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Why Waste 30 Minutes ……

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1. Watching TV

2. Watching TV

3. Watching TV – Do you see a theme? Watching TV is a good way just to unwind & not have to think.  BUT, it can soak up A LOT of our idle time!

4. Playing video games –  Yes, adults play video games, games on Facebook, games on our phones, etc. Video games can become addicting.  No Really!!

30 Minutes to be spent more wisely!

5. Checking Email – We can get sucked into endless email and before we know it, HOURS have passed.

6. Social Networking – No explanation required!

7. Sitting in Traffic – Yes, commuting is necessary, but have you thought about turning off the radio?  How about listening to a good book (the Bible), a training /self-improvement CD?  How about talking to our passenger or simply letting our brain REST?

8. Getting caught up in a conversation at the most un-opportune time, that goes on and on and on and on!

30 Minutes to be spent more wisely!  

Any rebuttals?  “These items are not a waste of time, but very necessary”…

Your comments are welcome!

What does this have to do with Personal Organizing?

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Take 30 minutes to ….

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  • Take a Power Nap!
  • Read your child a book or two
  • Play a video game
  • Watch a cartoon with the children
  • Chat with the spouse about planning a date for just the two of you
  • Say a Prayer
  • Read the Bible

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  • Clean out your underwear drawer or a junk drawer in the kitchen
  • Go through a stack of old CDs
  • Sort through a bag of old clothes
  • Organize the cabinet under your bathroom sink
  • Clean out the interior or trunk of your car

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What can you do in 30 minutes?

Here are 12 things that you could do…

12 is the biblical number for ORDER!

Let’s Tackle the Closet!

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If you have been paying attention, you know that to be “organized” means to be able to find what you need when you need it!  So let’s talk about tackling the closet.  It can be any closet, but I’d like to focus on the clothes closet.  It is the clothes closet that you have to face EVERY morning….

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“Let’s Organize Your Closet”

Step 1 – We must know EVERY item that is in our closet.  Most of us believe that we know every item in our closet.  Do you?  I would venture to guess that you may not know every item in your closet. Some of us may have things in our clothes closet that we forgot were even there.  Is that you?

Step 2 – We must know EVERY item in our closet… which means we MUST touch every item in our closet.  Would someone please move the needle on the record?  LOL!!  But seriously, things get sucked into the black hole of our clothes closets because they get pushed further and further back where we can’t see them, thus we forget that they are there.

Step 3 – Make a decision on EVERY item in our closet… Keep, Donate, Throw Away and make the decision QUICKLY.  If you think about it too long, it is very likely that you will decide to keep it.  To the woman that has the size ___ (fill in the blank) that you are going to fit in again– it’s been 5 years — it is time to let it go.  To the man who has that favorite sweater that is two (2) sizes too small, it is time to give it away!

Step 4 – Once we have completely PURGED the entire closet, it is time for us to organize.

Step 5 – So what’s left?  There are tops, bottoms, dresses, jackets, sweaters, pants, shirts, suits, shoes, boots, etc.  Let me suggest that we put “like” items together.  Once we have grouped “like” items, it is up to you to what degree of organization that you want to go — the same color, the same sleeve length, light jackets, heavy jackets, BUT to whatever degree you go, you have to be able to MAINTAIN IT!

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Don’t Over Organize -OR- within a week,

your organized system is NO longer organized.

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Allow Order Your Steps to help you to put some Order to your Chaos!  

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Thanks in advance!

If I have only skimmed the surface and you would like to have more details on tackling the closet, please leave me a comment or two…

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“Order Out of Chaos” FREE Workshop, Now Open to the Public**

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I thought that I would give you an update on my FREE “Order Out of Chaos” Workshops.  Initially I focused on the senior citizen living facilities.  The participants were open to sharing their own struggles with getting organized, especially after downsizing from their much larger homes.  My presentation, “Organizing made Simple” was only 30 minutes and then we had a Q&A session.  I thoroughly enjoyed them.  I’d always wanted to teach, so now I get to teach, organize and teach about organizing!!!

In February, the “Order Out of Chaos” FREE workshop was OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.  Along with the owner of the local franchise of ShelfGenie, we decided to conduct the workshops as part of a LifeStyle Transitions Series.  Arline and I, as small business owners in our community, wanted to do something for the community that would have a positive impact.  Organizing will be a common thread throughout the workshops, as it pertains to healthy living, nutrition, exercise and just getting your life in order.  Our first workshop in the series was held at Wegmans in Woodmore/Lanham, MD.  Unfortunately, Wegmans has a very strict policy prohibiting advertising on the premises, so we advertised on Facebook and via the ShelfGenie newsletter, flyers, etc.  We had a small turnout, but I believe that I prefer small.  It’s better when I can interact with the audience and that are able to interact with each other.  I believe that moving forward will we limit the attendance to each session to thirty 30 people.  Soooooo… due to the overwhelming response (the show being SOLD OUT), I will have to add a session or two or three…..

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Our next workshop is entitled “Spending Your Time Wisely”,   We will focus on time management tips.  It will be held on the last Saturday in March at one of the local libraries … where we can hand out flyers! 🙂

Stay Tuned for more info throughout the month.

Please PASS THE WORD to all your family and friends

in the DC, Md. and N. Va.!!

