It has been quite a busy year for The Order Expert with lots of changes and landmark events. I’m eagerly looking forward to 2013, but before jumping forward I’m going to take a quick look back to see where I’ve come from. What took place in 2012 on The Order Expert?...
Spontaneity and Order
We’ve all had experiences where we are presented with the opportunity to do something out of the blue; a now or never decision or action. Being spontaneous means that you are going with the flow of the moment and reacting in a knee-jerk kind of way. One might not...
Organizing Tip: Transitioning from Home to Dorm
We’ve all heard about packing for dorm life, but what about regularly transitioning between and storing items in both a dorm room at school and a bedroom in a parent’s home? Here are some tips to make the semester-to-semester, and school-to-break-to-school transitions...
Kitty Chaos Leads to Order (and 200th Post!)
It has sure has been a busy spring so far…The Order Expert Blog’s first birthday last month and would you believe, the blog’s 200th post today! While there’s been a lot of orderly landmarks, I thought I might share with you a true personal story of chaos (gasp)...
Help! I Have To Organize Everything…Right Now!
We’ve all had those days where things are a mess: appointments are missed, lines of communication are stalled, plus, you aren’t sure what day of the week it is. Before you devote..
Getting Out of Order to Get Back Into Order: Fashion Edition!
Sometimes, you need to take a step back from order to get back into order… Do you ever find yourself wearing the same tried-and-true clothing outfits or “uniforms” day-in and day-out? You might need to make some adjustments to break away from that in-place...
Learn Something New About Order: Tessellate
One of the great things about the English language is that there are so many interesting, descriptive words. Most likely, well, at least I imagine that there is a pretty good chance, there’s a specific word for example, to describe that odd sound you heard the other...
Label Me, Label Me Not…
A few months ago I covered the word “label” in a Hidden Power of Words entry. While I dove into the word origins of labels and whether or not one actually needed language or symbols to write on a label (color-coding anyone?), I started thinking about physical or...
Time To Rethink Time
It’s that time of year again…as New Year’s Eve creeps forward, it’s time once again to naturally rethink or revisit how we organize and manage time (in general) as one calendar year ends and another begins. I wanted to share two news stories this week which caught my...
Reading Order
Traditionally one reads a sentence, then a paragraph, chapter, section all the way up to book/magazine/tome and so on. But does one necessarily have to read items from cover-to-cover? Traditional print mediums such as print newspapers or magazines are finite. When you...