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Let me present here an extract from the book Organize Your Life
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Organizing the Areas of Your Life
Basically, your life can be sorted into four major categories:
1) Home and family
2) Health and fitness
3) Work
4) Finances
It's equally important to keep each of these areas of your life organized because they all spill
over into one another. If your home affairs are not in order, your finances will surely suffer for it.
If your health is not intact, your performance at work will risk compromise.
Home and Family
Start here.
Your home and family are the main focus because this is the area of your life that we most want
to enhance. The whole purpose of this exercise is to improve your work, health and finances so
that you can better enjoy your home and family.
Your home and family are the start and the end. They are at the heart of the matter.
No matter what your family consists of; one or ten of you, it is the first thing we need to focus on
because, when you think about it, no matter how organized you are at work, you won't find that
balance of peace and contentment that you so desperately need and deserve if your home life is
in chaos.
So, start at home, get it together and see how easy it is to apply those same principles to every
other aspect of your life.
One of the reasons our home life is so complex is that we have to contend with other
personalities, which can have a dramatic effect on the atmosphere around us.
We don't all want the same thing at the same time; we have different priorities, different
viewpoints and different opinions.
Co-existence requires a constant effort to remember each other's differences, but also gives us
the opportunity to focus on how much the 'same' we all are too.
Our unique personalities largely dictate our behaviour and our reactions to things. We aren't all
bothered to an equal degree by the coffee cup ring on the glass table, or by the stack of old
magazines piled in the corner.
Because of these sensitive relationship dynamics, home is one area where you must proceed
delicately and be very realistic about what you can expect to achieve.
Keep at the forefront of your mind that the only person you can truly change is yourself. This can
then, in turn, change the behaviour of others indirectly, which is no doubt a real bonus and the
best way it can come about anyway because you haven't tried to dictate what they should do.
Ideally, you want to get your family on board with your Organize Your Life Mission, but just
pushing a new theory on them will generate resistance, so you need to use a little motivation
and guidance.
Before you can make a convincing case to your significant others, here's some compelling
evidence about what often happens to families who choose to remain dis-organized indefinitely.
Health Problems. Stress is a scientifically proven, direct derivative of chaos. It is well-known that
stress is also a leading cause of countless health concerns, both major and minor.
Headaches, sleep deprivation, cancer, infections - all may be attributed to or aggravated by
stress. Even drastic fluctuations in weight appear to be directly related to stress, as it affects
both your eating patterns and your metabolism.
Simply put, reducing the chaos equals reducing the stress and its negative effect on our
existence.
Depression: It's a health problem, yes, but I feel it’s one deserving of its own independent
category. Depression is a very serious condition that can go unnoticed until it reaches dangerous
levels. It usually starts out as a feeling of having no control over our life. Not surprisingly, it often
affects people who are victims of their own lack of organization.
Relationship problems: You can't be at ease with other people if you aren't at ease with
yourself. And, how can you be at ease with yourself when you are surrounded with mental,
physical and visual clutter and chaos?
When every direction you turn greets you with accumulated piles of rubbish, unfinished projects,
unwanted belongings and unkempt surroundings you will eventually reach a mental boiling point
where you want to just scream.
Who wants to be around you when you reach that point? I can't think of any one of my loved
ones who would want to hang about with me when I'm in such a state. Your husband, kids,
neighbours and co-workers should see more of the calm, positive, and happy you, and less of the
restless, distracted, and cynical you.
Caveat: If you are one of the remarkable few who can totally shut out the clutter and completely
relax, regardless of the state of your surroundings, then be assured that you are part of a small
minority and your family members may not be.
So, whether it's you or someone else you care about that is suffering under the direct weight of
your chaotic home, make the change for the sake of the relationships inside that household. If
not for yourself, then the risk of contributing to someone else's misery should be enough to jolt
you forward.
By the same token, your laid-back husband, lackadaisical teenager or irresponsible roommate
may grasp the concept of the benefit he/she stands to derive from having a happier you to live
with.
Wasting Time: If you get organized and implement a system for staying that way, you will save a
lot of time over the course of your life.
Example: you never know where your daughter's swimsuit is. Every time she needs it, a ten-to-
twenty minute search ensues before you finally find it, maybe under the couch, maybe under her
bed, maybe in the dress-up trunk this time.
Aren't you tired of going through this every time that child needs her swimsuit? If the swimsuit
had a place, and you had a system for putting things back in their place… I don't even need to
finish that sentence do I?
