Sunday, December 21, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Organize Your Holiday and Decrease Stress
The holiday season is usually a busy time for most people. It can be very stressful. All of the preparations for the holidays can easily deplete your energy. You can become physically and emotionally tired around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Your schedule may include: meal planning, baking, Christmas shopping, gift wrapping, holiday parties and entertaining. Time management is essential this time of year. You will want to schedule and plan your activities so you have some time to relax.
Good organizational skills can help you. You can begin by sitting down with your family at a meeting to find out what specific activities they are involved in during the holiday season. If there are rehearsals for a school musical or play, or special plans for volunteer work, make sure you include them on your family schedule. You may decide to schedule a few vacation days away from work, so you have amble time to complete all of your holiday preparations.
It is essential to keep your daily routine in balance, so you do not get exhausted or emotionally overwhelmed. Don’t commit to more social activities than you can attend, or be encouraged to host your own holiday event if you don’t have enough time. Once you have established your schedule with your family, try not to make any unnecessary changes to it without checking with them first.
Successful holiday shopping involves a great deal of careful planning. A well-prepared list can save you time and money. Keep in mind the season is about family togetherness and not about how much money you can spend on impressive gifts.
Do yourself a favor and keep your holiday decorating simple. Elaborate decorations can quickly consume your valuable time. If you do decide to decorate big during this holiday season, make sure you complete it before all of your parties and gift shopping.
Organize and plan your holidays wisely so that you won’t become too stressed, tired or exhausted. A little advanced planning can go a long way to help you enjoy your Christmas season!
Organize and plan your holidays wisely so that you won’t become too stressed, tired or exhausted. A little advanced planning can go a long way to help you enjoy your Christmas season!
Friday, December 12, 2014
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Keeping Your House Free of Clutter
Are you reading books about organizing your home and time management? Have you recently been setting short-term and long-terms goals for organizing your whole house? Maybe you are working on improving your environment at home or at your office.
I routinely feel more relaxed and in control of my life when my house is nicely organized. I find it easier to function on a daily basis with my household responsibilities when I can easily find everything I am looking for at my house. I like to routinely keep everything clutter-free.
It takes time to declutter and organize a house. I try to plan my organizing projects by breaking them down into manageable tasks that I can realistically accomplish.
I don't think of the "all or none" idea when I am planning my projects. I try to set aside at least 30 minutes a day to complete one small organizing project in the house.
It gives me positive reinforcement to see the results of my efforts around the house. Household chores and daily maintenance gets a little easier each time I organize a new area in my house.
It gives me positive reinforcement to see the results of my efforts around the house. Household chores and daily maintenance gets a little easier each time I organize a new area in my house.
Benefits of Organizing Your House
Have you recently been wondering about the positive benefits from being organized?
Listed below are some advantages of being organized:
Hopefully, you may be able to relax more. You life may possibly begin to feel less stressful or chaotic when you become more organized and balanced in life.
Once you are organized, you may find that you have more time for yourself. You may feel more productive and efficient with your work. When you have an appropriate place for your items, you will be less likely to waste time trying to find things and you should find yourself having more time for yourself and the things you truly like to do.
You may also find that you have more time for your friends and family members. An organized person may be more likely to schedule in leisure time for friends and family. You may feel much better about your surroundings, once you begin organizing your house.
Being disorganized may result in embarrassment. You may feel anxious when friends visit your house and happen to see clutter out of place.
By getting organized, you may feel wonderful about your home environment. Hopefully, you will feel confident and secure to be able to invite friends to your house without feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
By continuing to stay organized, you may also have more available time to exercise and cook healthy meals for yourself and your family.
Also, you may even begin to see an improvement in your professional setting. An organized person gives a better professional impression than someone who has an office piled with lots of disorganized papers and boxes, or is always late for appointments.
Possibly, you may find yourself saving some money at times. If you're organized, you will know very well what you have, before you purchase more.
Another advantage of being organized is that you may actually accomplish more. When you're disorganized, there are always obstacles that hold you back from achieving your goals.
Organized individuals may find constructive ways to reduce tasks that are not required, and they may streamline tasks that routinely take excessive time. This leaves sufficient time to work on achieving all of those important goals on your list.
What is Clutter?
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I am very proud to tell you that I am a trained Professional Organizer. I successfully completed the program listed below and I enjoyed my training very much.
We support the Institute for Professional Organizers™ Fast Track Method™ Training Self-Study Program developed by experienced organizers.
You can learn how to start your professional organizing business and how to organize. The program includes 8 hours of online videos, a comprehensive manual, and personal coaching. You can study from the comfort of your own home.
So, now you are a little more familiar with my training. We will get onto our topic of decluttering the house.
I think it is extremely important for you to educate yourself about home organization and decluttering the house and decide on specific organizing systems that will work well for your individual lifestyle and family. Always remember that good organizational habits can be learned.
I have a question for everyone reading my blog today. What is clutter?
- Clutter is anything in your home or office that does not serve a purpose or function in your life anymore.
- Clutter may include items in your home that are broken or nonfunctional.
- Clutter may be material items in your home that you do not need or love.
- Clutter could also include unnecessary duplicate items in your home.
- You may be surprised to realize that having too many storage containers that aren't actually be used in your home may add to your existing clutter problem. That is the main reason it may be suggested that you declutter your home "first." Then, it should be easy to figure out exactly how many storage boxes to buy and specific sizes you may need.
- Clutter could also consist of accumulated items of trash to be thrown away or removed in an appropriate manner.
- Clutter may be caused be delayed decisions.
- You haven't taken the time to decide on appropriate areas to keep your specific items in your home.
