Once I am organized, how do I STAY organized?
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Staying organized takes practice. You must retrain yourself to do the things you were not doing to become disorganized in the first place.
Make yourself a chore chart, but keep it realistic. Try to do just a few things each day that will help keep things in order and set aside one larger block of time each week to do a larger clean-up.
Keep a small notebook with you at all times to write down things you need to remember as you think of them.
The more you do these types of things the sooner they will become second-nature and then staying organized will be a piece of cake. Just remember that retraining yourself into new habits is a slow process, but you want to make it a new way of life, not just a passing phase.
To do lists, and scheduling.
you have to make it a routine.
Use an organizing tool such as a calendar and to do list (MS Outlook or the Yahoo Calendar/Task that comes with your Yahoo account and email).
The trick is to also be motivated to do so. Try avoiding postponing work or postponing decisions/actions you can take right there and then. Anticipate your next activities. It's all about time management and productivity. Cut down on distractions, and avoid multitasking. Multitasking is overrated and counterproductive (See linked source).
When it comes down to it, you already know what you have to do, you need to find the motivation and focus for yourself. For me, it's simplifying my life and eliminating what I feel are distractions.
if you deorganize something, then you think i'll put it back when starts to get bigger, right?
then everytime you think of that make a self effort and put it back in place :P
works for me and i am terriblyy unorganized :S
To-do lists will help you to do things that need to be done (!?). You will also need to remember how you've organised things so that the right thing gets put in the right place. Most importantly you have to accept that things will take a few extra minutes to start with as you force yourself to return everything to where it came from and keep up with your organised life. Apparently once you've managed this bit things get easier and faster.
Now I just have to follow my own advice.
once ur organized make sure u put always everything on its place and never leave anything out!
`good luck
If you are talking about household organization like drawers, closets, cupboards---well I get them organized and it feels so nice--but keeping it organized is a mission impossible.
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