TIME TO MAKE THAT NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION

Here it is time to make New Year’s resolutions again.  How many of you faithfully kept all your past resolutions?  Half of them?  Even one good intention?  Are you starting out this year again promising to be more organized? 

Perhaps, you’ve been tracking with all the organizing blogs to pick up tips and you’ve tried diligently to put them into practice.  Maybe you even attended a seminar on getting organized, determined to get your house and life in order.  You worked hard at it – for about a week, only to fall back into the old clutter habits.  Did you get discouraged?  Figured you’d never be organized and would just have to learn to live with the frustration?

A book that will give you some hope is, The Messies Superguide, by Sandra Felton.  This book will help you understand WHY you have messy habits and why it frustrates you to be so disorganized.  It will help you to understand yourself, your habits, and your goals.  Felton explains that there are people who are creative, intuitive, and impulsive; they have a harder time making decisions and tend to procrastinate; and as Felton says, they are often called “messy”, because their brain doesn’t function in a straight, orderly, logical way.  It’s a physical factor more than a personality or learned behavior. 

But don’t despair!  There are methods to help you be more organized, and ease your frustrations.  Check out Sandra’s book and keep reading the organizing blogs.  If you feel like a “Messy” you’ll gain some insights into why you are the way you are and what to do about it.  So, go ahead and make your New Year’s resolution to be more organized!