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Thirty-one days of organizing the chaos
I am not an organized person. I have never been an organized person. And when I start thinking about what I should change to become organized, my brain starts chasing after so many different plans and...
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Lost in the priority swamp
The thing is, it’s not like I haven’t tried to get organized. Oh, how I’ve tried. Over and over, and I wouldn’t be writing this post today if I’d ever succeeded. Maybe, this time, I should start by...
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Draining the priority swamp
(Continued from yesterday, when we tried to Fix Everything by doing the “A” priorities first and expecting our staff of unicorns and fluffy kittens and floppy-eared bunnies to handle the “B’s” and...
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Wrapping paper
My mother was very thrifty. She told me so. It’s not surprising – after all, she was a teenager during the Great Depression, old enough to notice how hard money was to get hold of back then. There were...
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Big mouthfuls
There’s one nice thing about cliches – they wouldn’t be cliches if they weren’t true more often than we want to admit! So I can be sure that I’m not the only person who keeps biting off more than she...
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Just a minute
What about the routine things – all that stuff you do every day or every week? Do you know how long it takes? Because I don’t think I do. It’s not easy – forget that, it’s not possible – to plan what...
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ONE little triumph!
At last. For months, I’ve been sorting through the papers my mother left – everything from more than two hundred years worth of deeds to the family farm to old shopping lists. And tonight, I’m...
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Staying out of the quicksand
Almost a week and a half ago, I signed myself up with Write31Days to write a post every day during October – partly to get myself back in the habit of daily posting after a very sparse ten months....
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Forced off track
One of the really useful tools for getting organized is the list. You know – lists of things to do, or lists of things to do later but not right now thank you because other things need to be done...
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Organized exhaustion
I haven’t been posting much lately. I definitely haven’t been posting regularly. And it’s all related to getting organized. Really. One of the most urgent things I need to organize right now is my...
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