But, for the record, she would have known where to go look for it, it would have been there and
you would not have had to be distracted from whatever you were doing, period.
Wasting Money: One of these days, you won't be able to find the swimsuit at all. You'll look
everywhere you can think of, but alas, you will give up and go buy a new one, only to find the
other one a week later when looking for something completely unrelated.
These little mishaps cost you money. You might think just going out and buying a new swimsuit is
the quickest and easiest solution but, in reality, you are, over time, spending a fortune on things
you don't need.
Overall Finances. While we're on the subject, I fear that, if you currently have a chaotic home life,
it may have spilt over into your ability to manage your finances, which is very risky indeed.
But, more on that topic a little later.
Get the Family Onboard
Before you implement any major (or even minor) changes in the household, you want to get 'buy-
in' from the rest of the family. If you just decide to go forth with a project on your own without
including the family, you will surely face resistance and confusion along the way.
Your best chance at making this work is to include the family right from the planning stages. They
may only participate with you to varying degrees, depending on their ages and personalities, and
that's okay. The idea is to get them to understand what you are trying to do and, especially, to
see the reasoning behind it.
With the younger set, it's just a matter of presenting the concept to them in a language that they
can relate to. Try the following tips for getting the younger ones enthusiastic about getting
organized:
More time for them: With the very little ones, leave emotions out of it. Abstract concepts like "I'll
be happier" or "I'll be less stressed" don't resonate well with small children, and can be more
frightening than anything else. Instead, give tangible examples of how you will have more free
time for things like bike riding or going to the park if you don't have to spend so much time
cleaning the house.
Make it an event: Like with "movie night", or "Friday night fish sticks", or any other regular
weekly event that your family does together, introduce specific getting-organized activities in that
positive light. The young ones will come to count on it, expect it and anticipate it once it becomes
routine.
Tag team theory: You know your family best, and maybe you guys can decide this together. The
idea here is to either have assigned chores for each person each week or to at least implement a
system for making sure everyone is included. You can rotate the assignments to maintain
fairness or draw straws to decide who gets to do what.
The good old reward system: Although I agree that a “happier you” should be all the reward
they need, your children may need just a little bit more enticement. This old tried and true
approach still works. I know a woman whose 9-year-old daughter became so enthusiastic about
the reward system, she created a pamphlet of services she provides and the associated fees for
each. It includes thing like "wash 1 window, 50 cents". The rewards don't have to be monetary.
The point is for you all to understand that everyone will benefit, that there is something in it for
everyone.
Lead by example. A child is a product of his environment. He will mimic what he learns from you.
When you finish your coffee, immediately go and place the cup in the dishwasher or sink. Explain
what you are doing as you go. If you are throwing out old appliances that were cluttering up the
basement for years, explain that because you don't use it, it's best to free up the space to make
room for new things that you want. This example can easily translate to toys, old books, old
tools, etc.
Everything in its place. Make it easy for them to catch on to the system. When you arrive home
with a new purchase, whether it is as big as a couch or as small as a pack of stamps, immediately
assign it a home; the stamps should have a stamp spot. Typically, it makes sense to keep like
items together, so that one can logically deduce where something might be (the stamps are
probably somewhere near the envelopes, which are probably somewhere near the stationery,
which is likely in the desk drawer).
Proceed gradually. Resistance to change is a natural reaction. Depending how far removed your
new habits will be from your old habits, you need to allow for a period of adjustment, a learning
curve, while everyone digests what is happening. Each family member will adapt at his own pace.
The key is consistency and patience. Just continue along steadily. Be the leader. They will
gradually and inevitably come onboard, eventually.
Keep your promises to your family and yourself. If you've told your youngster that you would
have more free time for bike riding, you should incorporate the weekly bike ride into your agenda.
If you've told your hubby that you believe your relationship will benefit as a result of working
together, then you best remember to light the occasional candle, or offer the odd foot massage.
And, if you've promised yourself a reward, then don't forget to follow through. Whether it as
simple as a chai tea or latté, you've earned it.
Establishing the Home Routine
Before I can let you start to tackle any major home projects, we must first talk about how to set
the stage for productivity.
As we've already discussed, everything starts here at home, so the home routine is really the
launching pad for all other parts of getting organized.
Once you set a routine in place at home, you will not only be happier, have more energy and
more free time, but you will have a much nicer place to come home to after a long day's work.
