[This post is part of the ongoing series 4 Steps To Getting Yourself Organized In The New Year. ] Our work space is often the last place we ever get around to dealing with. Our drawers might be overrun by pens and the dust bunnies might be forming an army, but we’re completely focused on the work that needs to be done. It’s too bad, then, that we forget to take into account how our work space affects our actual work. Desk Space If our desk is covered with projects, files, paper, office supplies — anything but actual space for us [...]

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True Grit is about stick-to-it-iveness. It’s about tough-going. It’s about a goal. And, less obviously, it’s about fighting through and alongside in our relationships. True Grit‘s heroine, 14-year-old Mattie Ross, was unable to hear the word ‘no’. She was determined to find Tom Chaney, the murderer of her father, whether a local sheriff or a Deputy U.S. Marshal or a Texas Ranger thought she could. Through rebuffs and setbacks, she managed to find Chaney and kill him herself. She did it with the help of those initial scoffers, “Rooster” Cogburn (U.S. Marshal) and LaBoeuf (Texas Ranger). It’s likely we’re not all [...]