- Procrastination: maybe you feel overwhelmed about organizing or decluttering your house.
- You may be experiencing that frustrating "all or nothing" feeling about home organization. For example: you may think to yourself, "I will never have enough time to get my organizing projects done. There is just too much to do. So, why should I even start?"
- Maybe, you have a very busy family schedule and you haven't been using a good weekly/monthly planner for routine chores/tasks in the home.
- Possibly, the family doesn't realize your home organization goals and you may get easily distracted with many interruptions throughout the day. It may be very helpful for you to communicate your short-term and long-term organizing goals with your family. You may decide to have family members participate in your plan. This may be especially important in helping to keep your home maintained after you have everything set up the way you like it.
- You may have felt the lack of energy or motivation to complete organizing projects in the past.
- Often times, a major lifestyle change may cause a change in the normal flow of organization in your home. Here are a few examples: a birth or a death in the family, new marriage or a divorce, job relocation, or health problems.
How can clutter affect your life in a negative way?
- Clutter can take up lots of extra space in a home. Think of how much more additional space you may have available after you get rid of any unnecessary clutter.
- You may be using a lot of your valuable time to take care of all the material things in your house.
- You could be spending extra money for duplicate items that you have been purchasing because you haven't been able to find the things that you were looking for in your house.
- Many people say they lack energy because they are tired of maintaining all the material things they have accumulated over the years.
- They don't have enough time to take good care of themselves or to enjoy their favorite hobbies and outlets.
- You will be able to focus on things that you enjoy, such as: exercise, hobbies, good nutrition, etc.
- You may find that you have more time to spend with family and friends.
- Hopefully, you won't have the need to purchase unnecessary items because you will have easy access to your items and be able to find everything when you need it. You will learn how to find "the right place for everything in your home."
- You may really enjoy the big bonus of having more space in your home once you get rid of your clutter.
- An organized house, free of clutter, may help you save time when you need to do your routine daily/weekly household chores.
- I find that I focus and concentrate better and feel more productive and less stress with work when my house and office are organized.
- You may increase your confidence to invite your friends over to your home again.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
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A List of Ten 15 Minute Tasks
1. Organize your wallet or purse.
2. Set a timer for fifteen minutes to sort through your junk drawer, and safely discard any items you no longer need.
3. Sort through your clothes closet and check for any articles of clothing you never wear. You may decide to donate them to your favorite charity.
4. Walk around your home for fifteen minutes with a designated box and put any misplaced toys into this box. Now, put all these individual toys back in their proper homes.
5. Prepare all of your upcoming birthday, anniversary and other greeting cards needed for one month.
6. Organize an appropriate area in your house for your bill paying supplies. File any papers that need to be filed at this time.
7. Take a few minutes to schedule any necessary upcoming appointments with doctors, dentists, accountants, repair service, beauty salons or barbers, etc.
8. Spend a few minutes each day reviewing and answering your email.
9. Take a few minutes to clear flat surface areas, such as kitchen and bathroom counter tops from clutter.
10. Do a routine walk-through your home in the evening to tidy up and return any misplaced items to their proper homes.
Start Organizing Your House Now
Do you often read many articles or books about organizing and they have similar ideas for helping you get organized? You can follow some easy ways to learn how to achieve the job and reduce the stress. You will find it will be worth the effort you put forth.
Look at the over-all picture of your home. You may even decide to hire a professional organizer. Go through every room in your house and make your mind up on what you want to do with each room and write it down in an organized manner in a special notebook.
Can you find any hidden storage areas in your rooms? You have options to work with throughout your home. You may decide to add another shelf in the closet. Many people use the storage space on the inside of a door or under the bed.
It can be motivating to choose organizing products you like and feel comfortable working with in your home. Using things that you like will provide you positive reinforcement for a job-well-done.
Don't forget to take into consideration your daily activities and routines in your home. It is very helpful to place items in the most appropriate areas of your home where they are going to do you the most good.
For example, items that you use on a daily basis should not be stored on a high shelf. The vacuum cleaner can be stored near the room you use it the most.
Realize the main reason why you truly want to get organized. Are you doing this for yourself and your family to make life easier and to save time with household chores and maintenance in the future? Or, are you doing it because someone is pressuring you to make these changes? Give yourself positive motivation, proper planning, and necessary time to complete your organizing goals.
Use Index Cards to Write Your Goals
Most of us are so busy these days. It is always helpful to learn a few techniques and skills to reduce stress in our lives. Many women have active careers outside of their homes. They may need to juggle their part-time or full-time work responsibilities with their everyday homemaking tasks. It is difficult to be all things to all people the majority of the time. Busy moms can easily become emotionally and physically exhausted or drained. This doesn't have to happen. It may be helpful to learn good time management skills.
You can get into the habit of writing down specific short-term and long-term goals. I have gotten into the habit of using index cards and I write down a specific goal on each card. I arrange the cards so the goals that I feel are high priority are placed on top, and the less important goals go behind.
I write project deadline dates on the top of each index card. I break each goal down into specific steps that I need to complete to accomplish the goal. I also schedule specific time to achieve each of my goals/tasks. For example, I routinely set aside 15-30 minutes each day to sort, organize, or clean my house.
So, you may want to get some index cards and write specific cleaning or organizing tasks down on each card. Place all of your cards in an index box. You can select one index card each day and that can be your cleaning or organizing task.
