When you’re juggling a full-time job, supporting your deployed husband, community and social commitments, a household, pets and kids it’s enough just keeping all the balls in the air without dropping one. Forget slowing down to ensure your life is well-organized – there’s just no time. But consider for a moment that if you simply tried a few easy methods to stay organized that the result may even increase your productivity.
Decluttering delight. One of my favorite blogs for organizational advice is Unclutterer: Daily tips on how to organize your home and office. Subscribe to their RSS feed to get expert advice, organization strategies, product reviews and more. Along the way you’ll pick up some important personal productivity and even interior design tips.
Make a list, check it twice. You don’t go holiday shopping without a list, why would you grocery shop without one? You will probably say that you don’t have time. Well, I don’t know about you, but without a list, I’m destined to wander aimlessly down each aisle, even back and forth a few times, to try to remember exactly what I’m looking for. The best grocery shopping organizational expert I know turns out to be my mom, who created an Excel spreadsheet to keep her on task in the grocery store. People stop her in her tracks to ask her where she got this list, and she’s letting us post it here for you all to download.
Contain yourself. Utilize a resource like the Container Store, where you’ll not only find organization tips, but lots of tools to get your home and office in order. Getting organized required important infrastructure changes. Take it one step at a time. Start with your closet. You’ll appreciate your beautiful clothes, shoes and handbags more (and be less tempted to shop for new things) if they are well organized and neat. Once you’ve mastered the closet, take on the pantry, your files and anything else that will help you to be more productive.
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