Your home will become more of a haven that you look forward to returning to, rather than
another dreaded entity of chaos and disorganization that you wish you could shut out.
Getting your home to that state of beauty and peacefulness is a lot easier than you may think.
You can start now with just a few simple changes to your current habits. What I'm recommending
is to start an everyday routine. It applies regardless of what is scheduled that day. This is where
it all begins, and the complexity or elaborateness of your day's agenda, or even if you have
nothing at all pressing that day, doesn't matter.
If you can't put a few simple routine elements in place, you probably won't be able to coordinate
any major clean-up missions, let alone maintain them after completion.
These are some very simple but extremely effective routines that you will benefit from if you learn
to do them automatically every day.
Dress Smartly. When you get up in the morning, after you've had your coffee and
breakfast, join the living and get groomed and dressed for your day, even if you aren't
going anywhere. This is the most powerful boost you can give yourself every day. Prepare
to be productive by dressing the part. A dash of lipstick can do wonders for you and those
looking at you so apply it!
Make your bed. This does three things. It graduates your thinking from the relaxed, lazy
mentality of night to the motivated, eager mentality of day. It also sets in motion the daily
routine of tidiness in your home, and it reinforces the thinking that, once you've finished
using something, you put it in its place until the next time you need. Symbolic, yes, and
very effective.
Have a clean kitchen sink. A clean kitchen is the start of a clean home. No matter how
brilliant the rest of your house may look, an untidy kitchen will overshadow the rest of the
home.
Do these three simple things daily as they represent the quintessential basis of your new
way of 'thinking' and 'doing'. They are an exercise in, not only doing, but in maintaining
your new environment.
Unlike many of your getting-organized projects which will have a start and an end, these will be
ongoing, daily activities, over and over again for the rest of your life.
Because of this, they represent the perfect base of discipline and the ongoing commitment that
you must be prepared and equipped to make.
This is not intended to frighten you. Au contraire, once you get into the habit of getting dressed,
making the bed and then tidying up the kitchen, you will quickly see that those ten or fifteen
minutes (seriously!) have an enormous positive impact on where your day goes from there.
Other benefits may include family members following your lead. Can you picture your husband
getting up to rinse his coffee mug and place it in the dishwasher? Maybe not right away if he
doesn't typically do that but eventually, maybe.
The point is that by doing these things yourself, you stand a chance of your example rubbing off
on the others.
You will soon start to see your home in a different light. Your own standards of comfort will rise,
as you will long for that feeling of being in control which comes with an organized home.
Just those few small details can completely change how you see your home and how you feel
there.
Now, I want you to make a list of some additional minor daily home maintenance activities that
you think will make your home more inviting, more soothing and more conducive to a controlled
lifestyle.
For some, it may be changing the cat litter, for others maybe it's opening the living room drapes.
However simple or minute it may seem, if it has a positive effect on your overall psyche and on
how you view your home, do it.
Do it regularly.
As you progress, day by day, and these initial tips start to become routine and effortless, you will
find yourself gradually adding more and more things to your own unique list. This is because
those first few changes will give you a new perspective, clear up your vision and you will more
easily notice things that bother you. They will stand out and crystallize, whereas previously it all
seemed like one big blur of chaos.
But now, by pinpointing each little thing you want to change, you will be able to do so.
Go with it. Make the adjustments as you discover them.
For instance, a Monopoly® game half-shoved under the sofa now irritates you whereas, before,
it just sort of blended in with the rest of the mess. Now that you have actually identified it as an
irritant, find it a home right away. Assign it an appropriate spot, inform the others and then vow
to maintain it.
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The was taken from the book Organize Your Life that you are going to find out more about. Here
is the Table of Contents of the book:
Introduction
Why this Book?
Why be Organized?
Who Can Do This?
Where to Start?
Goals and Strategies
Why setting Goals can be Daunting
Remember the Main Objective: Yourself
A Record Keeping System
Organizing the Areas of Your Life
Get the Family Onboard
Establishing the Home Routine
You're about to Discover Your Space Limitations
Take Advantage of those Little Moments
Tricks and Tools
Putting Spring Cleaning in its Place
The Classic Closet Conundrum
Health and Fitness
Work
Home Businesses
Managing Interruptions
Finances
Getting it Done
Customize Your Approach
The 'Just for Me' Section
Overcome the Guilt Factor
Help Elderly Relatives De-clutter their Lives
Conclusion
About the Authors
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Are you stressed by the lack of organization in your own life?
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