Getting Organized: Day 1
October 2, 2006
So it began with a google search for getting organized. I saw an article on getting organized by Steve Pavlina, a software developer turned personal development speaker and writer who I've listed to/read before. That seems like as good a place as any to start.
I usually start learning new skills by reading. He recommended Getting Organized from the Inside Out as the book he started with, so I ordered that.
Clearly his suggestions involve the moving to a different layer to think about the problem. I have to recognize my disorganization as a problem, and attack it methodically and relentlessly, just like I'd attack any technical problem. So I'll start by following all the directions in his article as I clean my room.
I've enclosed some seriously embarassing photos so you can see the magnitude of my problem. The typical pattern is that it gets this messy, then I get fed up and clean it, and two weeks later it's this messy again.
The funny part is that shooting the pictures for this, I managed to lose my lens cap in 3-4 minutes. It took 2-3 minutes of searching to find it. Perfectly appropriate. Even more appropriately, if you take a look at the picture:
Is that it's on a shelf with a water bottle (no doubt missing at some point), missing masking tape, and a missing belt. If only this were the only shelf of lost items in my house. I obviously have a problem with this.
So tonight/tomorrow I'll clean, purge and report back with what I find according to the questions that Steve asks in his article, and try and gain some insight as to exactly what I need to fix.
Your loving sister would help you organize the office if you asked. You've seen my closet, right?
It's sad but that looks like an improvement over what your bedroom at Mom and Dad's house used to look like.
