Click hereto subscribe to Get Myself Organized by email - it's free and you will receive each new article by email, as well as 7 free daily tips about getting organized.
Welcome to Get Myself Organized
GetMyselfOrganized.com has been up and running since October 2006 and is now part of my website YvetteWrites.com
Each new article arrives to over 40,000 subscribers.
If you’re interested in improving yourself, and improving your life, these articles aim to provide information, motivation, ideas and inspiration to help you get the most out of your life through organization.
Being organized makes life easier, and is a demonstration of control over your own life and your own decisions. To do anything in an orderly way involves decision making, and the ability to make good decisions and carry them out is affected by self esteem. Self esteem and motivation issues can be pretty tricky to deal with, but by applying some simple strategies to the practical details of everyday living, there can be a beneficial flow-on effect to how we feel, which is what these articles are going for.
If you enjoy these articles and find them helpful, you’ll love my e-book Organized for Life – 208 pages of common sense advice about keeping your home, your time and your life organized.
You can buy the e-book or find out more about it by clicking the link at the top right of the page.
What is organized?
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Why do you want to be organized? What does it actually mean?
Is it about tidiness?
No. There are people who appear to be very untidy, yet they are still organized. There are also people who are very tidy, but still disorganized about some things.
Is it about cleanliness?
No. There are people who are not bothered by dust and dirt but are still organized. There are also people who are obsessively clean, but are still disorganized about some things.
We get disorganized because things we need to do are left undone, put off, not planned for, not made room for. The answer to this is routines. If you’re a fan of FlyLady you know all about them, and if you’ve read my e-book you’ll know it’s the basis for my approach to being organized too.
Routines are about designing your life. Yes, you can have your own custom designed life, incorporating all the things that matter to you, in order of priority.
Our desk if we have one, can be our most valuable resource for being organized. After all, it’s here that we attend to our paperwork and administrative tasks, here that we keep our computer, and in this area that we keep our filing and stationery.
What, you don’t have a desk? Just a box of papers and the kitchen table or bench? Just your laptop on the bed? Just a corner with a table?
It’s easy for collections of things such as books, CDs and DVDs to become jumbled up as we use them, and the more you have, the more daunting the task of sorting them out as they get messy.
Having our collections in a mess can hinder our enjoyment of them, and sorting them out can actually be really fun.
Does the back of and/or underneath your desk look like a great jumble of untidy wires and cables going all over the place?
