Part 1: Organized Bliss

Very few people are perfectly organized all of the time. Most of us can see room for correction in many aspects of our lives. Those who are organized have to get organized to stay that way! These organizational wizards will normally create systems, schedules, fail-safes, and continually enhance their plan. We love to hear your ideas and we also love to read about what honestly works from flourishing organizers all over the world. Working together we can save so much time and power getting things in order.

Let's talk about recompense systems. It's easy to say that you should recompense yourself for tasks completed, but if you're anything like me, you'll end up taking the recompense either you desist or not. Let's say I have some honestly good ice cream in my freezer. I promise myself that I won't eat any until the junk drawer is finished. However, fifty things came up that afternoon, the drawer was left worse than when I started, and I know that I'm going to eat that ice cream anyway. Let's face it. If we had discipline, we wouldn't need help organizing in the first place.

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I like to put my husband on "prize patrol". When something is finished, I can pick from positive rewards. For instance, when I'm done, I can either have a back rub, he'll do the dishes, or he'll cope the laundry for the night. If I don't finish, he's all too happy to keep the recompense and it's very motivating.

I normally advise people to start small and work their way up. Put two or three things on your to-do list that are most pressing or important; for instance, dishes and laundry. These two things are normally at the top of my list. Next, I make one dinky thing a third priority for the day. It may be something as straightforward as dusting the mantle, but it's just something that I always put off until the dust is a half-inch thick up there.

I keep a calendar so that I can jot down dinky notes. I keep track of the time that it took and what might make it easier next time. Then the next time that I do it, I write down how long I waited and if it would be good to do it sooner the next time. After the first couple of months, you'll have an idea of how many maintenance chores you have, how long they will take, what you need to faultless them, and when you should agenda them in next. I always leave a day free each week for catching up and I try not to agenda more than 30 minutes or an hour of extra chores for myself.

When I started this, I felt a dinky overwhelmed. I thought that there was just too much. However, I was honestly surprised after about a week at how much easier it all seemed. I would couple on one thing at a time instead of worrying about the whole house. I loved having an experiment to focus on instead of randomly cleaning things that would be destroyed again in two days.

In Part 2 of the series "Organized Bliss" we will discuss how to set rules for yourself to good keep things organized after you get them that way. For example, do you know the clothes hangers trick? Turn all of your hangers backwards at the beginning of the season. When the season is over, give away the ones that are still backwards. Tips and more!

Part 1: Organized Bliss