The Organizer Buddy
By Cecilia Samuels
 

Getting organized to organize your home!

Is your garage too full to fit your car? Can’t find the things you need on a daily basis? Are your mornings a nightmare of unorganized chaos? Is it time to decorate your current home or a new one?  Or is it time to redo your children’s rooms to reflect their new age and personality? Preparing ahead of time can make or break you (your pocketbooks, as well as your state of mind!).

Before plunging ahead, read more about the four elements that can make a difference in the outcome of any project that involves change, avoiding some stress and headaches along the way.

Four Elements of Success:  Preparing for Organizational Changes

 As with any goal achievement process, there are proven elements of success.  In order of time required to complete, they are:

1.        Envisioning
2.        Research
3.        Planning
4.        Action

 

Envisioning is that personal path of creating the vision of a comfortably organized personal space.  Take quiet time to yourself to reflect on how this space would touch all your senses.  How does it look, smell, sound, taste (well, maybe not taste!) and feel?  Take some quiet time to do this and as the image appears, begin making notations in a new notebook or journal.  Begin to carry the notebook with you as the ideas will pop in your mind as you start to notice your response to the world around you. 

Research is simply the gathering of information that is required to put plan and action to work.  Use the notations to find information about the elements of your vision. 

Planning converts all of your envisioning and researching into the nuts and bolts of project management.  

Successful action occurs by having a plan, writing the plan and working the plan.

Future articles this year will be a room by room organizing method based on these elements.  Divide and conquer this year with the use of your own imagination, research and planning.