How Can I Learn To Be More Organized?

Don’t sit down. If you keep at it every day it only takes a few minutes to straighten it up. Just walk into the house with the attitude of, “Ok. This will take twenty minutes and it’ll be finished.” If you don’t give yourself a chance to lazy out of it. You won’t have to energize yourself to get back up.

Sounds like you might suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder – commonly diagnosed in children and now being diagnosed more and more in adults. I have suffered a brain injury and have been left with ADD as one of the consequences. There is a very “gentle” website “Flylady.com” which speaks directly to this problem. Might I also suggest you go to the library and take out the books “You Mean I’m not Lazy, Stupid of Crazy? A self help book for Adults with ADD” by Kelly and Ramundo. Chapter 13 would be especially helpful. Or “Women with ADD – Embracing Disorganization at Home and in the Workplace” by Solden. There’s really not a “best chapter” – they seem all to fit your particular situation. My last book suggestion (but one of my absolute favorites is “Conquering Chronic Disorganization by Kolberg” This 119 page quickie manual offers a myriad of support materials, websites and organizations. I believe this has to be ordered through Worthchat@AOL.com which is the author’s e-mail where she will be able to help you get a copy. Worth 10 times the $13 I paid for it. (Of course, there may be copies floating around on e-bay 1/2 price books, too!) Best wishes. There are a lot of us out there – what else explains the explosion of TV shows like Clean House, Mission Organization, etc. This is reaching epidemic proportions – but it’s one of the best hidden secrets in America.

early 2 bad ,early to rise.
-action is superior than thought ..i believe
and i’ll tell u , keep your things where they were
this is he thing many of them 4get…….and Forget.
and u’ll realize

Just focus and put your mind to it. Whatever you set your mind on you can accomplish. Don’t let it overwhelm you.
Also, if it seems like just too much to do at once try doing just a little bit each day until you get caught up and then stay on top of it.

treat your house like the office. for one thing dont have an over abundance of anything , including clothes. you can pop a load of wash in while you are doing dinner any night of the week. do you live alone? if so you are totally responsible for the mess and the organization. if not then delegate to the spouse or kids specific jobs that must be done during the week. working out isnt as important as having your surroundings clean, you get a workout cleaning, use paper plates if you are alone. or even frozen dinners like lean cusine, in its own little dish and throw away the mess rather than washing a pot and pan and dish. dont have enough cooking pans for an army if its only you. if you dont live alone then someone else could be washing dishes too. you can have time for everything if you dont go making more work for yourself than you need to. clean it up once and throw out anything thats not doing you a good service, i used to have the big turkey pan, and all that, filling my cabinets, now its buy the frozen turkey and the foil pan at the grocery store and when im sick of turkey the pan and the carcas go out the door at the same time. If you drink one cup of coffee a day, dont have a coffee pot, just get a cup on the way to work. My friend has so many pots and pans and her kitchen is 3 times the size of mine and hers is overflowing, there are two of them, there are two of us, ok she gave me a few things, but half of them were doubles of what i had, and knives that are terminally dull, so out they went to the good will bin. she gave me 5 trashbags of sheets and towels, i kept one set of sheets and two towels, the rest went to an animal rescue place. I know they will get used. i think if i have one set on the bed and one set to wash, thats all i need in the way of sheets. when she gets tired of drapes she buys new but stores the old ones, i bought a new set but i donated the old ones, i had seen quite enough of them. I have a throw rug that doesnt match anything. ok the cats can use it, when its nasty out the door it goes, she has a whole storage area she rents that is full of extra stuff and christmas stuff, i have one small closet, and its not really full. there is just no point in all that stuff. she buys clothes on sale, tons of them, and half of the time she gives me stuff it still has tags on it. she never wore it, and ive only kept 3 things. her tastes are very different from mine. its not like im going to freeze or go bare if i dont keep it. too much is too much. when my half of the closet is full, something gets tossed. I just cant see having more dresses than days in the week. i have no formal wear, i am not a formal person. no heels since i hurt my knee and cant wear them. she has things down to a size 14 and she is a size 26 just like me. there is just no point in it. she has 3 bedrooms , a giant linen closet, and a huge coat closet, and every closet is so tight full you cant get anything in without something falling down. you really know what your problems are. just look at it honestly, then make yourself face it. take a week off and do it, clean everything and throw out what you dont like and what you dont need, no matter who gave it to you or what it cost to begin with. being honest with ones self is the biggest thing, best of luck.