Quick Things to Consider About Organizing

Organizing is:

• Not a big mysterious secret. Anyone can organize. Thankfully, whether it is a small or large project, you can organize your space. Often you can recruit friends, family members, or professional organizers if you need a little help.

• Empowering. You can regain your time and your space by keeping things organized.

• Hands on. If you want to set up an organized space it is important to be a part of the organizing process.

• Dynamic, not static. Organizing systems can grow and evolve over time. It is important to create a system that you want to maintain and improve upon.

• Creates freedom, saves time, and saves money. Once you know where everything is within your home or office it becomes easy to locate items. This saves time, money (you’re not out re-buying items that you cannot locate), and you’re free to do other things besides trying to locate items.

• Organizing systems can be like snowflakes. Many people have different design preferences and organizing priorities. You want to set up a system that works best for you. A visual learner may want her photo collection on display, but her friend might like to store her photos out of sight.

• Organizing does not have to be an all-day affair. You can speed organize in 5-20 minute intervals. Creating and maintaining an organizing system doesn’t have to take several hours everyday.

• SPACE. Organizing projects are often based on the SPACE principle. Julie Morgenstern discusses this principle at great length in her book Organizing from the Inside Out. You have to go through the process of SPACE (sort, purge, assign, containerize, and equalize).

• Sensible and practical. Enough said.