Gettin' Organized. It's easy!

Does it take you about 10 minutes longer to find something that you should?
Does a messy environment around you stress you out without you realising?

I know it does for me. After a year of full-time study and medical dramas I was left with living quarters the resembled a war zone. Looking around I decided that a good portion of the problem was that I just had too much stuff.

And thus I enacted phase 1:
"If you don't use it or don't love it, toss it!"
but not necessarily straight into the bin. That's wasteful!

I made three piles:
- Trash
- The not sure / maybe pile
- Things to sell or give away

If you are having trouble choosing which clothes have to go, turn all the coat hangers in your wardrobe the wrong way around. Come back in 3 - 6 months. Taking seasonal items into consideration, note which garments you did not wear. Now get rid of them!

Ahh. That's better. So much less clutter. But the job's not over yet. I took some valuable advice from the Zen Habits blog. The most valuable thing I learned was this. DON'T SAVE STUFF!. What's the point of 'saving' something if it just sits around gathering dust. For example:

- Quit saving the special watercolour paper. Paint on it!
- Quit saving a piece of clothing for a special event once a year. Just wear it!
- Quit avoiding putting on your favourite shoes for fear of scuffing them.
... ugh, what was the point of buying them? Put them on, go out and look hot!

Next I set about organizing myself by getting a time planner from Kikki.K.



The wonderful things about these diarys is the ring binder which allows for movement and insertion of pages and inserts. A flap in the back allows a pad so my diary is going to double as an A5 sketch pad that will always be on me.
Debden & Filofax offer similar systems.

Remember. Clutter is the enemy!

On and ending note, sheesh! Where has the last few weeks gone? Blink and you will miss it. I think I'd better organize my blogging some more and do a bit of catching up. I'm only just discovered that you can queue blog posts so I'll have to implement this when I'm busy. Stay tuned!