Welcome to day 15 and my letter O post in the #AtoZChallenge. Today’s topic may seem a bit boring. I’m going to talk about how organizing your life can help you take better care of yourself.
Let me start by saying I’m a terrible organizer. In high school, I had a calendar that I’d typed out myself in Word. I started out keeping it faithfully at the beginning of the first school year. By the time we got to the end of that year though, I forgot to write down my homework about half the time and looked it up even less. I had a great memory, which meant I didn’t usually miss homework deadlines.
I never kept a calendar in college or beyond, but now that I have an iPhone, I do try to use the calendar app to track appointments. Which reminds me, I still need to write next week’s phone appt with my community psychiatric nurse into it. Going to do that now. Be right back.
Okay, done. Where was I? See, I’m pretty disorganized. Still, I try to keep some order in my life. It helps me, for example, to have reminders about taking my medication in my phone. Otherwise I may forget and that’s not good.
I also, like I mentioned before, have an app that reminds me to drink enough water. Habit-tracking apps like this exist for a bunch of habits that will help you have a more meaningful, organized and productive life.
Decluttering is another way of getting more organized. There are lots of specific methods for it, such as FlyLady, the Konmari method, etc. I would love to stick to such a method, but honestly more so that I could talk about it than to actually get cleaning. I guess that’s weird.
Because I am blind, I don’t usually get bothered by clutter unless it’s in my way. However, of course, clutter does make it harder for me to remember where I left my things. That’s why currently I try to keep at least some order in my drawers and my wardrobe. It’s hard, but it pays off.
Are you an organized person? Or have you developed strategies for organizing your life?
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I am completely disorganised! I wish I was different, but it doesn’t take much and I’m right back to being useless!
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LOL, I can relate. That’s why this post is as much a reminder for me as it is for my readers.
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I used to be. Now I have to be somewhat but since I live alone it’s easier to know where everything is. Once when my granddaughter put away the dishwasher it took me a year to find the top of a container! Since I’m always sitting I keep my clean cups and dishes on top of the dishwasher for easy access. Reaching up impossible and trying to stand dangerous, so it probably looks messy to others but it’s my choice.
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That makes a lot of sense, putting things where you can easily reach them. I’m so happy you found a form of organization that works for you.
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I use my wife to let me know what my priorities are…
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LOL, if that works. I have my staff here too.
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I’m an organized person, but only for work-related things 😉
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Oh yeah, I get that. It’s probably more important to be organized for work. Thanks for stopping by again. 🙂
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We are not very organized here although we’re all doing better at it these days!
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Oh yes, I can relate. Glad you’re getting better at being organized.
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“I would love to stick to such a method, but honestly more so that I could talk about it than to actually get cleaning. I guess that’s weird.”
Talking about it does make sense – and talking is a form of organising [I think].
I can relate to the talking about sticking to such a method.
Yours truly has been spending a lot of time around Black Girl Lost Keys and ADDitude.
During the Easter long weekend I organised my toys for the neighbours’ children.
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ADDitude is wonderful! I’m so glad it helped you be somewhat more organized.
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I am semiorganised. I do like to try to be organised. I use reminder apps also.they help a lot with the organisation. xoxo
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Yes, reminder apps help a lot. I need those. Thanks for commenting.
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