There are some tasks you can do that will only take 10 to 15 minutes to complete. For example, you may think it takes 15 minutes to clean out one kitchen or bathroom cabinet. You might be able to sort and organize a book shelf in 10 minute. If you have 5 minutes, you may be able to clean off a counter top. You can organize your wallet or purse. For larger projects, such as cleaning out a refrigerator or a closet, you may want to allow 1 to 2 hours or more, etc.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
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Five-Part Organizing 1-2-3 Mini-eCourse
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
Part One "Organizing 1-2-3 Mini-eCourse"
To be able to ORGANIZE is a skill that can be LEARNED. It is not inherited! There are ways out of the struggles! Get successful in life again! GET IN CONTROL AGAIN!
The Organizing 1-2-3 eBook has strategies and solutions that work! Learn to use those Strategies and solutions to work FOR YOU!!! YOU ARE ABLE TO CHOOSE FOR THE BETTER AND ARE CAPABLE TO DEAL WITH YOUR DE-CLUTTERING AND ORGANIZING OPTIONS DECISIVELY.
IF YOU STRUGGLE AND SUFFER PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF BEING DISORGANIZED, THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU! YOU CAN NOW DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE! There is some real truth and wisdom in the following:
“Organization is not an option, it is a fundamental survival skill and distinct competitive advantage” ~ Pam N. Woods
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” - Robert H. Schuller.
Whatever your personal strategy for dealing effectively with DE-CLUTTERING DESPAIR, be sure to take into account the following:
You’re always behind, always late, always apologizing to people! It’s distracting, demoralizing, embarrassing! You are terrified of someone calling you up on very short notice to say they are dropping in unexpectedly. You feel that you can do so much more if only you were organized!
It is now within your reach! Go for it! Wouldn’t it be nice to feel in control, feel ready for life, and enjoying life? That is what organizing can do for you! One secret to success in organizing is the ability to prioritize your various commitments, enlist the help of others, and not sweat the small stuff.
First, you can enjoy "Part One" of the FREE, five-part mini-e-course, which is taken straight from this newly released Organizing 1-2-3 eBook.
Organizing can be immensely gratifying in this changing world with its increasing demands. It is not for the faint hearted though, since it sometimes will require courage, lots of persistence, self discipline and self control. It will invariably result in a character building exercise in most areas of your life.
Organizing is not a talent…..it is a skill, a remarkably simple skill that anyone can learn! All that you need is the willingness and the desire to learn a whole new approach to the organizing process, a change of heart, a change in the way you think about it.
Developing an understanding of what’s been holding you back in all your past efforts, possibly causing you untold emotional suffering. There are very specific skills, techniques and tools that you need to learn that will make organizing manageable, tolerable, attainable and……even fun, especially in hindsight when you will be reaping all the benefits!
Just think of the sense of achievement you will enjoy when you have acquired these new and sustainable skills that will put YOU in control of the clutter, instead of feeling frustrated, overwhelmed and depressed!
If you find yourself in real need for some deeper insights into what it actually takes to successfully and effectively GET TO DEAL WITH THESE ISSUES TODAY, HERE AND NOW, ONCE AND FOR ALL, then this is the e-course for you!
Part One in our five-day series of the FREE, five-part mini-e-course, which is taken straight from this newly released Organizing 1-2-3 eBook.
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
This practical course will help you make the most of PERSONAL AND NATURAL INTERVENTION STRATEGIES FOR DEALING WITH BEING DIS-ORGANIZED and ANXIOUS.
Maybe you started to believe that organizing must be a mysterious talent that only a few privileged people are born with, and the unlucky rest of us will inevitably keep suffering for our lack of knowledge in that area.
But there is hope to get out of your maze … even for the most notoriously disorganized person! You can turn yourself around! We can learn to be smart and outsmart our messy problem! You can tackle this and achieve success!
Organizing is much more than just throwing the clutter out. It is about establishing new and invigorating environments that will inspire you to unleash your creative thinking. It will give you a sense of your own personal power and develop the sweetest sense of achievement that will motivate you to no end in reaching far more than you ever thought you were capable of.
Best of all, it will free you to pursue the higher goals, dreams and ideals you have in life. You will have so much more time than you ever thought possible by living the life you thought could only be a dream….. your spirit will soar free in stead of being chained to the grinding despair of constantly drowning in oceans of clutter!
The constant stress from living with a chronic clutter problem can possibly affect your health. It makes a person feel overwhelmed and powerless to change things around them.
With so much disorder and unnecessary items about, you will find it is difficult to be focused and life will feel more and more like a meaningless struggle. Along with your energy, your spirit seems to sag and you may lose interest in life and feel depressed. Don’t allow things to slip out of control so far! It is time to dig in. Get your space organized, get back in control!
Thank you for reading Part One of this mini-ecourse and I hope it has been informative for you! Remember that you can learn organizational skills to live the life of your dreams!
You will be moving on to read Part Two of this mini-ecourse below. However, if you know that you are already interested in the Organizing 1-2-3 eBook, I have a special introductory offer that might not last long. Receive your ebook for just $9.97 by using a special discount code Spring10! ACT NOW, BEFORE THEY ARE GONE! So grab this special price while you can!
Part Two "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse"
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
TODAY, we are continuing our discussion on OVERCOMING BEING DIS-ORGANIZED, and more strategies you may want to implement to cope better, while working on getting rid of the CLUTTER once and for all. You need your family’s support to maintain your new organizing systems once you have conquered the clutter.
Learning and practicing better communication skills is a wonderful way to reconnect to your family and heal relationships that may have been damaged. Three basic skills are invaluable and critical to enabling families to function properly on all levels:
Suffering as result of being disorganized is a most personal, intimate and emotionally painful matter that affects one’s self-image, so one tends to focus on one’s imperfections and shortcomings and starts to question one’s self-worth. If you are discouraged and feel as if your whole life is disintegrating under the weight of this problem, then the Organizing 1-2-3 eBook is for you!
