tasks that take up time, but can be easily streamlined are: weekly meal planning, grocery shopping, morning routines or setting up a monthly family calendar. If your New Year’s goal is to have a simplified morning routine, your plan may be: have each family member pack their lunch and snacks the night before, place packed up schoolbags next the door and set out clothes the night before. This will set everyone up for success when the morning rush rolls around.

Investing time into planning will make life happier for everyone. Continue to think about steps to take in order to help make things run more smoothly at home, work and on the go.

For professional help, Everyday Organizing Solutions by Sherry provides sympathetic and nonjudgmental organizing, de-cluttering and time management services to residential and business clients. Sherry also specializes in helping female adults with ADD get their physical space and time management in order and with helping children and teens to get organized. Sherry develops customized, individualized plans and solutions to help clients better manage their stuff, activities, physical space, work and family by helping everyone to be the best they can be.

 

Sherry can be contacted at Everyday Organizing Solutions by Sherry at [email protected] or 908-619-4561. For more information, visit EverydayOrganizingSolutions.com. 

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Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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