Organizing : Success Strategies for Day Trip Enthusiasts
If You Can Drive, You Can Organize Series Part 3 of 3:
Success Strategies for Day Trip Enthusiasts - Plotting Shorter Organizing Projects:
Keep organizing supplies (boxes or bags for give away, move to another room, unsure, sell, trash can, sharpie for labeling, post-it notes) together and ready so you can quickly tackle an area at any time
Plan to do an area when interruptions will be least likely to happen and your energy level and ability to focus are high
If you have small children who are always home with you let them watch a 30-minute show while you tackle one of your projects and offer a reward if they can go the whole time without interrupting you
The key is to stay laser focused on the project in front of you
Another key is to make decisions quickly
If decision making is harder for you, use one or several of these plans of action to help you: set a timer and race the clock keeping only what you select in that time frame; select a number you feel is reasonable to keep and then pick your favorites until you reach that number and let the rest go; or select an amount of space certain items can take up and put your favorites in that space until the space is gone and then get rid of the rest
Success in quick organizing projects is as much about what you don’t do as what you do
Don’t take phone calls, texts, e-mails etc; focus on just this one thing for the time you’ve got allotted for this project
Don’t get sidetracked spending too much time deciding on any one thing (if you truly can’t decide, put an item in a box that you can go through at the end or at another time rather than let it slow you down and derail you from accomplishing the other 98% of your goal)
Put things in the boxes mentioned above as you sort vs taking them to another room to put away; do that after you are finished with the project
I hope these tips will help you successfully navigate many organizing day trips.
Christie Self