A Few Ramblings that you may want to Ponder…

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On January 10, my blog will celebrate its’ one year anniversary.  As I look back over the more than 145 posts, I am pondering about what direction the blog should take in 2013.  I have found that there has been a much greater response to posts that have talked about ORDER or Inspiration, versus Organizing.   Now don’t misunderstand, my gift is administration and organizing peoples’ stuff, which is still my passion.  But my purpose & mission is helping people to create ORDER out of Chaos, which is so much, much more!

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Other Ramblings…

  • On Saturday, I was sitting at a red light waiting for a funeral procession to pass and the light changed.  It was amazing to me to see the number of people that crossed the procession because they didn’t have five minutes to spare.  We are such an impatient society…. which means we must find a way to slow our pace if only so slightly.
  • I picture the CEO of  a corporation always cool, calm and collected (maybe I watch too much TV :-))  His/Her clothes are always neatly pressed and their shoes and socks always match.  What if they always woke up in a fog, rushing to wolf down that cup of coffee, having to stop at the closet and ponder what they should wear to work today and still make the 7 am meeting?  Many of us are in that role, rather CEO, small business owner, husband, wife, father, mother, etc.  We all must be strategic and plan our daily actions.  Being in the daily fog, makes it difficult for us to direct our steps or to simply be directed???

The steps of a good man [woman] are ordered by the Lord… Psalm 37:23

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In 2013, Finding Order in Chaos, will focus more consciously on Order as we did in 2012 unconsciously.  To help everyone to actively seek Divine Order  in their lives and  Organizing stuff still playing a key role.  As I was preparing for this post, I googled “Divine Order” and lo and behold, I found a definition by Marsha Burns, which says “the authoritative direction proceeding from God”.  Marsha and her husband author the “Spirit of Prophecy” bulletins, which I have found very enlightening and many times very accurate to the spiritual place I am at the time.  She also wrote as follows:

Divine Order is the flow of the Spirit as we yield to His guidance and direction.  As much as we understanding this concept of God in control, many times when we hear a message or think about order in our lives, we still think about cleaning the garage  and, the enemy would love to beat us up with the tangible things in our lives being in disarray. Divine Order is all about the moving of the Holy Spirit and being unencumbered enough to hear His voice and being flexible enough to go with the flow.   

Being in the right place at the right time to accomplish what is before us. 

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I am looking forward to 2013 being busy, even sometimes hectic for Order Your Steps, yet restful.  I want to just flow with the Spirit and I pray that something I write will help you to find rest in Him also.

Have a Very Blessed and Prosperous New Year!

Living between Two Houses!

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Well, Sherryl Cook, I had to give your request some thought….  Any great organizational tips for people who practically live in their cars?  I came up with two (2) major factors, which must be considered:

  • You want to feel at “home” at each other’s house
  • You do not want to feel like you are living out of your car

Common Sense right?  But the question is How?  Here are just a few suggestions:

You each need a space to call home.  Now I am not trying to imply that you don’t feel like you are at home.  But you each need a designated space for your “stuff”.  You don’t want “stuff” all over the house.  You need to know where to find what you need, when you need it.  Some basic essentials; the favorite book, slippers, hair products, etc., that you don’t have to carry back and forth.  This also means that you need to know what you have at his house and what he has at yours.  Keep in mind that I am not trying to over-complicate the matter.  This is a relationship, so you don’t have to make the process too formal.

My second suggestion is that you “sorta” map out what you are going to wear for the week or at least have some idea.  I’m getting really creative on this one.  You want to plan ahead, so that you are not always carrying clothes and other stuff, from one house to the other and back again!

Now I may have made a number of “assumptions” along the way :-), but maybe I said something that may help!

Please let me know how it works out…..

2nd “Order Out of Chaos” Workshop, Another Success!

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Hello Everyone,

Welcome to another Blessed week!  Just wanted to let you all know that my second workshop for Seniors was even more fun than the first. There seemed to be even more participation and sharing…

A Special Thanks to Brenda, Activities Coordinator at The Lodge, she said, “Your common sense approach to handling disorder was well received by our residents. We look forward to your working with us and perhaps coming back to the Lodge in the new year.”

Below is a 50 sec. video, please watch and I hope you enjoy!

For more pictures, please go to my “Order Your Steps” Facebook page.

I wanted to acknowledge another milestone, we exceeded the 5000 Hits mark on last week.  I want to thank all my followers, readers and Facebook fans!  Stay Tuned for my next organizing post for the couple trying to manage two (2) households.

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“Order Out of Chaos” …Success!!

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Well, my first “Order Out of Chaos” workshop was a blast!

I asked them to return the paper handouts to me… can’t let paper accumulate!

Everyone was attentive. I was in my element…

Can you tell that I was making a point?

I love teaching, organizing and teaching organizing!

I learned something too. It was really cool!

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Thanks to All the Wonderful Seniors at The Vistas at Lake Largo!

For more photos at Order Your Steps…

“Order Out of Chaos” Workshop

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Sorry for the lateness of my post, but I just wanted to take a moment to let you know that tomorrow I will be conducting my first “Order Out of Chaos” Workshop for Seniors.  I will be posting a recap with pictures on Wednesday.  I am expecting a phenomenon turnout…  Pray for me!!

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Space for the Car!

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When I am cleaning and organizing a garage, my main objective is to sort, purge and to help the homeowner to know what they have and where to find it when they need it.  BUT…

BEFORE

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AFTER – Part 1

Unfortunately, your “neat” may be the other persons’ “nightmare”….

AFTER – Part 2

So, the idea behind this exercise was to simply make room for the car!  🙂