Your Personal Organizer

Pick something you want to get organized. Write it down. Then tell your best friend that you are going to do it and give them the date you’ll have it done by. And then (gulp) tell them when you’ll call/e-mail/text them to say “I did it!!”

Take it in small pieces: 20 or 30 minutes here and 20 or 30 minutes there. Set a timer (maybe the one on the kitchen stove). That way, you can’t get overwhelmed because you’re just doing it a bit at a time, the same way it got created.

Most of all, let yourself have fun with it. You are going to find some stuff you thought was gone forever. You’ll find stuff you knew was there, you just couldn’t figure out where.