Organize for Success!

By: Ms. Mills

Summation and Adaptation from the Donna Smallin’s The One Minute Organizer Plain & Simple: 500 Tips for Getting Your Life in Order

Who Would You Hire?

Is this you?

Introduction to Organizing

!  Rationale: Organization is Power Skill!

!  Method: A place for everything, Everything in its place.

!  Key: You will never find time, you have to make time, so calendar time today to organize!

What is Organization?

!  Organization is about finding a place for everything

!  So, you can always put everything in its place-

!  And, you know exactly where things are when you need them.

What is Organization?

!  Think of someone you know who is really organized.

!  Write down- what makes them organized. Describe every detail you can remember.

!  Tell your neighbor about that person. Be sure to describe how their space is organized.

Getting Started

“If you start to think like an organized person, you will become one.”

-Donna Smallin (Professional Organizer & Author)

Getting Started Quick-write!

!  What can I gain from getting organized?

!  What can I lose if I don’t?

Getting Started Cont’d.

!  Choose 5 things you most want to organize. !  Prioritize them from highest to lowest priority. !  Take immediate action. !  Take 5 minutes and organize your backpack

now.

Clutter

!  What is clutter? !  Examples: !  How do you get rid of clutter?

Clearing Clutter

!  Start with today’s clutter. !  Start with the easy stuff, grab a trash bag and

start tossing things that are clearly garbage. !  Unclutter first; then organize. !  Don’t just put things down, put them away!

Getting Started at Home Clearing Clutter

!  Set a simple goal: Tonight I’m going to clean out my junk drawer and then stop.

!  Schedule time in your planner to organize.

!  Work on one mini project at a time. (5-15 minutes)

Clear Clutter, then Organize! HW

!   Pick a room-any room. !   Tackle 1 room, 1 drawer at a time. !   Remove everything. Sort stuff into piles:

1.  Throw Away 2.  Put Away 3.  Give Away 4.  Sell 5.  Keep Put back only the things you love or can’t live

without.

Clutter Control

!  Just get started, 5 minutes a day is better than 0 minutes.

!  Do a 5 minute pick-up every night before going to bed.

!  Always put smaller things on top of larger things, so you can find them.

!  Live by the one-in/one-out rule.

Clutter Control

!  Periodically PURGE! (Set up mini household purges for each month.)

!  Turn piles into files. !  Complete your Circles! !  Unclutter your walls. Take down

everything and only put back what you love.

Learning to be Organized!

!  Like-items go together. !  Keep in a pencil box or pencil pouch: pens

(2), pencils(2), eraser, paper-clips, page flags, mini post-it stickies, highlighter, a thin marker (to label everything)

!  Desk area: All of the above, plus desk stapler, tape, poster world map, goals, trays (2), files

!  What else would be helpful to always have?

Organized for Success!

Remember: !  Watch how organized people do things. !  Model their strategies, or tweak it and

make it work for you. !  Everything in its place, A place for

everything… is the key to being organized for success!

Organized for Success Keys!

1.  A place for everything, Everything in its place

2.  Live by the one in, one out rule 3.  Complete your circles 4.  Like items go together 5.  5 minutes is better 0 minutes