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 Organizational Skills

Often times when we are organizing, we tend to divert our attention to the messiest center of the room. I recieved an e-mail from one of my clients explaining the experience she had with straightening up her storage room: "After two hours of working continuously, I stopped and looked around to see how this would look to someone who  was seeing it for the first time. It looked just as bad as when I started!" What I had done was what I'll term, "random acts of organizing."

 Would getting organized be life changing? I spoke at the May Women in Business luncheon for the Morristown Area Chamber of Commerce last spring, and many women vocalized a concern for the lack of time for their personal interests, or trouble finding the balance between work and home.  If this sounds like you, make a list of “life layers” or major events that need to be factored as a priority.

2012 Planner Shopping?

 With only a few months left in the year, now is the time that people begin to shop around for a new planner.  The key to getting the right planner is to think about what your personal needs are. For years, I’ve bought planners with a sectioned area for day-to-day, and used these pages as scrap paper. What I always used was the 2 page month calendar and that was all I needed to purchase. Using the wrong calendar is like wearing the wrong size shoes.

I love the Good Housekeeping articles that talk about good enough. Life is moving so fast, I think this is a good philosophy to adopt. Let go of perfection and the Martha Stewart image and be happy with “Good Enough”.  Yes, taxes and brain surgery need to be done just right/perfect but for most other things in life good enough will keep us moving forward. Perfectionism stops most of us in our tracks and we stay paralyzed. For me, that means doing nothing on a project or leaving it uncompleted.