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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.
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Setting an Example
Friday, 03 April 2009
Ok, so you don’t want to do it all on your own. You’d like those you share your home with to share the load.
What, you do want to do it all on your own? You want to prove how you’re hard done by and better than everyone else and deserving of lots of sympathy?
If that’s the case, grow up, get a life, go see a counsellor, psychologist or psychiatrist, get frisky with your partner, pull some weeds, do some pruning, scrub something, and come down off your high horse.
Gracious, what an outburst. What was I saying? Oh yes, this:
-Stop being amartyr
-Stop feeling guilty
-Shut up and quietly love your family
-Lead by example
-Don’t direct your negative feelings about yourself at those around you
Ever had trouble finding something? The answer is here - a revolutionary new technique, ancient and re-discovered by you. It’s called: putting things back in the same place.
But you don’t have a designated place for everything? Hey, that’s always a work in progress, and ever evolving. Meanwhile we have to get on with things and either put things back where we found them, or make a decision about its new designated place.
A part of our daily life which benefits from organizing is how we pack and use our purses, handbags, backpacks, briefcases, baby bags and so on. Having a system in place to make these things as easy to use as possible and well stocked and prepared makes our daily life just that much easier.
Being a busy mother, a busy worker or business person, a busy committee member, a busy hobbyist, a busy group member, a busy student, a busy anything, or all of these at once, means its good to be prepared for anything.
I feel very encouraged by all the emails of support I received following the last newsletter. Thank you all very much, and yes, I'm taking my vitamins and iron supplement and my doctor is looking after me. There will likely be some articles about depression on yvettewrites.com fairly soon, and updates as my doctor investigates the cause of my recurring low iron.
HERE'S THE ARTICLE:
For email to be useful to us rather than a burden, we need to take control and choose how we use it. Like anything, decisions need to be made, and it’s the decision making that we are putting off rather than the task itself.
How often?
A vital decision to be made is how often we check our email, and how often we will deal with it. It’s rarely necessary to be notified whenever a new email comes in, unless you are waiting for something specific and urgent. Once or twice a day is usually enough, if you want to have a life.
I’m currently working my way through hundreds of emails welcoming me back to my organizing subscriber email, and one comment prompted me to write something here immediately.
The writer said: “Perhaps we try to organise our lives with a higher goal of subconsciously organising our thoughts and feelings about life.”
I absolutely agree with this. I do believe that my desire to be organized stems from a desire to feel in control of my own life. I also think its possible to create solutions and cause improvement through attention to superficial things, allowing our feeling of wellness to be helped along by anything at all which works, helps, is good for us.
If we can’t easily make sense of our feelings, thoughts, values, beliefs, goals……..why not just have a tidy desk, be able to find our files, our herbs, our socks, use our time productively. If being in a mess and not having our time planned is clearly a contributing or aggravating factor to our depression, or any negative feelings, why not treat the symptoms first, making ourselves comfortable while we continue to spend the rest of our lives seeking the ‘cure’, trying to make sense of life.
A part of our daily life which benefits from organizing is how we pack and use our purses, handbags, backpacks, briefcases, baby bags and so on. Having a system in place to make these things as easy to use as possible and well stocked and prepared makes our daily life just that much easier.
