A kind gift you give while you’re still here. If the phrase Swedish Death Cleaning makes you flinch a little, you are not alone. It sounds morbid. It isn’t. It also isn’t the only name for what we are about to talk about. I have started calling it Next Life Chapter Preparations — same idea,
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Smart Reduction™
Sorted into seven honest categories. Less weight. More room. More life. I had boxes of Lego. Wonderful stuff — decades’ worth, complicated builds, the kind of detail only a kid with too much time will commit to. They sat in storage for twenty years or so. Then I gave them to some kids who lit
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Smart Reduction™
I read about one or two books per month. That works out to roughly eighteen a year, or 180 a decade. Over an adult reading lifetime, somewhere between two thousand and three thousand books, all in. It is not a whole lot, when you put it that way. Time is rather strict about how many
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Legacy Creation
Smart Reduction™ for the shelves, the stacks, and the “I’ll read it someday” pile. I have about four hundred books in my home. Some are read. Some are not. A few are read three times. A handful are in German. One or two are signed. One is Fifty Years of Motorized Flying — a book
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Legacy Creation, Smart Reduction™
A good portion of your photos might become irrelevant once you have passed on. Your family & friends simply won’t have the bandwidth to sift through all your files. The best way to deal with this is to create a number of legacy folders with photos that continue to have relevance once you are gone.
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Digital Reset
I was fortunate to be at the forefront of the social media revolution. We launched our marketing agency in 2002, before giants like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook entered the scene. Back then, Google was just another search engine, and while Amazon’s marketplace existed, Amazon Prime wouldn’t arrive until 2005. Brands sought our expertise to navigate
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Perspectives
The dumpster was 40 yards. The stories that went with him were uncountable. Both were preventable. I would like to tell you about my friend, Mr. D. I am using his initial out of respect for his privacy. The story is otherwise true, and I think about it more often than I expected to. Mr.
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Legacy Creation