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..
Organization
Top 10 List: 10 Professions Where Order Rules
All work requires some sort of order to be kept. Here’s a short list of jobs that require either organizing people (customers, clients, suppliers, etc.) or physical items (books, numbers, ideas, etc.), or managing time and travel (events, dates, timetables). Number...
Time Management Tip: Easing Into The Evening
Having trouble easing into your evening? Relaxing and unwinding before bedtime seem like a thing of the past? Flopping into bed with lots of things on your mind all the while you are excitedly telling yourself, “Ok! Now it’s time to sleep!” Here’s a few tips on how to...
Top 10 List: Even More Ways To Organize Items
Number 10. Alphabetically (A-Z) Number 9. Alphabetically (Z-A) Number 8. Use Number 7. Strength Number 6. Weakness Number 5. Man-made Number 4. Natural Number 3. Idea Number 2. Design Number 1. Age
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...
Top 10 List: 10 More Ways To Organize Items
Happy New Year! Now that we’ve counted down to 2012, we can count down some more with 10 More Ways to Organize Items… Number 10. Location Number 9. Number Number 8. Purpose Number 7. Sound Number 6. Smell Number 5. Taste Number 4. Touch Number 3. Sight Number 2....
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...
Organizing Tip: Calendar Reflections
Calendars not only serve to help us keep track of current and present events, but are great sources of information when it comes to piecing together times past. Ever look back on a calendar from a past year? There’s so much available information that can help you in...