Anxiousness and irritability often results, as well as secrecy, shame and withdrawal, as the individual realizes that his or her behavior is not desirable or understandable to others, so social events are avoided. People that continue to live in cluttered, messy conditions may even experience depression.
We have to learn how the inner drive mechanisms work and, more importantly, how to change things - only then will we have the knowledge and power to overcome the natural setbacks that may occur and gradually start to control the compulsion to procrastinate and aggravate the situation further.
Disorganized people deal with their embarrassment and emotional pain in different ways, like avoidance of other people, hiding, denying, over compensation or costly interventions just to get rid of the nightmare.
Are you there too?
Again, thank you for reading Part Two in our five-day series of the FREE, five-part mini-e-course, which is taken straight from this newly released Organizing 1-2-3 eBook. We will now continue on to Part Three of this mini-ecourse below.
Part Three "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse"
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
In order to create a lasting solution, ask probing questions first, plan well and then attempt to organize the disarray afterwards in a rational, unemotional and well planned way. First, think everything through and design a system based on your unique personality and adjusted accordingly.
You need to design an environment that is a reflection of who you are and the way you operate. Your aim is to create an environment that you find easy to maintain because it comes natural to you and is tweaked to your needs. Most people think that when they get organized they have to change who they are. That is why their systems don’t last or work for long before they fall back into bad patterns and ways.
You keep trying to retrain and force yourself to be more disciplined and do things differently to what comes natural to you and what you like and feel most at ease and comfortable with. Come up with alternatives that allow you to work where you are most comfortable, like doing your bills on the kitchen table instead of the back office. Adjust things according to your natural inclinations and habits. Make it work for you and not against you to avoid frustration and the sense of failure. Set yourself up for success and not for failing in your own eyes.
It is possible to adjust your lifestyle to promote your general well being and state of mind. How I live and feel, what I eat, exercise, cope with stress and sleep may make a world of difference in how I cope with the challenge of becoming organized – or not! Are you eating right, drinking enough water each day, getting enough fresh air, sunshine and exercise? If not, you can certainly do something about it.
When deciding whether to save or toss something, use the “W_A_S_T_E” acronym to help you.
1. Is the item Worthwhile to keep?
2. Will you be using this item Again? If you haven’t used it in a year, you probably won’t need it again. If you don’t use it, lose it!
3. Can this item easily be found Somewhere else?
4. Will anything serious happen if you Toss it? Toss or donate old stuff when you buy new items, except when you attach huge sentimental value to the items.
5. Do you need the Entire thing? If not, keep what you need and toss or donate the rest.
My personal choices may make the difference between losing and winning the battle. Even if I don’t have a lot of options in life, there is still one thing I have a choice about - my attitude. I can achieve amazing things if I have the right attitude and put my resolve behind it – not allowing negative feelings to drag me down. “I can achieve anything that I really put my will and heart behind!” Don’t allow the enormity of your challenge to obscure all the avenues for growth and forward movement that may be available to you!
Even if you are at the point of discouragement, somewhere down there in your spirit you still find enough resolve to make that decision of your will to turn your life around. Developing good personal habits are crucial. Whether you love and accept yourself, know who you are, what you want in life and where you are going creates a sense of self-respect, self-esteem, and self-worth that others instinctively feel and will treat you accordingly.
Regardless of your particular case, requirements or obstacles, you will find some help, encouragement and motivation for a happy life here!
Again, thank you for reading this mini-ecourse and I hope Part Three has been informative for you!
Part Four of this mini-ecourse is listed below. However, if you know that you are already interested in the Organizing 1-2-3 eBook, I have a special discount offer that might not last long. Receive your ebook for just $9.97 when you use the Spring10 discount code during check out! ACT NOW, BEFORE THEY ARE GONE! So grab this special price while you can!
Part Four "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse"
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
Harmonize and Synergize your life, your space and … SIMPLIFY! If your primary goal is to live in a neat, clutter-free environment, think of creating a smart system in which to operate freely, saving you valuable time as result of not having to hunt for lost items. Having more time to spend doing what you enjoy most is everyone’s dream.
By designing your own system, you will find methods of doing things and tasks in easier ways that might otherwise have been a strain. Papers cluster everywhere in every area of the home and need to first be cleaned up in order to create order and clear surfaces. Items lying around without purpose should be put away in designated places.
Designate a place for every item of value in your entire home. Use baskets, bins or drawers to store away items. Use files or folders to organize and store papers. With designated places established, it is much easier to remain organized.
To become organized it is crucial to break out of the very negative, self-defeating and often destructive ways of thinking that often have become so automatic, ingrained – and chronic, that you are not even aware of the negativity of it anymore. This you can do with the strong desire from within yourself to change from this situation where you are just “existing” in and break free to a new life that’s enjoyable and worth living.
Stress makes most challenges worse. Some psychological effects that a very disorganized person may experience include fears, emotional turmoil, frustration, social isolation, hopelessness, despair and even depression and anxiety. Relationship problems and struggles to cope with career demands and just day-by-day functioning as a human being become huge challenges in themselves, because the person loses a balanced perspective on life and focuses only on the condition that has become the problem that their life revolves around.
To decrease stress you may consider exploring relaxation and breathing disciplines, visualization techniques, music, self-awareness, mindfulness and consciously choosing to approach life from a positive point of view.
Organizing is not a goal or an end in itself. It is not a destination, but a significant doorway to achieving your dreams and higher goals, a better life, more time and energy to enjoy the things you love and that are important to you. It is a powerful motivator, and it’s absence is as powerful a discouragement.
