become more organized

not quite there though. My plan is to see if I can follow the Routines I’ve set up via FLYlady for the next couple months and see how things look then. I’m trying to use my planner more, but I keep forgetting to write things down—will work on that. I also want to have finished my Control Journal so it has all my emergency information and an updated address book for all my family and friends. Finally I want to have an actual filing system that I will keep up with (I detest filing). Once all those steps are complete I’ll mark this goal as finished.

Moving is the worst—first I had boxes all over my old apartment, now I have boxes all over my new place. Plus my roommate has boxes all over too. Neither of us can find anything and I’m sure that it will be like this for the next couple weeks. The only plus side was that I did edit some of my belongings prior to moving and will likely edit as I unpack as well.

It’s an 18-month one that started in July this year and runs through the end of next year. It’s not super detailed—just enough space to write a few things down each day, plus pages in the back for notes. Now to get myself to USE the planner.

in my inbox. Considering I started with over a 1000, I think that’s quite an accomplishment. Riding that wave of accomplishment I also cut my Hotmail inbox down to about 250. I’m hoping to take a few minutes during lunch and organize the remaining messages into appropriate folders, or at least start to.

Need to do a massive cleanout of my Outlook inbox AND learn how to use it effectively for managing my tasks throughout the day.

Want to get my desk at work all organized by the end of the week. That includes shredding outdated documents, filing papers (figuring out a file system) organizing my computer files and recycling all paper that is no longer necessary. I got a start on it on Friday, but have a long way to go.

I’m going to begin this goal by tackling my night routine. I want to go to bed knowing that I’m 50 percent ready to get out the door in the morning. I want to know that my clothes are picked out, clean, unwrinkled and located. I want to be able to get up in the morning and brew a pot of coffee without having to wash the pot first. And I want to be halfway to the train station without having to stop and check to make sure I remembered my ID badge to get into work. This is my step for this week, once I have this down, I’ll add to it.