It’s New Year’s Day, a time for new beginnings and fresh resolutions. Believe it or not, I actually accomplished something today, which is reason enough for celebration! I got up (just) in time to watch the Rose Parade live on TV, took care of my grocery shopping for the upcoming work week, and went through a backlog of magazines, tearing out the articles I want to keep for future reference and dumping the rest into the recycling bin. I sent a check-in email to the professor of the class I am trying to add on Monday when the winter session begins, and I already have a copy of the textbook, so if I get an add code I will be ready to go (I’ve even done the initial reading assignment but haven’t started writing the essay yet just in case I don’t get the class).
It’s really rather scary… I am fairly organized at work but all my organizational skills seem to flee my body when I get home. I pay most of my bills online simply because it’s harder to lose an e-mail from my inbox than an envelope on my disaster of a desk. Oh, now and then I shovel it off and toss half of it into the recycling, but I can’t remember the last time I was able to actually use the desk. The chair ends up hidden under a couple of sweaters that never seem to make it back to the closet; the writing surface disappears under those ubiquitous free address labels that every charity mails out once a month and a clutter of papers I mean to file “later.”
So, my big hope for 2011 is to get more organized, reduce the clutter in my home and brain, and thereby reduce the level of stress in m life. I’m off to a good start so far, but the year is only one day old. Here’s hoping the momentum will continue!
I always found it far easier to be organized at work and have to spend a lot of time on it to be successfully organized at home. I have the skills, but there is so much distraction at home!I don't have a desk anymore, at least not one for paperwork, etc. The big desk is the boys', although sometimes we learn back there. I just have my laptop at my big comfy chair, and then in a nearby cabinet I have a small inbox, a file box, and my binders (homeschool, finances, household, etc.). The big filing cabinet and the shred box are in a closet.Good luck!
Hooray for banishing clutter! I like doing that when a new year starts…today I threw out a few thing and have several large bags of clothes to give away. It's not easy, especially when you start looking through stuff and saying, "I might need this some day", and then you end up putting it back again. But I've started to get pretty radical about it and I toss, recycle or give away stuff that hasn't been used in a couple of years. Now I have to get that down to keeping only the things that we've used in the past year. Good luck with your organizing and I wish you a clutter-free year!