You are designing a system that achieves far more than clean counter tops. Learning the skills to be organized is the greatest gift that you can ever give yourself! Applying these skills that you can learn is a way of taking care of yourself and greatly improving your sense of well-being. Achieving success in learning organizing skills will enable you to have time to serve others much better as you will be in control of your own situation, no longer discouraged, anxious or depressed!
Learn more about BECOMING ORGANIZED in this newly released Organizing 1-2-3 eBook. Again, thank you for reading this mini-ecourse and I hope Part Four has been informative for you!
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
Your final Part Five of your five-day "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse" is here! We stress yet again at this point that no TWO individuals are the same, neither will face the same circumstances, challenges or have similar obstacles to overcome. If you want to have more time to do the things you enjoy, organizing yourself is KEY! That is why it is so utterly important that you take a hands-on and proactive approach for making a difference in your own life. IT IS UP TO YOU AND IN YOUR HANDS!
To succeed and push through your organizing project you need a strong motivation "beyond” the clutter, a compelling reason, a goal you seriously want to reach. Think about the space you want to organize and ask yourself why do you want to do it. What is your compelling reason? What big picture goal in your life are you going to accomplish because that space is organized? This goal will be your compelling reason and your beacon to work towards completing the whole process.
Why try to remember everything? Help your memory by writing things down immediately when you think of what needs to be done. Prioritize your lists. Plan ahead for the next day and assign priorities to the tasks you need to do according to their importance. Planning can save you enormous amounts of time. It is important to have a motivated and positive “I CAN remember” and “I CAN do it” attitude.
Simplify your space and life! Create a simple organizing system. Zones are key. Organize any space in different zones of activity and group similar or related items or required tools together close to where the activity happens. Create places for things and assign designated places for grouping related items together close to the relevant activity zones. Then your space will work for you and help you maintain order in a natural way. Develop an efficient and very simple model to use in every space you have to organize. Divide the space in activity zones, where everything needed is stored at it’s point of use in cute, functional and efficient containers. All you need is right there!
Very important is the healing of relationships, where everyone works together for the common good to create harmony. This is worth striving for and may need some personal sacrifice, unselfishness and a very mature approach. This will make for good character building for everyone involved.
Awareness of the chaos they create and the dire need to change towards becoming more organized, and lots of encouragement instead of rejection and resentment will go a long way to help a person to grow into an attitude of honestly wanting to better themselves through acquiring and developing those organizing skills, as well as the indispensable self-discipline that is vital for success. The decision to change must come from deep inside the core of the person involved. He or she needs to choose for him or herself and then act upon it. IT IS POSSIBLE!!!
If we want to change, develop and grow, we can't let fear hold us back.
Once we understand why we believe and behave as we do there are many things we can do that let go of the past and move forward, develop more accurate, positive feelings about ourselves and to develop feelings of being in control and confidence, seeing reality as it is without the negative self-talk! Understanding your own behavior and that of others, acceptance of our own 'faults' and those of others and appreciating the effect of disorganized behavior on others can go a long way to help YOU stand up and deal with the mess right NOW!!!!
NOW IT IS UP TO YOU to foster a strong mental attitude towards your challenge. LET THE ORGANIZING 1-2-3 eBOOK WORK FOR YOU TO RID YOU PERMANENTLY OF THE SHADOW OF BEING DISORGANIZED! Discover A ROOM BY ROOM PLAN AND ACTION STRATEGY TO TAKE CHARGE AND LIVE AN ORGANIZED LIFE!
GET YOUR (TIDY) LIFE BACK! IT’S POSSIBLE! YOU CAN BE ORGANIZED! PUT YOURSELF BACK IN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE! TODAY! YOU CAN DO IT!!!
Again, thank you for reading Part Five of the "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse". We look forward to hearing how you made out and what you have learned in the process.
Here is just some of what you will be learning from this newly released Organizing 1-2-3 eBook:
De-clutter and Clean Up
Insider Tips on getting and keeping yourself, spaces and life organized
Pains and Challenges of DIS-ARRAY and DISORGANIZATION
Harmonize and Synergize your life, space and SIMPLIFY!
Get priorities right and categorize
Sort, Donate, Toss, Sell
Art and Science of ORGANIZED living
Enable your Lifestyle and customize your living space
Creative Genius can change your life FOREVER
Time, Priorities and Lists
Mothers, Homes and Rewards of NOT BEING DISORGANIZED!
Ideas how to organize your children
… and much, much MORE!
At this point, I know you must be interested in the Organizing 1-2-3 eBook. This "how to" eBook will help you get to the bottom of the matter in one cover-to-cover, easy-to-use reference guide. Get all the facts and information you need to make the most of dealing effectively with BEING DIS-ORGANIZED! Make things simple today! YOU can learn the skills to become highly ORGANIZED!!! What are you waiting for? Order your Organizing 1-2-3 eBook today and take advantage of this limited time, special introductory offer. That is right, REMEMBER, you will pay just $9.97 when you take advantage of using the Spring Special discount code Spring10 during check out! BUT YOU MUST ORDER NOW - THIS WILL NOT LAST!
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Part One "Organizing 1-2-3 Mini-eCourse"
To be able to ORGANIZE is a skill that can be LEARNED. It is not inherited! There are ways out of the struggles! Get successful in life again! GET IN CONTROL AGAIN!
The Organizing 1-2-3 eBook has strategies and solutions that work! Learn to use those Strategies and solutions to work FOR YOU!!! YOU ARE ABLE TO CHOOSE FOR THE BETTER AND ARE CAPABLE TO DEAL WITH YOUR DE-CLUTTERING AND ORGANIZING OPTIONS DECISIVELY.
