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I used to love the now-defunct TV show Starting Over, in which a handful of women lived together in a house and received coaching on how to “start over” in their lives, whether it be in a relationship, a career shift, a geographical change or just about anything else. It was my lunchtime guilty pleasure, and while aspects of it were really cheesy, some of the exercises were pretty darn cool.

Now that I’m back home in my rebuilt condo after being displaced for six months, I feel like I’m Starting Over. My office is reconfigured to give me more work space, and I’m jumping into GTD with a vengeance. I’m learning to text and trying out Twitter. I’m thinking about redesigning furniture arrangements in the dining room. I’m driving around in a new car (a 2008 Prius, lovely!). And generally, I’m feeling like it’s a fresh start.

It was just too darn hard to work efficiently in our temporary housing. My heart and mind just weren’t in it - frankly, it was a depressing situation. And it’s still really difficult to get used to being back home and unpacking and dealing with punchlists and living in the nation’s worst-ranked zip code for mail delivery. While I did some good work while I was in temporary digs, I had to put a lot of projects on hold, and now I’ll be kick-starting those again - so it’s really frenetic.

In short, it’s a time of new beginnings over here at Orange Grove Media/ChronicBabe HQ. I would love to hear any suggestions on productivity, time management, furniture arranging, inexpensive art procurement, online software packages as an alternative to Outlook…I’m open to any and all suggestions on general life enhancement today. Thanks!