When I lived alone in my own apartment for some reason I was extremely organized. Everything was clean and windexed and I had a dog and 2 cats. Now that I am married with two kids I seem to have lost my desire to be organized at all. My closet, kitchen and living rooms are a mess and I find myself content drifting around in mess. I need to snap out of it and become a clean freak again!
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I seem to find myself taking on more tasks with less time to get the ones done that were previously there.
My life would be so much less difficult if I could just get more organized. From my room, to my folders, my priorities, and then some. So, I will work on this.
Keep my notes in one place, maybe organize my personal library, throw away all those old notebooks I don’t need anymore, actually use that planner I buy every year…. get everything done on time so I can have time for myself without feeling guilty or stressed
since getting in that accident almost 4 years ago, and getting a brain injury, i find that the whole life can be a mess. i have tremendous problems remembering names to where i put things…. nearly after 5 mintutes. i also find it hard to motivate me when the mess looks too big. if i start a schedule thing and have calendar, that would help me. and keepiing my things in order will put my mind in order. we’ll see. good luck to me.
My idea of organization needs to change. Because in my head organization means “perfect”. I understand that nothing is perfect but my desire to reach it is true and real.
I am trying so hard not to stress out on the little things and the things I know deep down in my heart don’t really matter, but my head keep going with the achieving perfection.
I make constant lists all day long as though I will forget what I want to do. I make the same list over and over day after day hardly doing anthing on them. Lately has been different. I’ve been making less lists and actually making my errands and plans happen but I’m really scared that I will fall out of my “good” routine and right back into my “bad” one.
I just hope that my whole life won’t be this way… in continuos worry.
I have managed to declutter allot, not all of it but I am working my way through my office right now and it feels good to shred crap as it comes in from the mailbox to prevent pile ups.
opitik is cleaning her apartment
Recently, I’ve been running out of luck in almost everything. I’ve come to the conclusion that my ‘cluttered’ apartment has something to do with this. I don’t normally believe in Feng Shui, but, maybe there is some truth to it.
I’m doing an experiment this week. I’m in the process of literally ‘sanitizing’ my apartment until every little thing is in it’s proper place. Let’s see if this works.
Quilnmous disappeared for awhile and hopes to return a stronger person.
Part of the problem I’m running into fulfilling my “clean my apartment” goal, is that I still haven’t figured out a place for everything. Thus, I am accumulating some piles, when I should be having everything in its place.
So now I need to work on getting more organized as well. Anyway, this is good thing. And it’s nice to realize that I’m not just being lazy about cleaning things up. I really do have to figure some things out first.