IF YOU STRUGGLE AND SUFFER PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF BEING DISORGANIZED, THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU! YOU CAN NOW DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE! There is some real truth and wisdom in the following:
“Organization is not an option, it is a fundamental survival skill and distinct competitive advantage” ~ Pam N. Woods
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” - Robert H. Schuller.
Whatever your personal strategy for dealing effectively with DE-CLUTTERING DESPAIR, be sure to take into account the following:
- Negative thought patterns to be avoided
- All or nothing – if it’s not perfect, it’s not worth it
- Negative self-talk – I can’t, I’m a failure…
- Overgeneralization – seeing a single event as making all of life a disaster
- Catastrophization – each little problem is the end of the world
- Mind reading –assuming people to think the worst of you
- Fortune telling – “knowing” things will turn out badly and acting as if they are
- Accentuating the negative – ignoring positive things and exaggerating negative ones
- Self-blame – using guilt to motivate yourself, or unfair self-blame
You’re always behind, always late, always apologizing to people! It’s distracting, demoralizing, embarrassing! You are terrified of someone calling you up on very short notice to say they are dropping in unexpectedly. You feel that you can do so much more if only you were organized!
It is now within your reach! Go for it! Wouldn’t it be nice to feel in control, feel ready for life, and enjoying life? That is what organizing can do for you! One secret to success in organizing is the ability to prioritize your various commitments, enlist the help of others, and not sweat the small stuff.
First, you can enjoy "Part One" of the FREE, five-part mini-e-course, which is taken straight from this newly released Organizing 1-2-3 eBook.
Organizing can be immensely gratifying in this changing world with its increasing demands. It is not for the faint hearted though, since it sometimes will require courage, lots of persistence, self discipline and self control. It will invariably result in a character building exercise in most areas of your life.
Organizing is not a talent…..it is a skill, a remarkably simple skill that anyone can learn! All that you need is the willingness and the desire to learn a whole new approach to the organizing process, a change of heart, a change in the way you think about it.
Developing an understanding of what’s been holding you back in all your past efforts, possibly causing you untold emotional suffering. There are very specific skills, techniques and tools that you need to learn that will make organizing manageable, tolerable, attainable and……even fun, especially in hindsight when you will be reaping all the benefits!
Just think of the sense of achievement you will enjoy when you have acquired these new and sustainable skills that will put YOU in control of the clutter, instead of feeling frustrated, overwhelmed and depressed!
If you find yourself in real need for some deeper insights into what it actually takes to successfully and effectively GET TO DEAL WITH THESE ISSUES TODAY, HERE AND NOW, ONCE AND FOR ALL, then this is the e-course for you!
Part One in our five-day series of the FREE, five-part mini-e-course, which is taken straight from this newly released Organizing 1-2-3 eBook.
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
This practical course will help you make the most of PERSONAL AND NATURAL INTERVENTION STRATEGIES FOR DEALING WITH BEING DIS-ORGANIZED and ANXIOUS.
Maybe you started to believe that organizing must be a mysterious talent that only a few privileged people are born with, and the unlucky rest of us will inevitably keep suffering for our lack of knowledge in that area.
But there is hope to get out of your maze … even for the most notoriously disorganized person! You can turn yourself around! We can learn to be smart and outsmart our messy problem! You can tackle this and achieve success!
Organizing is much more than just throwing the clutter out. It is about establishing new and invigorating environments that will inspire you to unleash your creative thinking. It will give you a sense of your own personal power and develop the sweetest sense of achievement that will motivate you to no end in reaching far more than you ever thought you were capable of.
Best of all, it will free you to pursue the higher goals, dreams and ideals you have in life. You will have so much more time than you ever thought possible by living the life you thought could only be a dream….. your spirit will soar free in stead of being chained to the grinding despair of constantly drowning in oceans of clutter!
The constant stress from living with a chronic clutter problem can possibly affect your health. It makes a person feel overwhelmed and powerless to change things around them.
With so much disorder and unnecessary items about, you will find it is difficult to be focused and life will feel more and more like a meaningless struggle. Along with your energy, your spirit seems to sag and you may lose interest in life and feel depressed. Don’t allow things to slip out of control so far! It is time to dig in. Get your space organized, get back in control!
Thank you for reading Part One of this mini-ecourse and I hope it has been informative for you! Remember that you can learn organizational skills to live the life of your dreams!
You will be moving on to read Part Two of this mini-ecourse below. However, if you know that you are already interested in the Organizing 1-2-3 eBook, I have a special introductory offer that might not last long. Receive your ebook for just $9.97 by using a special discount code Spring10! ACT NOW, BEFORE THEY ARE GONE! So grab this special price while you can!
Part Two "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse"
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
TODAY, we are continuing our discussion on OVERCOMING BEING DIS-ORGANIZED, and more strategies you may want to implement to cope better, while working on getting rid of the CLUTTER once and for all. You need your family’s support to maintain your new organizing systems once you have conquered the clutter.
Learning and practicing better communication skills is a wonderful way to reconnect to your family and heal relationships that may have been damaged. Three basic skills are invaluable and critical to enabling families to function properly on all levels:
- The ability to listen to and hear each other respectfully without interruptions
- Respecting each other’s individuality and right to own opinions
- The ability to distinguish behaviors from persons so that undesired behavior may be rejected but never the person (Asking the person to change behavior rather than judging or blaming him or her personally)
Suffering as result of being disorganized is a most personal, intimate and emotionally painful matter that affects one’s self-image, so one tends to focus on one’s imperfections and shortcomings and starts to question one’s self-worth. If you are discouraged and feel as if your whole life is disintegrating under the weight of this problem, then the Organizing 1-2-3 eBook is for you!
