5 Tips for an Organized New Year

If your New Year's resolution is to get organized, don't wait for a project to start, live organized right now! Even if things are cluttered around you, you can start small by creating habits that will help to keep the chaos away.

Structure Your Day: When you spend your time scattered about, you end up feeling unaccomplished. Manage your time with a plan.

Create Habits: Small habits of putting away and finishing up what you're doing can have huge benefits in maintaining order.

Do Less: Don't over-schedule your day. Plan for distractions. If things go smooth, you can make use of the extra time.

Be Charitable: Having a good cause to donate household items you don't use will help get the clutter out while helping someone else in need. Regularly go through your things and weed out the excess.

Create A Place: If you have 15 minutes to straighten up, but don't know where to put anything, that 15 minutes is wasted. Having a place for everything is essential to living organized.

A few small steps taken consistently over time can help to make 2010 your most organized year ever!

New Year Resolution: Create a "Not To Do" List

January is National Get Organized Month. Many of you have made resolutions to be more organized in 2009. Instead of creating a New Year "To Do", try creating a list of what "Not To Do". We all have tasks that are important, yet they keep getting postponed. Decide what not to do, eliminate what you can, delegate where you can and create time to focus on what matters most. Many mundane household tasks can corrupt productivity at home and at work. Cleaning, dishes, laundry, they're all time killers, but must do's if we want to live in a decent environment. Creating efficient ways to accomplish what must get done is the key to our productivity. In future posts to this blog, we will cover how to save time and create efficiency in all areas of the home and office. I welcome your questions and comments on how Chaos To Order can help YOU get organized!