I used to be really disorganised, that was until I saw Julie Morgenstern on the tv telling me exactly the same thing.... You CAN learn to be organised!
From personal experience, probably the best thing you can do to turn things around from CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome?) to calm is to give yourself time to think and plan.
Start with what bugs you the most about being disorganised? My biggest irritation was never being able to find my keys? Using the keys as an example, let's say that each day you could spend 5 minutes looking for them and maybe 5 minutes blaming someone else for moving them. That is 10 minutes per day or more than an hour going nuts looking for your keys per week! Would you like to get that time back?
Take a few minutes minutes to decide where your keys will 'live'. Near the front door? Not too close. On a hook in the kitchen? A drawer in the office? What about a bowl on the counter? Once you decide where they'll stay when you're not using them, go and put up that hook, make space in the drawer or find an attractive bowl and put them there immediately.
It will take 28 days to get into the habit of ALWAYS returning them but after a month you will be gaining that hour per week back!
I love Morgenstern's book too - the one called Organising From the Inside out. Just can't seem to always find the time to implement it though- and as a consequence waste more time - can you make a nice acronym for that syndrome? :-)
ReplyDeleteYvette
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