Anxiousness and irritability often results, as well as secrecy, shame and withdrawal, as the individual realizes that his or her behavior is not desirable or understandable to others, so social events are avoided. People that continue to live in cluttered, messy conditions may even experience depression.
We have to learn how the inner drive mechanisms work and, more importantly, how to change things - only then will we have the knowledge and power to overcome the natural setbacks that may occur and gradually start to control the compulsion to procrastinate and aggravate the situation further.
Disorganized people deal with their embarrassment and emotional pain in different ways, like avoidance of other people, hiding, denying, over compensation or costly interventions just to get rid of the nightmare.
Are you there too?
Again, thank you for reading Part Two in our five-day series of the FREE, five-part mini-e-course, which is taken straight from this newly released Organizing 1-2-3 eBook. We will now continue on to Part Three of this mini-ecourse below.
Part Three "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse"
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
In order to create a lasting solution, ask probing questions first, plan well and then attempt to organize the disarray afterwards in a rational, unemotional and well planned way. First, think everything through and design a system based on your unique personality and adjusted accordingly.
You need to design an environment that is a reflection of who you are and the way you operate. Your aim is to create an environment that you find easy to maintain because it comes natural to you and is tweaked to your needs. Most people think that when they get organized they have to change who they are. That is why their systems don’t last or work for long before they fall back into bad patterns and ways.
You keep trying to retrain and force yourself to be more disciplined and do things differently to what comes natural to you and what you like and feel most at ease and comfortable with. Come up with alternatives that allow you to work where you are most comfortable, like doing your bills on the kitchen table instead of the back office. Adjust things according to your natural inclinations and habits. Make it work for you and not against you to avoid frustration and the sense of failure. Set yourself up for success and not for failing in your own eyes.
It is possible to adjust your lifestyle to promote your general well being and state of mind. How I live and feel, what I eat, exercise, cope with stress and sleep may make a world of difference in how I cope with the challenge of becoming organized – or not! Are you eating right, drinking enough water each day, getting enough fresh air, sunshine and exercise? If not, you can certainly do something about it.
When deciding whether to save or toss something, use the “W_A_S_T_E” acronym to help you.
1. Is the item Worthwhile to keep?
2. Will you be using this item Again? If you haven’t used it in a year, you probably won’t need it again. If you don’t use it, lose it!
3. Can this item easily be found Somewhere else?
4. Will anything serious happen if you Toss it? Toss or donate old stuff when you buy new items, except when you attach huge sentimental value to the items.
5. Do you need the Entire thing? If not, keep what you need and toss or donate the rest.
My personal choices may make the difference between losing and winning the battle. Even if I don’t have a lot of options in life, there is still one thing I have a choice about - my attitude. I can achieve amazing things if I have the right attitude and put my resolve behind it – not allowing negative feelings to drag me down. “I can achieve anything that I really put my will and heart behind!” Don’t allow the enormity of your challenge to obscure all the avenues for growth and forward movement that may be available to you!
Even if you are at the point of discouragement, somewhere down there in your spirit you still find enough resolve to make that decision of your will to turn your life around. Developing good personal habits are crucial. Whether you love and accept yourself, know who you are, what you want in life and where you are going creates a sense of self-respect, self-esteem, and self-worth that others instinctively feel and will treat you accordingly.
Regardless of your particular case, requirements or obstacles, you will find some help, encouragement and motivation for a happy life here!
Again, thank you for reading this mini-ecourse and I hope Part Three has been informative for you!
Part Four of this mini-ecourse is listed below. However, if you know that you are already interested in the Organizing 1-2-3 eBook, I have a special discount offer that might not last long. Receive your ebook for just $9.97 when you use the Spring10 discount code during check out! ACT NOW, BEFORE THEY ARE GONE! So grab this special price while you can!
Part Four "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse"
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
Harmonize and Synergize your life, your space and … SIMPLIFY! If your primary goal is to live in a neat, clutter-free environment, think of creating a smart system in which to operate freely, saving you valuable time as result of not having to hunt for lost items. Having more time to spend doing what you enjoy most is everyone’s dream.
By designing your own system, you will find methods of doing things and tasks in easier ways that might otherwise have been a strain. Papers cluster everywhere in every area of the home and need to first be cleaned up in order to create order and clear surfaces. Items lying around without purpose should be put away in designated places.
Designate a place for every item of value in your entire home. Use baskets, bins or drawers to store away items. Use files or folders to organize and store papers. With designated places established, it is much easier to remain organized.
To become organized it is crucial to break out of the very negative, self-defeating and often destructive ways of thinking that often have become so automatic, ingrained – and chronic, that you are not even aware of the negativity of it anymore. This you can do with the strong desire from within yourself to change from this situation where you are just “existing” in and break free to a new life that’s enjoyable and worth living.
Stress makes most challenges worse. Some psychological effects that a very disorganized person may experience include fears, emotional turmoil, frustration, social isolation, hopelessness, despair and even depression and anxiety. Relationship problems and struggles to cope with career demands and just day-by-day functioning as a human being become huge challenges in themselves, because the person loses a balanced perspective on life and focuses only on the condition that has become the problem that their life revolves around.
To decrease stress you may consider exploring relaxation and breathing disciplines, visualization techniques, music, self-awareness, mindfulness and consciously choosing to approach life from a positive point of view.
Organizing is not a goal or an end in itself. It is not a destination, but a significant doorway to achieving your dreams and higher goals, a better life, more time and energy to enjoy the things you love and that are important to you. It is a powerful motivator, and it’s absence is as powerful a discouragement.
You are designing a system that achieves far more than clean counter tops. Learning the skills to be organized is the greatest gift that you can ever give yourself! Applying these skills that you can learn is a way of taking care of yourself and greatly improving your sense of well-being. Achieving success in learning organizing skills will enable you to have time to serve others much better as you will be in control of your own situation, no longer discouraged, anxious or depressed!
Learn more about BECOMING ORGANIZED in this newly released Organizing 1-2-3 eBook. Again, thank you for reading this mini-ecourse and I hope Part Four has been informative for you!
Part Five "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse"
“Overcoming being Dis-organized: Practical advice for De-cluttered spaces and Organized daily living”
Your final Part Five of your five-day "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse" is here! We stress yet again at this point that no TWO individuals are the same, neither will face the same circumstances, challenges or have similar obstacles to overcome. If you want to have more time to do the things you enjoy, organizing yourself is KEY! That is why it is so utterly important that you take a hands-on and proactive approach for making a difference in your own life. IT IS UP TO YOU AND IN YOUR HANDS!
To succeed and push through your organizing project you need a strong motivation "beyond” the clutter, a compelling reason, a goal you seriously want to reach. Think about the space you want to organize and ask yourself why do you want to do it. What is your compelling reason? What big picture goal in your life are you going to accomplish because that space is organized? This goal will be your compelling reason and your beacon to work towards completing the whole process.
Why try to remember everything? Help your memory by writing things down immediately when you think of what needs to be done. Prioritize your lists. Plan ahead for the next day and assign priorities to the tasks you need to do according to their importance. Planning can save you enormous amounts of time. It is important to have a motivated and positive “I CAN remember” and “I CAN do it” attitude.
Simplify your space and life! Create a simple organizing system. Zones are key. Organize any space in different zones of activity and group similar or related items or required tools together close to where the activity happens. Create places for things and assign designated places for grouping related items together close to the relevant activity zones. Then your space will work for you and help you maintain order in a natural way. Develop an efficient and very simple model to use in every space you have to organize. Divide the space in activity zones, where everything needed is stored at it’s point of use in cute, functional and efficient containers. All you need is right there!
Very important is the healing of relationships, where everyone works together for the common good to create harmony. This is worth striving for and may need some personal sacrifice, unselfishness and a very mature approach. This will make for good character building for everyone involved.
Awareness of the chaos they create and the dire need to change towards becoming more organized, and lots of encouragement instead of rejection and resentment will go a long way to help a person to grow into an attitude of honestly wanting to better themselves through acquiring and developing those organizing skills, as well as the indispensable self-discipline that is vital for success. The decision to change must come from deep inside the core of the person involved. He or she needs to choose for him or herself and then act upon it. IT IS POSSIBLE!!!
If we want to change, develop and grow, we can't let fear hold us back.
Once we understand why we believe and behave as we do there are many things we can do that let go of the past and move forward, develop more accurate, positive feelings about ourselves and to develop feelings of being in control and confidence, seeing reality as it is without the negative self-talk! Understanding your own behavior and that of others, acceptance of our own 'faults' and those of others and appreciating the effect of disorganized behavior on others can go a long way to help YOU stand up and deal with the mess right NOW!!!!
NOW IT IS UP TO YOU to foster a strong mental attitude towards your challenge. LET THE ORGANIZING 1-2-3 eBOOK WORK FOR YOU TO RID YOU PERMANENTLY OF THE SHADOW OF BEING DISORGANIZED! Discover A ROOM BY ROOM PLAN AND ACTION STRATEGY TO TAKE CHARGE AND LIVE AN ORGANIZED LIFE!
GET YOUR (TIDY) LIFE BACK! IT’S POSSIBLE! YOU CAN BE ORGANIZED! PUT YOURSELF BACK IN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE! TODAY! YOU CAN DO IT!!!
Again, thank you for reading Part Five of the "Organizing 1-2-3 FREE Mini-eCourse". We look forward to hearing how you made out and what you have learned in the process.
Here is just some of what you will be learning from this newly released Organizing 1-2-3 eBook:
De-clutter and Clean Up
Insider Tips on getting and keeping yourself, spaces and life organized
Pains and Challenges of DIS-ARRAY and DISORGANIZATION
Harmonize and Synergize your life, space and SIMPLIFY!
Get priorities right and categorize
Sort, Donate, Toss, Sell
Art and Science of ORGANIZED living
Enable your Lifestyle and customize your living space
Creative Genius can change your life FOREVER
Time, Priorities and Lists
Mothers, Homes and Rewards of NOT BEING DISORGANIZED!
Ideas how to organize your children
… and much, much MORE!
At this point, I know you must be interested in the Organizing 1-2-3 eBook. This "how to" eBook will help you get to the bottom of the matter in one cover-to-cover, easy-to-use reference guide. Get all the facts and information you need to make the most of dealing effectively with BEING DIS-ORGANIZED! Make things simple today! YOU can learn the skills to become highly ORGANIZED!!! What are you waiting for? Order your Organizing 1-2-3 eBook today and take advantage of this limited time, special introductory offer. That is right, REMEMBER, you will pay just $9.97 when you take advantage of using the Spring Special discount code Spring10 during check out! BUT YOU MUST ORDER NOW - THIS WILL NOT LAST!
Learn Strategies and solutions that work!
On Sale Now with a Spring Special Discount Code: Spring10
P.S. This limited time special discount offer won’t last long. Receive Organizing 1-2-3 ebook for $10.00 OFF the orginal price! ACT NOW, BEFORE THEY ARE GONE!
Get the Organizing 1-2-3 ebook for just $9.97 by using the following special Discount Code Spring10
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